A graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Paul Suarez served his entire 27-year Air Force career in the fields of cybersecurity and information technology. After his military retirement from the Air Force at the rank of colonel, he worked in business development for Netwitness, RSA Security and Avaya in the Washington, DC area then as security engineering director for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas prior to becoming the CISO for Walmart International.  He joined Casey’s, the country’s 3^rd largest convenience store chain, in March 2021 as their very first CISO and resides in Ankeny, Iowa.