JASON LISH

Jason Lish is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Verizon, where he leads the company’s cybersecurity strategy and organization, protecting critical infrastructure and assets that connect millions of consumers, businesses, and government customers. His responsibilities include advancing Verizon’s AI-first cyber defense strategy, strengthening resilience against nation-state and cybercrime threats, and overseeing cyber defense, security architecture and engineering, governance and risk, and enterprise security.

Previously, Jason served as CISO at Cisco, where he led enterprise information security, security architecture, application and data security, incident command, value chain security, and security oversight of mergers and acquisitions. He previously served as Chief Security Officer at Lumen Technologies and held executive security, privacy, data, and technology leadership roles at Advisor Group and Alight Solutions, as well as senior security positions at Charles Schwab and Honeywell.

Jason served nearly seven years in the U.S. Air Force as a Systems and Intelligence Analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Bellevue University and an MBA from Ottawa University, has completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School, and is a graduate of the FBI CISO Academy.