Omar Khawaja
Chief Information Security Officer, Highmark Health
Omar Khawaja is passionate about people, community, frameworks, communication and measurement. He is currently Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Highmark Health, a blended health care delivery and financing system serving 50 million Americans. To sustain the effective delivery of security controls at scale at Highmark, Omar led the development of 14 frameworks and 8 measurement programs. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Omar currently serves on the boards of HITRUST, the FAIR Institute and Leadership Pittsburgh; on the CISO Workgroup of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association as an advisor to a half dozen tech firms; and as adjunct faculty for the CISO program at Carnegie Mellon University.