Career profile
Tony Spinelli
Chief Security Officer, Halcyon
- Current role, per sources checked 2 November 2026
- Not stated in the sources
Tony Spinelli is the Chief Security Officer of Halcyon.
Career path
Spinelli's security leadership includes CISO roles at Equifax, Tyco International and First Data Corporation, and he later served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Capital One.
At Capital One, he helped lead the bank's transformation into a digitally enabled, cloud native enterprise and built cybersecurity programs that set an industry standard.
In 2007 he was appointed to the U.S. National Security Agency Board, providing leadership and policy direction on cybersecurity matters while holding a Top Secret security clearance.
Halcyon appointed Spinelli Vice President and Field Chief Information Security Officer in 2025, with a mandate to work directly with customer CISOs on ransomware resilience strategy.
He subsequently became Chief Security Officer at Halcyon.
Boards, advisory work and public talks
Spinelli sits on the Board of Directors of Peapack Gladstone Bank (NASDAQ: PGC), where he serves on board committees including the Risk Committee, and on the Board of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, including its Cybersecurity Subcommittee.
He founded and leads S7 Advisors LLC, a cybersecurity consultancy focused on digital and cloud transformation, and is a Partner at Sorenson Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.
Separately, he has served as Chief Information Officer of Urban One.
He has also advised the U.S. Department of Defense on cybersecurity and cloud strategy.
Spinelli holds patents covering data loss prevention for electronic communications and methods for reducing network risk tied to internet browsing habits.
At Halcyon, he has appeared on the panel Ransomware Ready: Leading Healthcare CISOs Share What Actually Works alongside the CISOs of MetroHealth and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, discussing detection, response and ransomware resilience strategies for healthcare organizations.
He has also joined Halcyon's Cynthia Kaiser for a session on ransomware's business continuity impact, aimed at helping CIOs, CFOs and business-continuity leaders assess recovery gaps and insurance coverage.
Earlier in his career, while serving as CISO at Equifax, Spinelli spoke on a security-industry panel about the changing role of corporate security leaders.
