Tomer Gershoni has been hired by ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI) to serve as its chief security officer.
In addition to managing physical and digital security and privacy initiatives and guiding ZoomInfo’s work to protect internal and external company data, Gershoni will serve as the team leader for ZoomInfo’s information security division.
In order to maintain the security of non-sensitive data the business collects and stores, he will collaborate closely with Simon McDougall, ZoomInfo’s Chief Compliance Officer, and ZoomInfo’s privacy team. Gershoni will also assist clients by providing guidance on the best ways to use, handle, and possess ZoomInfo’s data.
Gershoni provides more than two decades of cybersecurity expertise. He held the positions of Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Cyber Defence for the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), a government agency that answered directly to the prime minister and was in charge of defending people and businesses across the country against cyberattacks. He was in charge of all cyber defence initiatives for both classified and unclassified activities as the CISO of the INCD. He gave the organisation advice on strengthening the nation’s defences against cybersecurity attacks.
He previously held the positions of Chief Products Security Officer (CPSO) of HPE’s Software business unit and CISO of the company’s SaaS division, where he was in charge of safeguarding a portfolio of enterprise software products that included more than 100 different product lines.
As Senior Director and Head of Security Engineering & Cyber Defence Centre for Imperva, Gershoni most recently oversaw product and SaaS operations security while developing and implementing the business’s cyber threats programme.
Gershoni is a Certified Information Security Manager and possesses many patents in the fields of privacy by design and information security risk management. He has also been published in and contributed to a number of scholarly articles on information security.