Overview
Jim Swart serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Accrete[1][3], where Swart leads IT, Information Security, GRC, Cloud Infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams[2]. Swart holds a Master of Science in Cyber Security and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from University of Maryland Global Campus[12][13], and an Organizational Leadership degree from Argosy University[11]. Prior to joining Accrete, Swart served as Chief Information Security Officer at Sunrise Senior Living and ApprioHealth[5][6]. Swart's earlier career included a role as Liaison to US Cyber Command for Offensive Cyber Operations at the National Security Agency[9], work as a Cybersecurity Course Developer and Trainer at DarkMatter LLC[8], and service as Chief Application Security Architect at UnitedHealth Group[10]. Swart has been Adjunct Faculty at University of Maryland Global Campus since 2014[4].
Profile introduction
As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Accrete, I lead our IT, Information Security, GRC, Cloud Infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams under one unified Office of the CISO. At Accrete, we believe that soon agentic and robotic workforces will be able to accomplish in an instant what takes teams of human experts months and years to accomplish. However, the binding constraint isn’t reasoning but scattered context. Accrete builds Knowledge Engines that transform fragmented systems, siloed data, and institutional tacit knowledge into a continuously learning intelligence layer enabling truste…
Career history
- Chief Information Security Officer2025 to presentAccrete
- Adjunct Faculty2014 to presentUniversity of Maryland Global Campus
- Chief Information Security Officer2024 to 2025Sunrise Senior Living
- Chief Information Security Officer2021 to 2024ApprioHealth
- Offensive Cyber Operations Trainer2020 to 2021PLEX Solutions, LLC
- Cybersecurity Course Developer and Trainer2017 to 2020DarkMatter LLC
- Liaison to US Cyber Command for Offensive Cyber Operations2015 to 2017National Security Agency
- Chief Application Security Architect2015 to 2015UnitedHealth Group
Education
- Organizational Leadership at Argosy University
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information SystemsUniversity of Maryland Global Campus
- Master of Science (M.S.), Cyber SecurityUniversity of Maryland Global Campus
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