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Joseph Adu

CISO Tribune executive record: Joseph Adu, CISO at CentralReach

Career profile: Joseph Adu on CISO Spotlights ↗

Joseph Adu is Chief Information Security Officer at CentralReach. The appointment was announced on December 2, 2025, per GlobeNewswire.

Before the appointment: Chief Technology Officer at SpectrumAi, per the same source.

1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated

Career timeline

Every move the record holds for Joseph Adu, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.

  1. · Appointment

    Named Chief Information Security Officer at CentralReach

    Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record

  2. Before December 2025· Earlier role

    Chief Technology Officer at SpectrumAi

    Named in the announcement of the CentralReach appointment · Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗

The appointment

Announced December 2, 2025 · Source: GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record

CentralReach, a provider of autism and IDD care software, named Joseph Adu as its Chief Information Security Officer. Adu joined through the company's acquisition of SpectrumAi, where he had served as Chief Technology Officer, and previously served as CISO at PathAI. The appointment was announced on December 2, 2025.

As CISO, Adu will oversee security and information technology across the organization for data protection, privacy and regulatory alignment, according to the release. The release says his duties include guiding resource allocation and IT and security investment decisions, and maintaining and enhancing compliance programs such as SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA. He will also provide governance over the responsible use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the company's products and internal analytics, the release says.

The release says Adu has led cybersecurity and technology functions for over fifteen years at technology, education and healthcare companies. At PathAI, the release says, Adu set up and ran an Information Security Management System certified to ISO 27001 and helped the company reach FDA and enterprise compliance milestones. At SpectrumAi, the release says, Adu worked on developing a scalable and secure SaaS platform and laid groundwork for machine learning solutions to improve behavioral health clinical data collection and analytics.

According to the release, CentralReach offers its autism and IDD care software for special education, multidisciplinary care and ABA.

According to the release, CentralReach added Adu shortly after naming Peter Boumenot to the post of Chief Product Officer.

The company: CentralReach

Company record
Who runs security at CentralReach: 1 confirmed move on the record

Appointed in the same period

Other security chiefs in Healthcare whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Joseph Adu's, nearest first. The Healthcare bench

Record facts

Time in the seat
11 months since the appointment was announced (December 2, 2025), as of November 2026
Moves on the record
1 confirmed move, each with its source
On the record since
September 30, 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 Joseph Adu

Who is the CISO of CentralReach?
Joseph Adu is Chief Information Security Officer at CentralReach. The appointment was announced on December 2, 2025, per GlobeNewswire.
When did Joseph Adu become CISO of CentralReach?
The appointment was announced on December 2, 2025, per GlobeNewswire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Where did Joseph Adu work before CentralReach?
Before the appointment, Joseph Adu was Chief Technology Officer at SpectrumAi, according to the announcement (GlobeNewswire).

Sources

  1. 1.GlobeNewswire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at CentralReach, December 2, 2025
  2. 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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