Jake Hammock is the Chief Information Security Officer, Assistant Chief Technology Officer and Security & Infrastructure Director at the City of Seattle, where he leads the Security & Infrastructure Division delivering citywide cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, cloud operations, IT service management, telecom and radio systems, fiber, and network services. He directs programs for incident response, identity and governance, enterprise architecture, and system and network operations, aligning investments to resilience, public safety, and civic administrative priorities across the nation’s 17th largest municipality through Welcoming City programs.

Jake’s career spans executive roles in government and industry. He served as Director of Trust and Vice President of Information Security at NICE inContact, leading board-level cybersecurity and privacy programs during a period of accelerated high growth. He was the Chief Technology Officer for a top 10 global fintech by peak market cap, patenting and deploying technologies used in production today, and later CTO for an energy-sector solutions provider, where he architected AI-driven cybersecurity platforms and advised enterprise energy and public-sector clients. A former U.S. Army Military Intelligence and Cyber Warfare Officer, he commanded Cyber National Mission Force units and served in national security leadership assignments within the Intelligence Community. He is a combat veteran, holds an M.Sc. in Cybersecurity Technology and patents spanning telecommunications, environmental platforms, and decentralized technologies, and he remains active in advancing secure AI, quantum-resilient encryption, data governance, and critical infrastructure protection.