Naina Bhattacharya named Chief Information Security Officer at Coats

Naina Bhattacharya has started as Chief Information Security Officer at Coats, the UK-based industrial thread manufacturer, CIO&Leader reported on January 6, 2026. She previously served as CISO at Danone, where she led a multi-year global cybersecurity transformation spanning governance, architecture, operations and incident response.

The move takes a consumer-goods security leader into global manufacturing, where the security estate reaches from corporate IT into factory operations across many countries.

According to CIO&Leader, Bhattacharya will lead the cybersecurity strategy for the whole enterprise at Coats. CIO&Leader reports that she is to strengthen risk management, resilience and security governance across the global operations of Coats. The publication says that in the role she will also enable secure digital transformation at scale across Coats.

CIO&Leader says that at Danone she was also a co-sponsor of Diversity & Inclusion for IT and Data teams worldwide. Earlier in her career, according to CIO&Leader, she held senior cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK at Deloitte and EY. At EY and Deloitte, the publication says, she advised global organizations on data privacy, large-scale security transformation and cybersecurity strategy.

CIO&Leader says Bhattacharya started out in technology in engineering roles at Infosys and Sun Microsystems.