TheBridge profile: Rob Duhart

Name: Rob Duhart

Current city: Washington DC

Current job: VP, Deputy CISO at Walmart

Past job: Global Head, Federated Security/PSS at Google

Q. How are you currently bridging the gap between innovation and regulation? Investing in regeneration of the environment, talent pipelines at HBCUs and HSI's, and partnering to evolve cyber security.

Q. Job advice in three words? Serve, learn, create

Q. What can innovators learn from policymakers? The necessity and importance of process to progress

Q. What can policymakers learn from innovators? The criticality of destroying and rebuilding iteratively

Q. Can you describe a skill you have carried throughout your career that has always proved to be valuable? Serving others and mastering the job that nobody else wants to do.

Q. What is the best job interview question you have ever been asked? How would your family and friends describe you ten years from now?

Q. Favorite spot for a coffee meeting? Old Town Alexandria

Q. Why are you part of TheBridge community? Or, why do you think it's important this community exists for tech, policy and political professionals? Intersectionality will fuel the next frontier

Q. Everyday is probably different, but are there certain skills you think are essential to your job? Empathy, selflessness, mindfulness

Q. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself in the beginning of your career? Failure doesn't exist-outside of immorality and criminality

Q. What's one piece of advice you are still trying to master? Mastery itself

Q. Most underrated virtue in an employee? Integrity and character

Q. If you had to live in another city, which would it be? Paris or Antibes, FR

Q. Best advice you’ve received? ESE- Eat, Sleep, Excercise- Dean James McLeod

Q. How often do you work from home? Two days per week.


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