Career profile
Michael Adams
Group Vice President (GVP) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Docusign
- Current role, per sources checked 28 April 2026
- 29 April 2025
Michael Adams is the Group Vice President (GVP) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Docusign, appointed in April 2025.
Career path
Adams is a graduate of the US Naval Academy who began his career as an engineer.
He went on to serve as an adviser to two Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and worked with numerous publicly traded and privately held companies as well as the highest levels of the US government.
He was a partner in a major international law firm and held an executive role at Palantir before moving into technology security leadership.
Adams joined Zoom in August 2020, initially serving as Chief Counsel to the COO and CISO while building the company's insider risk, global intelligence, operations assurance, and security legal programs.
He later became Zoom's Chief Information Security Officer, leading the company's product security, cybersecurity, and broader corporate security programs, bringing nearly 30 years of security and leadership experience to the role.
In April 2025, Docusign announced that Adams had joined the company as GVP and CISO to lead its security initiatives as the company scales its intelligent agreement management solutions globally.
Remit at Docusign
At Docusign, Adams has described building a centralized trust and safety team made up of security analysts, developers, and other professionals. He has overseen the rollout of an official verification email that confirms the legitimacy of forwarded Docusign messages within two hours, and the launch of an online safety center that gives customers information about current threat tactics and Docusign's response to them. Adams has said Docusign is using AI-powered tools and real-time risk scoring to get ahead of fraud attempts targeting the platform, noting, "What we saw were those targeting free trial paid plans were particularly susceptible in this space."
Talks and published work
While CISO at Zoom, Adams published Top 3 Insights I Learned at Recent Cybersecurity Events through Dark Reading in August 2023. In the same month, he discussed cybersecurity threats, workforce shortages tied to remote work, and the value of zero-trust approaches and bug bounty programs in an interview with Help Net Security. In April 2026, CIO reported that Adams, alongside Dustin Wilcox, senior VP and CISO at S&P Global, shared advice for CISOs on securing enterprises as agentic AI identities proliferate.
