Sheila Carpenter

Sheila Carpenter serves as Chief Information Officer at Everbridge. She is responsible for leading the company’s global information technology (IT) efforts, including corporate IT infrastructure, technology systems, and enterprise architecture.

With over two decades of leadership experience at information security software companies, Sheila possesses a deep background in cyber security, DevOps, agile project delivery, automation, and infrastructure in IT and SaaS environments.

Prior to Everbridge, Sheila served as CIO of Zix, a leader in email security and encryption, managing security, IT, business applications and compliance. Before joining Zix, Sheila was Vice President of IT, Cloud Services Operation for Entrust Datacard.

She began her career working with business information systems at Mitel Networks, and worked with many startups to implement SaaS offerings, introduce security frameworks and IT service management capabilities.

Sheila also focuses on promoting diversity in security, having launched the Women’s Network of Ottawa for Entrust Datacard and having implemented the Women in Security group at Zix/AppRiver.