January 7, 2021
Raj Iyer, PhD Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Reform in the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Photo: api.army.mil
Raj Iyer, PhD, formerly with DeLoitte, took over as Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Reform in the Office of the Secretary of the United States Army, a newly created position that he was the first to occupy this past November 2020.
Iyer, who is from Arlington, Virginia, became the first Indian-American to hold such a high position heading a multibillion dollar initiative and a 15,000-person global IT organization, Iyer said on Linkedin announcing his departure from Deloitte where he was the managing director of Government and Public Services for nearly six years.