Eric Staffin is the Managing Partner of Staffin Cyber Risk Associates Inc., a New York based strategic advisory firm focused on cyber, AI, and technology-driven risk for private equity, venture-backed, and public companies. He advises boards, executive teams, and investors on threat exposure, risk tolerance, and consequence-based decision making, with a focus on how risk is actually created through structure, delegation, funding, and leadership choices long before an incident occurs.

His work operates at the point where threat turns into consequence. He helps organizations identify where leadership intent, control design, and real-world exposure diverge, and close that gap before it becomes loss. Risk is a choice. He calibrates it to what the business is built to withstand, ensuring resilience, availability, and accountability hold under real conditions, not just during audits.

Eric brings broad executive leadership experience from his previous roles as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Chief Risk Officer (CRO), Interim Data Protection Officer and Chief Resiliency Officer in public companies and private equity-backed organizations. He has led global cybersecurity, technology, data governance, operational risk, and compliance programs in complex, multi-cloud environments, aligning security and risk strategies directly to business objectives, growth initiatives, and transaction outcomes. His work has included building and scaling integrated risk functions, embedding governance into product and engineering lifecycles, and navigating evolving regulatory, client, and threat landscapes while maintaining commercial velocity.

He has built and led advanced security and risk functions, reporting directly into public company Board Committee Chairs, and has designed, developed and implemented data science driven threat management programs, internal, external and hybrid security operations functions and in-house red and purple teams focused on adversarial targeting and AI-enabled threat modeling. Eric has played a central role in major M&A transactions, including the merger of IHS Markit and S&P Global. Across these engagements, he has supported diligence, integration, and transition planning while ensuring continuity of operations and sustainable risk management capabilities.

Through his advisory work, Eric helps organizations move beyond static risk models and compliance-driven thinking, translating complex threat environments into clear, actionable decisions at the board and executive level.