12 months
HITRUST in 12 months
Led a cloud-native MLOps platform serving Fortune 100 clients to HITRUST certification within a year — proving speed and rigor are not a trade-off.
AI Security & Product Leader · CISSP · CCSP · CDAIO
I build AI that ships fast and earns trust.
Security and product leader operating where AI velocity meets risk-adjusted judgment — turning trust into a competitive advantage for enterprises and Fortune 100 clients.
The rare CDAIO who came up through security — owning the data, the AI, and the risk, and shipping all three.
Miami / Fort Lauderdale
CDAIO Security & Product
The thesis
Most security leaders slow builders down. Most AI builders treat security as an afterthought. I sit at the intersection — where AI gets shipped and trusted. I help organizations move fast on AI and ML without inheriting the regulatory, security, and trust liabilities that usually come with speed.
Signature work
$3.5M budget
Built a 25-person security organization
Designed the business case for every role across four pillars — GRC, Security Architecture, Pen Testing, and Cloud SecOps — and ran it to clear OKRs and KPIs.
$1B portfolio
Product security for a $1B business unit
Owned end-to-end product security across IoT, industrial automation, and safety-critical systems through the full development lifecycle.
First of its kind
Built the incident-response playbook
Created the organization's first dedicated product incident-response methodology, giving customers rapid visibility and response.
What I do
Build
- AI/ML product development
- Secure-SDLC & DevSecOps
- MLOps at scale
- Cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Secure
- Threat modeling
- Pen testing & red-teaming
- Incident response & forensics
- IoT/OT & safety-critical security
Govern
- Responsible AI governance
- GRC & certifications (HITRUST, SOC2, ISO, BSIMM)
- Regulatory strategy (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, EU AI Act)
- Board-level reporting
Trajectory A deliberate path: depth → breadth → frontier
- IBM 2007–2017
Deep technical foundation; led a team of 10 across EMEA in SIEM, IPS/IDS, and red-teaming.
- Honeywell 2017–2021
Product Security Leader for a $1B portfolio across IoT and cloud.
- BCG X 2021–present
Building secure MLOps from scratch; member of the Responsible AI Steering Group; board-level influence.
CISSP CCSP CSSLP CCSK CIPM
Wharton CTO Program MIT xPRO — AI Products Carnegie Mellon CDAIO Program MBA, Solvay Brussels School
Perspectives
Why security should accelerate your AI roadmap, not stall it
A short field note from the intersection of building and trust.
Read →What HITRUST taught me about shipping trustworthy ML
A short field note from the intersection of building and trust.
Read →The CDAIO mandate: owning the data, the AI, and the risk
A short field note from the intersection of building and trust.
Read →About
I'm an engineer who became the executive who owns both sides of the AI equation — building it and making it trustworthy. Over nearly two decades, from securing safety-critical industrial systems to standing up AI security programs for global clients, I've learned that the best risk decisions come from people who can also build. Fluent in English and Romanian; equally comfortable with engineers, regulators, and boards.
Let's build something trustworthy.
Open to board, advisory, and senior executive conversations.