Scott Matsumoto – Chief Information Security Officer

Scott is the Chief Information Security Officer at Circle, a world leading crypto finance company
that has raised $250M in funding and has over 7M customers globally. At Circle, Scott’s mission
is to make crypto mainstream, bring Circle’s products to market working closely with regulators,
governments and industry peers to help leverage the power it will bring to society.
When he joined Circle in March of 2015, Scott brought with him decades of security and
software engineering experience. Mr. Matsumoto was previously a Principal Consultant at
Cigital Inc, the largest software security consultancy in the United States, where he led the
Mobile Security and Security Architecture practices. In addition to leading two practices at
Cigital, he was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. His software engineering
experience encompasses development of component-based middleware, performance
management systems, graphical UIs, language compilers, database management systems and
operating system kernels.