Hardik Parekh

Hardik Parekh is responsible for company-wide cybersecurity strategy and execution at Five9. Prior to Five9, Hardik developed and matured security programs at companies like DellEMC/RSA, Intuit, Amazon and Splunk.

Hardik brings two decades of global software security experience and a builder mindset. His previous experience includes developing product and enterprise security - including Identity and Access Management, compliance and security operations. Hardik delivered security at scale and speed. Hardik has built a modern, highly automated Security Operations Center at Amazon as Physical Retail unit's CISO.

Hardik contributed to industry standards - OWASP SAMM, BSIMM, NIST SSDF, and SANS Top 25 Programming Errors.

Hardik serves on advisory boards of innovative startups and CompTIA.