Aaron J. Goodwin is the CISO for B Riley Financial, based in Los Angeles. B Riley Financial has over 1200 employees across 40 locations in the country that serve thousands of financial customers daily. Mr. Goodwin has over 15 years of experience in the Information Technology and Information Security fields and focuses on mentoring others in their desire to grow professionally within IT and business. Throughout his career with B Riley Financial, he has been in almost all job rolls within the IT Department, which has enabled him to be very nimble in all areas of technology. Today, Mr. Goodwin focuses on alignment with the business to forecast strategic roadmaps for their growth and resilience while delivering solid technology solutions. He graduated from ITT Technical Institute with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Security. In Mr. Goodwin’s spare time, he enjoys doing things with his photography business and enjoying the outdoors.