Grant is the Sr. Dir. University Technology Development (SVP) at Fifth Third Bank. He hold three Masters of Science degrees in Business, Information Systems, and Telecommunications as well as two PhDs in Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering from well-known universities, with over 50 publications in peer-reviewed conferences and a large patent in mobile security, with three other patents pending (one of which is used as the basis of a nextgen cyber security company, Power Fingerprinting). Prior to working in the banking industry, Grant served with distinction as a Colonel in the US Army, with his last assignment as the Head of the Computer Science Department and Senior Research Scientist at West Point, where he worked extensively with the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, while maintaining the CS program’s preeminent reputation in teaching Cyber Security.