Career profile
Stan Black
chief information security officer (CISO), D-Wave Quantum Inc.
- Current role, per sources checked 2 September 2025
- 2 September 2025
Stan Black is the chief information security officer of D-Wave Quantum, appointed in September 2025.
The appointment was announced on September 2, 2025.
Career path
Before joining D-Wave, Black was CISO at Delinea, where he was named to the role on April 19, 2022.
He joined Delinea from Lattice Security, where he served as CISO and provided executive security consulting and advisory services for private equity, commercial, and research firms.
Earlier, he spent six years at Citrix as Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer, leading global operational security and risk management.
At the 2016 RSA Conference he was quoted in his capacity as CSO of Citrix.
Over more than 20 years he has also held C-level security and technology positions at Dell/EMC/RSA/VMware, Nuance Communications, and Forcepoint.
Remit at D-Wave
At D-Wave, Black aligns the company's security strategy with its corporate business goals, informs product development, and advances artificial intelligence and machine learning governance. D-Wave describes itself as a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world's first commercial supplier of quantum computers, with more than 100 organizations relying on its systems. D-Wave's chief executive, Alan Baratz, said applying Black's expertise would help the company continue to implement world-class security and compliance practices for customers, partners and internal teams. Of the move, Black said: "I'm looking forward to applying my decades of experience in security and risk management as D-Wave's period of accelerated growth continues."
Public profile
Black regularly appears as a speaker, media contributor, and advisor to industry leaders.
Boards, executives, and law enforcement have relied on his counsel, and his work has helped shape public-private security collaborations and anti-cyberterrorism efforts.
He has also developed AI-driven frameworks for risk management intended as a model for how organizations adopt emerging technology responsibly.
His career has centered on making security practical, scalable, and effective across multi-cloud environments, AI governance, and regulatory compliance.
