Maine’s cybersecurity leadership bench reflects a mix of operational security depth, governance expertise, privacy leadership, entrepreneurship, and community-centered advocacy. The women in this feature are protecting healthcare systems, advising businesses, shaping privacy programs, building enterprise security functions, and helping organizations across the region strengthen resilience in practical ways. Together, they show that Maine’s cybersecurity influence extends well beyond one industry or title path.
Kelly Gumprecht — IT Risk Management Director, CIANBRO | System Director for Information Security, Covenant Health
Kelly Gumprecht has spent more than two decades protecting sensitive information and helping organizations navigate risk in increasingly complex threat environments. Her long career across healthcare and enterprise settings includes roles at The Aroostook Medical Center, EMHS, Covenant Health, and CIANBRO, giving her a broad view of how cybersecurity, risk management, and operational continuity intersect in real-world organizations. That kind of long-range experience matters in a state like Maine, where trusted leaders often build influence through consistency, depth, and the ability to translate security into something practical and sustainable.
Her current roles as IT Risk Management Director at CIANBRO and System Director for Information Security at Covenant Health reflect that range. She brings healthcare security experience, regulatory grounding, and a clear people-first mindset to the work, with an emphasis on keeping information safe in environments where trust is essential. Her profile stands out because it combines technical and compliance fluency with a long record of service in Maine-based institutions.
Sari Stern Greene — Cybersecurity Entrepreneur, Author, Educator
Sari Stern Greene is one of the most established cybersecurity leadership names connected to Maine. As founder and former CEO of Sage Data Security, she helped build a respected security advisory firm in Portland and created a platform for information security services, risk management, incident response, training, and compliance work long before many smaller markets had that kind of local cyber presence. Her career has also expanded far beyond consulting, spanning authorship, education, board service, and public leadership.
What makes Greene especially notable is the breadth of her impact. She has authored major training materials and certification content, served on the Bangor Savings Bank board, chaired the Enterprise Risk Management Committee there, led the CyberCrime Symposium, and helped organize anti-phishing efforts through the Maine Anti-Phishing Coalition. She represents the kind of leader whose influence reaches across business, education, governance, and the public conversation around cybersecurity.
Shanna Utgard — Account Executive, Compliance Scorecard
Shanna Utgard brings a modern, highly practical form of cybersecurity leadership rooted in compliance guidance, advocacy, and support for mission-driven organizations. Her work at Defendify and RoundTable Technology focused on helping small organizations, nonprofits, and social-impact teams understand cybersecurity risks and improve their posture without getting buried in complexity. That perspective is especially valuable in a state like Maine, where many organizations need security guidance that is both realistic and actionable.
Her path into cybersecurity also gives her profile added depth. A personal near-miss involving business email compromise shifted her career toward security advocacy, and that experience seems to inform the clarity and urgency of her work. Utgard stands out as someone who helps make cybersecurity approachable, useful, and grounded in real operational needs rather than abstract theory.
Andrea Fravert — Vice President, Data Privacy Officer, Tyler Technologies
Andrea Fravert serves as Vice President, Data Privacy Officer at Tyler Technologies, where she leads a team focused on privacy processes, best practices, and continuous improvement across the company’s divisions and corporate functions. Her background in legal affairs, compliance, privacy, and information security makes her an important figure in Maine’s broader cyber leadership landscape, especially as data governance and privacy strategy continue to become more central to enterprise security.
Her career progression inside Tyler Technologies shows a steady expansion of responsibility across legal and privacy leadership. Before becoming Vice President, Data Privacy Officer, she served as General Counsel for Privacy, Infosec and Data, Group General Counsel, Director of Legal Affairs, and Corporate Attorney. That combination of legal discipline and operational privacy leadership makes her especially relevant in a technology environment where trust, compliance, and responsible data stewardship increasingly sit at the center of cybersecurity strategy.
Rae Becerra — VP Cybersecurity Strategy and Engineering, Hamilton Lane | Co-Founder, CyberDEI
Rae Becerra represents the kind of security leader who builds from the ground up. At Hamilton Lane, she joined as the firm’s first dedicated security professional and went on to build the enterprise information security program across governance, IAM, detection and response, compliance automation, and third-party risk. That sort of foundational work requires technical range, strategic discipline, and the ability to align security with business realities in a regulated environment.
She also brings a strong community and inclusion dimension to her work. Becerra co-founded CyberDEI, a nonprofit focused on creating more inclusive pathways into cybersecurity, and serves as an officer in the ISC2 Maine Chapter. That combination of enterprise execution and community-building makes her especially compelling as part of Maine’s current cybersecurity leadership picture. She is helping shape not only how security programs are built, but also who gets access to the field and the opportunities within it.
Where Maine’s cyber leadership grows
Maine’s cybersecurity leadership strength comes from people who build trust over time. These women are leading privacy, security, compliance, and risk efforts in healthcare, construction, technology, education, and finance-adjacent environments, while also contributing through authorship, mentorship, advocacy, and community-building.
That gives Maine a cyber bench with real substance. It is not defined by noise or visibility alone, but by leaders who have spent years building programs, guiding organizations through risk, and helping others understand what good security leadership actually looks like.
Explore more profiles of the amazing women shaping cybersecurity across numerous industries in our Women’s Month collection.