Heather Hinton

About Heather Hinton

Throughout my 25+ year career, I have thrived in leading security transformations for industry leaders like IBM, RingCentral, and PagerDuty. I am a passionate advocate for building collaborative security cultures that prioritize measurable business value. My proven expertise spans technical and business solutions providing strategic security leadership, product security lifecycle best practices, technology due diligence including risk-based adoption of emerging technologies and regulations,(open source) software and standards, and cyber governance and risk management. A strategic thinker, I have helped guide companies and clients through the security and business implications of technology change, including web-based applications, mobile technologies, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and big data including AI. I am particularly adept at designing and implementing frameworks with accountable outcomes to drive security transformation initiatives aligned with business objectives in support of continued security maturity growth.

Experience

1. CISO

   Sitecore

   Jun 2025 — Present · US

Education

• University of Toronto

  Master's of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering

• University of Toronto

  PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• University of Toronto - University of Trinity College

  BASc, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Skills

• System Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Unix
• Information Security
• IT Service Management
• Architectures
• Computer Security
• Distributed Systems
• Architecture
• Websphere
• Software Engineering
• IT Strategy
• Integration
• IT Management
• Identity Management
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Software Development
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Security Architecture Design
• Product Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Virtualization
• Soa
• Security Management
• Web Services
• Saas
• Physical Security
• Itil