David Snyder, MBA, PE, CISSP

Summary

Currently working on climate restoration, David Snyder also helps startups and small- to medium-size organizations in the early stages of development when small efforts can provide large benefits. His experience includes program management and product management at places like Apple, Kaiser, Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and First Data, as well as several startups, for data security, healthcare systems, electronic payments, and mobile applications. He has an MBA and is a California-registered engineer (PE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), and IEEE Senior Member. Prior to the healthcare, e-commerce, and cybersecurity industries, Mr. Snyder was an environmental engineer working with energy facilities, hazardous materials, and hazardous waste remediation. Also, the Environmental, Health & Safety Regulations Coordinator for a petroleum pipeline company. Early in his career, he was a Certified Respiratory Therapy Technician working in hospital Intensive Care Units. He has organized, moderated, and presented at numerous conferences on hot topics in healthcare technology, data security and payments. He produced the Mobile Health Track for the GMIC 2013 conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, the half-day Blockchain Symposium in Redwood City in 2016, the “Cybersecurity for Medical Devices is a “Team Sport” workshop in 2018 and the “Cybersecurity & the Future of Remote Patient Monitoring” workshop in 2019 and 2020 and "Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem Security" in 2021. Organized and moderated sessions for the 2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (https://ieeeghtc.org). Chaired the Security, Standards, and Laws session at IEEE World Technology Summit on AI Infrastructure, November 12-14, 2024 at the San Jose Convention Center (https://wts.ieee.org). In April 2025, he presented "Implementing Climate Restoration This Decade" at the IEEE SuStech conference in Santa Ana, CA. David is a past Board member of the Northern California Chapter of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) (http://norcal.himsschapter.org) and is the 2025 Board Chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (IEEE Affinity Chapter) (https://californiaconsultants.org). Specialties: environmental engineering; cybersecurity; program management; product management; digital health; electronic payments; critical infrastructure