Career profile
George Totev
Vice President, Security and Chief Information Security Officer, Clio
- Current role, per sources checked 7 September 2026
- Not stated in the sources
George Totev is the Vice President of Security and Chief Information Security Officer of Clio.
Career path
Earlier in his career, Totev worked at the World Bank, at Symantec, and at Sybase, and consulted for other companies on security matters.
At Goldman Sachs he led the application risk group.
He then moved to Visa, where he established and managed the information-security governance, risk, and compliance group and advised on new products, initiatives, and acquisitions.
At Atlassian he served as Head of Risk and Compliance and established the company's Risk and Compliance function.
Across his career he also built security and compliance functions at Snowflake, alongside his work at Goldman Sachs, Visa, and Atlassian, over more than 20 years.
Before joining Clio, Totev served as CISO at Trustero, an AI security startup, where he managed AI security operations, compliance automation, enterprise risk management, IT infrastructure, and privacy programs.
CSO Online reported Totev's appointment at Clio in September 2026.
Clio appointed Totev to the Vice President, Security and CISO role, where he leads the company's global security, compliance, risk, and privacy functions.
Remit at Clio
In the role, Totev oversees security governance, risk assessment, compliance auditing, and vendor security management across Clio's platform and infrastructure.
His focus is on building security controls and compliance frameworks that scale with Clio's AI capabilities while meeting the standards required in regulated legal environments.
His background spans zero-trust architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, security engineering, application-security code review programs, and compliance frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR.
His experience also includes FedRAMP and Department of Defense authorization processes, IPO readiness, and security integration during mergers and acquisitions.
Totev said, "Clio has built something remarkable: a platform that's earned trust across 400,000+ legal professionals while navigating continuous waves of innovation and regulation in more than 130+ countries."
Published work and affiliations
Totev serves as President of the Bay Area CISO Council. While at Trustero, he wrote Why AI Is Increasingly Necessary in GRC, published on January 21, 2025. He also contributed to Trustero's newsletter on September 3, 2025, addressing the challenge of AI hallucination in risk and compliance work. Separately, he gave his take on the RSA Conference in a company post titled Reflections on RSAC25.
