# David de Martin Roche > CIO | COO | Global Business Operations | CISO | Portfolio and Program Manager Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/daviddemartinroche I am an agile wide-range leader with a strong security background, able to run Global Business Operations, operate as CISO, and/or CIO, and run large-scale programs or a PMO. I bring broad experience delivering secure products, enterprise IT, and DevSecOps, serving thousands of users. I led teams on three continents where I enabled business through risk management, vision and strategy definition, innovation, and program execution. My main goal is to satisfy stakeholders improving the top line and developing, running, and enhancing compliant, secure, and efficient products, processes, and systems; balancing risk versus business value in every area of work. A key to my success is to influence, lead, grow, mentor, and coach my teams and co-workers, and my understanding of different cultural and professional backgrounds. All based on my values, honesty, and integrity as well as my sense of urgency and my adaptable communication skills. I am an expert in business transformation and M&A. I have managed up to 80 people and a 50 MUSD budget and driven savings up to 80%, eliminating legacy environments and streamlining processes. Business Skills • Strategy Planning and Execution • M&A • Business Operations • Process Optimization • Negotiation and Vendor Management • Innovation Management Skills • Program and Project Mgmt. (PMP, CSM, SCPM) • Portfolio & Roadmaps • Product and Release Mgmt. • Multicultural management • Team and Agile coach Technical Skills • IT Ops, ITIL, COBIT • DevSecOps • Cloud, AWS, Azure… • Product development • Security (CISSP) • Privacy (GDPR, HIPAA) • Compliance (SOX, PCI-DSS) ## Work Experience ### CIO/Head of IT @ Aduna Global Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Chief Executive Officer @ Protexec Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Offering CIO, COO and Cybersecurity services ### Co-Founder @ Ryden Bikes USA Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Converting a hobby into a business: Manufacturing, Supply, Product Management, Finance, Marketing, Sales and Delivery ### Advisory Board Member- Parentfile @ AdvisoryCloud Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States Advising Parentfile around marketing and GTM strategies. Also around the product and what it can offer to be successful. ### Ericsson ONE Director of Operations and CISO (Privacy, Security and Compliance) @ Ericsson Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area In Charge of Releasing the portfolio of all innovation products, with the proper security and compliance and balancing start-up ventures' needs against risk. • Streamlined selection of privacy and security requirements for incubation units by 50% • Created the basic list of high-level activities for units in Industrialization and a tracking dashboard to drive them to successful release and early commercialization. • Defined 2023 Innovation Operations OKRs and drove them to 80% completion. • Created the service catalog of the unit, showing our value and capabilities. • Created the strategic plans for 2024 Operations, with an emphasis on automating DevSecOps and DORA to improve productivity, speed, security, and compliance. ### Wireless Office Senior Director Business Operations and Product Security Champion @ Ericsson Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Optimized horizontal processes among different areas. Responsible for end-to-end product security for a VDI product based on Azure AVD. Chief of Staff in charge of the monthly operational reviews and all-hands meetings. • Drove the definition of the EWO HIPAA standard position. Secured assurance of privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA...) and proper management of data subject PI, PII, and PHI. • Got the PCI-DSS SAQ-A certification attested to enable credit card usage in our portal • Improved security and privacy features and assurance. Promoted Azure Web Access Firewall (WAF) usage and SIEM logs integration through Log Analytics and Sentinel. ### Head of IT Security and Business Continuity Management for BA Technology and New Businesses @ Ericsson Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible to ensure and audit Business Continuity and IT Security (including ISMS based on ISO 27001) for 6 different emerging product lines. • Drove the IT and IT security part of Cradlepoint Management System creation, including the SOC 2 Type 2 requirements review and alignment. • On AWS, designed and deployed Tanium Threat Response on Emodo, to complement its XDR and EDR, in 3 months, covering the basic needs on asset management (and discovery), vulnerability and patch management, plus reporting. • Reused efficient sourcing processes from Cradlepoint to Emodo to speed up TTM. • Deployed Business Continuity in the newest organizations, according to ISO 22301 ### Edge Gravity VP Business Operations @ Ericsson Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States Managing 6 MUSD budget for Enterprise IT, security, processes, compliance, real estate and travel management. • Enhanced the HR&IT on and off-boarding processes for increased efficiency and security. • Managed 5 offices in North America and Europe achieving cost reductions across them. • Transformed the security and compliance landscape, implementing Risk Management framework and Business Continuity Management (BCM) • Created Security Tactical plans for 2019 and 2020. ### Edge Gravity CIO and CISO @ Ericsson Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara Managing all corporate IT environment and IT security for 300 people. Over 2MUSD IT budget • Implemented Single Sign On (SSO) across all enterprise apps using OneLogin and SAML integrations, with Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). Integrated with enterprise MDM (InTune and Jamf) and designed and implemented business policies around them. Maintained Jira and Confluence. • Defined and implemented new telephony and travel policies that reduced phone expenses by 35%. • Negotiated and agreed new ways of working, processes and tools driving more than 20% cost reduction on IT, while increasing speed. • Architected and implemented a brand-new, 100% cloud-based, Enterprise IT landscape in less than one year. Managed change and active resistance to it. ### Edge Gravity Director Program Management @ Ericsson Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Director of Program Management for Unified Delivery Network (UDN) • Deployed Edge Gravity Generation 1 Edge for several Service Providers in Latin America. • Re-defined and optimized Hardware procurement process, achieving time to market (TTM) reductions and 5% average cost savings to orders for Brazil • Implementation of a Salesforce reporting tool that automated processes, sent custom made reports to targeted audience, improving TTM and saving 10% salesforce licenses. ### US West Director Engineering IT & Test Environment Operations @ Ericsson Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA Head of IT & Test Environment for the US West Region, responsible for IT Service Delivery and Operations. Working with R&D, Business Innovation and Professional Services to enable world class product development and service excellence. Member of the Ericsson Site Leadership team in Silicon Valley. - MUSD budget, 80 people, 21,000 sqft datacenter, 4000+ R&D users - Over 30% cost reduction YoY achieved through aggressive equipment reuse. - Saved millions of dollars on SW through the right approach to the chip design (ASIC) HW environment. ### US West Engineering IT Head of Project Office (PMO) & Common Services @ Ericsson Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California, United States 22 people, Senior PMs, Solution Architects, Local Operations Mgrs, Asset and Procurement Mgrs. - Created a new engineering onboarding process and function and saved MUSD per year - Introduced Agile methodology for the PMO and support teams. - Introduced a new SPM monitoring tool to reduce power outages to zero in 2016. - Conducted the insurance Audit passed with 99% compliance. - Kept an ultra-motivated team: Over 30 projects delivered. 10+ concurrently. 1% attrition. -> 2 years consolidation & construction program, 1K racks, On time, under budget. -> 2 years M&A program, 29K sqft, 8M savings. -> Mediaroom, Azuki, Redback, NodePrime, Sentilla and Envivio IT Integrations. -> Movement, consolidation, and decommissioning of 5 sites and a COLO. -> Kuatrotech (OS development), Flex (HW design), and Intel (ASIC) divestments. -> Led improvement of customer’s Build performance by 4X, capacity by 2.5X, availability. ### Santa Clara Innovation Competence Center Chairman @ Ericsson Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Santa Clara Innovation Competence Center is a core team of 6 members who help bring ideas to life via pre-studies, proof of concepts (PoCs), prototypes, pilots, etc. We encourage ideas from any source, engage the original ideator and select ideas to test and work on to generate proposals for PoCs, then execute the proposals, track business cases and summarize and collect lessons learned. • 2 Ideas presented to customer through the Brazilian and Italian Customers Units. ### Ericsson's CIO Advisory Board Member @ Ericsson-LG Enterprise Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea As member of the ITTE Advisory Board I challenged Ericsson's CIO and IT Leadership Team, proving honest feedback and alternative views on critical internal and external matters. ### Director of Engineering and Enterprise IT @ Ericsson-LG Enterprise Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Seoul Responsible for the whole Enterprise and R&D IT environment for South Korea MUSD enterprise and test budget. 11 people. > 12% cost reduction in operational costs. > Integrated 2 buildings into corporate network and global voice > Delivered virtual environments VDI and HSD to 600 users > Transformed Oracle ERP into SAP ONE and SAP2 > Sunset and consolidation of local legacy tools (1.2M/year savings) > Changed brand name from LG-Ericsson to Ericsson-LG ### Director of Enterprise IT for Spain and Portugal Customer Units @ Ericsson España Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain Responsible for Enterprise IT (strategy, operations, and financials) for all units in Iberia. > Drove dramatic HR productivity improvement through the Development and Implementation of the first Mediterranean Region HR tool from scratch. > M&A Due diligence and Integration: Merged 850+ employees, 3 sites, 35 connections and 800 production servers from Nortel, Optimi, Netspira, HyC, Redback and Telefonica R&D > Implemented IT side of ONO, TIWS, Endesa, Yoigo and Orange deals. > Achieved 80% cost reduction by Design and Implementation of a new IT landscape for Field Services. > IT Transition and Transformation to new global services agreements. > IT cost reduction 24% in 18 months through contracts renegotiation and fees saving. > 5,500 PC's refreshed and migrated to Vista > Increased 12% in End User Satisfaction thanks to my passion for understanding and server customer needs. > Coordinated SOX adherence and controls follow-up through the SOX Navigator tool. ### Local Service Manager (R&D IT Manager) @ Ericsson España Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain Manage and monitor performance of Ericsson’s IS/IT partners acting as interface to their Local Service Delivery Management for Madrid. Tasks * Secure the availability of efficient services for the local business needs * Manage upcoming requirements and prove solutions in time. * Consolidation or phase-out of services where applicable to save cost. * Point of Escalation within Madrid if the outsourcing partner fails in its obligations. * Implementation of ordering and approval process within Madrid * Forecasting service needs for the local site. * Balanced Score Card and KPIs monitoring and financial follow up * Forecasting local budget, follow up and report cost. * Ensuring that Ericsson adhere to its part of the contract. * Forwarding local requirements/changes to central IT management. * Local R&D license administration. * Manage communication to local users. * Coordinate/manage IS/IT training for local users. * Reporting to local R&D management, central IT and PM&T. ### Team Coach @ Ericsson España Jan 2001 – Jan 2007 Team Coach role promotes a high performance environment for any kind of team in the organization. The coach is responsible of the teamwork process and its application to foster team efficency. ### Senior Software Designer @ Ericsson España Jan 1999 – Jan 2006 | Madrid * Maintenance of a good contact network inside Ericsson with people from previous organizations and projects were I have worked. * Working in several projects during all different phases (prestudy, feasibility and execution) in many high efficiency teams. * Customer relationships by means of technical presentations to external customers (Amena, Banesto and Vignette) and support and maintenance management with all the Mideye product customers (Japan, Canada). * Planning detailed team plans showing good planning and administration skills. * Java, JSP, ASP, C++, JUnit, Test automation. ## Education ### Stanford Certified Project Manager in Project Management Stanford University ### Bachelor and Master in Telecommunication and Electrical Engineering Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ### COU in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates Colegio Menesiano ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daviddemartin - Website: https://ryden.bike --- Source: https://flows.cv/daviddemartinroche JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/daviddemartinroche/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08