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.
Trusted by boards and executives at
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.
An enterprise security program built to withstand external scrutiny, SEC disclosure, S-1 diligence, enterprise procurement, not just internal review.
Operational resilience and incident readiness proven through ownership transitions, regulatory examinations, and reputational crises — the windows where control continuity is tested hardest.
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.
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:
NACD.DC • CISSP • CRISC • AIGP • Carnegie Mellon CISO Executive Program
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Certifying bodies, universities, and the institutions that trained and appointed him.
Directorship Certified
CISSP · RVA Board President
CRISC · CISM
AIGP · CIPM · CIPP/E
C|CISOSecurity Specialty
CISO Executive Program
MSc AI & Digital Transformation
Advisory Board
CISO Executive CommitteeA direct discussion about your mandate, the regulatory, investor, or market pressure driving the role, and what success looks like in the first year.
Tyson 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.
You leave with a clear-eyed view of fit, and a decision your board can defend to shareholders, regulators, and diligence teams.
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?
Former CIO, CTO, and CISO. Former AWS advisor to boards on digital transformation, cloud, AI, and cybersecurity governance. Currently CISO of record at MIO Partners, and completing a Master's in AI & Digital Transformation at the University of Southampton.
Download the two-page Executive Brief, a forwardable summary of mandate fit, track record, and board credentials built for search committees, boards, and investors.
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One executive presents security posture, resilience readiness, and AI governance in a single, decision-grade view. Diligence questions get answered with evidence. And the board can defend every decision it made.
Start the ConversationAnd the organization can finally prove it.
“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.”
Security posture is reported with the evidence attached, ready for an examiner, an acquirer, or an enterprise buyer.
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.
Cybersecurity integration after acquisition: use this 90-day executive plan to clarify ownership, reduce risk, test recovery, and protect enterprise value.
Cyber due diligence tells a buyer what they are actually acquiring before a deal closes. Here is what it covers, the red flags that reprice a deal, and why it now sits on the board's desk.
Agentic AI vendor risk can hide who controls your data and systems. Learn how to limit authority, assign owners, test recovery, and defend board decisions.
A 30-minute call. No charge. You'll leave with a clear read on where your oversight stands and what to do about it.
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