Stefan Richards

About Stefan Richards

A mission-driven, seasoned security executive with over 20 years of experience and a passion for getting things done. Stefan currently serves as CISO of CorVel (CRVL), where he oversees security and privacy policy, governance and operations. In the past, Stefan served in executive security leadership roles as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) at large and small organizations in both the private and public sector. As the CISO for the State of Oregon, Stefan defined and led transition to a new enterprise security model, building a central security organization from 5 to 60, deploying a number of highly-effective enterprise security programs, establishing security accountability through enterprise metrics and driving passage of major state security legislation. Prior to working in operations, Stefan shipped security products at Microsoft and Intel, led solutions architecture and development at a security startup and pioneered the enterprise security incident response team (PSIRT) and security product development lifecycle (SDL) at Intel. Stefan has a consistent track record of going after the tough challenges others turn away from and overcoming those challenges with motivating vision, careful strategy, and adaptive execution. Stefan is sought out for his broad security knowledge and experience, high emotional intelligence, effective authentic communication, empathetic team leadership and consistent delivery on aggressive goals.

Experience

1. Chief Information Security Officer

   CorVel Corporation

   Jan 2019 — Present · Portland, OR, US

Education

• Oregon State University

  BS, Computer Science

• University of Washington

  MBA, Technology Management