Executive record
Julia Lake
Career profile: Julia Lake on CISO Spotlights ↗
Julia Lake is Chief Information Security Officer at 6sense. The appointment was announced on April 16, 2026, per 6sense.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Julia Lake, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at 6sense
Source: 6sense (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
The appointment
Announced April 16, 2026 · Source: 6sense (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
6sense, the revenue intelligence platform, announced on April 16, 2026 that it has promoted Julia Lake to Chief Information Security Officer, alongside the appointment of a new Chief People Officer.
Promoting from inside to the CISO seat at a SaaS company selling AI agents to go-to-market teams puts continuity first, at a point when customers are scrutinising how their data flows through those agents.
According to the release, Lake leads the global security and trust strategy at 6sense, covering compliance, security operations, third-party risk management, AI security and risk governance, and cloud and application security. The company says her work is meant to embed security into the way 6sense builds, operates and scales its AI-driven platform. The release says Lake works with teams across the company on the responsible use of AI, so that governance, risk management and transparency keep pace with its growing capabilities.
Before joining 6sense, Lake held senior security roles at GitLab, where she led Security Assurance through the October 2021 IPO of the globally distributed, publicly traded DevOps platform, the release says. At the DevOps platform, she worked closely with product and engineering teams to align privacy, compliance and security with rapid innovation and a remote-first operating model, the leadership page says.
The company says 6sense captures trillions of buyer signals, which it uses to orchestrate personalized engagement, prioritize contacts and uncover in-market accounts. According to the release, AI Agents on its single connected platform automate manual tasks across marketing and sales.
The company: 6sense
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at 6sense: 1 confirmed move on the record
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Julia Lake's, nearest first (8 of 21). The Technology bench
Doug Bowers, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at MongoDB
Lucas Moody, Chief Information Security Officer at Astera Labs
Jeremy Powell, Chief Information Security Officer at Sumo Logic
Victor Chang, Chief Information Security Officer at Backstory
Roland Palmer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Security at JumpCloud
Kathy Wang, Chief Information Security Officer at micro1
Michael Kipp, Chief Information Security Officer at ChurnZero
Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 6 months since the appointment was announced (April 16, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 25, 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 Julia Lake
- Who is the CISO of 6sense?
- Julia Lake is Chief Information Security Officer at 6sense. The appointment was announced on April 16, 2026, per 6sense.
- When did Julia Lake become CISO of 6sense?
- The appointment was announced on April 16, 2026, per 6sense. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.6sense (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at 6sense, April 16, 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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