Jamil Farshchi

Jamil Farshchi is Chief Information Security Officer of Equifax. Farshchi joined Equifax in 2018. Prior to Equifax, Farshchi was Chief Information Security Officer at The Home Depot. He also previously served as Chief Information Security Officer of Time Warner, where he defended the company’s premier networks such as Warner Bros., CNN and HBO; Vice President of Global Information Security for Visa, where he secured more than $7 trillion of payment card transactions annually; and Chief Information Security Officer of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he protected some of the most sensitive national security and nuclear weapon assets in the U.S. Farshchi began his career at NASA protecting emerging technologies, eventually becoming the agency’s Deputy Chief Information Assurance Officer. Farshchi serves on the Board of Directors for the National Technology Security Coalition, as well as the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Farshchi holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed the Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development.