Donald McFarlane
British-American politician
Donald Stewart McFarlane is a British-American politician and cybersecurity consultant. He serves as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Grafton 18th district. The district represents the towns of Alexandria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Groton, Hebron, and Orange. McFarlane is a member of the planning board and budgeting committee for the town of Orange, where he has lived since 2008.
McFarlane is on the advisory board of red-team vendor Xcape Inc. He is a former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for American International Group Investments and Bluestone Capital Partners, and Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at Merrill Lynch. He has contributed at many hacker conferences and is the owner of McFarlane Associates, LLC.
Life
McFarlane was raised in the United Kingdom and the United States. He became a permanent resident of the United States in 1995 after he finished his studies and served in the military. He is an electrical engineering graduate. He became an American citizen in 2002.
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