Kashif Parvaiz is a seasoned Cyber Security executive with over 20 years' experience managing security programs for large private and public sector organizations in the Consulting, Energy, Education and Healthcare sectors. For the last decade, Mr. Parvaiz has had the privilege of managing these organizations' security programs as the CISO.

Kashif is currently the Vice President and CISO of Arancia, in this role he regularly engages with senior executives from clients across all verticals to assess, review and improve their cyber programs.
Prior to his role at Arancia, Mr. Parvaiz was the Regional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a group of the largest hospitals in Ontario. Mr. Parvaiz has overseen the implementation of several successful enterprise-wide security awareness, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, security operations, and incident response programs. In addition, Mr. Parvaiz has developed, managed, and maintained detailed roadmaps to raise organizational cyber maturity levels. Mr. Parvaiz regularly reported to CEOs and board members and has managed multi-million-dollar portfolios. Mr. Parvaiz is an active member in the cyber community and has led thought leadership roundtable discussions for Gartner, IANS and Forrester as well as delivered many keynote presentations at security conferences. Finally, Mr. Parvaiz holds multiple industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCISO and CRISC as well as an MBA.