Kris Virtue

Vice President, Cybersecurity, Qualcomm

Kris Virtue currently leads Qualcomm’s Information Security and Risk Management organization, where he is accountable for protecting Qualcomm’s digital information assets and systems. He is a proven leader with extensive experience in all aspects of information technology for a global Fortune 500 company. Kris serves as a Board Member for Serving Seniors and a Co-Chair of the San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE).

Prior to this, Kris was a sales engineer with MTI Technology, where he gained experience with hardware RAID systems, and fibre channel SAN solutions. Before that, he was a programmer analyst for his alma mater, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his Bachelors and Masters from UCSD, in Computer Science and Architecture based Enterprise Systems Engineering, respectively.