Executive record
Clayton C. Peddy
Career profile: Clayton C. Peddy on CISO Spotlights ↗
Clayton C. Peddy is Chief Information Security Officer at ABBYY. The appointment was announced in the week of May 20, 2024, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: security leadership roles at OutSystems, per the same source.
The seat was verified again on October 22, 2026, per abbyy.com.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Clayton C. Peddy, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at ABBYY
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2024-05-20) ↗ · Move record
Before May 2024· Earlier role
security leadership roles at OutSystems
Named in the announcement of the ABBYY appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2024-05-20) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of May 20, 2024 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2024-05-20) ↗ · Move record
ABBYY hired Clayton C. Peddy as its CISO to lead the company's infosec initiatives. He has over two decades of experience and previously held security leadership roles at OutSystems and Citrix.
ABBYY says that as CISO, Peddy leads information security across the company's global operations and products. ABBYY says Peddy drives both the ABBYY Trust Center and the secure development of lifecycle frameworks. ABBYY says the Trust Center is the public home for its commitments to privacy, confidentiality, transparency and ethical AI. The company says he speaks on the privacy, security and compliance questions enterprises face when adopting AI, and explains to customers how their data is stored, used and collected.
SecurityWeek reports that his experience covers software development, digital transformation and architecture consulting as well as cybersecurity. According to the release, Peddy is a published author and a speaker in the technology and cybersecurity sectors. The release says Peddy has held the post of Computer Science Industry Board Member for California State University, Chico.
SecurityWeek describes ABBYY as a company working in intelligent document processing. The release says ABBYY transforms data from business-critical documents into intelligent actionable outcomes in real time and in over 200 languages. According to the release, more than 10,000 companies around the world use ABBYY, including many of the Fortune 500. ABBYY has offices in 12 countries and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA, according to the release.
Business Wire listed Ulf Persson as the CEO of ABBYY at the time of the announcement and stated that the company had 500 employees. The release says ABBYY recently obtained ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications. Arsenal Women Football Club has ABBYY as its Official Intelligent Automation Partner, according to the release.
The company: ABBYY
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- Europe
- Company record
- Who runs security at ABBYY: 1 confirmed move on the record
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Clayton C. Peddy's, nearest first. The Technology bench
Leonard Kleinman, Chief Information Security Officer at Enablis
Chris Bates, Chief Information Security Officer at SandboxAQ
John Visneski, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sumo Logic
Adrian Ludwig, Chief Information Security Officer at Tools for Humanity (TFH)
Norm Laudermilch, Chief Information Security Officer at Maxar Technologies
Fahmi Megdiche, Chief Information Security Officer at Medius
Becca Harness, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Deltek
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 2 years 5 months since the appointment was announced (week of May 20, 2024), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 26, 2026
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Clayton C. Peddy
- Who is the CISO of ABBYY?
- Clayton C. Peddy is Chief Information Security Officer at ABBYY. The appointment was announced in the week of May 20, 2024, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Clayton C. Peddy become CISO of ABBYY?
- The appointment was announced in the week of May 20, 2024, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Clayton C. Peddy work before ABBYY?
- Before the appointment, Clayton C. Peddy was security leadership roles at OutSystems, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2024-05-20) ↗: the appointment at ABBYY, week of May 20, 2024
- 2.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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