Because you're trying to instigate a credentialist witch hunt. It's a business role, not a technical one. You don't need to be an accountant to be CFO either. You just need to make domain-specific business decisions that keep the CEO in power and be the public face of failure in his stead.

The internal culture there is such that revenue is prioritized over responsibility. Said culture is driven from the top. EFX stock had been rising steadily for years under Smith's direction, and we're now seeing at what cost.

Concern yourself all you want with the CISO's music degrees. I'm just glad to see the person actually responsible for this toxic culture has finally taken the knife.