Vern Scoggins currently serves as the Vice President of Global Information Security at Asahi Kasei since April 2023 and holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University School of Business, teaching a graduate course in Information Technology Management since January 2015. Prior experience includes roles as Vice President and Infrastructure Architect at Polypore from January 2013 to November 2023, and Architect at Microsoft from November 1995 to October 2012. Earlier in the career, Vern Scoggins worked as a Systems Programmer at University Hospital and served in the US Navy as a Leading Engineering Laboratory Technician in Nuclear Propulsion. Vern Scoggins earned an MBA from Wake Forest University School of Business and holds a BS in Computer Science from Augusta University and a BS in Political Science from Excelsior University.