Teradata Appoints Ken Ricketts as Chief Information Security Officer

Teradata has appointed Ken Ricketts as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, effective January 2026. The move comes as the analytics leader accelerates its cloud and AI platforms.

He will oversee cloud and AI-driven platform security, risk and compliance, product security, and operational security, while driving a secure product lifecycle and building a modern, risk-based governance program across the enterprise. Teradata is framing his role as one that enables innovation, not just guards against threats

Ricketts brings more than two decades of cybersecurity experience to the role, with deep expertise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. His career spans cloud-native organizations, hypergrowth environments, and complex global enterprises, giving him a breadth of perspective on what it takes to build and scale security programs that hold up under real-world pressure.

Most recently, Ricketts served as CISO in Residence at Insight Partners, advising a portfolio of companies on security strategy, compliance, and go-to-market approaches. Before that, as CISO at Coupa Software, he built and scaled a global enterprise security organization across multiple geographies, led the company through FedRAMP authorization and managed complex 24/7 security operations and incident response programs at scale.