Rinki Sethi

CISO

Rinki Sethi is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at BILL, a publicly traded, Silicon Valley based company in the financial technology industry.

Board work: Rinki Sethi serves on the board of directors at Vaultree, a private company in the data encryption space. From 2021-2023, she served on the board of directors and a member of the audit committee at ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), an identity and access management company headquartered in San Francisco,
CA. She serves on the board of directors of One Prosper, a nonprofit organization empowering girls and women in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. She serves on the advisory boards for Graduate Studies at University of California, Davis and the Cyber Fellows at New York University. She also serves on the advisory board for cybersecurity startups: Fable Security, Harmonic Security, Upwind, Cyera, Breeze Security, Apisec, Praetorian, Onyxia Cyber, Cybersaint, Coverbase, Elron Ventures, Fika Ventures, Stripes, 11.2 Ventures, Sheva, Warburg Pincus, YL Ventures, Dark Reading. She also was on the advisory board for Living Security, Neosec (acquired by Akamai), LevelOps (acquired by Harness), Oort (acquired by Cisco), and Authomize (acquired by Dilenea).

Deep technology experience: Rinki is an experienced business leader with a deep technology background. With a master’s degree in information security, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Rinki brings a deep understanding of technology into her work.
Cybersecurity: Rinki has served as a security leader at companies like Pacific Gas and Electric, Walmart.com, eBay, Intuit, and Palo Alto Networks, and IBM. Rinki served as the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Rubrik, Twitter, and BILL. Rinki has managed large scale global security infrastructure on-prem and in cloud securing 400,000+ endpoints, leading 500M+ budgets and security teams of 500. Rinki has many industry recognized certifications including the CISSP and CISA.

Fundraising and financial management: Rinki is an angel investor in Step Security, Andromeda, Onyxia, Dodgeball, Praetorian, Sola Security, Observo, Coverbase, and Averlon. She has served on the Audit Committee for ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), a 2.2B publicly traded company before being bought by Thoma Bravo.

Thought leadership: Rinki is on the advisory board and frequent contributor at Dark Reading and a frequent keynoter and recognized thought leader and influencer in the industry. Rinki served on the development team for the ISACA book, “Creating a Culture of Security” by Stephen Ross. Rinki has articles published on Fortune, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal and is a keynote speaker for several large global conferences and events.

Diversity and inclusion: Rinki led the creation of the first cybersecurity badges for the Girl Scouts of USA, building curriculum for grades K-12 enabling cybersecurity education for girls in every zip code in the United States. Rinki is recognized as a leader in industry D&I initiatives. Rinki has served as an executive sponsor for women in technology groups in her roles at Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, Twitter, and BILL.

Awards and industry work: Rinki was a recipient of the “One to Watch” award with CSO Magazine and Executive Women’s Forum in 2014 and

“Senior Information Security Practitioner” award with ISC2 in 2018. More recently, in 2023, she was recognized in Lacework’s top 50 CISOs list. Rinki serves as a mentor for many students and professionals.