Leilani Farol

Leilani Farol is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of First Horizon, a role First Horizon announced by press release on February 11, 2026. In the role, the release states, she leads enterprise cybersecurity strategy and execution and is responsible for strengthening the company's security posture to safeguard client data and privacy.

Career path

Immediately before First Horizon, Farol served as Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance for Fidelity Investments, where she led the execution of a multi-year enterprise-wide cyber strategy. Before that, she was Senior Vice President, Cyber Security – Global Information Security for Bank of America, and held several leadership roles for JPMorgan Chase & Co. that included Executive Director, Global Technology; Vice President of Cybersecurity Programs; and Vice President, Global Technology Infrastructure. SecurityWeek's own industry-moves roundup, published two days before the company release, independently records the Fidelity and Bank of America postings in the same sequence.

Across that career, the press release says Farol has directed complex programs in technology strategy, program and project management, business development, application development and large-scale system implementations, spanning financial services and other industries in the United States and internationally.

How the hire was framed

First Horizon chairman, president and CEO Bryan Jordan said in the release that "Leilani brings more than 25 years of leadership in information security, risk management and technology." The press release also describes her as regarded for building security-first cultures and implementing current technologies, framing supplied by the company to introduce her to investors and the press rather than an outside assessment.

The fetched sources give no exact start or end years for her Fidelity, Bank of America or JPMorgan Chase postings beyond the sequence in which First Horizon lists them.