Riddick Stephen A

About Riddick Stephen A

Stephen A. Riddick is a U.S. corporate executive and board director with a career centered on corporate governance, legal leadership, capital markets, and high-growth companies. He currently serves as an independent director at Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. and also sits on the board of Vista Credit Strategic Lending Corp. His profile reflects a blend of in-house legal leadership, boardroom oversight, and strategic advisory experience across public-company and public-market-adjacent businesses. ([investors.bowman.com](https://investors.bowman.com/governance/committee-composition/default.aspx?utm_source=openai)) Most recently, Riddick served as Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Tenable Holdings, Inc., a role he held from 2016 to 2022. At Tenable, he supported a cybersecurity company operating in a fast-changing, growth-oriented market, with responsibilities that likely included legal strategy, governance, compliance, and support for expansion and corporate development initiatives. Tenable highlighted his background advising high-growth and international businesses, as well as his ability to bring practical legal and business judgment to executive and board-level decisions. ([de.tenable.com](https://de.tenable.com/press-releases/tenable-network-security-names-stephen-riddick-as-general-counsel?utm_source=openai)) Before joining Tenable, he spent six years at Praxair, Inc. as Group Associate General Counsel from 2010 to 2016. In that capacity, he supported business operations in Western Europe, Russia, and Mexico, while also providing legal support to Praxair’s global mergers and acquisitions team. That experience gave him deep exposure to cross-border governance, transactional execution, and legal oversight for a multinational industrial company. ([de.tenable.com](https://de.tenable.com/press-releases/tenable-network-security-names-stephen-riddick-as-general-counsel?utm_source=openai)) Earlier in his career, Riddick practiced as a partner at international law firms, advising public and private companies, as well as investment banks, on corporate transactions and governance matters. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Overall, his career suggests a strong focus on board governance, corporate legal affairs, regulatory discipline, and support for companies navigating growth, complexity, and capital markets. ([de.tenable.com](https://de.tenable.com/press-releases/tenable-network-security-names-stephen-riddick-as-general-counsel?utm_source=openai))