Optiv has appointed Doug Goehl as Chief Information Officer. In this role, he will lead the company’s internal technology strategy and help scale enterprise capabilities that support Optiv’s continued growth as a cyber advisory and solutions provider. The appointment signals a continued focus on strengthening the operational technology backbone behind the company’s expanding business.
Goehl steps into the role after serving as Vice President of IT Business Process at Optiv. Before joining the company, he spent nearly nine years at Crocs, Inc., where he held senior technology leadership roles including Vice President of Customer Technologies and Vice President of Global Enterprise Applications. Earlier in his career, he also held leadership roles at Payless ShoeSource.
Why this matters: For a company like Optiv, internal technology leadership is closely tied to delivery quality, operating scale, and the ability to support increasingly complex cybersecurity services. Promoting a leader with deep experience in enterprise systems, customer technologies, and internal process transformation suggests Optiv is prioritizing executional maturity as it grows in a market where advisory credibility and operational performance increasingly go hand in hand.
