Norman Willox

Norm Willox is a globally recognized information and cyber risk executive and analyst. Bringing vast knowledge of government and commercial operations, he has more than 30 years’ experience developing, executing, and managing cutting-edge initiatives to solve societal challenges and shape policy in the government, financial services, health care, insurance, law enforcement, and energy sectors. Willox is recognized as a global leader in the analog-to-digital information-risk-management transformation, pioneering advanced methods of meeting information-risk needs after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, required the United States to confront rapidly evolving threats posed by global terrorism, international criminal networks, and cybercrime.

Willox is chief executive officer and managing partner of Bluewater International, LLC. Bluewater is a boutique high-growth investment advisory firm focusing on digital information and cyber risk markets. He cofounded LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group and the Lexis Nexis classified business. Willox worked with the White House, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and US intelligence community to establish, architect, and operate some of the United States’ critically needed information-risk programs. He also developed and managed LexisNexis Global Government, Industry, and Regulatory Affairs Group, which provided thought leadership for government and industry stakeholders (domestic and internationally) on emergent information-risk issues including information sharing, security, privacy, and authentication.

Willox has served on many boards, including Coalfire, XOR, Infozen, ID Experts, NowSecure, Fortress Information Security, Secured Communication, Threatminer, VOR, and ALI. He is a former member and adviser for the Business Services Advisory Board at Baird Venture Partners, a former partner for Comvest Private Equity, and has sat on several academic and nonprofit boards responsible for research and developing undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs at Utica University, Indiana University’s Center for Identity Management and Protection, the University of Texas’s Center for Identity, and the Department of Justice’s National White Collar Crime Center. Willox holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from West Chester University in Pennsylvania.