Michael York

Michael is a technology executive with a proven track record of building high-performing teams that align information security and infrastructure with business outcomes. His background spans cybersecurity, GRC, incident response, and risk management across complex, regulated environments — giving him a grounded perspective on the threat landscape organizations navigate today.

As VP of Information Security and DevOps at SavvyMoney — a fintech platform serving over 1,500 financial institutions — Michael drives risk mitigation strategy while enabling data-driven operational decisions. He takes a deliberately business-first approach, ensuring that security and DevOps programs support revenue growth and serve as market differentiators rather than operational overhead. Increasingly, this work includes integrating AI-powered tooling into security operations and infrastructure management, applying machine learning to threat detection, operational automation, and intelligent decision support across the engineering organization.

Michael brings deep expertise across regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA/HITRUST, PCI, SOX, NIST CSF, ISO, CCPA, and GDPR, with hands-on experience working directly with regulators across domestic and international privacy, healthcare, IoT device security, and enterprise cyber risk. As AI adoption accelerates across financial services, he is actively engaged in building AI governance frameworks that balance innovation velocity with regulatory compliance, including emerging requirements for automated decision-making technologies.

His certifications reflect both the depth and breadth of his technical and leadership expertise: CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, and ACiT on the security and risk side, paired with AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and Azure Solutions Architect Expert on the cloud infrastructure side. This combination of security leadership credentials and multi-cloud architecture certifications positions him at the intersection of risk and modern platform engineering — an increasingly rare and valuable combination in enterprise technology leadership.

Known for building programs from the ground up, Michael excels at removing organizational barriers, aligning cross-functional teams, and translating complex security and AI challenges into clear business decisions.