Edmonton’s security community is built around institutions that exist nowhere else in Canada: a provincial government defending an entire digital estate, a credit union serving communities the big banks skip, and a power generator whose assets connect to the grid. The five cybersecurity leaders below protect the province’s services, its capital city, its largest credit union, its flagship research university, and part of its electricity supply. Most have spent years inside the organizations they now defend.
Martin Dinel – ADM & CISO, Government of Alberta
Martin Dinel has worked for the Government of Alberta for more than 11 years, serving as Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Information Security Officer of its Cybersecurity Division. His mandate covers the provincial government’s entire digital estate, from health and justice systems to the services Albertans use daily. The ADM title places him as the senior executive accountable for that defense, leading a dedicated cybersecurity division rather than a team nested inside an IT department. His decade in the public service shapes how he works: procurement cycles, legislation, and ministerial accountability all determine what a government security program can do and how quickly.
Cam Fischer – Head of Cyber Security, Capital Power
Cam Fischer has spent nearly 14 years at Capital Power, becoming Head of Cyber Security in December 2024. He describes the work as enterprise cyber risk leadership with board and executive advisory responsibilities. The Edmonton-based company operates generation facilities across North America, where a cyber incident can carry physical consequences for grid-connected assets. Fischer’s long history with the company means he understands its operational environment from the inside, which matters in an industrial setting where security decisions touch equipment rather than just data.
Hani Mansi – CISO, City of Edmonton
Hani Mansi has served as Chief Information Security Officer of the City of Edmonton since August 2018, defending the systems behind services used by more than a million residents. That includes transit, utilities billing, permits, 311, and internal municipal operations. He also carries technology executive responsibilities in a combined CISO and CTO profile, and he serves as a board member outside his day job. Mansi holds CISSP, CISM, and CRISC certifications, spanning security management, governance, and risk. Municipal governments have become frequent ransomware targets, and his eight years in the role cover most of that escalation.
Michael Alguire – Head of Information Security, Servus Credit Union
Michael Alguire joined Servus Credit Union in May 2023 as Vice President of Information Services Risk Management and added the Head of Information Security title in August 2024. The combined portfolio puts risk management and security operations under one leader, which reflects how credit unions typically organize the function, closer to enterprise risk than to pure technology. Servus is Alberta’s largest credit union, serving hundreds of thousands of members across the province, including many in smaller communities where the large banks maintain little presence. Alguire works from Edmonton.
Priya Mouli – CISO, University of Alberta
Priya Mouli became Chief Information Security Officer of the University of Alberta in February 2026, after building her career in security leadership in Ontario. She previously served on the Sheridan Advisory Council to the CEO and board. The university enrolls tens of thousands of students and staff and maintains research partnerships around the world, which means her program has to balance an open academic culture against sustained foreign interest in Canadian research. Mouli has been an active recruiter for the university’s cyber security team since arriving.
Public Money, Public Trust
Four of these five leaders answer to the public in some form. Dinel defends the province’s services, Mansi its capital city, Alguire the savings of Servus members across Alberta, and Mouli the research at a publicly funded university. Fischer protects generation assets that feed the grid those institutions run on. Several have held their posts longer than industry norms, and the group is small enough that they face the same threat actors and draw from the same talent pool. Edmonton concentrates government, finance, energy, and education within a few square kilometres, and the people securing them work in closer proximity than most Canadian cities allow.
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John Kevin Hao is a news and feature writer covering cybersecurity, technology, and business targeted for professional audiences.