Executive record
Ravi Soin
Career profile: Ravi Soin on CISO Spotlights ↗
Ravi Soin is Chief Information Security Officer at Smartsheet. The appointment was announced on September 10, 2025, per Business Wire.
Before the appointment: CIO and CISO at Edifecs, per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Ravi Soin, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Smartsheet
Source: Business Wire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Before September 2025· Earlier role
CIO and CISO at Edifecs
Named in the announcement of the Smartsheet appointment · Source: Business Wire (company announcement) ↗
The appointment
Announced September 10, 2025 · Source: Business Wire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Smartsheet named Ravi Soin as its new Chief Information Security Officer, where he will lead the company's global IT and security strategy. He previously served as CIO and CISO at Edifecs and held product roles at Microsoft.
According to the release, Soin's remit includes embedding cybersecurity practices across Smartsheet and its products. The company says he will also consult on its product roadmap and guide data privacy initiatives as artificial intelligence advances rapidly. In the release, Soin said he aims to further strengthen the security posture of Smartsheet along with its IT infrastructure and cybersecurity practices.
The company says Soin has spent more than 20 years in IT and information security leadership at technology companies operating globally. The release describes Edifecs, where Soin served as CIO and CISO, as a healthcare software company. According to the release, his background includes building and managing SaaS products for private equity, private and public companies.
According to Business Wire, Smartsheet had 3,000 employees, with Rajeev Singh as CEO and headquarters in Bellevue, WA, at the time of the report. The company says its platform is used by millions of people at companies worldwide, including more than 85% of the 2025 Fortune 500.
The release says Smartsheet continues to scale and expand its AI capabilities.
The company: Smartsheet
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Smartsheet: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Annual report
- Cybersecurity section of the fiscal 2024 Form 10-K, filed March 20, 2024
- Board oversight
- Named in the filing: Audit Committee.
Talks and interviews
Conference sessions, podcast episodes and videos with Ravi Soin that the record holds, each from the event or the show's own page. The speaking circuit · Podcasts
August 6, 2026· Podcast appearance, The New CISO
Ravi Soin, Chief Information Security Officer at Smartsheet
Don’t Be a Risk Manager. Be a Trust Architect.
On shifting cybersecurity leadership toward building organizational trust
Listen at The New CISO ↗
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Ravi Soin's, nearest first. The Technology bench
Stan Black, Chief Information Security Officer at D-Wave Quantum
Eric Freeman, Chief Information Security Officer at WRITER
Ryan Davis, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at New Charter Technologies
Aanchal Gupta, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Adobe
Douglas Merrill, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equinix
Kieren Lovell, Chief Information Security Officer at Pragmatic Solutions
Ed Moyle, Chief Information Security Officer at Future in Tech
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 1 year 2 months since the appointment was announced (September 10, 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 Ravi Soin
- Who is the CISO of Smartsheet?
- Ravi Soin is Chief Information Security Officer at Smartsheet. The appointment was announced on September 10, 2025, per Business Wire.
- When did Ravi Soin become CISO of Smartsheet?
- The appointment was announced on September 10, 2025, per Business Wire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Ravi Soin work before Smartsheet?
- Before the appointment, Ravi Soin was CIO and CISO at Edifecs, according to the announcement (Business Wire).
Sources
- 1.Business Wire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at Smartsheet, September 10, 2025
- 2.SEC EDGAR: Form 10-K, fiscal 2024 ↗: the company's cybersecurity disclosure
- 3.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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