Chad Thiemann has 14 years of active duty and national guard service as an Army Logistics Officer and is a combat veteran. He has been in Corporate America for over 26 years where he has served in various roles
spanning cybersecurity, privacy, and risk management. Chad currently serves as the Sr. Director of GRC – Global Information Security at Hilton.

Prior to Hilton, Chad had an eighteen-year tenure at CVS Health with varying roles: IT Audit Sr. Manager, Director - Information Governance & Privacy Operations, Lead Director -
Cyber Defense, and as a BISO. Chad also has held cybersecurity related roles at Arthur Andersen and Merck Pharmaceuticals before arriving at CVS Health. For the past seven years, Chad has served as an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity for the Carter Graduate College of Business at Dallas Baptist University. Chad has undergraduate degrees in MIS and Operations Management & Logistics from Boston University.
Additionally, Chad has a graduate certificate in ‘Cybersecurity: Technology, Application & Policy’ from MIT and an Executive Masters in Cybersecurity from Brown University.

Through the military, Chad completed various graduate level programs in leadership, strategy, and logistics from the Army Logistics Management
College; Command & General Staff College; and the Naval Postgraduate School. Chad enjoys reading, travel, wine, soccer, and ice hockey. Chad and his wife currently reside in Plano, TX.