Biographical Info

Phil Venables is the CISO of Google Cloud, where he leads the risk, security, compliance and privacy teams. He joined Google in 2020, after spending more than 25 years as a CISO at multiple financial services companies. Before joining Google, he was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he held multiple roles over a long career, initially as their first CISO. Venables is a specialist in information and cyber security, cloud services, enterprise risk, technology risk and business resilience with significant experience in multiple industries and multiple geographies — from in-depth engineering to board-level management.