Jean-Baptiste Bres

JEAN-BAPTISTE BRES
Chief Information Security Officer | StatePlus

Motivated and experienced Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with a successful 15-year track record in Information Security, Business Continuity, Risk Management and Project Management.
Capabilities range from strategy development and execution, through to IT and Security operations, people development and risk management.
Core skills include large scale IT transformation programs, technology build and run, and project management.
Significant international experience having worked with global finance organizations in Europe and Australia.


EXPERIENCE
CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER, STATEPLUS (formally State Super Financial Services)
Since March 2015

• Built Information Security Practice from scratch and successfully reduced IT risk from High to Low in 3 years. Aligned with ISO 27001/27002, NIST, CPS 234 and PCI DSS.
  
• Successfully defined and implemented StatePlus 5-Year Information Security strategy.
  
• Influenced board and executive team to move Information Security and Business Continuity among the top priorities of the company, getting adequate support and funding.
  
• Designed robust and flexible cloud security architecture (Azure, AWS – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS).
  

• Ensured successful alignment with regulatory requirements, including APRA CPS 231, CPS 232, CPG 235, ASIC and RBA requirements.
  
• Considerably reduced operational and IT risks by creating and managing a 2nd level of control framework.
  
• Reduced operational cost by over $100 000 per year though multiple successful outsourcings.
  
• Successfully managed the Sydney Siege crisis (December 2014): full building evacuation (500 staff), relocation and restoration of activity from the disaster recovery site within 2 hours, coordination of crisis management team (executive and board), staff accounting, coordination with authorities and building management.
  
• Founder of the BNP Paribas Australia Innovation Committee to develop and promote an innovation culture within the bank.
  

• Implemented a new Trade Finance back-end solution (iVision)
  
• Successfully aligned bank regulatory reporting to APRA, RBA and Basel 3 requirements.
  
• Defined and implemented a new asset management policy, with increased follow-up capabilities and better visibility on progress and status.
  
• Became manager of the team in April 2011.
  

• Shifted the Trade Finance platform migration project from a delayed, low quality with loss of productivity (-5%) status to a highly reliable system with a 10% gain of productivity.
  
• Implemented of a better communication channel and reduced conflicts between IT and business teams, by acting as an intermediary.
  
• Performed pre-Analysis for implementation in Société Générale New-York (project cancelled).
  

• Defined standard non-regression tests and UATs test plans for new deployments of the Trade Finance system (iVision).
  
• Replaced accounting scheme in Brussels back-office and Amsterdam back-office to align with group finance requirements.
  
• Defined, developed and supported various tools to automate and facilitate support (Java, Oracle).
  

• Served as level 1 support for the accounting reconciliation system intellimatch for European back-offices, in English, French and Spanish.
  

• Team & Strategic Leader
  
• Bank and Financial industry
  
• Information Security
  
• Business Continuity & DR
  
• Excellent communication
  
• Problem-solving oriented
  
• Operational Excellence
  
• Risk Management
• Cloud computing (Azure, AWS)
  
• IT Background
  
• Project management (6σ, CMMI, ACE)
  
• Microsoft solutions (incl. Office 365, Azure)
  
• Security solutions (Checkpoint, Symantec, F5, McAfee…)
  
• Languages: English, French, Spanish
  
• ISO 27001/27002
  
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)