When the board asks "Is it secure? Is it resilient? Is the AI governed?" — you need one executive who can answer all three.
Tyson Martin is a Chief Trust, Security & AI Officer for public and pre-IPO companies where security, resilience, and AI accountability are priced by investors, regulators, and enterprise buyers.
Most companies discover the gap at the worst possible moment.
An SEC comment letter, an S-1 diligence finding, an enterprise deal stalled in security review, an AI product legal won't sign off on. By then, the question isn't whether trust matters — it's why no one owned it.
One executive. Three board-level answers.
Is it secure? An enterprise security program built to withstand external scrutiny, SEC disclosure, S-1 diligence, enterprise procurement, not just internal review.
Is it resilient? Operational resilience and incident readiness proven through ownership transitions, regulatory examinations, and reputational crises — the windows where control continuity is tested hardest.
Is the AI governed? AI governance with named ownership, defined risk appetite, and board reporting that satisfies NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act readiness, and the accountability questions now appearing in diligence.
You're looking for an executive your board can put in front of regulators, investors, and diligence teams — and trust the answers.
That standard is rare because it's only earned in the rooms where trust is actually tested. Tyson has spent his career in those rooms:
CISO of record for a $26B AUM investment manager through a McKinsey–Neuberger Berman transaction, under simultaneous SEC, FCA, and BaFin oversight
CISO/CTO of a NYSE-listed $1.1B retailer rebuilding trust after a national reputational crisis — with every control decision visible to auditors, regulators, investors, and press
CISO through the launch of regulated U.S. online gaming, where regulator confidence determined whether the business could operate at all
Executive advisor at AWS to 200+ Fortune 500 boards and C-suites on cloud, cybersecurity, resilience, and AI readiness
NACD Directorship Certified, with 40+ boards and audit committees advised on cyber and AI oversight duties
NACD.DC • CISSP • CRISC • AIGP • Carnegie Mellon CISO Executive Program
How the conversation works.
Start the Conversation
A direct discussion about your mandate, the regulatory, investor, or market pressure driving the role, and what success looks like in the first year.
Pressure-Test the Fit
yson walks your board, search committee, or investors through how he'd own security, resilience, and AI governance in your specific context, with evidence, not generalities.
Decide with Confidence
You leave with a clear-eyed view of fit, and a decision your board can defend to shareholders, regulators, and diligence teams.
Need to bring others into the decision?
Download the two-page Executive Brief — a forwardable summary of mandate fit, track record, and board credentials built for search committees, boards, and investors.
One executive presents security posture, resilience readiness, and AI governance in a single, decision-grade view. Diligence questions get answered the first time. The AI roadmap ships because legal, compliance, and the board already trust how it's governed.
That's what it looks like when trust has an owner.
Imagine your next audit committee meeting:
What others are saying.
When one executive owns the answer to all three questions, the entire organization levels up, and the organization can finally prove it.
Greg Griffith, NACD
"Tyson Martin embodies what modern boardrooms need: a leader who brings clarity, credibility, and strategic foresight to every technology conversation. Tyson is what every Board is seeking, someone who understands technology and can interpret and speak to Boards with a message Boards can understand. In doing so, Tyson doesn’t just support governance, he elevates it."
Is it resilient? → The board gets one page.
Fifty slides of technical trivia become a single decision-grade view: exposure, readiness, material risk. The format SEC disclosure rules presume, and directors actually use.
Risk is discussed in business terms with the evidence attached, so every decision is easier to see, easier to fund, and able to survive an auditor, a regulator, or an S-1 diligence team.
Is the AI governed? → Decisions become defensible.
Tyson Martin is the executive public and pre-IPO companies in financial services, AI/data, SaaS, and cloud hire to make trust a measurable asset, one accountable answer to Is it secure? Is it resilient? Is the AI governed?
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