Kim Keever

As of September 2026, Kim Keever is the Chief Security Officer of Lumen Technologies.

Career path

Keever began her career as an IT consultant in the mutual fund industry, specializing in cross-functional team management and disaster recovery and business continuity.

She then became Chief Information Officer for Invesco's retirement group in Atlanta.

In 2009 she was recruited to Coca-Cola Enterprises, where she served as vice president of information security and controls leading a team of 60 security staffers, and the company has described her as having led security control and governance there.

Following Coca-Cola's acquisition of CCE's North American operations, which became Coca-Cola Refreshments in 2010, Keever worked to align the business unit's security standards with the parent company's global requirements.

She went on to serve as Vice President of Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer at Bottling Investments Group.

Keever then served as Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Security and Technology Services at Cox Communications.

She is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Lumen Technologies named Keever Chief Security Officer.

Building security teams that execute

At Coca-Cola Enterprises, Keever's team implemented a role-based identity- and access-management infrastructure that allowed new hires to receive network access without manual processing, and built the first out-of-region disaster recovery capability for the company's North American environment.

The team also developed a center of excellence to manage compliance with payment card industry regulations and to evaluate and mediate PCI-relevant processes across the North American business as it prepared for tier one vendor status.

Keever has described her approach as favoring teams that implement security technology directly rather than only advising the business on what to do.

"Your business can't afford to have a team of subject-matter experts telling people what to do from a security perspective," Keever said.