Brian Fricke

Brian Fricke is Chief Information Security Officer at AutoNation, the automotive retailer, a title SecurityWeek reported him taking on in the week of April 27, 2026.

Career path

Fricke's record shows a long run inside bank information-security leadership before AutoNation. A 2019 BBVA Compass announcement naming him CISO put his tenure in the field at eighteen years by that point. Before that BBVA role, the same release traces stints as CISO at a regional bank and at a Defense Department sealift command, plus work at two federal agencies and five years as a Marine Corps sergeant. SecurityWeek's 2026 item picks the thread back up at his most recent post, a combined CISO and technology-risk executive role at City National Bank of Florida.

Education and credentials

BBVA's release lists an executive MBA and a graduate certificate from George Washington University, plus an undergraduate degree from National University. Across several bank CISO roles, a defense-sector security post and now an automotive retailer, the throughline in Fricke's public record is a security career that moved from Marine Corps and federal government service into financial-services security leadership and, as of this appointment, into retail.

Read end to end, the record traces a specific arc: five years enlisted in the Marine Corps, then civilian security and audit work inside two federal agencies and the Military Sealift Command, then a run of bank CISO and technology-risk roles at Bank OZK, BBVA Compass and City National Bank of Florida, and now a move outside banking altogether into an automotive retailer's top security seat. None of the sources reviewed for this profile give the exact dates Fricke left BBVA Compass, joined Bank OZK, or moved to City National Bank of Florida, so this profile does not attempt to date those transitions precisely.