Raj Badhwar

Raj Badhwar has 25+ years of experience within the Cybersecurity and IT industry. He is currently the CISO for Voya Financial, and has previously held senior Security and IT leadership roles at AIG, BAE Systems Inc., Bank of America, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner, and Sprint. Raj is a currently a director and secretary of the board of the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC). He also serves on the cybersecurity advisory boards of Pace University, Rutgers University, and Ithaca...See more

Raj Badhwar has 25+ years of experience within the Cybersecurity and IT industry. He is currently the CISO for Voya Financial, and has previously held senior Security and IT leadership roles at AIG, BAE Systems Inc., Bank of America, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner, and Sprint. Raj is a currently a director and secretary of the board of the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC). He also serves on the cybersecurity advisory boards of Pace University, Rutgers University, and Ithaca College; the customer advisory board for Venafi; and the CISO advisory council for Infosys. Raj is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP), a certified ethical hacker (CEH), and a FINRA licensed securities professional (Series 99). He has co-authored 14 security patents, and has written and presented in the areas of advanced encryption, post-quantum cryptography, zero trust networks, cloud security pat-terns, and secure remote work paradigms. He has also been inter-viewed as a cybersecurity subject matter expert by WSJ. Raj is proficient in three languages, and conversant in another three languages. Raj graduated from George Washington University (GWU) with an MS in Information Systems Technology and also holds a BS in Electrical and Electronics engineering from Karnatak University. Raj is an alumnus of St Francis College, Lucknow. See less