Heather Gantt-Evans named Chief Information Security Officer at Marqeta

Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, announced the appointment of Heather Gantt-Evans as its Chief Information Security Officer. Gantt-Evans joins from SailPoint, where she served as CISO, and previously led security operations for The Home Depot. She will oversee Marqeta's global corporate and product security strategies.

According to Business Wire, as Marqeta keeps expanding, Gantt-Evans will secure its business operations and payment data, sensitive personally identifiable information included, for the company, its customers and employees. Marqeta says it is making the appointment during a time of global growth.

The company says Gantt-Evans brings more than 15 years of expertise in cybersecurity and risk management. SailPoint Technologies Holdings announced on March 9, 2021 that it had named Gantt-Evans its Chief Information Security Officer. According to SailPoint, she came to it from The Home Depot, where she held the post of senior director of security operations and resilience. SailPoint says that at The Home Depot she was in charge of vulnerability management, application security, security engineering, network security operations and the security operations centers.

SailPoint says that before The Home Depot she worked in various strategic security roles at Booz Allen Hamilton and Ernst & Young. The release says she spent five years with Ernst & Young consulting for Fortune 100 companies, which sparked her interest in financial services. According to SailPoint, she served six years in the U.S. Army Reserves as an all-source threat intelligence analyst. While in the US Army Reserves, she supported the Air Force Cyber Command with a focus on cyber fusion operations and cyber threat intelligence, Marqeta says. According to the release, Gantt-Evans sat on multiple advisory boards and chaired the cybersecurity committee of Envision Radiology at the time of the announcement.

Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and holds certification to operate in 40 countries, the release says. According to the company, the Brazilian market is the most recent one Marqeta has entered. Marqeta says its open APIs give customers cloud-based payment infrastructure to issue cards, authorize and settle payment transactions, and launch and manage their own card programs.