Alan Berry is the Regional Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Centene Corporation.  He leads a team of professional security experts protecting a Fortune 24 healthcare company, including the Cyber Incident Response and Cyber Threat Hunt/Intel teams, Identity Access Management for 90,000+ employees and all of the usual security tools and systems.  Alan brings over 30 years of experience in cyber operations, communications and command and control.

Prior to joining Centene in November of 2017, Alan led the Disaster Recovery team at CVS Health, where he proactively restructured the teams and technologies involved with disaster response for the Fortune 7 company.

Alan is also an Air Force veteran, serving just shy of 26 years in various positions in cyber and communications and retiring as a Colonel.  This included the Director of Communications (CIO) for Air Forces Central, Commander of the 624^th Operations Center (the AF’s command and control center for their global networks) and the Chief of Staff for Air Forces Cyber at Ft Meade, MD.

Additionally, Alan is President of the Board for CyberUp, a non-profit cybersecurity workforce initiative and on the Cybersecurity Education Advisory Board at Washington University.  He also previously served as a Board Member of the St Louis chapter of FBI’s Infragard program.