Ajay Gupta is currently working as a Vice President - Cyber Strategy, Defense, Data and Threat Management at AmerisourceBergen responsible for wide range of security functions to provide threat aligned cyber capabilities and protection. Prior to his time at AmerisourceBergen, his most recent role was at Humana as Chief of Cyber Security Operations where Ajay was responsible for transforming Humana’s Cyber Security and Counter Threat Operations into a proactive Cyber Fusion Center. Prior to his time at Humana, Ajay served as a Global Information Security Officer for Yum Brand/Pizza Hut and was responsible for Pizza Hut’s information security and governance program, including all security ecosystems in support of markets spread across 100+ countries. Prior to his time at Pizza Hut, Ajay served as Chief Information Security Officer for Concentra, a national provider/urgent care organization, where he was in charge of setting up the organization’s end-to-end information security program, including Governance, risk, security architecture, technology and operations functions. Prior to Concentra, Ajay served in various progressive leadership roles at Humana in application development, enterprise architecture, and information security functions. In those roles, he led multiple initiatives around security-driven application development, web access control, perimeter, cloud, and mobile device security and architecture.
Ajay holds an MBA and M.S. in strategic finance and B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering and resides in Frisco, Texas. He is a technology enthusiast and in his spare time, Ajay enjoys traveling, hiking, watching movies and cheering for his favorite Dallas Cowboys.