Transcend Expands Aimee Cardwell's Role to CIO and CISO in Residence to Help Enterprise Leaders Unlock AI at Scale

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Former UnitedHealth Group executive brings dual expertise to guide CIOs in balancing AI adoption, data compliance, and business growth SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transcend, the compliance layer for customer data powering the world's leading companies, today announced that Aimee Cardwell, former UnitedHealth Group executive, has been appointed as Transcend’s new CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Residence. This appointment expands her current role as CISO in Residence into a new, joint role. Aimee brings over two decades of experience guiding enterprises through responsible technology adoption, including roles as CIO and CISO at UnitedHealth Group and VP of Product Development at American Express. As CIOs tasked with deploying AI across their organizations find even their highest-priority initiatives stalled by fragmented customer data and unclear permissions, her expertise arrives at a critical moment. Cardwell's expanded role acknowledges what many enterprises are quickly discovering: they can't responsibly activate AI when customer data and the permissions that go with it are scattered and fragmented. "CIOs are under pressure to deliver AI that drives business value, but for any given customer record, most organizations can't answer a basic question: what are we actually allowed to do with this data?" said Ben Brook, Transcend CEO and co-founder. "Can we use it to train a model? Share it with an ad partner? Personalize an experience? Every record carries its own set of permissions and restrictions, and almost nobody has them surfaced in a way that's actionable. Aimee's experience building technology systems while managing complex compliance at global scale makes her the right leader to help CIOs navigate this." As both CIO and CISO in Residence, Cardwell will work with technology leaders navigating the convergence of infrastructure, security, and data governance. These domains increasingly share the same dashboard as AI adoption accelerates, and their leaders face a common challenge: most enterprise tech stacks were built to collect and store data efficiently but weren't designed to track usage permissions across sprawling systems. This worked when privacy was a checkbox exercise but breaks down when teams need real-time answers about data rights across millions of records to move ...

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