Mark Burnette, CPA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, is the Chief Growth Officer for LBMC. In his current role, Mark leads and drives revenue growth activities firmwide. Mark’s responsibilities include developing and coordinating the sales and growth strategy for LBMC, building and leading a professional sales team, attracting new clients to LBMC, maximizing the firm’s relationships with its current clients, identifying new markets that present opportunity for LBMC, enhancing the firm’s industry segment strategies and execution, and identifying new services that can meet the needs of LBMC’s diverse client base.
Prior to leading LBMC’s growth efforts, Mark formed and led LBMC’s Advisory Services practice, overseeing the delivery of consulting services to LBMC’s clients. Earlier in his career, Mark served as an award-winning CISO for 2 publicly traded companies & built and led LBMC’s cybersecurity practice. Recognized as an IT security expert by Gartner, Mark has repeatedly been featured as a subject matter expert on ABC and CBS television affiliates been published in print media such as CSO, Secure Enterprise, Information Security, and ComputerWorld magazines, and quoted by ABCnews.com. Mark’s engaging style has made him a popular and highly-requested speaker for international conferences and specialty groups around the world. In March 2019, Mark delivered a wildly-popular TED talk titled “The Humanity Behind Cybersecurity Attacks”. Mark’s book, “Risky Business: Cybersecurity Leadership The Right Way” provides practical insights on cybersecurity leadership. Mark has been recognized as one of the cybersecurity industry’s 75 “Pioneers”, having been one of the first enterprise CISOs, and, in so doing, laying the groundwork for today’s CISO role.
The Governor of Tennessee awarded Mark for outstanding service in the best interests and highest traditions of the State of Tennessee, and he has been named a Fellow by the Information Systems Security Association, an honor bestowed on only a few individuals within the information security profession.