Career profile
Eric Zielinski
Chief Information Security Officer, Jumpmind
- Current role, per sources checked 15 June 2026
- 7 January 2026
Eric Zielinski is the Chief Information Security Officer of Jumpmind, appointed in January 2026. In the role, he leads the company's security and cloud operations, overseeing the scaling of its information systems alongside AI-powered innovation and global expansion.
Career path
Before joining Jumpmind, Zielinski held cybersecurity and technology leadership roles at Nationwide, Veeva Systems and The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). At OCC he served as Director of AI and Cloud Security, leading efforts to align generative AI governance with regulatory and enterprise risk frameworks. He also served as CISO at Dizzion, where he scaled security programs that balanced innovation velocity with resilience. Jumpmind's announcement credits him with over two decades of cybersecurity leadership across Fortune 100 enterprises, financial services and cloud-native SaaS platforms. He holds a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon.
Jumpmind said the appointments of Zielinski and a new chief financial officer were made to support the company's next phase of global growth following an investment from Lone View Capital. Zielinski said he was excited to help retailers bring richer experiences, more data and more intelligence into the store without compromising security, operational resilience or trust.
Public talks and published work
Zielinski is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including several FIRST events and FS-ISAC, presenting on securing generative AI and embedding cyber resilience in high-velocity development pipelines. In June 2026 he spoke at the FIRST Annual Conference (FIRSTCON26) in Denver, presenting AI Interpretability as a Security Control: Introducing the CIRCUIT Framework on Tuesday, June 17. During the talk he introduced CIRCUIT, an open-source framework for AI interpretability risk management built for the security community, which Jumpmind describes as reflecting its commitment to responsible AI use and which invites security professionals to use and contribute to the project. His session mapped interpretability to AI threat models, outlined circuit-informed red-team methodologies, and proposed KPIs around circuit stability, aiming to shift evaluation standards from accuracy metrics toward defensible control logic.
