Pete Chronis

Peter Chronis is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Turner Broadcasting, a $12B media, sports and technology company headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Chronis is responsible for Turner’s information security operations, architecture, governance, privacy, compliance and business continuity programs focused on protecting the company and its global portfolio of more than 100 brands.

He has more than 15-years of experience using technology to manage risk for telecommunications, retail, media, entertainment, financial and IT services companies. As well, he has developed a web of proprietary and commercial security technologies that, together, blocked more than 750 billion security threats and prevented $100 million+ in fraud.

Prior to Turner, Pete served as Chief Security Officer and Vice President of Information Security and IT Risk Management at EarthLink where he was responsible for the company’s security program and product portfolio. He also developed sophisticated proprietary fraud detection systems for Lynk Systems, an Atlanta based financial services company that was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland and is now called WorldPay.

Chronis received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from LeMoyne College and a Masters in Information Technology from Georgia State University.