CORPORATE PRACTITIONER
Rikki George Head of Cyber Defense Resilience, CME Group LinkedIn
Rikki George is a seasoned cybersecurity practitioner with experience at global financial institutions specializing in cyber threat intelligence, online investigations, incident readiness, and resilience. At CME Group, Rikki leads the Cyber Defense Resilience program, overseeing incident response plans, facilitating executive-level cyber incident response, fostering government and sector-wide
partnerships, and leading incident readiness activities across the Cyber Defense Team. In 2024, she was selected as co-chair of the U.S. Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council’s Exercise Committee; she also serves on the Financial Services Information Sharing & Analysis Center’s Europe, Middle East & Africa Exercise Committee. In addition to her role, Rikki is President of CME Group’s Black Organization for Leadership & Development and is an active member of the firm’s Women in Technology group. Rikki holds a B.A. in Communications from Drexel University (Summa Cum Laude) and completed her M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy at Brown University this spring. She has also completed nonresident fellowships on U.S.-Russia strategic competition at the Alexander Hamilton Society, transatlantic security as a 2023 Manfred Wörner Seminar selectee and internet policy at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry where she was elected President of the 2022-24 cohort of Fellows. This fall, Rikki will commence studies in the Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and International Law program at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute while continuing her work at CME Group. In her spare time, Rikki recently co-founded Her Next Pour, an educational wine & spirits club for women in Chicago!
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