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Seven Bridges: Brian Castagna

Aug 28, 2019

Seven Bridges has hired Brian Castagna as chief information security officer. Castagna will lead the company's efforts in development and implementation of information security and compliance certification programs. He also will represent Seven Bridges in industrywide development of standards for the security of genomic and other healthcare data. Castagna, who will report directly to Seven Bridges CEO Bill Moss, previously led security strategy and market intelligence for Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.

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