Executive record
Latha Maripuri
Career profile: Latha Maripuri on CISO Spotlights ↗
Latha Maripuri is Chief Information Security Officer at Nscale. The appointment was announced in the week of February 23, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: CISO at Uber, per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Latha Maripuri, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Nscale
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-02-23) ↗ · Move record
Before February 2026· Earlier role
CISO at Uber
Named in the announcement of the Nscale appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-02-23) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of February 23, 2026 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-02-23) ↗ · Move record
Latha Maripuri has been appointed CISO of AI infrastructure company Nscale to define its global security vision. She previously served as CISO at Uber and Global CISO and Deputy CTO at News Corp.
Nscale says Maripuri joins to spearhead its global security operations, engineering and strategy. The company says Maripuri is responsible for its security organization and stack end to end, with full accountability for supply chain, infrastructure, information and physical security. According to the release, Maripuri is to ensure that protection is engineered from day one into every layer of Nscale's culture, operations, infrastructure and platform.
SecurityWeek reports that Maripuri has more than 25 years of experience in engineering and cybersecurity. Nscale says that in her most recent role as CISO at Uber, Maripuri led a comprehensive transformation of the cybersecurity organization and strategy at Uber. The company says Maripuri also held several technical and product leadership roles at IBM.
According to the release, Nscale Limited is a full-stack AI cloud platform. According to the release, Nscale's vertically integrated offering brings together power, compute and software, ranging from a unified cloud platform for AI training and inference to data centers and low-cost power. The company states its mission as building the engine of superintelligence and enhancing access to advanced AI's benefits for governments, enterprises and the communities that depend on them.
According to its newsroom, Nscale raised $2 Billion in a Series C round in March 2026. Nscale's newsroom says that on February 12, 2026, the company signed a $1.4bn delayed draw term loan, backed by GPUs, to finance multiple cluster deployments across Europe.
The company: Nscale
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- Europe
- Company record
- Who runs security at Nscale: 1 confirmed move on the record
In their own words
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Elsewhere
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Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Latha Maripuri's, nearest first (8 of 13). The Technology bench
Peter Liebert, Chief Information Security Officer at Clari + Salesloft
Kathy Wang, Chief Information Security Officer at micro1
Roland Palmer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Security at JumpCloud
Iain Mulholland, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Salesforce
Ken Ricketts, Chief Information Security Officer at Teradata
Lucas Moody, Chief Information Security Officer at Astera Labs
Leslie Kershaw, Chief Information Security Officer at IonQ
Eric Zielinski, Chief Information Security Officer at Jumpmind
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 8 months since the appointment was announced (week of February 23, 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 Latha Maripuri
- Who is the CISO of Nscale?
- Latha Maripuri is Chief Information Security Officer at Nscale. The appointment was announced in the week of February 23, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Latha Maripuri become CISO of Nscale?
- The appointment was announced in the week of February 23, 2026, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Latha Maripuri work before Nscale?
- Before the appointment, Latha Maripuri was CISO at Uber, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2026-02-23) ↗: the appointment at Nscale, week of February 23, 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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