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Ben Nelson joins FICO as CISO

CISO Ben FICO
June 1, 2021

FICO, a global analytics software company, appointed Ben Nelson as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Nelson is an accomplished technology executive with more than 20 years of information security and cloud platform experience.  Prior to joining FICO, Nelson was CISO at Tableau, a Salesforce company, as well as vice president of cloud security, at Oracle.

Nelson will lead FICO's corporate-wide information security management program and team to maintain a world-class, enterprise level protection of information assets.  He will also ensure the company's products and services meet stringent regulatory and security requirements to protect client's data.

"We're excited for Ben to join our strategic team, as he brings with him a wealth of expertise in the platform security space," said Claus Moldt, chief technology officer, FICO. "He's spent more than two decades focused on building and leading enterprise-class cloud security and security engineering teams inside global organizations; as well as developing large regulatory compliance portfolios."

Congratulations!

 

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