California’s manufacturing sector spans consumer products, semiconductor equipment, storage hardware, medical technology, and other complex environments where cybersecurity now touches everything from intellectual property and enterprise systems to factory operations, identity governance, and artificial intelligence adoption. The leaders in this feature reflect that breadth. Their backgrounds include enterprise security, product security, governance, risk and compliance, identity and access management, business continuity, and secure technology modernization across large-scale manufacturing organizations.
Richard Yun — Senior Director of Cybersecurity, Mattel Inc.
Richard Yun is senior director of cybersecurity at Mattel, where he brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across cybersecurity and information technology. His background includes enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, incident response, security strategy, governance, security awareness, cloud security, and Zero Trust architecture. Before joining Mattel, he served as vice president of global information security at Masimo and earlier held chief information security officer and senior security leadership roles at BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP, Hyundai Capital America, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Yun’s earlier career also includes enterprise information security and privacy work at Toyota, network design and engineering roles at BT and Hughes Space and Communications, and research and development roles at Honda R&D Americas and General Motors. That mix of automotive, aerospace-adjacent engineering, consumer brand, and medical technology experience gives him a broad manufacturing perspective shaped by both product-oriented and enterprise-level security leadership.
Justin Duren — Director of Information Security, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance, Western Digital
Justin Duren is director of information security, governance, risk management and compliance at Western Digital, where he leads the company’s global AI enablement and governance program, corporate information security policies, third-party risk management efforts, and business continuity and disaster recovery maturation across corporate, information technology, and manufacturing functions. His work also includes customer-facing security responses, audit support, security awareness, and broader risk identification and management across the organization.
Before Western Digital, Duren held program and operations roles at Google, where he worked on global business operations, SAP-based systems, large-scale asset lifecycle management, and enterprise support improvements. Earlier, he led vendor risk management work at Kaiser Permanente, held risk and project management roles at NVIDIA, and managed information technology audit work at Ernst & Young. His background combines compliance, business process discipline, and enterprise systems experience in ways that map closely to the operational realities of modern manufacturing organizations.
Sina Moatamed — Director of Information Security, Lam Research
Sina Moatamed is director of information security at Lam Research, where his current focus includes identity and access management and the data protection program. His broader career has centered on securing and modernizing business and information technology operations across network infrastructure, telecommunications, ERP, cloud platforms, and enterprise service delivery. His profile also notes industry recognition for cloud-based service delivery and manufacturing-related business application transformation.
Before Lam Research, Moatamed spent nearly eight years at Illumina in senior leadership roles covering identity and access management services, enterprise application change and release management, learning platforms, business continuity, vendor and contract management, quality and compliance, and special projects. Earlier positions at Amgen, Unified Clouds, and BendPak added experience in external hosted services, cloud strategy, access governance, and manufacturing-focused enterprise technology transformation. His career shows a consistent emphasis on building secure, scalable operating models around identity, applications, and business systems.
Manas Agrawal — Director of Information Security, Applied Materials
Manas Agrawal is director of information security at Applied Materials, where he leads security for applications, products, enterprise platforms such as SAP, and artificial intelligence initiatives. His work spans software security, product security, DevSecOps, cloud security, threat modeling, security design reviews, and secure development practices. The profile material emphasizes his focus on securing intellectual property while enabling innovation across engineering and enterprise environments.
Agrawal previously served as senior manager of information security at Applied Materials and earlier worked as an application security manager at Deloitte. Before moving fully into security leadership, he built experience as a software developer and application security champion at JPMorgan Chase, following earlier technical roles at The Ohio State University, Nationwide Insurance, TCS, and Tata research design and development centre. That progression from software development into application and product security is especially relevant in manufacturing environments where software now plays a central role in products, platforms, and operations.
Wei Qi — Senior Director of Information Security and Risk Management, Edwards Lifesciences
Wei Qi is senior director of information security and risk management at Edwards Lifesciences, where he leads security and risk management in a global medical technology environment. His background spans security architecture, engineering, governance, risk management, and compliance across manufacturing, healthcare, technology, insurance, transportation, and distribution. The material provided describes him as a thought leader who combines deep enterprise architecture and engineering experience with a risk-based approach to modern security practice.
Before Edwards Lifesciences, Qi held senior security leadership roles at Abbott, Aon, Grainger, and United Continental Holdings, covering both governance and architecture responsibilities. Earlier in his career, he worked in enterprise architecture and security consulting roles at HCSC, United Airlines, and Pharmacia. His career reflects long-standing experience operating across complex, regulated, and highly distributed organizations, which makes his perspective especially relevant in California’s manufacturing landscape, where global operations and regulated product environments often intersect.
The Security Leaders Supporting California Manufacturing
The leaders in California’s manufacturing sector are working across very different operating environments, but they share a common challenge: securing organizations where products, enterprise systems, supply chains, data, and innovation all move together. Their experience shows how manufacturing cybersecurity increasingly spans governance, engineering, identity, compliance, continuity, and product security rather than sitting in any one silo.
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