Selim Aissi, Ellie Mae chief security officer, was just appointed to serve on the National Technology Security Coalition Board of Directors as a founding board member, according to an article for Yahoo Finance.

The NTSC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that looks to drive the national dialogue on technology security in the U.S. Its mission is to forge a coalition of information security stakeholders to help reverse the accelerating pace of disruption to information systems in the U.S.

From the article:

“Selim Aissi has extensive knowledge on the implications of how regulatory policies, such as the principles and standards defined by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),” stated Tino Mantella, NTSC President and CEO.

Selim Aissi is a prominent cybersecurity leader and executive and one of the nation’s top Cybersecurity Innovators who filed over 100 security-related patents across financial, consumer-product, data-center, data-analytics, and embedded safety-critical systems. He has also served on the Board of Directors of some of the most successful security-focused Venture Capital and startups firms.

Aissi, as Ellie Mae’s chief security officer, is currently responsible for the company’s overall strategy, security engineering, operations, governance, risk, compliance, disaster recovery and business continuity, according to the article.