Arturo Garcia Leal leads the Global Information Technology Audit group at Praxair Inc., an industrial gases company with a global presence in more than 50 countries, the largest in North and South America and one of the three largest worldwide. His current responsibilities include the global assessment of ISO 2700 based Praxair internal IT control framework, Cybersecurity Specific Audits, IT Compliance assistance (SOX, HIPAA) and NIST based Industrial Control Systems reviews. Previously Arturo led the IT Governance, Risk and Compliance function with close integration with Information Security. As part of his responsibilities within the IT GRC function, Arturo was responsible for the first global implementation of the IT Governance framework across all the IT functions in all business units within Praxair that included the definition of IT Governance control metrics and periodic performance reporting and review processes.
Throughout Arturo’s tenure of almost 30 years in the realms of Information Technologies, he has witnessed and worked with all aspects of information technologies. Arturo has participated in a wide variety of IT implementations primarily in the manufacturing industry.
Arturo is CISSP, CISA, CRISC and CGEIT Certified. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Sciences from Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s Degree on Information Technology Management with Honors from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education where he published his work on IT Governance Factors that lead to successful IT performance within companies in Northeast Mexico. Arturo is also alumni of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College from the Business Engagement and the Information Security Professional (BESP) Program.