Mark Thomas

Founder & President of Escoute Consulting

Mark is an internationally known Governance Risk and Compliance expert, specializing in Information Assurance, IT Risk, IT Strategy, Service Management and Digital Transformation

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My Story

As a former Army officer with over 28 years of professional experience, Mark has a wide array of industry experience including government, health care, finance/banking, manufacturing, and technology services. He has held roles spanning from CIO to IT consulting and is considered a thought leader in frameworks such as COBIT, NIST, ITIL and multiple ISO standards. Mark routinely speaks at US and international conferences and earned the ISACA John Kuyers award twice for Best Speaker/Conference contributor of the year. Mark also holds the CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certifications.

“Mark helped me take my IT Organization to a whole new level of expansion in just a few months!”

Experience:

Typical engagements include digital transformation governance, maturity assessments, hands-on implementation, and consultative training and coaching in the service management, enterprise governance/risk and cybersecurity domains.

Acted as interim leadership for clients with a specific focus of organizational design, operational processes, risk, cybersecurity and governance models including ITIL, COBIT, NIST and TOGAF.

Provided training services for major training firms and consulting clients in several disciplines including Business Analysis, ITIL, COBIT, MOF, ISO, NIST Cybersecurity and IT strategy areas.

Certifications, Expertise & Education

Key Certifications

CGEIT, CRISC
COBIT 4.1, 5, 2019
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
ITIL v3 Expert Designation
ITIL v4
PRINCE2 Practitioner

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise governance of information and technology
Risk governance and management
Cybersecurity strategy
Information controls assurance and compliance
IT strategy development and implementation
Agile, Lean and DevOps
GRC frameworks (COBIT, NIST, COSO, ISO, ITIL)

Education

BS, University of Central Missouri
MS, Central Michigan University

E-Learning

Mark Thomas is the Author and Instructor of all of the Escoute e-Learning courses. Escoute e-Learning is the best location to learn essential skills in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance domains that not only provide you with the knowledge you need, but also with advice and methods you can use right now.

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