SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
EXIGER, LLC

Bob Kolasky is Senior Vice President for Critical Infrastructure at Exiger where he focuses on developing cutting-edge risk management solutions for critical infrastructure companies and supporting government agencies.  In this role, Mr. Kolasky leads market strategy for addressing third party and supply chain risk in critical infrastructure and delivering analysis.  

Mr. Kolasky also serves as a Nonresident Scholar in Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a Senior Associate for the Center on Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  He is the former Chair of the High-Level Risk Forum for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 

Mr. Kolasky joined Exiger after 15 years as a senior leader in the Federal government, where he was responsible for foundational work in national security risk management and election security.  He was the founding Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) National Risk Management Center at the Department of Homeland Security. As one of CISA’s Assistant Directors, he oversaw efforts to facilitate a strategic, cross-sector government and industry risk management approach to cyber and supply chain threats to critical infrastructure.

Mr. Kolasky has served in a number of other senior leadership roles for DHS, including Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection. 

Earlier in his career, Bob was a management consultant, a journalist and an entrepreneur. He graduated from Dartmouth College and from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.