Huntington Bancshares: two directors named with cybersecurity expertise

Huntington Bancshares' proxy statement for its 2025 annual meeting, filed March 6, 2025, names two directors with cybersecurity expertise: John C. (Chris) Inglis and Teresa H. Shea.

Of Inglis, the filing says he "brings to the Board extensive leadership and cybersecurity expertise, which strengthens the governance of the Board." It lists him as a member of the board's NESG Committee and Technology Committee (the proxy does not spell out what NESG stands for). His background, per the filing, includes serving as the first U.S. National Cyber Director from 2021 to 2023 and 28 years at the National Security Agency, where he retired as deputy director.

Of Shea, the filing says she "brings significant leadership and cybersecurity expertise in the intelligence and national defense industries," which it says makes her valuable to the Board and the Technology Committee, on which she also sits. It credits her with 32 years at the NSA, most recently as Director of Signals Intelligence, followed by cyber-capability leadership roles at Raytheon and In-Q-Tel, and says she is active in the cybersecurity community as co-chair of the Cyber Guild Organization and a National Cryptologic Foundation board member.

No SEC rule requires naming a director's cybersecurity background this way: a 2022 proposal to add Item 407(j) of Regulation S-K, requiring every company to state whether a director has cybersecurity expertise, was dropped from the SEC's final 2023 cybersecurity-disclosure rule. Huntington Bancshares' proxy does it anyway, voluntarily. See the board cybersecurity-expertise record for other companies that make the same choice, with no comparison or ranking implied.