Anthony D. King
Chief Information Officer and Cyber Security Officer

Anthony King, as CISO and as key Earth Knowledge leadership, brings deep experience in scaling technology, people and processes to world-class success. This includes his wisdom with Earth Knowledge’s system approach, management of our petascale Digital Twin of the Earth, and cyber-security risks, alongside his experience of scaling to multi-billion-dollar company success, and exceptional team and culture building gifts.

Anthony has over 30 years of technical and business experience in computing and engineering environments, including more than two decades’ experience in management. Anthony was formerly the Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) chief information security officer and director of IT Security/Governance, Risk & Compliance, responsible for fostering business relationships and integrating cyber security technologies and best practices to achieve strategic business goals from 2009-2016.

Prior to joining Raytheon, Anthony was the vice president/chief information officer at Ventana Medical Systems from 1999-2007 where he had outstanding success sharing in the leadership of scaling Ventana Medical to acquisition by Roche for $3.4B. During his tenure at Ventana, the IT organization completely re-designed the company’s entire IT infrastructure and implemented numerous security technologies and applications that enabled the business to securely and efficiently grow its revenue by over 25% year on year under his management. From 1978 until 1997, Anthony worked in the defense industry for General Dynamics and Hughes Missile Systems on the Navy’s STANDARD Missile program. During this time, he was responsible for the Test Equipment Software and Algorithm Development activities, including technology advisement, implementation and process improvements.