Kirkland & Ellis Leadership

Arlan McMillan is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kirkland is an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other corporate transactions, litigation, white collar and government disputes, restructurings and intellectual property matters. As the CSO, Arlan oversees the strategy and delivery of Cybersecurity, Physical Security and Business Continuity Management capabilities firm wide. With over 25 years’ experience in Information Technology and Security, Arlan has led a number of teams developing and delivering security services for top organizations including United Airlines, the City of Chicago and ABN Amro Bank. In 2014 he was awarded the honor of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Year and until joining Kirkland, was a board member of the Aviation Information Sharing and Analysis Center (A-ISAC) and the Transportation Sector Chief for the FBI-InfraGard Chicago region.Arlan is currently a board member and Vice Chair of ChicagoFIRST, Governing Body member of Evanta, a Gartner company, Executive Committee member of the CyberSecurity Collaborative and a regular contributor on the topics of risk management and executive communications.Two of his thought pieces can be found below.Communicating Risk - Translating Insight Into Actionhttps://bit.ly/CISO-METRICSThe Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing your Security Operationshttps://bit.ly/SecOps-WP

An industrious and entrepreneurial executive, with multi-industry expertise in strategic planning, marketing, business development, profit-and-loss management, financial modeling and risk analysis, new product development and launch, team leadership and client management. Reputed as a hyper-efficient intellectual, who effectively leads teams to drive business unit profitability.

Specialties: Strategy, Marketing, Operations / General Management

Experience also in: Corporate Finance; Corporate Law; Business Development / Sales

Amanda Sutter is an EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT to CFO at KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP and is based in Chicago, Illinois. She has worked as PRESIDENT at Pretty Please Boutique, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT at Coghlan Kukankos, and EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT to PRESIDENT at Codilis & Associates PC. Amanda attended ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY between 2008 and 2009.