Charles Blauner Joins Team8 as Operating Partner and CISO in Residence
Team8, a leading company-building venture group, announced that Charles Blauner, previously Global Head of Information Security, Citigroup, joins the company as Operating Partner and CISO in Residence.
As CISO in Residence, Blauner will play a key role in advising Team8’s portfolio companies on their security offerings from an enterprise perspective. With an information security career primarily in financial services spanning over thirty years, Blauner held senior security executive roles for Citigroup since 2005. Prior to that, Blauner held several roles including being the CISO at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank. Charles has held numerous industry leadership positions including Chair of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC), Chair of the American Bankers Association E-Commerce Policy Committee and Founding Director of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). In 2015 Blauner received the Wasserman Award for lifetime contributions by ISACA.