Catherine Mendonsa

CISO, Director Information Systems Security & Enterprise Architecture, Finning

Catherine is a senior executive with a proven track record of supporting business objectives through secure data-driven strategic and technical direction. She has more than two decades of establishing security management systems, high performance teams, and progressive leadership with extensive experience in IT, information security, and privacy. Catherine sits as a Board member of the CIO Association of Canada (Calgary Chapter), and the National CISO Board. Her passion for pragmatic security has advanced risk management, incident response and cybersecurity programs transcending many industries including the Calgary Police Service, the Alberta Energy Regulator, Cenovus Energy, AltaLink (Berkshire Hathaway Energy), TransCanada Pipelines, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, and now Finning.