Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) has named attorney and cybersecurity expert Jennifer Mulvihill its new president.
She will succeed John Kennedy, who announced earlier this year he was retiring as JSA president after 32 years. He will stay with the group until the end of the year.
Mulvihill will be JSA’s first woman president in its 141-year history, and only its fifth full-time president since 1897. She tells JCK she hopes to “give back to the jeweler community and keep them safe and secure.”
“There’s increasing crossover between physical and cyber crime,” says Mulvihill. “It’s the digital tools that we all rely on which often result in physical crime.”
She says she was attracted to the JSA job because “she believes in information sharing and public-private partnerships.”
Mulvihill has been an instructor in cyberthreat intelligence at Columbia University School of Professional Studies and an adjunct lecturer on cyber risk at Hunter College in New York. She also leads a nonprofit organization, Women in Cyber Leadership.
Previously, she served as bcyber insurance and legal at cybersecurity platform BlueVoyant. Prior to that, she was senior director for cybersecurity at risk advisory firm Kroll.
JSA also announced that Scott Guginsky, who has been vice president for the past 12 years, has been promoted to executive vice president of the group.
“Scott is an irreplaceable part of JSA,” said JSA chair Alan Zimmer in a statement.
(Photo courtesy of JSA)
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