Jose Arrieta

 Former Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer of the United States Department of Health and Human Services 

  Jose Arrieta oversaw $10B in IT investments, $800B in grants and $26B in Federal contracts in his last three years at HHS. He provided cyber security solutions for 174,000 people and a network that transacted with over 160 countries around the world. 

Jose led the creation and implementation of the largest public health surveillance capability in the United States during the pandemic and led the implementation of a national supervised machine learning effort to accurately distribute testing supplies and predict pandemic “hot spots” across the United States. 

He successfully defended the HHS network against multiple large scale nation state driven cyber-attacks. He led the first three implementations of blockchain technology in the public sector in the United States one of which was focused on reducing costs and speeding up procurement lifecycle. 

Jose was a cabinet level agency executive in the following positions: deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and grants, chief information officer, chief data officer, small business executive chief acquisition executive and senior procurement executive. Jose managed the largest contracting vehicle in the United States. 

He created and taught the first blockchain course (blockchain and cryptos) at the Johns Hopkins University as well as entrepreneurial finance. He founded small incubator called imagineer when he left Government. imagineer is an IT solutions company that currently is focused on developing foundational tools to enable metaverse solutions for sports and entertainment, mental health, hotel and lodging and sustainable energy market verticals.

Imagineer’s first contract was focused on evaluating over 350 technology companies a year focused in science and technology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cyber security for the United States Department of Defense. He has created a secure root of trust, anti-jamming, anti-spoofing, ant hacking, distributed remote monitoring capability for human and machine end points. He has also served on the Board of Directors for a publicly traded sustainable energy, healthcare, and technology company. Jose is the currently the Science and Technology Advisor to the United States Navy Secretary. Imagineeer has won and performed on contracts at the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of State.