May 11, 2010 - Yokogawa Corporation of America announces that Graham Speake has been named Principal Systems Architect for Yokogawa’s IA Global Strategic Technology Marketing Center (USMK) in Dallas, Texas. Yokogawa hired Speake, a highly skilled system security professional to seriously address ISA’s activities around system security such as support of the ISA-99 standard committee and the Security Compliance Institute (ISCI). Speake has a wealth of experience on both process control systems security and IT security from both the vendors' and asset owners' perspectives and is capable of providing multifaceted judgments. With his key technology skills, Speake will not only help Yokogawa to contribute to the security activities of ISA, but he will also help to accelerate security solutions.
Dr. Maurice Wilkins, Head of USMK said “We are very pleased to welcome Graham to Yokogawa. He brings a wealth of experience in IT and automation security and the utilities industry”. Most recently, Graham spent 10 years at BP where he was employed primarily as a Security Risk Manager in the downstream business unit. Prior to that position, Graham worked for 15 years at ATOS/Origin in various IT and security roles.
He started his career with ICS designing software for Emergency Shutdown and Fire and Gas detection systems. Speake holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales in Swansea, he is a Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals and also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Graham was born in the UK but now resides in Houston, Texas with his wife, Lorraine.
About Yokogawa Corporation of America
Yokogawa Corporation of America is the North American division of $ 4 billion Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of instrumentation, process control and automation solutions. Headquartered in Newnan, Georgia, Yokogawa Corporation of America offers a variety of clients with leading products on the market as analyzers, flowmeters, transmitters, controllers, recorders, data acquisition products, measuring instruments, distributed control systems, and more.
