Employees
~66,625
Founded
1902
About 3M
Key Facts
Approximately 66,625 employees globally
Headquartered in St Paul, Minnesota, United States
Operates in Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Founded in 1902
Executive Leadership Team
CS
Carolann Shields, CISSP, CISO
Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Security Officer
Since 2022
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3M Executive Leadership Team
CS
Carolann Shields, CISSP, CISO
Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Security Officer
Since 2022
Christopher McMahon
Chief Security Officer, Global Security, 3M
▪ Secured 65,000 people ▪ $24B Revenue/$1.08B R&D ▪ Global Offices & Manufacturing ▪ Global Travel ▪ Provide enterprise-wide leadership for 3M’s global security, risk, and resilience functions, safeguarding personnel, facilities, and operations worldwide. Direct physical security, security technology, GSOC, executive protection, and global guard force programs to ensure business continuity and operational integrity. Oversee classified facility compliance as FSO and Insider Threat Program lead. Lead enterprise investigations, workplace violence prevention, and criminal threat response while advancing crisis management, threat intelligence, and strategic warning programs to mitigate emerging risks to operations and innovation.
▪ Established a proactive Insider Risk Program in collaboration with R&D, Cybersecurity, and Data Loss Prevention teams, strengthening protection of intellectual property and innovation assets.
▪ Unified investigative functions into one coordinated team, streamlining case management and reducing investigative timelines.
▪ Standardized global physical and technical security operations to align priorities, governance, and support across all sites.
▪ Modernized global security infrastructure, upgrading 3M’s HQ campus, standardize cameras and access control systems.
▪ Enhanced executive protection and policy framework by integrating cybersecurity and web monitoring and modernizing 3M’s weapons and threat management policies.
▪ Strengthened global protection of intellectual property and trade secrets through implementation of international safeguards and cross-functional coordination.
▪ Elevated situational awareness and resilience by creating a daily global intelligence brief and advancing cyber-physical coordination with Environmental Health & Safety and IT teams.
Since 2025
Business Focus Areas
Business Focus Areas
CollaborationGlobal, Diverse Career OpportunitiesInnovation
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