Massachusetts’ software ecosystem spans public SaaS leaders, regulated healthcare platforms, and enterprise product companies that operate at global scale. Security leadership here is defined by the ability to embed protection into fast-moving product engineering, manage privacy and compliance across customer environments, and keep resilience high as platforms grow. The leaders below represent the CISOs shaping how software companies in the Commonwealth build trust.
Janet Levesque — Chief Information Security Officer, athenahealth
Janet Levesque is a senior cybersecurity executive recognized for building and scaling cybersecurity, enterprise risk, and compliance programs in high-growth environments. At athenahealth, her background spans data protection leadership, crisis and incident handling, acquisition due diligence and integration, and global policy development. Her expertise includes major governance and compliance frameworks and requirements—spanning NIST CSF, COBIT, ISO-aligned practices, and controls supporting SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and FISMA—paired with a pragmatic leadership style grounded in operational excellence, process improvement, and disciplined program management.
Alyssa Robinson — Chief Information Security Officer, HubSpot
Alyssa Robinson serves as CISO at HubSpot, leading information security for a global software company headquartered in Cambridge. With a deep technical foundation across cloud infrastructure and technology operations, she brings extensive experience spanning security and privacy leadership, network and systems security, and operational reliability roles across multiple technology organizations. Her background reflects the blend of engineering credibility and security governance needed to secure fast-scaling SaaS platforms without slowing product velocity.
Benjamin Dulieu — Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer, Duck Creek Technologies
Benjamin Dulieu leads Duck Creek’s global technology and security organization as CIO and CISO, with end-to-end accountability for enterprise platforms, cybersecurity, operational AI, data, analytics, and corporate IT. His mandate centers on translating technology into measurable business impact while ensuring resilience and customer trust. He oversees cybersecurity and privacy across architecture, engineering, GRC, and risk management—balancing governance with speed—while driving transformation across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and employee experience at scale.
Shane Franklin — Chief Technology Officer, Constant Contact
Shane Franklin is CTO at Constant Contact, bringing extensive experience across infrastructure, security, engineering leadership, cloud-first strategy, and rapid team scaling. With a background that includes leading global platform engineering, operations, and security functions, he is known for aligning technology execution with product growth, operational excellence, and transformation. His experience across cloud enablement, M&A integration, and platform engineering reflects the operational and security rigor required to support modern software delivery at scale.
Massachusetts Software Security Leadership at Scale
Across healthcare software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise product companies, Massachusetts CISOs are building the controls, culture, and resilience that software customers increasingly expect by default. These leaders demonstrate how modern software security is equal parts engineering partnership, privacy discipline, incident readiness, and strategic governance—delivered at the speed the software industry demands.
To understand the leaders securing the health and wellness industry, see Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in Massachusetts’ Health & Wellness Industry.