CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, today announced Jim Higgins has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). With extensive experience in cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management, Higgins will oversee the company’s security strategy, governance, and infrastructure protection across the CoreWeave Cloud Platform. This strategic hire reinforces CoreWeave’s commitment to enterprise-grade security solutions that leading organizations can rely on to confidently scale their AI operations.
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Higgins was most recently CISO for Snap Inc., a global tech company most known for its social media platform Snapchat. Before Snap, Higgins was CISO at Block, Inc. and held senior leadership positions in information security and threat protection at Google and other Fortune 100 entities. He currently serves as a senior cybersecurity advisor for American University and has been an advisor to several U.S. government agencies.
“I am excited to join the leadership team at CoreWeave to help keep the company and our customers more than one step ahead of the information security curve,” said Jim Higgins, Chief Information Security Officer at CoreWeave. “Enterprises and AI labs need AI infrastructure that not only delivers superior performance, but also meets the highest levels of security and compliance standards. I look forward to ensuring that CoreWeave continues to be an industry leader in delivering secure and scalable infrastructure for the world’s most advanced AI pioneers.”
“Jim Higgins brings a wealth of experience and institutional knowledge to our security systems at CoreWeave, and we’re thrilled to have him join as our CISO at this stage of our journey,” said Mike Intrator, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CoreWeave. “CoreWeave continues to be a trusted partner for companies scaling their AI initiatives, and part of that foundation is ensuring we deliver on the rigorous security standards that our customers require. Jim will be integral to our ability to foresee, plan, and overcome complex security challenges.”
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CoreWeave has made several structural and strategic moves bolstering its readiness to support the largest and most complex enterprise-scale customers. The addition of Jim Higgins as CISO builds on other recent notable hires, including Chief Operating Officer Sachin Jain, who previously led AI infrastructure at Oracle Cloud and held senior roles at Google and Amazon; Chief Product Officer Chetan Kapoor, formerly a director at Amazon Web Services; Chief Information Officer Sandy Venugopal, who has served as Chief Information Officer for both SentinelOne and Uber; and Senior Vice President of Strategy Corey Sanders, who worked at Microsoft for two decades and last held a leadership position in Microsoft’s Cloud for Industry business.
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