Jairo Orea

Global Chief Information Security Officer Kimberly-Clark

Jairo Orea joined Kimberly-Clark in January 2017 and is the Chief Information Security Officer. Jairo has global responsibilities for Cyber Security, IT General Controls, IT Risk, IT-related outcomes for Regulatory, Compliance, and Privacy, High Availability / Disaster Recovery, and will partner closely with business stakeholders on business continuity plans. Prior to joining K-C, Jairo was the Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Optum International, part of United Health Group. Jairo has played other significant roles in Cyber and Information Security in Fortune 10 companies including Chief Cyber Security Architect at United Health and Chief Information Security Officer at ING Insurance. As Global CISO for ING Insurance, Jairo managed cybersecurity services that protected 200,000 endpoints and 50 thousand servers across 110 countries. At United Health, Jairo developed a cloud cybersecurity framework that focused and remediated several cloud security-related gaps. This framework has now become a de facto standard across many industries. Jairo is value-focused and improving the cybersecurity posture at UnitedHealth Group while reducing total costs of ownership by around 25%. Jairo has a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Networks from Institut of Mines-Telcom (Telecom Bretagne), France. He holds an undergrad degree in Robotics from Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Mexico