Product & Technology Leadership for Complex Enterprise Software
I build and advise enterprise software at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, identity, AI governance, and complex customer requirements.
Leadership & Advisory
QPoint.io
Product & Security Consultant / Strategic Advisor
Unqork
Director of Product Management
NS1 an IBM Company
Senior Product Manager
Modo Labs
Fractional Chief Information Security Officer
About
My name is Mark Peterson
I've spent the last 15+ years building products, platforms, and security programs for B2B software companies. My career spans product management, cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, compliance, and information security, giving me a broad perspective on how complex enterprise products are designed, built, and brought to market.
Today, I work at the intersection of product, technology, and security—advising startups while continuing to build and shape technical B2B SaaS products. My experience ranges from enterprise DNS, cloud infrastructure, IAM, and observability to AI governance, security, and compliance.
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Your product is becoming more complex as enterprise requirements grow.
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Customers are asking for capabilities across security, identity, governance, observability, or compliance.
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Product and Engineering need clearer priorities across platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing work.
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You’re expanding into enterprise or regulated markets and need to translate those requirements into roadmap decisions.
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Technical debt, platform constraints, or operational complexity are competing with feature development.
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You need stronger alignment between Product, Engineering, Security, Sales, and Customer Success.
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You’re building in a technical domain where customer problems are difficult to translate into clear product requirements.
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You need experienced product and technology leadership, but not necessarily another full-time executive
Services
Product & Technology Strategy
Security & Customer Trust
Fractional CISO
Turn complex technical problems into clear product direction.
I help teams define product strategy, prioritize roadmaps, translate customer and enterprise requirements into product capabilities, and improve alignment across Product and Engineering. My experience spans cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, observability, AI governance, security, and enterprise SaaS.
Build the security capabilities enterprise customers expect.
Translate security, compliance, and customer requirements into practical product and organizational priorities. I help teams prepare for SOC 2, ISO 27001, TX-RAMP, FedRAMP, enterprise security reviews, and related customer requirements without allowing compliance work to overwhelm the product roadmap.
Experienced security leadership without a full-time CISO.
Partner with founders and leadership teams to build pragmatic security programs, establish governance, manage risk, and align security priorities with business growth. I provide executive-level security leadership across security strategy, customer trust, vendor risk, incident readiness, compliance, and reporting.
Advisory
QPoint.io
Strategic Advisor
Modo Labs
Fractional Chief Information Security Officer
Vanta
CISO Advisory Board Member
Instructure
CISO Advisory Board Member
