Tennessee’s cybersecurity leadership community includes leaders whose careers have taken them across health IT, global manufacturing, enterprise software, defense manufacturing, and technology risk governance. The leaders in this feature reflect that range, with backgrounds that span large-scale program ownership, infrastructure development, compliance leadership, and the kind of operational depth that comes from spending years inside complex, high-stakes technology environments.
Jason Barnett — Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Oracle Health and Global Industries
Jason Barnett joined Oracle in 2025 as VP and CISO for Oracle Health and Global Industries, stepping into the role after more than eleven years at HCA Healthcare, where he served as vice president and CISO and later vice president and chief security officer. Before HCA, he spent seven years as a partner at Ingenuity Associates and seven years as director of information security at HCA in an earlier tenure, giving him a career arc that spans consulting, enterprise security leadership, and now security governance at one of the largest health IT platforms in the world. That depth of healthcare security experience, accumulated across both advisory and operational roles, positions him well for the scope and complexity of his current remit.
Tom Corridon — Chief Information Officer, Bridgestone Americas
Tom Corridon currently serves as chief information officer at Bridgestone Americas, a role he moved into in mid-2025 after serving as global CISO for the preceding three and a half years across two consecutive CISO titles within the organization. His progression at Bridgestone over twelve years, from enterprise network manager through director of IT operations, VP of information technology, CISO, and now CIO, reflects a career built on sustained operational credibility inside a single large, complex enterprise. His cybersecurity leadership tenure is the most directly relevant dimension of his profile for this feature, covering a period when he held direct accountability for global information security strategy and operations across one of the world’s largest tyre and rubber manufacturers.
Vladimir Svidesskis — Director, Security, Compliance and Risk, Highspring
Vladimir Svidesskis has led security, compliance, and risk at Highspring since 2019, building the organization’s information security program from the ground up across governance, risk, compliance, privacy, business continuity, incident response, and third-party risk management. His experience spans more than twenty-five years across engineering, gaming and casino, staffing, healthcare, and financial industries, and his compliance depth includes ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II, HITRUST, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, and CCPA. He previously held a Top Secret security clearance with SCI access and has served as a board member of several IT security organizations. Under his leadership, Highspring has achieved ISO 27001, ISO 27701 certification, and SOC 2 Type II audit reports with no findings or exceptions.
David Prats — Director of Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure, Smith and Wesson
David Prats spent nearly three years as director of cybersecurity and IT infrastructure at Smith and Wesson, where he built the company’s cybersecurity department at its Maryville facility from the ground up, implementing SIEM, MDR, BEC, and EDR solutions, aligning 85 SOPs with industry standards, and conducting the company’s first cybersecurity penetration test. He expanded the IT operations team from seven to twenty-five staff members, managed a combined capital and operating budget of approximately $26 million, led data centre design and implementation, deployed next-generation firewalls and CIS benchmark-compliant server images, and achieved $1.5 million in cost savings through infrastructure and vendor optimization initiatives. He is also a founding member and vice chair of the TennesseeCISO board of directors.
The experience behind Tennessee’s cybersecurity leadership bench
What this group reflects, collectively, is the value of sustained operational experience in environments where cybersecurity decisions carry real consequences. Whether building programs inside a global tyre manufacturer, a defense-adjacent firearms company, a major health IT platform, or a growing technology firm, these leaders have developed their credibility through years of hands-on program ownership rather than credential accumulation alone. That grounded, execution-oriented profile is increasingly what organizations look for when the stakes are high and the margin for error is narrow.
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