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10 Paramount security leaders
These ten current and former Paramount security leaders hold or have held director, senior director, vice president and business information security officer roles in information security, detection engineering, cloud security and cyber risk at Paramount. A reader can learn how security leaders work at Paramount from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Carmine Valente
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President, Information Security · Paramount
Former Vice President, Information Security at Paramount (2019–2025), covering enterprise cyber risk management, third party risk and incident response, and former Director Information Security at CBS (2017–2025). Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Con Edison since 2025.
Cathy Bromberg
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director, Information Security · Paramount
Former Senior Director, Information Security at Paramount (2018–2024), leading a team performing risk assessments of 1,000+ vendors annually and reporting to the Global Head of Cyber Risk Management. Director of Cyber Governance, Risk & Compliance at Con Edison since 2026.
Christian D.
LinkedInExperience: Director Information Security · Paramount
Director Information Security at Paramount since 2022, listed in Engineering and Technical at Director level, with the headline noting a retired intelligence officer background. Former System Engineer at Boeing Intelligence & Analytics (2017–2022) and Intelligence Chief Warrant Officer in the US Army (2003–2023).
Eric Davisson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Detection Engineering · Paramount
Senior Director, Detection Engineering at Paramount since 2025. Former Director, Detection Engineering (2023–2025), listed in Engineering and Technical at Director level, and Principal Information Security Analyst (2015–2023) at Paramount, and Senior Director at Skydance since 2026.
Erick Cano
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Cybersecurity Capabilities · Paramount
Senior Director, Cybersecurity Capabilities at Paramount since 2018, listed in Engineering and Technical at Director level. Former Director Information Security at CHANEL (2016–2018), Manager, IT Security at Barnes & Noble, Inc. (2014–2016) and Information Security Manager at Condé Nast (2008–2014).
Frank Simser
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Security Training & Awareness · Paramount
Vice President, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Security Training & Awareness at Paramount since 2026. Former Senior Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Security Training & Awareness at Paramount (2022–2026), Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead at Guidewire Software (2021–2022) and US Cyber Threat Resilience Manager at National Grid (2020–2021).
Lance Hudson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of DevSecOps · Paramount
Senior Director of DevSecOps at Paramount since 2025, overseeing DevSecOps and platform security across multi-cloud infrastructure for Paramount Streaming. Former Director of DevSecOps (2023–2025) and Principal DevOps Engineer (2018–2023) at Paramount, and former Senior Software Engineer at OpenText (2018).
Łukasz C.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Information Security · Paramount
Director, Information Security at Paramount since 2026, based in Warsaw. Former Senior Manager, Vulnerability Management (2024–2026), Technical Manager, Information Security (2018–2023), Information Security Analyst (2017–2018) and Senior Tech Support Analyst (2015–2017) at Paramount.
Matt Zhu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Information Security (Business Information Security Officer) · Paramount
Senior Director, Information Security (Business Information Security Officer) at Paramount since 2024, and Head of Enterprise Cyber Risk at Paramount since 2026. Former Director, Information Security (Business Information Security Officer) (2022–2024) and Information Security Consultant (2017–2022) at Paramount.
Michael Artis
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Cloud Security Engineering · Paramount
Senior Director Cloud Security Engineering at Paramount since 2021, listed in Engineering and Technical at Director level. Former Director Cloud Infrastructure (2020–2021), Principal Architect (2015–2020) and Principal Systems Engineer (2013–2015) at Paramount.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a central cybersecurity team work with the business units it supports?
- 02What does a security director need from engineering and IT partners to get a new control rolled out across a large company?
- 03How do you decide which security risks get funded first when the list is longer than the budget?
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