Cybersecurity
10 cloud security experts
These ten professionals have led cloud security inside banks, financial services firms and other companies, with titles such as head of cloud security and director of cloud security. A reader can learn how companies secure their own systems and data as they move to public cloud platforms.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Leonard
LinkedInExperience: Director, Cloud Security Engineering · Fifth Third Bank
Director, Cloud Security Engineering at Fifth Third Bank since 2022, where the profile describes leading a team of engineers and architects and managing the end to end enforcement of standards and policies in cloud environments, including detection and alerting. Former Director of Architecture, Secure Infrastructure at GE Aerospace (2021–2022) and Senior Manager, Cloud & Automation there (2019–2021).
Brian Hinsley
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Cloud Security Architecture · U.S. Bank
SVP, Cloud Security Architecture at U.S. Bank since 2021 and former Vice President, Cloud Governance there (2017–2021). The profile describes establishing U.S. Bank's security strategy and architecture for a significant migration of applications to the public cloud. Former Director, IT Enterprise Architecture at Scripps Networks Interactive (2007–2014).
Darrell Grundy
LinkedInExperience: Head of Cloud Security · LSEG
Head of Cloud Security at LSEG since 2020 and former Lead Cloud Security Architect there (2019–2020). Under a Lead Cloud Security Architect role, the profile describes providing cloud security architecture steering and service hardening patterns for migration to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Other roles include Lead Cloud Security Architect (2018–2019) and AWS Cloud Security Architect (2017–2018) at HSBC.
Eric Boyken
LinkedInExperience: Head of Cloud Security · Corebridge Financial
Head of Cloud Security at Corebridge Financial since 2023, hired as the inaugural Cloud Security Executive within the company's Information Security Office according to the profile. Former Senior Vice President, Head of Cloud Platform & Workload Assurance at Wells Fargo (2023), with other Wells Fargo roles including SVP, Infrastructure & Cloud Security Risk Oversight (2021–2023).
Gurpreet Ahluwalia
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Cloud Security Architecture · HSBC
Former Global Head of Cloud Security Architecture at HSBC (2023–2024), a role the profile describes as including strategy for emerging technologies and integrating cloud services across Azure, AWS, GCP and Ali cloud. Cloud Engineering Lead at Lloyds Banking Group since 2025. Other HSBC roles include Global Head of Azure & Power Platform (2021–2023) and Lead Azure Platform Architect (2020–2021).
Khanh Tran
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Cloud Security Engineering & Architecture · Capital Group
Vice President - Cloud Security Engineering & Architecture at Capital Group since 2022 and former Director Cloud Security Architecture at Humana (2020–2022). Other roles include VP - Engineering Cybersecurity Lead at AQR Capital Management (2018–2020) and VP - Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect at JPMorganChase (2016–2018). The profile describes architecting enterprise AI systems that are secure by design.
Ryan Aldred
LinkedInExperience: Head of Cloud Security · Lloyds Banking Group
Former Head of Cloud Security at Lloyds Banking Group (2020–2024), with other Lloyds Banking Group roles including Cloud Security Director (Interim) from 2022 to 2023, Head of Cloud Enterprise Security (2024–2025) and Head of Cloud Enterprise & Compute Security since 2025. Head of Security Posture Management at Lloyds Banking Group since 2026.
Santhoshi Gorle
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Cloud & AI Security Engineering · JPMorganChase
Executive Director - Cloud & AI Security Engineering at JPMorganChase since 2024, where the profile describes specializing in cloud security engineering and leading cross-functional teams. Former Engineering Manager, Cloud Security at T-Mobile (2021–2024), with other T-Mobile roles including Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Security (2021) and Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security (2016–2021).
Vaijayanti Korde
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director Cybersecurity and Head of Cloud Transformation & Crypto Platform · Visa
Sr Director Cybersecurity and Head of Cloud Transformation & Crypto Platform at Visa since 2024, where the profile describes leading end-to-end hybrid and multi-cloud security strategy and execution for the secure migration of Visa workloads to AWS, Azure and GCP. Former Head of Product Security & Architecture at Ripple (2022–2024) and Product Security & Architecture Leader at Credit Karma (2019–2022).
Waleed Baig
LinkedInExperience: Director, Cloud Security · CIBC
Director, Cloud Security at CIBC since 2022 and former Senior Cloud Security Advisor there (2020–2022). Other roles include Manager, Cloud Security at Bonterra (2018–2020) and Senior Information Technology Security Consultant at McCarthy Tétrault (2017–2018), plus a role as Adjunct Professor- Cyber Threat Intelligence at Seneca Polytechnic since 2023.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's focus to yours, since setting cloud security strategy and architecture differs from running the engineering team that enforces controls day to day. Also consider which cloud platforms you use, since some leaders have worked mainly in one provider while others have secured several at once.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which cloud security controls do you put in place first when a company starts moving workloads to public cloud?
- 02How do you split cloud security responsibilities between a central security team and the engineering teams that build in the cloud?
- 03How do you keep security standards consistent across AWS, Azure and GCP?
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