CHRIS GAY

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Protection Specialist

Chris Gay is Engage Now Africa’s cybersecurity, data privacy, and protection specialist. His expertise includes helping the organization increase its resiliency to cyber threats and malicious online actors through ongoing training in cyber hygiene best practices and developing and implementing cybersecurity, data privacy, and protection policies throughout the organization from the top down. 

Chris was the former Engage Now Africa-End Modern Slavery Managing Director for several years, where he helped create, develop, and grow EMS, a specialized prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, prosecution, and partnership-building program. This program became one of ENA’s primary missions called RESCUE. ENA is now internationally recognized as a leader in the anti-human trafficking movement in Africa.

Chris has years of investigative and intelligence experience and continues to assist law enforcement and other security organizations in international operations, resulting in recovering hundreds of victims of trafficking in persons and suspected traffickers arrested and convicted for their crimes. Chris is graduating in 2024 with an M.S. in Cybersecurity specializing in intelligence at Utica University, an NSA/DHS designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CD).

He has an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In addition, he is certified in the following: FEMA national response framework and incident management system, human trafficking investigator (CHTI), data privacy and protection specialist (DPPS), an open-source intelligence (OSINT) cyber investigator, and a former CipherTrace Cryptocurrency Exam Defenders League member.