Executive Profile
Cybersecurity & Enterprise Technology Executive — Healthcare · AI · Regulated Environments
Upstate South Carolina · bpr@robichau.com · linkedin.com/in/bernardpeterrobichau
Bernard Peter Robichau — known professionally as Peter Robichau — is a healthcare cybersecurity executive with 25+ years building and maturing security programs across academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, regional health systems, and FDA-regulated AI/ML companies. He recently served as the security executive for a growth-stage healthcare AI startup, leading it to HITRUST v11 r2 (Reliable, 2-Year Validated) — HITRUST's most rigorous certification tier — with full attestations for HIPAA Breach Notification, Privacy Rule, and Security Rule compliance, alongside SOC 2 Type II, on its way to a strategic exit event. He is a published author on healthcare information privacy and security (Apress, 2014), a C|CISO Hall of Fame inductee (EC-Council, 2023), and a CISSP.
8 months
HITRUST v11 r2 — the Reliable, 2-Year Validated tier — with HIPAA Breach Notification, Privacy & Security Rule attestations, from scratch at a startup. Very few healthcare organizations achieve this combination.
3 months
SOC 2 Type II — delivered in parallel with the HITRUST effort.
34% → 91%
Compliance arc over three years — a security program built from the ground up with a 4-person team; highest rating in the parent university health system, zero budget variance.
12 months
Three legacy data centers decommissioned, cloud-only migration completed — zero security incidents, Zero Trust Architecture implemented enterprise-wide.
500 → 75
Security ticket backlog cleared in six weeks at a large academic medical system — root-cause process fixes instead of reactive hiring.
$500K → $2,500
Vendor invoice reduced through forensic usage analysis — engaged the vendor's CEO and changed their company-wide billing policy.
> Employer and client names are withheld on this public page. The full named history arrives with every direct application — or on request at bpr@robichau.com.
Head of Enterprise Technologies and Cyber Security
Growth-stage healthcare AI startup — FDA-regulated AI/ML Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
January 2025 – Present
Founder and Principal Consultant
Category 3 Partners, LLC — healthcare technology strategy and cybersecurity consulting; engaged in the tech startup ecosystems of Raleigh/Durham and Wilmington, NC
2012 – January 2025 · major embedded engagements:
Director, Research Technology Service Delivery — $7B academic health system, largest NIH grant recipient in the U.S. May – Sep 2024
Director, Digital Transformation & Business Information Security Officer (BISO) — $7B academic health system, ~30,000 employees Jul 2020 – Apr 2024
Interim Director, Information Security — $1.8B regional health system, 800-bed teaching hospital, Level II trauma center Dec 2019 – Jun 2020
Manager, Information Security — 191-bed specialty children's hospital, ~3,000 employees, ~$700M annual revenue Dec 2015 – Dec 2019
Manager, IT Programs & Information Security — large academic medical system, multi-hospital post-acquisition integration Sep 2012 – Dec 2015
Earlier career: Security Coordinator at a large multi-site regional medical center (2010–2012) · Network Engineer at a graduate academic institution (2007–2010) · Information Security Officer & System Administrator for a 50-site, 1,000-employee state government agency (2001–2007) · Network Administrator in private-sector manufacturing (1998–2001).
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