Brian Peretti, who recently retired after nearly 23 years at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has joined Billington CyberSecurity as a member of its Advisory Board. Peretti announced the move on LinkedIn following his retirement from federal service earlier this fall.
Peretti brings deep experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and emerging technology policy. Most recently, he served as Treasury’s Chief Technology Officer, a career Senior Executive Service role in which he led long-term IT strategy aligned with the department’s enterprise modernization goals. His portfolio included developing policy and governance frameworks for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, biometrics, and quantum computing.
Before assuming the CTO role, Peretti also served as Treasury’s Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and as Executive Officer of the department’s AI Governance Board. In that capacity, he oversaw the publication of Treasury’s March 2024 report on managing AI-specific cybersecurity risks in the financial services sector and represented the department on interagency and intelligence community AI coordination bodies.
Earlier in his Treasury career, Peretti held a series of senior leadership roles focused on domestic and international cybersecurity policy, operational resilience, and critical infrastructure protection.
Peretti’s government service also included a detail as a Senior Risk Advisor at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Risk Management Center, as well as participation on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s Communications Resiliency Subcommittee. Earlier in his career, he worked in the private sector as a regulatory and technology attorney and authored multiple books on financial compliance issues.
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