CIO & CISO Luncheon

The Allianz Group is an insurance and asset management company offering a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance.

Allison Miller serves as the Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President for Optum. As SVP & CISO at Optum, Miller has accountability for the Enterprise Information Security Officers and the Global Cyber Regulatory Programs. In addition, she has developed a global security framework focusing on patient safety, the security of clinical operations, and a global cyber crisis response plan Prior to her role with the Global Enterprise Information Security Office, Allison was the Director of National Healthcare Compliance for UnitedHealthcare, Chief Privacy Officer for OptumHealth, and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer, National Privacy Director for UnitedHealthcare. In addition to global cybersecurity, Allison has over 20 years of experience in health information systems and crisis management. During her tenure at UnitedHealth Group, Allison has developed methods to identify gaps in care and predict health outcomes for individuals with chronic conditions. Additionally, Allison is a volunteer EMT and First Responder in Louisiana, serving residents during Hurricanes Katrina and Isaac. Most recently, Allison was privileged to serve refugees in Greece, providing healthcare support to front-line clinicians. Allison has earned various degrees and certificates from Upsala College, the Wharton School, Kellogg Executive Education, ISC2, and MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds certifications from GIAC, ISACA, HCCS, and other technology areas of focus beyond security. She is also involved with several groups, including UHCL Cyber Security Institute, Health Care Compliance Association, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and HIPAA Security Officers. Allison continues to volunteer her time across organizations to help raise awareness regarding the emerging cybersecurity landscape and the global threats they present to patient care. Allison is passionate about diversity and inclusion. She serves on the Board of Directors for Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) and speaks publicly at schools and colleges around the globe.

A rare C-suite digitally native executive with deep operational and advisory leadership experience, passionate about helping clients envision and execute aggressive transformation agendas while ensuring operational resilience. Expert in leading consensus-rooted change to automate and streamline legacy operations, digitally transform the customer experience, and create a security-first, data-centric mindset, no matter the industry involved. Adept at working with CEO’s, Boards, and Investors to envision, launch, and successfully implement multi-billion-dollar technology transformations, merger integrations and divestitures, and new products. Demonstrated ability to view business portfolios (legacy, existing or acquisition targets) dispassionately, and to transform, reposition, integrate, or divest as needed to accomplish strategic aims while preserving essential culture.

Paul Valente is the current CEO & Co-Founder of VISO Trust. He was also the former CISO and built successful security teams and programs at ASAPP, LendingClub, and Restoration Hardware. Paul's third-party risk management programs have been vetted by hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and his teams have vetted thousands of third parties.

Mike Bitz is a Regional Vice President of Technical Account Management at Tanium. In this role he helps global organizations identify, control, and remediate their endpoints, and takes pride in furthering the company's mission to protect people, defend data, and secure the systems behind the critical infrastructure and services that make up the backbone of our society and economy. Mike gravitates toward solving difficult problems and has over 20 years of software engineering experience in a variety of roles at companies including Apple and Sonifi. He is a Computer Science graduate of Dakota State University, and is currently an MBA candidate at the University of South Dakota. Outside of tech Mike enjoys traveling with his family, astronomy, anything to do with cars or rockets, and solving Rubik's Cubes competitively.