Claude Sam-Foh

Director, Enterprise Governance, Risk, Compliance and Chief Architect

Claude Sam-Foh, MBA, C|CIS0, CISSP, CISM, CISA, COBIT 5 & 2019, ITIL 3, ITIL 4-MP, ITIL4-SL, SCF, CIP, PMP, OCM-F&P, Cert. APM, SDOF, and ISACA Academic Advocate.
Claude Sam-Foh is the Director, Enterprise Governance, Risk Management, and Chief Architect at Centennial College. He cares deeply about making a positive difference and has enabled vast changes through his extensive experience identifying business transformation opportunities, visualizing strategies, and implementing solutions.
He has been sharing his broad business and IT knowledge for over 32 years, gained through practical experience during his long career with the Ontario Government and the Financial Services Commission of Ontario as their Chief Enterprise Architect and CISO.
His expertise encompasses enterprise governance, risk management, enterprise architecture; information management; information security; privacy leadership; service management; portfolio, program, and project management; business systems analysis; SecDevOps, and agile methodologies.
His teaching experience includes courses on enterprise architecture, cloud computing, cybersecurity, business information systems, systems analysis and design, enterprise resource planning, strategic management, and IT project management. He teaches at the Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto, and York University in the School of Continuing Studies.
Claude is more than just a motivational speaker and IT course designer. He is a mentor for his colleagues and students. He makes learning fun and adapts his delivery to challenge people to think critically and strategically. He emphasizes how knowledge can be applied in the workplace.
Claude’s motto is Knowledge Secured and Wisdom Applied.