Maria Cirino
CEO & Chairman
Guardent


Maria Cirino brings 18 years of experience in high technology leadership positions, including executive experience in worldwide sales, marketing, and business development. In her role as CEO and Chairman of Guardent, Cirino brings vision, strategy and leadership and has led the company from its founding to its present position as an industry leader in security services for corporations and enterprises worldwide.

Prior to founding Guardent, Cirino served as a key member of the executive teams at Shiva Corporation (now Intel Corporation) and i-Cube, Inc. (now Razorfish, Inc.). In her management roles at Shiva and i-Cube, Cirino prominently affected rapid growth and success by building new sales and distribution channels and consistently growing revenues beyond expectations. Cirino’s leadership experience extends to successful mergers, acquisitions and IPOs, having played a principal role in building these companies into successful, publicly held enterprises.

Regarded as a leader in the industry, Cirino offers advice to many other high technology ventures. She currently sits on the board of directors for Keane, the Massachusetts Software & Internet Council, the Board of Governors for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New England, and serves on the board of trustees at Mount Holyoke College.

Cirino is a frequent speaker at industry leading conferences and has been featured and quoted in industry and business media including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Computerworld, among others. Additionally, Cirino has received numerous industry accolades and awards. These honors include being named one of the top 100 most influential women in Boston by Boston Magazine; honored by Information Security Magazine as one of the top 25 women in Information Security; selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of the area’s top “40 under 40” technology executives; inducted by Women's Business Magazine into the Women’s Business Hall of Fame. In 2002, Ernst & Young selected Cirino as its Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) for Business Services and in 2001, Upside Magazine placed Cirino on its Woman in Technology List and Mass High Tech presented her with the Mass High Tech All Star Award. In addition, The Commonwealth Institute and Babson College named Guardent as one of the Top 100 Woman-Led Businesses in Massachusetts.

Cirino holds a bachelor of arts in English from Mount Holyoke College.