Arnold Kishi (Chair)

Arnold Kishi is Chair of the Executive Committee for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) at the Center for Internet Security which he joined 20 years ago and received the MS-ISAC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. His extensive public service career includes leading public policy strategy, technology innovation, and organizational development and collaboration initiatives across federal, state, and local government information technology, law enforcement, and homeland security programs.

Mr. Kishi is presently senior advisor to the State of Hawaii Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Office of Enterprise Technology Services; governor’s appointee to the State Information Technology Steering Committee; and on the Advisory Board for the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Previously, Mr. Kishi served in the State CIO role as Technology Policy Advisor and Executive Assistant to Hawaii Governor Cayetano; he also was the State Department of Defense coordinator for cybersecurity and emergency communications; State Attorney General’s manager for justice information sharing; Department of Accounting and General Services project director for electronic government and digital citizen services; designee to the State e911 Board; National Disaster Preparedness Training Center program developer and FEMA subject matter expert for first responder training; and senior administrator at the East West Center – the U.S. Congress-created U.S. Department of State partner working with Asia and Pacific nations.

Mr. Kishi has served on industry advisory boards and many national working groups on technology, critical infrastructure resiliency, cybersecurity, privacy, workforce development, disaster communications, and security intelligence sharing for NASCIO, NGA, DHS, DOJ, United Nations ITU, and FBI’s InfraGard and Citizens Academy Programs.

Mr. Kishi is a Certified Government Financial Manager and Certified Computing Professional. He completed executive leadership and management programs at the Harvard University Kennedy School, Stanford University, Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, U.S. Department of Defense Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and FEMA Emergency Management Institute; and received his MBA and BA in Communications from the University of Hawaii.