Delaware’s cybersecurity leadership reaches across government, financial services, healthcare, and enterprise technology, reflecting the state’s unusual concentration of regulated and operationally complex institutions. The leaders in this group are helping shape how organizations in Delaware manage cyber risk, modernize controls, and protect critical systems in environments where resilience, compliance, and trust are essential.
Patti Gawinski — Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer, Delaware Department of Labor
Patti Gawinski serves as Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer at the Delaware Department of Labor, where she brings decades of hands-on infrastructure and security experience to a public-sector role with direct operational impact. Her background spans long tenures in state government, consulting, and network engineering, with experience across network security, routers, switches, firewalls, and Microsoft and Novell environments. After more than a decade with the Delaware Department of Labor in technical roles, she stepped into the agency’s top security and compliance position, making her one of the most established cybersecurity leaders in Delaware government.
Solomon Adote — Chief Information Security Officer, Phillips & Cohen Associates, Ltd.
Solomon Adote is Chief Information Security Officer at Phillips & Cohen Associates and one of the more widely recognized cybersecurity leaders connected to Delaware. His career has spanned public and private sectors, and he is especially known for building the State of Delaware’s first formal risk management and government cybersecurity team. His background includes large-scale security modernization, enterprise risk mitigation, and leadership across highly distributed environments, including responsibility for security controls affecting tens of thousands of users and devices. Adote stands out for linking cybersecurity to operational excellence, cultural change, and long-term organizational agility.
Jen Mathews — Acting Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Enterprise Technology Security and Support Services, CSC
Jen Mathews serves as Acting Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Enterprise Technology Security and Support Services at CSC, where she oversees enterprise security functions spanning threat and response, governance, risk and compliance, cloud governance, observability, incident management, and service operations. With more than two decades at CSC, she brings deep institutional knowledge and a calm, structured leadership style to a broad remit that blends cyber defense with enterprise technology execution. Her ability to translate technical risk into business decisions and align stakeholders around practical improvements makes her a key figure in Delaware’s corporate cybersecurity landscape.
Randy Gaboriault — Senior Vice President, Chief Digital and Chief Information Officer, ChristianaCare
Randy Gaboriault serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Digital and Chief Information Officer at ChristianaCare, a major Delaware health system where technology, security, data, and digital strategy increasingly intersect. While his title is broader than a pure security role, his remit includes enterprise technology, digital transformation, analytics, innovation, and security across a large healthcare environment. He has helped lead a series of digital initiatives ranging from AI-driven care management to virtual care platforms and automated clinical tools, making him one of the most influential technology leaders in Delaware’s healthcare sector. His presence on this list reflects how cybersecurity leadership increasingly overlaps with digital resilience and secure innovation in large care systems.
R. Eugene Craft — Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Delaware Department of Technology and Information
- Eugene Craft serves as Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at the Delaware Department of Technology and Information, where he focuses on enabling innovation and collaboration through structured risk management and compliance. His profile is distinctive for combining legal, engineering, privacy, and cybersecurity expertise, along with experience applying frameworks such as the NIST Privacy Framework, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, IEC 62443, and ISO 27001. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force with a strong background in policy development, threat assessments, and cross-functional leadership, Craft represents the kind of multidimensional GRC leadership that is becoming increasingly important in public-sector cybersecurity.
Delaware’s Cybersecurity Bench Is Deeper Than It Looks
What stands out in Delaware is not just the presence of cybersecurity leaders across multiple sectors, but the range of responsibilities they carry. From labor systems and statewide governance to healthcare innovation and enterprise security operations, these executives are shaping how cyber risk is managed in organizations that play outsized roles in government, finance, and critical services.
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