Jesse Goldhammer

Jesse Goldhammer is a managing director in Deloitte’s cyber and strategic risk practice, where he focuses on government and public services clients. He is deeply committed to protecting public sector data, networks, systems, and people from a wide range of cyber threats. He is equally passionate about designing cyber solutions that help organizations to better achieve their missions, including by building trust with employees, stakeholders, customers, and citizens. Jesse specializes in helping clients develop whole-of-organization cyber strategies and use emerging technologies to become more sophisticated, agile cyber defenders.

Jesse was previously Associate Dean of Business Development and Strategy at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Jesse was a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s innovation business unit, Doblin, where he helped US government agency leaders to operationalize new technical and analytic capabilities.

Jesse earned a BA in social science from UC Berkeley, an MA from New York University in politics, and a PhD from UC Berkeley in political science. An accomplished instructor, author, and speaker, Jesse has written articles and given presentations on a variety of cyber- and technology-related topics. He is also co-author of Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (Continuum Publishing, 2011).