Tim Gaylor

Tim Gaylor is currently the EVP and Chief Security Officer at Avalara. Prior to this, they spent two years at athenahealth as their Chief Security Officer. In this role, they were responsible for both the role of a CISO and a Chief Security Architect. Tim oversaw all information security operations in IT and R&D and protected over 110 million patient records.

Gaylor's CISO responsibilities included managing all teams and operations which secure their Production, Corporate, and R&D networks, briefing the company’s Board of Directors quarterly, enterprise risk management, security incident response, regulatory compliance, IT security controls, third party auditing and network penetration testing.

As Chief Security Architect, their responsibilities included working with customers' security leadership to assure they met all their security expectations, managing their R&D security development teams which built security into the athenaNet services, initiating the first SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) program at Athena, security process definition and training for R&D teams company wide, providing internal security services such as threat modeling, automation tools, source code analysis, internal application penetration testing, and real time security dashboards for R&D on the state of security in their applications & services.

Tim Gaylor has a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering.

Some of their coworkers include Janice Le - VP, Product Management - Solutions, Ee Lyn Khoo - EVP, Chief People Officer, and Ross Tennenbaum - CFO. Tim Gaylor reports to Scott McFarlane, CEO & Co-Founder.