Ryan Donaghy has rejoined the US cybersecurity agency CISA as its first Chief Operating Officer (COO). Donaghy initially joined CISA in 2016, serving in various leadership roles, most recently as Deputy Assistant Director for Stakeholder Engagement. Before CISA, she was a college professor.

Cloud-native SaaS data protection platform Keepit has appointed James Dwyer as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). A member of the TSIA Board, Dwyer previously served in leadership roles at Alteryx and DataRobot.

Joe Chen has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Trellix. A founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Chen previously served as Operating Partner at Crosspoint Capital and held leadership positions at Broadcom’s Symantec Enterprise Division and Carbon Black.

Data privacy technology firm Usercentrics has appointed Pawan Hegde as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and has promoted Elena Ignatova to Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). Hegde previously served as COO at Fluree, co-founded ZettaLabs, and held various roles at Thomson Reuters. Ignatova previously served as CTO at Taxdoo and in leadership roles at Collibra.

Identity protection company SecureAuth has named Mark van Oppen as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Van Oppen previously served in leadership roles at IBM, Heptio, VMware, and FusionAuth.

Beth Tschida has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Jamf, following her interim CEO role since March 2026. Tschida has been with Jamf since 2018, initially as Sr VP of Engineering, and then as CTO. Previously, she held leadership roles at Voya Financial, MetLife, and other companies.

Axonius has announced the appointment of Joe Diamond as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Diamond previously served as CMO, President, and, most recently, interim CEO at Axonius. Before that, he held VP roles at Okta and various leadership positions at Proofpoint, RiskIQ, and Symantec.

Tim Byrd has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at First Citizens Bank. A board member of the National Technology Security Coalition, Byrd previously served as CISO at M&T Bank, PROG Holdings, and TIAA, and in leadership security roles at Financial Services Roundtable, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

Email security provider IRONSCALES has appointed Steve McKenzie as Chief Operating Officer (COO). McKenzie previously served as Chief Customer & Revenue Officer at LinkSquares and held senior leadership roles at Mimecast.

Silvio Pappalardo has joined cybersecurity firm AuthMind as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Pappalardo previously served as CRO at SandboxAQ, Permiso Security, and QuintessenceLabs, and held leadership roles at Absolute Software, FireEye, and Invotas.

Threat intelligence provider iCOUNTER has appointed Lisa Hayashi as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Bob Kalchthaler as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Hayashi served as VP of Marketing at Mimic. Previously, she was VP of Marketing at Uptycs and CMO at SafeGuard Cyber. Kalchthaler, who joined the company as CFO in February, previously served as CFO at Adlumin and Altruista Health.

Thomas Bain has become Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at preemptive cyber defense provider Silent Push. Bain previously served as CMO at VulnCheck and held leadership roles at Finite State, Cyware Labs, RiskRecon (acquired by Mastercard), and Morphisec.

Identity security management provider Radiant Logic has announced the appointment of Dave Becker as Chief Customer Officer. Recently, Becker was VP of Professional Services at Chargebee. Previously, he served in senior roles at Trellix and McAfee.

Identity protection provider Entrust has named Adam Dimopoulos as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Dimopoulos previously served as VP of Information Security at Synchrony and held leadership and advisory positions at Microsoft and Gartner.

Malwarebytes has named Chung Ip as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Ip was CFO at Cleo. Previously, he was a private equity and special situations investor at Accel-KKR and Outrider Management.

Semperis has announced the appointment of John Podboy as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Podboy previously held various security leadership roles at Fifth Third Bank, First Citizens Bank, Thomson Reuters, and GE Digital.