Sebastian Goodwin named Chief Trust Officer at Autodesk

Autodesk appointed Sebastian Goodwin as chief trust officer, effective March 27, 2023. Goodwin will oversee Autodesk's commitments to customers on security, privacy and data ethics. He joins from Nutanix, where he served as chief information security officer.

According to the company's biography, Goodwin leads Autodesk's global strategy on resilience, trusted AI, privacy and security. Autodesk says in the biography that he helps meet its commitment to customers and stakeholders through data practices that are ethically grounded, transparent and secure. The biography says his work supports building resilient systems across the industry clouds and products of Autodesk.

The company's biography says Goodwin has over 20 years of experience, during which he helped Global 2000 companies to measure and manage cyber risk. At Nutanix, according to the biography, Goodwin built the foundation of the company's risk management, compliance and global cybersecurity. Before joining Nutanix, Goodwin worked at Palo Alto Networks as head of product marketing for endpoint security, the release says. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Goodwin served as chief information security officer at Robert Half, according to the release. According to the biography, Goodwin earned a bachelor's degree in applied economics at the University of San Francisco and an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. A Nutanix profile says Goodwin, while CISO there, also served the University of California Berkeley School of Information as an adjunct professor teaching in its Masters in Cybersecurity degree program.

The release identifies the company as Autodesk, Inc., which is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ADSK. According to the release, Autodesk's technology spans media and entertainment, manufacturing, product design, construction, engineering and architecture.