Angela Rivera is a Market Leader and Cybersecurity Advisor at The Chartis Group with over 25 years of healthcare and technology experience. Ms. Rivera’s major focus over the past 20 years has been driving service portfolio development and growth related to clinical, financial and operational improvement initiatives enabled through information technology and process redesign. She has demonstrated success through a consultative, value-based trusted partner approach and exceeding service targets year after year. Ms. Rivera brings significant client relationship and team leadership skills with experience serving small to large healthcare organizations. She promotes accountability, teamwork and collaboration within and across the organization to ensure work is on target and meets all expectations at the highest level of client satisfaction. She is a major contributor of new solutions and services and facilitator of best practices for streamlining service delivery and operations.
Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Ms. Rivera served as Executive Vice President, Operations at CynergisTek, Inc., an information security, privacy and compliance consulting firm offering solutions that measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best practices. Prior to CynergisTek, Ms. Rivera spent 17 years at Computer Task Group, Inc., an international IT consulting firm where she served in several roles, most recently as Vice President of its Healthcare and Life Sciences division.
Ms. Rivera has a passion for service and has served on various boards and in other volunteer roles. She holds a Fellow Status with HIMSS and was the President of the Southern California HIMSS Chapter and served as Board Member and Annual Conference Chair for the San Diego Chapter of ACHE. Ms. Rivera serves as an advocate for the advancement of women in technology and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Women in Healthcare Information Technology (WHIT) and was named “Women in Healthcare IT to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2018 and 2019. She also serves as a Guardian Scholar Mentor supporting foster youth to achieve their educational and career goals.
Ms. Rivera received her MBA from Louisiana State University, Shreveport, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
