Executive record
John Podboy
Career profile: John Podboy on CISO Spotlights ↗
John Podboy is Chief Information Security Officer at Semperis. The appointment was announced in the week of May 4, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for John Podboy, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced week of May 4, 2026 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-05-04) ↗ · Move record
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.
The company: Semperis
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Semperis: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Semperis sells security products, filed under Identity threat detection and response. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of John Podboy's, nearest first (8 of 15). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Adam Dimopoulos, Chief Information Security Officer at Entrust
Paul Black, Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium
Dom Glavach, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Black Duck
Drew McCombs, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Cylerity
Jacob Berry, Chief Information Security Officer at Fable Security
Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer at Socure
Henrik Smith, Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 6 months since the appointment was announced (week of May 4, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 24, 2026
- Cybersecurity Vendors in 2026
- 25 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
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 John Podboy
- Who is the CISO of Semperis?
- John Podboy is Chief Information Security Officer at Semperis. The appointment was announced in the week of May 4, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did John Podboy become CISO of Semperis?
- The appointment was announced in the week of May 4, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-05-04) ↗: the appointment at Semperis, week of May 4, 2026
- 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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