10 MassMutual security leaders
Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Enterprise Cyber Security, Head of Cyber Strategy & Operations and Director of Cloud Security are current titles on this list of ten MassMutual security leaders, who all hold security leadership roles there today. A reader can learn how security leaders work at MassMutual from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Abby (Rubino) Pagliaro
LinkedInExperience: Head of Security Fusion Engineering · MassMutual
Abby (Rubino) Pagliaro has been Head of Security Fusion Engineering at MassMutual since June 2026, after serving as Director of Security Platforms, Endpoint Security, and Encryption Engineering there from 2021 to 2026. Abby (Rubino) Pagliaro was an Information Security Consultant at MassMutual from 2017 to 2021 and lists security engineering, endpoint security, encryption engineering and data loss prevention among areas of focus.
Dean W. Anneser II
LinkedInExperience: Head of Cyber Strategy & Operations · MassMutual
Dean W. Anneser II has been Head of Cyber Strategy & Operations at MassMutual since December 2025. Dean W. Anneser II was Chief Information Security Officer at Pratt & Whitney from 2024 to 2025 and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer there from 2022 to 2024, and held Pratt & Whitney's Associate Director, Factory Cybersecurity role from 2020 to 2022.
Eric Boateng
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Enterprise Cyber Security · MassMutual
Eric Boateng has been Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Enterprise Cyber Security at MassMutual since May 2024. Eric Boateng was Vice President, Cybersecurity, Technology & Resiliency Risk Oversight at American Express from 2019 to 2024 and Chief Information Security Officer at New York eHealth Collaborative from 2018 to 2019, and served as a US Navy information professional officer from 1998 to 2018.
Eric Stoltz
LinkedInExperience: Head of Security Solutions Architecture · MassMutual
Eric Stoltz has been Head of Security Solutions Architecture at MassMutual since April 2025. Eric Stoltz was Head of Global Security Architecture at Concentrix from 2022 to 2025, an Information Systems Auditing Senior Advisor at Cigna Healthcare from 2019 to 2022, and Head of Cyber Infrastructure at MassMutual from 2017 to 2019.
Gary Harris
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Cloud and Network Security Engineering and Operations · MassMutual
Gary Harris has been Global Head of Cloud and Network Security Engineering and Operations at MassMutual since January 2026. Gary Harris was Head of Cloud Operations, Cloud Security Delivery & Cloud Security Engineering at MassMutual from 2023 to 2026 and Head of Cloud Security Operations and Engineering there from 2022 to 2023, after serving as AVP Professional Services at Absolute Security from 2020 to 2022.
James Pennington
LinkedInExperience: Director of Cloud Security · MassMutual
James Pennington has been Director of Cloud Security at MassMutual since May 2023 and also lists an AWS IAM Engineer role there since 2022. James Pennington was a Senior Governance and Risk Specialist at TIAA from 2021 to 2022 and Lead Information Security Operations Manager there from 2020 to 2021, and describes an information security focus on cloud technologies.
Ravindra Kshirsagar
LinkedInExperience: Head of Information Security | Vulnerability Management, Application Security, BISO, Cyber Analytics · MassMutual
Ravindra Kshirsagar has been Head of Information Security at MassMutual since November 2024, covering vulnerability management, application security, business information security and cyber analytics. Ravindra Kshirsagar was Director Information Security for cyber and technology risk at American Express from 2021 to 2024 and held cybersecurity and technology consulting roles at Atos Syntel from 2013 to 2021.
Robin Locasale
LinkedInExperience: Director of Identity and Access Management · MassMutual
Robin Locasale has been Director of Identity and Access Management at MassMutual since July 2021. Robin Locasale was Operations Manager for Access Management at TIAA from 2015 to 2021, and the profile headline gives the current role as Director of Identity and Access Management at MassMutual.
Ryan Woods
LinkedInExperience: Director of Cyber Intelligence & Threat Operations · MassMutual
Ryan Woods has been Director of Cyber Intelligence & Threat Operations at MassMutual since March 2026, after working as an Information Security Consultant at MassMutual from 2022 to 2026. Ryan Woods was a DFIR Consultant with Booz Allen's incident response practice from 2021 to 2022 and a Senior Special Agent at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles from 2019 to 2021.
Vernecia Ruffin
LinkedInExperience: Director of Vulnerability and Configuration Management · MassMutual
Vernecia Ruffin has been Director of Vulnerability and Configuration Management at MassMutual since May 2022. Vernecia Ruffin was a Senior Analyst, Security Regulations at Entergy from 2021 to 2022, a Senior Consultant in cyber risk at Deloitte from 2019 to 2021, and an Information Security Vulnerability Analyst at Tailored Brands from 2015 to 2017.
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