Jose Arrieta is the former Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He oversaw $6.3B in IT investments, $800B in grants and $26B in Federal contracts in his last three years at HHS. He provided cyber security solutions for 174,000 people and a network that transacted with over 160 countries around the world. Jose led the creation and implementation of the largest public health surveillance capability in the United States during the pandemic and national supervised machine learning capability to help more accurately distribute testing supplies and predict pandemic “hot spots” across the United States.  He successfully defended the HHS network against multiple large scale nation state driven cyber-attacks. He led the first three implementations of blockchain technology in the public sector in the United States one of which was focused on reducing costs and speeding up procurement lifecycle. He led the creation of a public private key, distributed ledger infrastructure to establish digital identities for commercial, federal, state end points to aid the COVID 19 response effort. 

He created and taught the first blockchain course (blockchain and cryptos) at the Johns Hopkins University as well as entrepreneurial finance.  He founded small incubator called imagineeer when he left Government. imagineeer is an IT solutions company that currently is focused on developing foundational tools to enable metaverse solutions for sports and entertainment, mental health, hotel and lodging and sustainable energy market verticals. 

He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for a publicly traded company sustainable energy, healthcare, and technology company Dalrada Financial Corporation and leads the strategy and commercialization efforts for their green energy machines and digital twin, carbon credit platform. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Todaq USA a company backed by 9 years of research and development that is disrupting blockchain based crypto asset markets with portable platform and blockchain agnostic digital asset bearer technology. He currently sits on the board of publicly traded company and advises a few different startups.