Vincent Blake

Biography

Vincent Blake is Pearson’s Vice President, Information Technology Security Officer (ITSO) and Governance, Risk, Compliance and Assurance, joining in September 2014. Vincent is accountable for Pearson’s Global Enterprise Platform and Cloud information security framework. This includes executing Pearson’s Platform Security by Design strategy and in-market Product security assurance. Vincent is responsible for security governance and compliance across 100+ countries, ensuring it is deployed and managed to protect the business and the learner’s information assets.

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, we help people all over the world make progress in their lives through learning. Smart and innovative uses of technology are vital to Pearson, especially as we become more global, more open and more closely connected with learners.

Prior to joining Pearson, Vincent worked for Raytheon Systems in the UK for five years, establishing the EMEA Cyber Security Practice, supporting customers within government, defence and intelligence, and spent two years as the Chief Security Officer for the e-Borders programme.

Before Raytheon, Vincent spent twelve years in the communications industry in information security and fraud management leadership roles.

Vincent is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP).