Experience

Sheryl Rose is a partner in Citrin Cooperman's IT department with more than two decades of experience leading cybersecurity, risk, and security compliance programs across healthcare and financial services. She oversees enterprise cybersecurity strategy, governance, and operational resilience initiatives, ensuring that information security and the business are aligned to maintain an appropriate security posture while meeting organizational objectives.

Sheryl has a proven record of building high-performing teams and developing enterprise security programs aligned with leading frameworks including NIST, HITRUST, and PCI. She frequently reports to Board of Directors and executive committees on the organization’s security posture, emerging risks, and key initiatives that support business priorities. She has established executive-level risk governance structures and metrics that drive transparency and accountability across organizations. Her leadership style emphasizes collaboration across the organization to deliver pragmatic, business-aligned security outcomes.

Before joining Citrin Cooperman, Sheryl served as Chief Information Security Officer for a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system firm, where she built and matured the organization’s information security program from the ground up. She restructured the cybersecurity organization to better align governance, operations, and security compliance, establishing a sustainable framework that integrated security into enterprise decision-making. During her tenure, she automated significant security capabilities, enabling engineers to focus more time on proactive threat hunting and advanced defense initiatives. She also advanced identity and access management, threat detection, and AI governance capabilities, ensuring the security function became a driver of business resilience. She also held senior security leadership roles, where she directed global risk management, incident response, and regulatory compliance programs.