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10 Capital One security leaders
These ten Capital One cybersecurity leaders include divisional and business CISOs for Discover, financial services, card and the commercial bank, deputy CISOs, a cyber distinguished engineer and the senior director for insider threat and data loss prevention. A reader can learn how security leaders run security organizations inside Capital One.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Pendleton
LinkedInExperience: Divisional CISO - Card Services · Capital One
Divisional CISO for Card Services at Capital One since 2026, tagged at Head level. Other roles shown are Chief Information Security Officer at Meriplex (2021–2023) and at LendingPoint (2021–2023), Senior Director of Cybersecurity at Publicis Groupe (2017–2021) and Adjunct Professor - Information Security at Tarrant County College (2017–2020).
Ahmed Mohamud
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Commercial Bank Divisional CISO · Capital One
Senior Director and Divisional CISO for the Commercial Bank at Capital One from 2021; his headline describes the role as former. Other roles shown are Vice President of Cyber Risk at Morgan Stanley (2020–2021) and cyber security risk and IT risk roles at Fannie Mae (2015–2020).
Arthur J Deane
LinkedInExperience: VP & CISO, Discover Financial Services · Capital One
VP and CISO for Discover Financial Services at Capital One since July 2025, after a VP, Cyber role there in 2025. Other roles shown are CISO for Healthcare at Amazon (2023–2025), VP and CISO for the Card Business at Capital One (2022–2023) and VP and CISO for Enterprise Data and Machine Learning at Capital One, plus an adjunct professorship at American University since 2020.
Ibrahima Mbaye
LinkedInExperience: Deputy Chief Information Security Officer - Card · Capital One
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Card at Capital One since 2023, after serving as Senior Director of Product Security there (2020–2023). Other roles shown are VP and Chief Information Security Officer at CGS (Computer Generated Solutions) (2018–2019) and Senior Principal Consultant at ACA Aponix (2019–2020).
Jay Desai
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - Divisional CISO · Capital One
Senior Director and Divisional CISO at Capital One since 2024, tagged at Director level. Other Capital One roles shown are Director in the Information Security Office (2022–2024), Director of Cyber Governance & Risk (2021–2022) and Senior Manager of Third Party Risk (2018–2021), so he has worked across governance and divisional security there.
Leslie Stevens, MSc, CISM
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Cyber Security & Divisional CISO · Capital One
Senior Director, Cyber Security and Divisional CISO at Capital One since 2021, with a headline that places the role at Capital One Canada; the profile location is Toronto. Other roles shown are Vice President of Information Security at Equifax Canada (2015–2021) and Manager of the Intelligence Unit at the Canadian Bankers Association (2011–2014).
Nicole Washburn, JD, CFE, CCP
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Insider Threat and Data Loss Prevention · Capital One
Vice President at Capital One since 2023 and Senior Director for Insider Threat and Data Loss Prevention there since 2015; her profile says she now leads the security testing and vulnerability management program. Another role shown is Senior Director of Global Investigations at Equifax (2007–2015), and the profile mentions federal service as a Special Agent.
Scott Schenkein
LinkedInExperience: Executive Distinguished Engineer, Vice President - Cyber (Information Security) · Capital One
Executive Distinguished Engineer and Vice President in Cyber (Information Security) at Capital One since 2023; his profile describes him as engineering lead, strategist and architect for several security functions. Other Capital One roles shown are Senior Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director in Cyber (2021–2023) and Distinguished Engineer and Director in Cyber (2019–2021).
Stephen Jou
LinkedInExperience: Deputy CISO Enterprise Data, HR Tech, Finance Tech, and Risk Tech · Capital One
Deputy CISO for Enterprise Data, HR Tech, Finance Tech and Risk Tech at Capital One since 2026. Other Capital One roles shown are Senior Director and Head of Security of Enterprise Data (2024–2026), Director of Information Security (2019–2024) and Senior Manager of Information Security (2015–2019).
Wayne R.
LinkedInExperience: CISO - Financial Services · Capital One
CISO for Financial Services at Capital One since 2024, based in Plano. Other roles shown are Chief Information Security Officer at Toyota Financial Savings Bank and Division Information Security Officer at Toyota Financial Services (2020–2024), plus Advisory CISO at Kudelski Security and CISO at Armor Defense.
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- 01How does a large bank use divisional CISOs to cover lines of business such as card and commercial banking?
- 02How does a bank integrate the security program of an acquired company such as Discover?
- 03How does a bank run insider threat, data loss prevention and vulnerability management programs?
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