Nick Ritter

As of June 2024, Nick Ritter is the Chief Information Security Officer of Worldpay, a payments company that appointed him after 20 years of security experience.

Career path

Ritter spent 14 years at a global industrial conglomerate, where he was one of three Global CISOs, originated the company's centralized cyber-defense program, and helped establish its commercial operational-technology security practice.

He then spent two years at a large financial institution, described as head of cyber-defense and fraud and also as head of cyber defense and security operations.

Ritter joined General Electric as Vice President, Product and Industrial Security, leading GE's Product and Industrial Security teams and serving as a Key Risk Advisor to GE's global CISO.

In that role he was responsible for the cybersecurity of GE's commercial products, supply chain, manufacturing, internal applications and third parties, as well as application security, secure development tools and GE's attack simulation Red Team.

He later served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at First Financial Bank, one of the largest bank holding companies in the Cincinnati region.

In 2024, Worldpay appointed Ritter, a 20-year security veteran, as its Chief Information Security Officer.

Public talks and advisory work

While living in Germany, Ritter was a frequent lecturer at the George C. Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies, teaching classes on Securing Critical Infrastructure, Cyber Security Policy, and Strategic Cyber Defense.

He also served as an advisor to NATO in the development of its cyber command training curriculum.

Ritter attended Purdue University and the University of Kentucky for his undergraduate and graduate studies.

Ritter's speaker profile appears on SecureWorld's conference site, the same platform that hosted a Cincinnati-area conference whose event page confirms the gathering has already concluded and directs visitors to SecureWorld's listing of upcoming conferences.