Career profile
Joel Fulton
Chief Information Security Officer, Veritas Capital
- Current role, per sources checked 14 September 2026
- 14 September 2026
Joel Fulton is the Chief Information Security Officer of Veritas Capital, appointed in September 2026. The firm's team page lists him as a Cybersecurity Technology Executive in its Operations Group.
Career path
Fulton began his career running a security and regulatory compliance consulting practice for ten years before moving into corporate security leadership.
He went on to lead security and risk teams at Starbucks, Boeing, Google and Symantec.
He also led security and risk teams at several financial institutions.
At Google he served as Global Head of Risk, overseeing global enterprise security risk and vendor risk management, and at Symantec he held the role of deputy CSO.
He then became Chief Information Security Officer at Splunk, where he built the company's security organization from the ground up and led its SaaS compliance program.
In that role he was responsible for a strategic, comprehensive enterprise security and risk management program covering the integrity, confidentiality and availability of company information.
Fulton later founded and led Lucidum, a cyber-asset visibility and discovery company, as its CEO.
Cyderes, a global managed security solutions provider, acquired Lucidum.
"Cyderes is the right organization to bring the full value of our data fabric to market," Fulton said of the deal.
He then became SVP of Engineering & AI and Chief Information Security Officer at Cyderes, leading a 50-person engineering and AI team building security infrastructure and automation.
Fulton is also a co-founder of Silicon Valley CISO Investments, an angel investor syndicate made up of chief information security officers.
Recognition and public speaking
Security Magazine named Fulton one of the Most Influential People in Security in 2017. He speaks at external conferences and customer events on insider threat, AI and machine learning in cybersecurity, pragmatic risk management and global security management.
Education
Fulton holds a B.S. in General Business from Excelsior College and a Ph.D. in Information Security from Capella University.
