Moldova’s cybersecurity leadership sits at a crossroads of banking risk, fintech modernization, and public-sector resilience. Many of the country’s most visible security roles are shaped by regulated finance (where auditability and segregation of duties matter) and fast-scaling digital businesses (where security has to enable growth, not slow it down). The leaders below reflect that mix—program builders, banking CISOs, and public-sector cyber leadership linked to critical infrastructure.
Evghenii Scobtsov — Chief Information Security Officer, Salt Edge Inc.
Evghenii Scobtsov is CISO at Salt Edge, where he has led information security since 2016. He describes a business-focused approach to building and maintaining enterprise security vision, strategy, and risk management—grounded in over a decade of experience shaping security programs. His background includes earlier technical work as a database administrator, supporting a practical foundation for governance and execution in a fintech environment.
Sergiu Terguța — Chief Information Security Officer, BC COMERŢBANK SA
Sergiu Terguța is CISO at BC COMERŢBANK SA, bringing deep public-sector IT leadership into banking security. Before joining the bank in 2023, he served as Head of IT Department at Moldova’s financial markets authority and held multiple senior IT department roles across government institutions, including the Moldovan Parliament Secretariat and the Court of Accounts. His trajectory suggests a governance-driven leader comfortable with compliance-heavy environments and institutional risk.
Gregory Motruk — Chief Information Security Officer, Clevertech
Gregory Motruk is CISO at Clevertech (Lumenalta), with a long career spanning systems administration, DevOps leadership, and entrepreneurship. He stepped into the CISO role in 2021 after years as DevOps Team Lead and Senior Systems Administrator. Alongside global experience, he has maintained long-running leadership and technical roles in Moldova-based organizations, reflecting a hands-on, builder profile shaped by infrastructure and delivery.
Vladimir Ivcenco — Chief Information Technology Officer, Victoriabank S.A.
Vladimir Ivcenco is Chief Information Technology Officer at Victoriabank, following several years as an Information Security Manager at BCR Chisinau SA. His security leadership background emphasizes defining infrastructure and application security requirements, developing and enforcing policies and procedures, log management, risk assessment and treatment planning, incident handling, and business continuity coordination. He also brings extensive cyber experience from Moldova’s National Army across analyst and engineering roles.
Sveatoslav Mihalache, PhD — Head of Directorate for Analysis, Modelling, Forecasting, Innovation and Cybersecurity, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Moldova
Sveatoslav Mihalache leads a directorate at Moldova’s Ministry of Energy that includes cybersecurity alongside analysis, forecasting, and innovation. His wider career includes long-term leadership in finance and markets—spanning executive roles and treasury functions—suggesting a cross-domain perspective on risk, resilience, and national-scale decision-making. That blend is especially relevant where cybersecurity intersects with energy systems, investment, and critical infrastructure planning.
Moldova and the Leaders Shaping Its Cybersecurity Trajectory
Taken together, these profiles show Moldova’s cybersecurity leadership developing along two powerful lanes: regulated finance (banking controls, risk governance, and continuity) and modernization-focused builders (security programs that support growth and delivery). The inclusion of energy-sector cyber leadership reinforces a third lane: critical infrastructure resilience, where cybersecurity is increasingly tied to national planning and operational continuity.