Executive record
Philip Martin
Career profile: Philip Martin on CISO Spotlights ↗
Philip Martin is Chief Information Security Officer at Uber. The appointment was announced in June 2026, per CSO Online.
Before the appointment: a security leadership role at Coinbase, per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Philip Martin, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Source: CSO Online — New CISO appointments 2026 ↗ · Move record
Before June 2026· Earlier role
Security leadership role at Coinbase
Named in the announcement of the Uber appointment · Source: CSO Online — New CISO appointments 2026 ↗
The appointment
Announced June 2026 · Source: CSO Online — New CISO appointments 2026 ↗ · Move record
Uber appointed Philip Martin as Chief Information Security Officer, announced in June 2026; day-level precision has not been established from available coverage. Martin previously led security at Coinbase.
One of the most consequential seats in consumer tech — Uber's security chief inherits both a global platform and the long shadow of the 2016 breach cover-up case that made CISO personal liability a mainstream concern. Together with Remitly hiring Jeff Lyon from the same company, June–July 2026 saw two Coinbase security leaders exit into major operator roles.
According to SecurityWeek, Martin had served as Chief Security Officer at Coinbase since April 2016 before he joined the ride-hailing company. SecurityWeek reports that at Coinbase he led a global team of more than 250 employees covering business resilience, risk and compliance, technology governance, physical security, Trust & Safety and cybersecurity. That remit spanned both the enterprise and consumer businesses of Coinbase, according to SecurityWeek.
Earlier, Martin built and led the Security Engineering and Incident Response teams at Palantir Technologies, SecurityWeek reports. He also helped develop virtual infrastructure at Amazon’s A9, according to SecurityWeek. SecurityWeek reports that Martin spent a decade early in his career as an Arabic linguist and counterintelligence agent in the U.S. Army. In that Army work he served in strategic and tactical roles overseas as well as in the United States, according to SecurityWeek.
CSO Online reports that Coinbase appointed Michael Sikorski as CISO and that he joins from Unit 42, where he was CTO for four years.
The company: Uber
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Uber: 2 confirmed moves on the record
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Philip Martin's, nearest first (8 of 21). The Technology bench
Michael Kipp, Chief Information Security Officer at ChurnZero
Uber Philip Martin, Chief Information Security Officer at Uber
Paras Malhotra, Chief Information Security Officer at Starburst
Victor Chang, Chief Information Security Officer at Backstory
Chaim Mazal, Chief Information Security Officer at GitLab
Justin Henkel, Chief Information Security Officer at SolarWinds
Jeremy Powell, Chief Information Security Officer at Sumo Logic
Paul Adams, Chief Information Security Officer at Blue Mountain
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 5 months since the appointment was announced (June 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- August 1, 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 Philip Martin
- Who is the CISO of Uber?
- Philip Martin is Chief Information Security Officer at Uber. The appointment was announced in June 2026, per CSO Online.
- When did Philip Martin become CISO of Uber?
- The appointment was announced in June 2026, per CSO Online. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Philip Martin work before Uber?
- Before the appointment, Philip Martin was in a security leadership role at Coinbase, according to the announcement (CSO Online).
Sources
- 1.CSO Online — New CISO appointments 2026 ↗: the appointment at Uber, June 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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