ON Partners Recruits Chief Information Security Officer for Trellix
January 9, 2023 – Andy Hickman and Tim Conti of ON Partners recently assisted in the recruitment of Harold Rivas as chief information security officer of Trellix, a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, CA. Mr. Rivas’ appointment is part of Trellix’ ongoing effort to drive the future of extended detection and response, the company said, adding that his leadership will enable Trellix to “best protect against threats, manage compliance needs and third-party risks, and implement industry-wide best practices.” Mr. Rivas will lead Trellix’s global security and compliance initiatives.
Mr. Rivas joins Trellix from loanDepot, where he served as CISO. In this role, he was responsible for leading information security, privacy, disaster recovery, technology compliance, product security, and other critical functions for loanDepot, its subsidiaries, and its joint ventures. Mr. Rivas previously held additional executive and senior-level information security roles at Santander Consumer, Mr. Cooper, Fujitsu America, and Citi.
Trellix is focused on accelerating the use of XDR architecture across enterprises, commercial businesses, and governments to both advance organization security posture and to ease cybersecurity incident response and management.
Trellix also recently turned to ON Partners for the recruitment of Kimberly Anstett as its chief information officer. “Kim has a proven record of building high-performing IT organizations,” said Bryan Palma, CEO. “No doubt she will do the same at Trellix while also serving as our ‘customer zero’ for our market leading products.”
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With more than 25 years’ industry experience, Ms. Anstett was most recently executive vice president and chief technology officer at Iron Mountain leading teams across product development and innovation. Prior to that, she was CIO at Nielsen, focused on customer value and increased cybersecurity outcomes. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and serves on the board of directors for Quotient Technology. “My No.1 priority as CIO is to deliver insights to our business to serve our customers,” said Ms. Anstett. “Second is furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and development for my teams. I am motivated by people, process, and technology, and I see a lot of alignment with Trellix’s ethos as a home for soulful work.”
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With a primary focus on technology, consumer, industrial, and the life science sectors, ON Partners recruits C-level and board talent for public and private companies, as well as venture capital and private equity firms. Founded in 2006, the firm’s consultants work from offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Menlo Park, CA; Minneapolis. MN; San Francisco; and New York. ON Partners was named one of the fastest growing search firms this year by Hunt Scanlon Media. The firm is now ranked as one of the 20 largest search firms in the nation.
Mr. Hickman has over 20 years of experience in executive search. He has placed 250-plus C-level executives in technology, information, innovation, security, engineering, and product roles. His primary focus is in private equity.
Mr. Conti, who has worked in executive search for more than 15 years, has completed upwards of 150 C-level and board searches across a range of industries. His focus is on public, private equity, and venture capital organizations. Mr. Conti also serves as a member of the ON Partners executive committee.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
