ReliaQuest has named Krish Venkataraman as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently, Venkataraman served as CFO at Solink. Previously, he was co-president and CFO of KnowBe4, president of Dataiku, CFO at Socure, and held leadership positions at Dealogic, Syncsort, NYSE Euronext, Lehman Brothers, American Express, and Deloitte.

Chip Wentz has been appointed as SVP & Chief Information Officer for Keurig Dr Pepper.

Lumen Technologies has named Kim Keever as Chief Security Officer (CSO). A member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, Keever previously served as CISO at Cox Communications and VP of Information Security and CISO at Bottling Investments Group, and led security control and governance at Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (QSE) has appointed Joseph Hall as Chief Intelligence Officer (CIO). Hall previously served as director of threat intel R&D at Infoblox, head of security services at Nile, principal security consultant at Fortinet, CISO at HEROIC Cybersecurity, and in security engineering roles at Dell, SonicWall, Sophos, Symantec, American Express, and Solera Networks.

David Cass has joined Grayscale Investments as Chief Risk Officer. He joins the crypto investment funds firm from Keyrock, where he served as Chief Information Security Officer.

Thomas Dager has been appointed Vice President (VP) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Previously, Dager served as CISO at Archer Daniels Midland Company, led the cybersecurity organization at Worldpay, and was a security strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Alex Stamos has become Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cognition. A lecturer in computer science at Stanford University, Stamos previously served as CPO at Corridor, CISO and advisor to the CEO at SentinelOne, CSO at Facebook, CISO at Yahoo!, and CTO at NCC Group’s internal startup Artemis.

Varun Kohli has joined Gurucul as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). An advisor for Pepper, AdamX, and the University of California, and a mentor at the non-profit venture IIT Startups, Kohli previously served as CMO at Cequence Security, Feedzai, and Skycure (acquired by Symantec), and led strategic marketing at Symantec.

Sherman Chu has joined The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He previously served as Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead at BlackRock.

Doppel has announced the appointment of Joey Rachid as Chief Security Advisor and Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Rachid recently served as global CISO and CSO at Xerox. Previously, he was CISO and VP of IT at Vroom, deputy CISO and Senior Director of Cybersecurity at The Standard, and led cybersecurity and privacy at PwC.

Identity security provider Delinea has appointed Timothy Regan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Regan recently served as CFO and advisor at Dropbox. Previously, he was chief accounting officer at Dropbox and VP finance controller at Pandora Media, and held leading finance positions at Dolby Laboratories and Ernst & Young LLP. 

Gwen Gann has been appointed State Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Washington at Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech). Previously, Gann led the technology division at HealthFirst, was CIO at Public Partnerships, and held various technology leadership positions at CNSI, InTotality, and Oasis.

Pietr Lindahal has been named Vice President (VP) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Boston Scientific. Previously, Lindahal served as VP and CISO at Hologic and Deputy CISO at Biogen, led cyber strategy at Philips, and held various positions at Raytheon.

AI agent identity and enforcement company FIOR has announced the appointment of Gemma Ungoed-Thomas as Adviser, with a focus on sovereign AI strategy. A visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy & Security, Ungoed-Thomas held various positions within the UK government, including as Director for State Threats, Cyber and Technology, and worked at the National Cyber Security Centre and GCHQ.

Veritas Capital has appointed Joel Fulton as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Co-founder of Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI), Fulton previously served as SVP of Cybermesh & CISO at Cyderes, CEO at Lucidum (acquired by Cyderes), CISO at Splunk, deputy CSO at Symantec, and Global Head of Risk at Google.

incident.io has appointed Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas as Chief Operating Officer (COO). An angel investor and a venture partner at Index Ventures, Gonzalez-Cadenas previously was a board member at GoCardless, after serving as its COO and CPO / CTO. Previously, he served as CPO at Skyscanner after the company acquired Fogg, which he founded and led as CEO.