Joe Giannetti

Legal services company Lexitas appointed Joe Giannetti as Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, citing 25 years of technology and security experience.

Legal-services firms hold some of the most sensitive client material in the economy — litigation records, depositions, discovery data — and the combined CIO/CISO structure here reflects a mid-market reality: at this scale, security leadership is often fused with the broader technology mandate rather than split from it.

According to the release, Giannetti will lead the information security programs, business systems, infrastructure and enterprise technology operations of Lexitas. The company says Giannetti will focus on strengthening cybersecurity, scaling internal platforms and supporting continued innovation across the organization.

The release says Giannetti's experience of more than 25 years in technology and security leadership has been across organizations that are high-growth and technology-focused. Most recently, the release says, Giannetti was Vice President over IT & Security at Employ, an HR Tech SaaS and services company backed by private equity. At Employ, Giannetti led the consolidation of four operating companies, following a merger, into a unified enterprise platform and rebuilt the security organization from the ground up, the release says. Before Employ, the company says, Giannetti headed the IT organization at Applied Systems, an InsureTech SaaS and services company backed by private equity, during a period of significant growth and scaling. Giannetti's Bachelor of Science in Computer Science is from the University of Illinois College of Engineering, the company says.

Lexitas was founded in 1987 and provides technology-enabled litigation services, the company says. According to the release, Lexitas offers document review, legal staffing, process service, record retrieval, court reporting and commercial contracts outsourcing. The release says Lexitas serves courts, law firms, lawyers, corporations, insurance companies and third-party administrators across the country. Lexitas has more than 1,300 full-time team members, according to the release. The company says Lexitas has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for nine consecutive years.