Raj Badhwar

Senior Vice President, Global Chief Information Security Officer Voya Financial

Raj Badhwar is SVP, Chief information security officer for Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), which helps Americans plan, invest and protect their savings - to get ready to retire better. Raj has 25+ years of experience within the IT and Cybersecurity industry. He also held a top-secret clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to joining Voya, Raj was the global head of information security for AIG, where he led global cyber security engineering and operations.

Prior to his role at AIG, he held senior Cybersecurity and IT leadership roles at BAE Systems Inc., Bank of America, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner and Sprint. Raj graduated from George Washington University (GWU) with a MS in information systems technology and also holds a BS in Electrical and Electronics engineering from Karnatak University.

Raj is a director and secretary of the NTSC (National Technology Security Coalition) board. He is a member of the Rutgers University, Pace University, and Ithaca College cybersecurity advisory boards, and an advisory adjunct to the SPARK Institute. He is on the customer advisory board for Venafi, and CISO advisory council for Infosys. He is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP), a certified ethical hacker (CEH), a FINRA licensed securities professional (Series 99), among some other technical certifications. He has also co-authored 14 security patents, and has written and presented in the areas of advanced encryption, post-quantum cryptography, zero trust networks, cloud security patterns, and secure re-mote work paradigms. He has also been interviewed as a cybersecurity subject matter expert by WSJ.