Executive Luncheon

Vijay heads AWS Analytics Global Partner development for the Automotive and Manufacturing Verticals. Vijay joined AWS from Siemens Industry Software, where he led the Partner ecosystem for PLM, MES and IoT platforms. Vijay spent over 15 years as a Management Consultant covering the Industrial Sector at IBM Global Business Services and Deloitte Consulting, where he advised large Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing companies on their digital transformation efforts. He has also been a Product development and Manufacturing Engineer in the Automotive and Aerospace & Defense Industries. Vijay has an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Joined Health Care Service Corporation, the nation’s largest customer owned health insurer offering Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, in September of 2017 as DVP Information Security Architecture and Design. In this role, John was responsible for driving the future state Cyber Security Architecture with a focus on securely enabling HCSC’s use of the public cloud for sensitive workloads, overall modernization of HCSC’s Member facing and Enterprise Identity & Access Management products and enhancements to Cyber Defense capabilities. Promoted to Deputy CISO / Head of Information Security for Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) in Fall of 2021. John is responsible for delivering a fiscally responsible and pragmatic Information Security program that securely enables the HCSC enterprise, systems development entities, and strategic initiatives. He is an Information Services Security thought leader with over twenty-five years combined experience with Fortune 500 firms in life sciences, healthcare and consumer products industries. Actively participates on Executive Customer Advisory Boards and Healthcare Industry Executive Leadership forums. John has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Temple University and holds CISSP certification.

Valentyn is a business and technology leader with 22 years of experience in retail, fintech, manufacturing, healthcare and telecom. As our CTO, Valentyn drives technological excellence and advanced expetise at N-iX to provide the most efficient tech and business solutions to our clients.