πŸ‡­πŸ‡³ Jack Leidecker

EVP, Chief Security Officer

Greater Houston

About

Accomplished, results-driven, senior security executive with significant domestic and international experience in both public sector and corporate roles. A creative visionary who attracts, motivates and develops high-performing teams resulting in a proven track record of success applying an enterprise risk strategy and implementing enterprise-wide technology solutions and services that align to business and customer goals. As the security leader, completely built multiple world-class information security and risk management functions within diverse industries. Invited Speaker at Leading Security Conferences: SecureCIO SF, Privacy Security Risk Conference, Industrial Control Cyber Security Summit, ISC2, Northern California Data Center Summit, IANS, Evanta Global CISO Conference and CyberTECH Cyber+IoT

Experience

  • EVP, Chief Security Officer at Gainsight
    Jun 2026 - Present Β· 2 mos

    Senior Executive responsible for all things security

  • Advisor at YL Ventures
    Feb 2021 - Present Β· 5 yrs 6 mos

    Serving as an Advisor for YL Ventures with special focus on Cybersecurity. Helping today’s technology innovators become tomorrow’s industry leaders with the capital, connections and experience they need to succeed in the market. https://www.ylventures.com/people/

  • CISO at Gong
    Nov 2020 - May 2026 Β· 5 yrs 7 mos

    Security executive responsible for Product Security, Cyber Security, Compliance and Corporate Security

  • Strategic Advisor at NetEnrich, Inc.
    Aug 2020 - Jul 2022 Β· 2 yrs

    Strategic advisor as the company was shifting offerings

  • Sr. Director Information Security at Teradata
    Jul 2018 - Sep 2020 Β· 2 yrs 3 mos

    Responsible for global information security engineering, operations and incident response and defines the vision, strategy, security objectives in order to meet evolving customer demands. Lead global businesses to achieve ambitious security goals that evolved as the company is pivoting from an appliance company to a subscription cloud consumption SaaS model. Generate high-impact security strategies/initiatives to rapidly mature the security posture and provide thought leadership Rebuilt security engineering and operations function HQ moved from Dayton to San Diego and as a result there was a 100% turnover in the team.