Pascal van Garderen

Pascal van Garderen is the Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer of Oak Hill Advisors.

Career path

Before joining Oak Hill Advisors, van Garderen served as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer at Cohen & Steers Capital Management.

Earlier in his career at Cohen & Steers, he held a range of roles including Vice President of Enterprise IT, Vice President of Global IT Infrastructure & Operations, and various network engineering positions.

He moved from those engineering and infrastructure roles into IT leadership positions and then into the chief information security officer post at the same firm before taking on the CISO title at Oak Hill Advisors.

Oak Hill Advisors lists van Garderen's role alongside other business-team leaders such as the firm's Managing Director, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and Managing Director, Head of CLO Accounting, reflecting his place within the firm's New York-based leadership roster.

Remit at Oak Hill Advisors

At Oak Hill Advisors, van Garderen has primary responsibility for leading the firm's cyber security organization.

He also serves on the firm's compliance, risk, and business continuity planning committees.

Education and certifications

Van Garderen earned a Master of Science in Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a B.S. from the University of Limburg.

He maintains several security certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (CRISC), and IT Service Management (ITIL).

Public conference record

A listing for the SecureWorld New York conference, a regional event drawing cybersecurity professionals, shows the event has already passed, with the organizers directing visitors to an events page for upcoming conferences rather than any posted session details.

That listing does not identify a scheduled talk or session tied to van Garderen, so no public speaking engagement for him can be confirmed from that page.