Tahjar Roamartinez

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ABOUT TAHJAR ROAMARTINEZ

Tahjar has chaired multiple boards and brings deep governance, risk, and compliance perspective to companies in highly regulated industries. She serves on multiple local and national boards and committees, including The Private Directors Association® of Austin and the Board of Trustees for The National University System, a role in which she helps oversee operational budget over $1.4B, and governance. She is an entrepreneur driving the future of cybersecurity strategy for global public and private organizations. She is the CEO, President, and Founder of Cyber Warfighters Group, a global cybersecurity consultancy, where she leads multibillion-dollar projects that ensure the sustained stability, security, and success of both the United States government and F100 clients. Tahjar founded Cyber Warfighters Group after serving as an Officer for over 22 years in the U.S. Army, where she developed and led innovative, mission-critical cybersecurity and technology strategies in the United States, Germany, Iraq, Kuwait, and South Korea. Tahjar excels in leading large-scale cybersecurity projects in high-pressure environments. At Cyber Warfighters, she has managed a $8B procurement oversight and governance project affecting 1.4MM customers. Consulted as a trusted agent for processes, procedures, and reports for Army systems, Tahjar developed standards for connecting the communications of 42 military facilities in 36 states, including the Pentagon. As Chief Information System Analyst, she applied stakeholder security requirements for five Fortune 500 companies for over $2B in systems. Tahjar mitigates risk through proactive compliance, governance, and procurement oversight. She also has deep expertise in driving the prevention, detection, containment, and correction of information security breaches. At Cyber Warfighters Group, she delivers compliance for startups and enterprises, and leads teams in auditing internal controls to validate the business impact of security strategy. To ensure reliable, uninterrupted, secure communications and transactions, Tahjar also helps organizations develop long-term strategic roadmaps and solutions. This extends to contingency planning, which she has managed multiple times for the Army. As Deputy Branch Chief, she monitored annual contingency plan testing and led Plan of Action and Milestones (POA & M) management. In Kuwait and Iraq, Tahjar developed contingency planning policy and identified preventive controls and developed recovery strategies.