10 Citizens Bank security leaders
Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Security Officer and SVP, Senior Security Director are among the titles held today in this group of ten Citizens Bank security leaders, who hold or have held security roles at the bank. A reader can learn how security leaders work at Citizens Bank from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
A. Thomas Taverna IV
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Director Technology and Security Oversight · Citizens
A. Thomas Taverna IV has been Senior Vice President, Director Technology and Security Oversight at Citizens since May 2023. A. Thomas Taverna IV was Senior Vice President, Technology Risk Management at State Street from 2020 to 2022 and Senior Compliance Officer there from 2017 to 2020, and was Senior Vice President, IT Audit at LPL Financial from 2013 to 2017.
Brendan Goode
LinkedInExperience: Chief Security Officer · Citizens
Brendan Goode has been Chief Security Officer at Citizens since April 2024, after serving as Chief Security Officer at Commonwealth Bank from 2021 to 2024. Brendan Goode was Global Head of Enterprise Technology and Cyber Risk at Citi from 2017 to 2021 and held cyber security operations leadership roles at Deutsche Bank from 2014 to 2017, including CISO for UK & Ireland.
Christopher Goodall
LinkedInExperience: Director · Citizens
Christopher Goodall has been a Director at Citizens since April 2026, and the profile headline gives the role as Director, Cyber Assurance. Christopher Goodall was Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Operational Risk at TD from 2021 to 2026 and Senior Manager, Cyber Threat Hunting there from 2017 to 2021, and describes work across information security, threat intelligence and operational risk.
James Cebula
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Senior Security Director · Citizens
James Cebula has been SVP, Senior Security Director at Citizens since September 2024, after serving there as SVP, Sr. Director of Security Risk from 2022 to 2024 and SVP, Head of Cyber Security from 2017 to 2022. James Cebula was Sr. Vice President, Data Protection at PNC from 2015 to 2017 and Technical Manager, Cyber Risk Management at the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute from 2009 to 2015.
John Cooper
LinkedInExperience: Director - Operational Risk, Cybersecurity · Citizens
John Cooper has been Director - Operational Risk, Cybersecurity at Citizens since February 2026. John Cooper was Executive Director Sr. Operational Risk Officer at Wells Fargo from 2018 to 2026, and at Bank of America held roles in vulnerability management, as Business Information Security Officer for the legal function and in secure by design technology management from 2015 to 2018.
Michal Kovac
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of CyberSecurity and Business Resilience Risk · Citizens
Michal Kovac has been Senior Director of CyberSecurity and Business Resilience Risk at Citizens since July 2024. Michal Kovac was Senior Director CyberSecurity Risk Management at Freddie Mac from 2023 to 2024, Information Security Director / Audit - Cyber Security Risk there from 2020 to 2022 and Senior IT Audit Manager - CyberSecurity there from 2018 to 2020, and describes earlier cyber security work in the Department of Defense.
Ritu Saxena
LinkedInExperience: Director Application security & Vulnerability Management · Citizens
Ritu Saxena has been Director Application security & Vulnerability Management at Citizens since January 2026, after serving there as Application Security Manager from 2023 to 2026 and Principal Vulnerability Engineer from 2018 to 2023. Ritu Saxena lists DevSecOps, penetration testing and the vulnerability lifecycle among areas of focus in the profile headline.
Steve Wyllie
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Head of Cyber Defense, Intelligence & Security Analytics - Corporate Security & Resilience · Citizens
Steve Wyllie was SVP, Head of Cyber Defense, Intelligence & Security Analytics - Corporate Security & Resilience at Citizens from February 2014 to April 2018 and SVP, Director of IT Security - Technology Services there from 2011 to 2014. Steve Wyllie was SVP, Information Security for eDiscovery, cyber forensics and incident management at Bank of America from 2009 to 2011.
Terrence Driscoll
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · Citizens
Terrence Driscoll has been Chief Information Security Officer at Citizens since July 2025. Terrence Driscoll was Chief Information Security Officer at Cyware from 2024 to 2025, served on the board of directors of Sheltered Harbor from 2022 to 2024, was a Senior Director at PayPal from 2020 to 2021 and was Business Information Security Officer at Citadel from 2019 to 2020.
Thomas Shola
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President | Corporate Security, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Resilience Risk · Citizens
Thomas Shola has been Senior Vice President | Corporate Security, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Resilience Risk at Citizens since September 2026. Thomas Shola was Executive Director for enterprise cybersecurity, technology, data and resiliency risk at First Citizens Bank from 2025 to 2026 and Chief Risk, Information & Privacy Officer at Northern Bank from 2023 to 2025, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School since 2019.
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