About Cyber Nation Central
Institutional cyber & AI governance intelligence for Boards & C-Suites.
Founded in New York City in 2016, Cyber Nation Central® equips Boards & C-Suites to govern cyber & AI risk through three reinforcing pillars: Certification builds competency, Cyber & AI Intelligence keeps decisions current, and Executive Programs institutionalize both across leadership teams.
Andrzej Cetnarski — Chairman, CEO & Founder
CEO operating judgment at the point where technology risk becomes an enterprise decision.
WHAT ANDRZEJ BRINGS TO CNC CLIENTS
CEO judgment under real enterprise consequence — including direct experience leading through a cyberattack and disinformation campaign that threatened the core of a company.
Board/C-Suite decision architecture — translating technical, legal, risk and market inputs into clearer oversight questions, decision rights, escalation and next actions.
Capital-markets perspective — connecting cyber & AI governance to diligence, disclosure, financing, insurance, capital allocation and enterprise value.
National-security and public-policy context — informed by Krach Institute Advisory Council service, Global Tech Security Commission work and Cyber Defense Advisory Council chairmanship.
Global investor and institutional perspective — from Boards and CEOs to policy, national-security, venture-capital, private-equity, banking and UHNWI audiences.
Decision-focused research — including peer-reviewed Board/C-Suite cyber-governance work and the CEO Method™ framework.
For nearly two decades, Andrzej Cetnarski has served in Chairman and CEO roles, beginning at age 32, building and leading companies across technology, investment and operating environments. That operating lens is central to CNC: cyber & AI risk is not theoretical when you have to make the decision, own the consequence and keep an institution moving.
Before founding CNC, he founded Rediscovered, chaired its Board and led the company as it grew to 725+ assets across 25+ countries and six continents. He has experienced cyber risk from the inside — as Chairman and CEO of a company confronting a cyberattack and related disinformation campaign that threatened the core of the enterprise. That experience informs CNC’s view that cyber risk is not an IT problem alone; it is a Board/C-Suite governance and executive-decision issue spanning resilience, reputation, privacy, third-party accountability and institutional continuity.
His earlier career combined public service, capital markets and operating leadership. He began in paid U.S. Congressional staff service in the Office of Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, then built experience through Tokyo M&A and debt/equity capital-markets work in the Mitsubishi UFJ lineage, HSBC Financial Sponsors investment banking in New York, and McMaster-Carr, where he served as Operations and Turnaround Manager. He later advised on more than $8 billion of M&A, equity and debt transactions as an Investment Banking Officer at UBS across Global Real Estate, Lodging & Leisure and Global Technology.
Since June 2023, Andrzej has served on the Advisory Council of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, alongside former heads of state and government, U.S. and international legislators, ambassadors and senior diplomats, CEOs, investors and national-security leaders. From October 2023 through January 2025, he served as Chairman of the Institute’s Cyber Defense Advisory Council, focused on cyber resilience, national-security strategy and Board/C-Suite cybersecurity governance. In 2024, he also served as a Global Tech Security Commission Member, Cyber & Data, contributing to multinational work on technology security, trusted technology and cyber/data governance.
His work and speaking have brought him before heads of state or government, senior Congressional and gubernatorial leaders, private-sector CEOs and investor audiences spanning venture capital, private equity, investment banking, hedge funds and private wealth/UHNWI. Across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, he has spoken on governance, technology, cybersecurity, AI, enterprise risk and the cybersecurity of investments and assets.
He holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security and disruptive-technology policy; an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management; and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, with an Asian and European Affairs focus. He also holds an A.B. in Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago.
Board & Governance Leadership
Marcus (Marc) Sachs
Board Director | Former Chief Security Officer
Marcus (Marc) Sachs is a Board Director of Cyber Nation Central and previously served as CNC's Chief Security Officer. His career spans military service, White House and federal cyber policy, critical-infrastructure protection, research, telecommunications and senior private-sector security leadership.
After a distinguished 20-year career in the U.S. Army, Sachs was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the staff of the National Security Council and the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. He later served as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's first Cyber Program Director, helping develop the implementation plan for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and contributing to the early design of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
His private-sector leadership has included senior cyber roles at SRI International, Verizon, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Pattern Computer. At NERC, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer. Sachs also directed the SANS Internet Storm Center from 2003 to 2010 and has co-authored several books on information security.
Today, Sachs is Senior Vice President & Chief Engineer at the Center for Internet Security. He brings CNC clients a rare combination of military, public-policy, critical-infrastructure and executive cybersecurity experience focused on how institutions govern consequential technology risk.
Research & Publications
Peer-reviewed Board & C-Suite cyber-governance research.
Andrzej Cetnarski is the author of a 25-page peer-reviewed journal paper on Board/C-Suite cybersecurity governance — “How to get your board and executive team cyber-ready and achieve a culture of cyber security from the board down: The CEO Method for breach prevention,” published in Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 120–144 (2023) — and creator of the CEO Method™ framework.
Selected research & institutional forums
RSA Conference 2023 — Speaker & Panel Chair on Board-down cyber governance. RSA speaker profile ↗
SafeBreach Validate Summit 2023 — Panelist/speaker before a Fortune 50 CISO audience on cybersecurity legislation and regulation.
International Cybersecurity Innovation Summit 2021 — Co-Chair, opening speaker and panel chair before an international audience of nearly 1,000 private-, government- and non-government-sector leaders; the summit featured 115 international thought leaders from four continents, including 23 Flag and General Officers. Andrzej opened the content program, introduced Singapore Commissioner of Cybersecurity and Cyber Security Agency Chief Executive David Koh for the Opening Keynote, and chaired a roundtable with senior U.S. and international national-security and private-sector leaders.
UBS Private Bank UHNWI Conference, Singapore — Speaker on Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital & Asian Growth (2015), addressing UBS’s European ultra-high-net-worth clients.
North American Think Tank Summit at Brookings Institution — Speaker on AI, cybersecurity governance and future technology-policy implications.
Why CNC exists
Competency. Currency. Institutionalization.
Know what you own
Build the governance fluency, decision rights and challenge discipline senior leaders need before the pressure is real.
Know what changed
Keep Board/C-Suite oversight current as cyber threats, AI, regulation and risk-transfer markets move.
Make governance repeatable
Turn sound decisions into shared language, escalation paths and repeatable institutional practice.
The CNC point of view
Cyber & AI risk becomes a Board issue when it changes what the enterprise must decide.
That is where CNC operates: between technical expertise and executive accountability, translating fast-moving risk, regulation and technology into the competency, current intelligence and institutional decision discipline senior leaders need.