John Podboy named Chief Information Security Officer at Semperis

Semperis announced the appointment of John Podboy as CISO. Podboy previously held various security leadership roles at Fifth Third Bank, First Citizens Bank, Thomson Reuters, and GE Digital.

The company says Podboy will support its next growth phase with a sharpened focus on compliance, risk, resilience and cyber defense driven by agentic AI. Podboy said he joined Semperis "to help deepen both our internal and product security posture" as the company continues to scale.

Podboy has more than 15 years of experience in risk, resilience, digital transformation, technology management and cybersecurity, according to the release. The company says he has run large-scale security programs for federal agencies and for global brands in financial services, media, technology, industrial, manufacturing and retail. At GE Digital, Thomson Reuters, First Citizens Bank and Fifth Third Bank, the release says, his focus was to build and scale security programs protecting critical assets and supporting business growth. Sharon Vardi, Semperis Chief Operating Officer, said Podboy has built programs placing identity at the center of cybersecurity strategy.

Semperis says it is built for hybrid and multi-cloud identity environments, among them Okta, Ping Identity, Entra ID and Active Directory, and helps organizations detect, prevent, respond to and recover from identity-based cyberattacks. More than 1,200 organizations rely on Semperis, according to the company. Semperis says it serves customers in more than 40 countries, is privately held and has its headquarters in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Semperis says it surpassed $100M in ARR as organizations prioritize the defense of identity systems, in an item dated Jan 30, 2025.