New Hampshire’s cybersecurity leadership spans banking, healthcare, technology services, and higher education, reflecting how widely cyber risk now shapes the state’s economy. The executives in this group are responsible for protecting customer data, guiding enterprise resilience, and helping institutions adapt security strategy to increasingly complex operational and regulatory demands.
Jaime Badillo — Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp
Jaime Badillo serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp, where he brings a long track record of security leadership in regulated banking environments. His background blends private-sector security transformation with mission-critical experience from the U.S. Army, giving him depth across information security, networking, infrastructure, and operational resilience. Across prior banking roles, he has led security modernization, strengthened compliance with FDIC, Federal Reserve, SOX, and GLBA requirements, and helped transform security teams into more performance-driven, customer-focused functions. His experience in disaster recovery, business continuity, SIEM, data governance, and incident response makes him one of the standout cybersecurity leaders in New Hampshire’s financial sector.
Paige Yeater — Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Mainstay Technologies
Paige Yeater serves as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Mainstay Technologies, where she combines security leadership with broader operational oversight. Her career reflects a strong foundation in building programs, improving processes, and aligning business operations with security and compliance requirements. At Mainstay, she has helped guide both the company’s own security posture and the security journeys of clients across multiple industries, giving her perspective that extends beyond a single enterprise environment. With a background rooted in customer success, team development, and process improvement, Yeater stands out for pairing security strategy with practical execution and organizational leadership.
Anjan Bagchee — Chief Information Security Officer, Rightworks
Anjan Bagchee is Chief Information Security Officer at Rightworks, a New Hampshire-based cloud service provider that supports more than 70,000 businesses as well as accounting and tax firms. His appointment brings to the state a seasoned security executive with experience leading enterprise security programs in highly regulated financial and technology environments. Before joining Rightworks, he served as Chief Information Security Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and previously held senior security leadership roles at Intralinks, BNY, EnerNOC, and the University of Rochester Medical Center. That blend of cloud, software, and financial services experience gives him strong credibility in secure-by-design practices, governance, cyber resilience, and board-level risk communication at a company where trust, managed services, and platform security are central to the business.
Thomas Nudd — Chief Information Security Officer, Dartmouth College
Thomas Nudd serves as Chief Information Security Officer at Dartmouth College, bringing extensive experience in cybersecurity strategy, architecture, operations, and organizational transformation. Before joining Dartmouth, he led enterprise cybersecurity, network, and infrastructure teams for the University System of New Hampshire, where his remit covered multiple institutions and a system with statewide educational impact. Earlier roles at Liberty Mutual further shaped his experience in cybersecurity engineering and information security operations. Nudd’s background in vision creation, high-performance team building, incident response, enterprise logging, cloud deployment strategy, and change leadership positions him as a key cybersecurity figure in New Hampshire’s higher education ecosystem.
Rori Boyce-Werner — Deputy Chief Information Security Officer and Assistant Vice President, Southern New Hampshire University
Rori Boyce-Werner serves as Deputy Chief Information Security Officer and Assistant Vice President at Southern New Hampshire University, where she helps lead security strategy for one of the country’s largest and most dynamic online education environments. Her work spans security architecture, engineering, operations, governance, and executive communication, with measurable impact in areas such as GLBA compliance, incident-response maturity, vendor accountability, and cybersecurity staffing expansion. She has helped drive large-scale security control implementation, reduce operational response times, and improve enterprise risk visibility, all while translating technical risk into actionable guidance for senior leadership and the board. Her blend of higher education and financial services experience gives her a disciplined, risk-based approach suited to fast-scaling digital environments.
Tom Hathcoat — Cybersecurity Management, Concord Hospital Health System
Tom Hathcoat works in cybersecurity management at Concord Hospital Health System, bringing deep healthcare security and IT leadership experience to one of New Hampshire’s most important sectors. His career has centered on practical security execution across security operations, governance, risk, compliance, identity, vulnerability management, and HIPAA-aligned controls. Prior to joining Concord Hospital Health System, he served as CIO and CISO at DMC Primary Care and earlier led IT and cybersecurity at Catholic Medical Center, where he worked across a large hospital and multi-site care network. That experience gives him strong credibility in balancing cybersecurity risk reduction with the operational realities of clinical and business continuity in healthcare.
New Hampshire’s Cybersecurity Leadership Continues to Expand
From community banking and managed technology services to higher education and healthcare delivery, New Hampshire’s cybersecurity leaders are helping shape how institutions protect trust in a more complex digital environment. Their work shows that strong cyber leadership is no longer confined to major metros or national headquarters. It is increasingly built into the core of regional organizations that keep local economies and communities running.
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