Executive record
Eric Zielinski
Career profile: Eric Zielinski on CISO Spotlights ↗
Eric Zielinski is Chief Information Security Officer at Jumpmind. The appointment was announced in the week of January 5, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Background
Eric Zielinski's professional background as Jumpmind newsroom ↗ states it, read November 10, 2026.
Eric Zielinski is Chief Information Security Officer at Jumpmind. Zielinski was scheduled to speak on AI interpretability risk management at the FIRST Annual Conference 2026 (FIRSTCON26) in Denver. His session on June 17 was titled "AI Interpretability as a Security Control: Introducing the CIRCUIT Framework." During the talk he was to unveil CIRCUIT, a new open-source framework for AI interpretability risk management built for the security community.
Zielinski has worked in cybersecurity for over two decades across Fortune 100 enterprises, financial services, and cloud-native SaaS platforms. He has built programs that treat AI governance as a security engineering problem. As Director of AI and Cloud Security at OCC, Zielinski led efforts aligning generative AI governance with regulatory and enterprise risk frameworks. Earlier, he was CISO at Dizzion, where he scaled security programs.
Zielinski is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including several FIRST events and FS-ISAC. His presentations have covered securing generative AI and embedding cyber resilience in high-velocity development pipelines.
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Eric Zielinski, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced week of January 5, 2026 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-01-05) ↗ · Move record
Eric Zielinski has joined retail technology solutions provider Jumpmind as Chief Information Security Officer. In his new role, he will lead Jumpmind's security and cloud operations, overseeing safe information system scaling amid AI-powered innovation.
Jumpmind appointed Zielinski alongside Blake Sipek, who joined as Chief Financial Officer, according to the company. The company says the two executive appointments are meant to support the next phase of its global growth.
He previously held technology and cybersecurity leadership roles at Veeva Systems, Nationwide and The Options Clearing Corporation, the company says. A Jumpmind release says he has more than two decades of cybersecurity leadership across financial services, cloud-native SaaS platforms and Fortune 100 enterprises. Zielinski served at OCC as Director of AI and Cloud Security, where he led efforts to align generative AI governance with enterprise and regulatory risk frameworks, according to the company. Before that, he was CISO at Dizzion, where the company says he scaled security programs that balanced resilience with innovation velocity. Zielinski holds a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon, the company says. According to Jumpmind, he speaks often at industry conferences such as FS-ISAC and several FIRST events, on subjects including securing generative AI.
The company says Zielinski would speak in Denver at the FIRST Annual Conference 2026 about AI interpretability risk management. Jumpmind says he would use the talk to unveil CIRCUIT, an open-source AI interpretability risk management framework that was built specifically for the security community.
Jumpmind said that, at the time of the announcement, its Point of Service and unified promotions systems were deployed in thousands of stores across the Middle East, Europe and North America. In September, a controlling stake in Jumpmind was acquired by private equity firm Lone View Capital to invest further in its go-to-market capabilities, global expansion and product roadmap, the company says. Its retail customers include Petco, Bath & Body Works, American Eagle Outfitters and The Vitamin Shoppe, according to the company.
The company: Jumpmind
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Jumpmind: 1 confirmed move on the record
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Eric Zielinski's, nearest first (8 of 12). The Technology bench
Leslie Kershaw, Chief Information Security Officer at IonQ
Jayesh Bhatt, Chief Information Security Officer at Netcore
Ken Ricketts, Chief Information Security Officer at Teradata
Ed Moyle, Chief Information Security Officer at Future in Tech
Iain Mulholland, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Salesforce
Latha Maripuri, Chief Information Security Officer at Nscale
Peter Liebert, Chief Information Security Officer at Clari + Salesloft
Kathy Wang, Chief Information Security Officer at micro1
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 10 months since the appointment was announced (week of January 5, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 24, 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 Eric Zielinski
- Who is the CISO of Jumpmind?
- Eric Zielinski is Chief Information Security Officer at Jumpmind. The appointment was announced in the week of January 5, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Eric Zielinski become CISO of Jumpmind?
- The appointment was announced in the week of January 5, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-01-05) ↗: the appointment at Jumpmind, week of January 5, 2026
- 2.Jumpmind newsroom ↗: professional background, read November 10, 2026
- 3.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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