Silas Adams is a 22-year information security veteran and currently serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Pep Boys. A former Marine, he sharpened his craft supporting missions at U.S. Cyber Command, the NSA, DIA, and (what is now) the CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation, and later served as a DARPA Innovation Fellow within the Information Innovation Office (I2O).

In the private sector, Silas has led security and risk programs at PwC, Cognizant, Wells Fargo, Chesapeake Utilities, RubiconMD, Oak Street Health, Lincoln Investment, and others, building expertise across highly regulated industries. He is known for pairing deep technical rigor with pragmatic leadership, he drives security transformations that enable business outcomes while delivering and transforming technology ecosystems that are secure, compliant, scalable, and built for speed. His risk-oriented approach to building, transforming and leading secure digital ecosystems enables organizations to seize opportunities throughout their business lifecycle, intelligently embrace risk to yield returns and cause disruptive innovation.