Executive record
Sebastian Goodwin
Career profile: Sebastian Goodwin on CISO Spotlights ↗
Sebastian Goodwin was named Chief Trust Officer at Autodesk. The appointment was announced on March 27, 2023, per PR Newswire.
Before the appointment: Chief Information Security Officer at Nutanix, per the same source.
The record holds no later verification of the seat.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Sebastian Goodwin, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Before March 2023· Earlier role
Chief Information Security Officer at Nutanix
Named in the announcement of the Autodesk appointment · Source: PR Newswire (company announcement) ↗
The appointment
Announced March 27, 2023 · Source: PR Newswire (company announcement) ↗ · Move record
Autodesk appointed Sebastian Goodwin as chief trust officer, effective March 27, 2023. Goodwin will oversee Autodesk's commitments to customers on security, privacy and data ethics. He joins from Nutanix, where he served as chief information security officer.
According to the company's biography, Goodwin leads Autodesk's global strategy on resilience, trusted AI, privacy and security. Autodesk says in the biography that he helps meet its commitment to customers and stakeholders through data practices that are ethically grounded, transparent and secure. The biography says his work supports building resilient systems across the industry clouds and products of Autodesk.
The company's biography says Goodwin has over 20 years of experience, during which he helped Global 2000 companies to measure and manage cyber risk. At Nutanix, according to the biography, Goodwin built the foundation of the company's risk management, compliance and global cybersecurity. Before joining Nutanix, Goodwin worked at Palo Alto Networks as head of product marketing for endpoint security, the release says. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Goodwin served as chief information security officer at Robert Half, according to the release. According to the biography, Goodwin earned a bachelor's degree in applied economics at the University of San Francisco and an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. A Nutanix profile says Goodwin, while CISO there, also served the University of California Berkeley School of Information as an adjunct professor teaching in its Masters in Cybersecurity degree program.
The release identifies the company as Autodesk, Inc., which is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ADSK. According to the release, Autodesk's technology spans media and entertainment, manufacturing, product design, construction, engineering and architecture.
The company: Autodesk
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Autodesk: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Annual report
- Cybersecurity section of the fiscal 2026 Form 10-K, filed March 3, 2026
- Reporting line
- The filing describes the role that runs security as Chief Trust Officer, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.
- Board oversight
- Named in the filing: Audit Committee.
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Sebastian Goodwin's, nearest first. The Technology bench
Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer at Vimeo
James Hill, Chief Information Security Officer at Cytracom
Amanda Fennell, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer at Prove Identity
Scott Putnam, Chief Information Security Officer at New Charter Technologies
Josh Lemos, Chief Information Security Officer at GitLab
Record facts
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 30, 2026
Questions about Sebastian Goodwin
- When did Sebastian Goodwin become Chief Trust Officer of Autodesk?
- The appointment was announced on March 27, 2023, per PR Newswire. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Is Sebastian Goodwin still the Chief Trust Officer of Autodesk?
- The newest source the record holds for this seat is the appointment announced on March 27, 2023. It holds no later verification, so it does not state who holds the seat today.
- Where did Sebastian Goodwin work before Autodesk?
- Before the appointment, Sebastian Goodwin was Chief Information Security Officer at Nutanix, according to the announcement (PR Newswire).
- Who does the head of security at Autodesk report to?
- In its fiscal 2026 annual report (Form 10-K, filed March 3, 2026), Autodesk describes the role that runs security as Chief Trust Officer, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.
Sources
- 1.PR Newswire (company announcement) ↗: the appointment at Autodesk, March 27, 2023
- 2.SEC EDGAR: Form 10-K, fiscal 2026 ↗: 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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