NGO-ISAC is led by a Chief Executive Officer and governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the civil society, philanthropy, and digital security communities it serves.

Yaël Eisenstat

Chief Executive Officer

Yaël Eisenstat is the Chief Executive Officer of the NGO Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NGO-ISAC). She has spent over 25 years protecting people under threat, beginning in the national security world as an intelligence officer, diplomat, and White House advisor on counterterrorism. She later led elections integrity work for political advertising at Facebook and since leaving has held leadership roles in civil society focused on making technology safer for the public. At NGO-ISAC she returns to her roots as an operator, helping to protect the organizations that protect others.

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Frank McGothigan

Chair, Board of Directors

Frank McGothigan is Chair of the NGO-ISAC Board of Directors and Chief Information Security Officer at the Ford Foundation, where he has led security and risk management since 2017. He has spent more than 20 years helping organizations defend against and learn from digital attacks, first in academic health care and start-ups and now across the philanthropic sector, where he has helped many of Ford’s partner organizations build security programs of their own. He helped found NGO-ISAC so that civil society organizations have somewhere to turn in a security emergency.

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Questions for our leadership can be sent to [email protected]. Media inquiries: Adam Stubits, Chief Operating Officer, [email protected].