# Jad Boutros

> Jad Boutros is the co-founder and CEO of TerraTrue, a San Francisco privacy-and-security automation company he started in 2018 with former Snap general counsel Chris Handman. Before building software to make privacy reviews painless, Boutros spent nine years on Google's information security team leading security for its social products, then became Snap's first Chief Security Officer, where he and Handman ran thousands of privacy reviews a year out of a Google spreadsheet that ballooned past 100 tabs. TerraTrue is the product that spreadsheet should have been: a single source of truth that bakes privacy-by-design into the software development lifecycle.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at TerraTrue
- **Organizations:** TerraTrue, Snap Inc., Google, Oracle, Novell
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, McGill University, Master's in Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Built Snap's entire security and privacy engineering organization from scratch as its first Chief Security Officer, Led security for Google's social products, including Google+, Co-founded TerraTrue and raised approximately $20M across two rounds

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Software Engineer at Novell, working on Border Manager and iChain products including the SMTP proxy
- **early career** — Engineer at Oracle, implementing performance and security extensions to IMAP and POP3 servers, including STARTTLS and proxy authentication
- **2005-2014** — Spent over nine years on Google's information security team, conducting application security reviews and leading security for social products including Google+
- **2014** — Became Snap Inc.'s first Chief Security Officer, building security, privacy engineering, and spam/abuse programs from the ground up
- **2018** — Co-founded TerraTrue with Chris Handman, Snap's former General Counsel
- **2021** — TerraTrue raised a $15M Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $20M

## Achievements

- Built Snap's entire security and privacy engineering organization from scratch as its first Chief Security Officer
- Led security for Google's social products, including Google+
- Co-founded TerraTrue and raised approximately $20M across two rounds
- Pioneered productizing privacy-by-design into the software development lifecycle

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Appeared with co-founder Chris Handman on the 'She Said Privacy / He Said Security' podcast hosted by Jodi and Justin Daniels.
- **2023-08** — Shared the launch of TerraTrue's Data Catalog for enhancing privacy- and security-by-design on LinkedIn.

## Links

- Website: https://www.terratruehq.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/secplusplus/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/secplusplus
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JadBoutrosOfficial

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Last updated: 2026-06-12