Justin Somaini

Justin Somaini


Justin Somaini heads the SAP Global Security unit in the board area of Products & Innovation, reporting to Bernd Leukert, member of the SAP Executive Board. With more than 17 years of information security experience, Justin is responsible for SAP’s overall security strategy, ensuring that SAP and our customers have a consistent and convenient security experience and establishing SAP as a recognized and trusted leader in the industry. He develops, implements, and manages SAP’s overall policies, standards, and guidelines in accordance with the SAP Security Strategy as well as ongoing SAP security initiatives to meet the emerging international IT and cyber security environments and data protection and privacy laws worldwide. Prior to SAP, Justin’s roles included Chief Trust Officer at Box, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Yahoo!, CISO of Symantec, Director of Information Security at Verisign, and advisor to Qualys, Palo Alto Networks, Sentinel Labs, SourceClear, Solve Media.