Bill Mazzara, sets Stellantis strategy for Product Cybersecurity Regulatory Compliance in North America.  He is also the SAE Vehicle Electrical System Hardware Security Subcommittee Chair which has published SAE J3101 and also serves on the SAE/ISO Joint Working Group for Road Vehicles Cybersecurity Engineering which has published ISO/SAE 21434.  Involvement in the SAE has also lead to contributions through GRVA(CS/OTA) to UN ECE WP29 R155. Having begun his career as a test engineer during the infancy of the connected car, Mazzara has witnessed and been a driving force in the evolution of the field being granted 29 related patents in the process.  As it became apparent that the lack of cybersecurity was an unfortunate oversight of the connected car, Bill became part of the solution. Mazzara served on the response team charged with addressing what is widely considered one of the automotive industry’s first cybersecurity incidents against a passenger vehicle, the incident chronicled in 2010 study by researchers from the Universities of California San Diego and Washington. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional(CISSP), Mazzara holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in addition to masters’ degrees in wireless communications and business administration (MBA).