Garrett Held

Garrett Held is an experienced security professional currently serving in a Security role at Temporal Technologies and as an Investor at SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Previously, Garrett held significant leadership positions, including Chief Information Security Officer and SVP Engineering at Carta, where responsibilities encompassed managing security, IT, and engineering teams for a large fintech organization. Other roles include Head of Security Engineering at Twilio Inc., Senior Director of Security at tCell.io, and Director of Acquisition Security at Salesforce, where Garrett developed innovative security programs and led teams in various security initiatives. Early career experience includes work as a Managing Consultant at Trustwave and a Security Consultant at Deloitte & Touche and Infotex. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Indiana University Indianapolis and has partially completed a Computer Science degree at Purdue University.