Sonja Hammond is the Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at National Veterinary Associates. As an information and cyber security leader, Sonja brings experience from the financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and computing industries. An additional benefit that Sonja possesses is an information technology (IT) background with hands-on infrastructure knowledge and deep experience in large global corporate environments. She has had direct interaction with external regulators, worked in compliance and coordinated IT audit preparation and remediation. Sonja has done extensive information security work in vendor and supplier negotiations, mergers and acquisitions (MADO), risk and compliance, and provided lawsuit support as a forensic subject matter expert.