Philip Martin has joined Uber as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Martin joins the ride-hailing company from Coinbase, where he served as Chief Security Officer since April 2016. There, he led a global team of more than 250 employees responsible for cybersecurity, Trust & Safety, physical security, technology governance, risk and compliance, and business resilience across Coinbase’s consumer and enterprise businesses.
Before Coinbase, Martin built and led the Incident Response and Security Engineering teams at Palantir Technologies and helped develop virtual infrastructure at Amazon’s A9.
Earlier in his career, he spent a decade as a U.S. Army counterintelligence agent and Arabic linguist, serving in tactical and strategic roles both in the United States and overseas.
“What drew me here is simple: very few companies are responsible for real people moving through the real world at Uber’s scale, every minute of every day,” Martin wrote in a LinkedIn post. “Security at many companies protects data. At Uber, it also protects trips, riders, drivers, and couriers; real people in motion. This is an important responsibility that I’m excited to take on.”
