Firdaus Bhathena is currently the Chief Digital Officer of CVS Health, and was formerly the Chief Digital Officer of Aetna, prior to the acquisition of Aetna by CVS Health. He is now responsible for the combined company’s digital strategy, products, platforms, consumer engagement, and operations. CVS Health’s mission is to be the most consumer-centric health company in the world, and Firdaus and his team are focused on delivering the integrated market-leading digital experiences that will revolutionize health and well-being for consumers everywhere, enabling them to lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives. He also plays a leadership role in establishing and executing on key partnerships with leading technology and consumer product companies, and for analyzing the competitive environment to fine-tune the company’s digital strategy. Firdaus has extensive experience in technology entrepreneurship and delivering world-class enterprise and consumer software products at scale. He was the co-founder of venture-backed software startups that were acquired by Cisco Systems and Symantec, and went on to lead high-performance distributed software product organizations at both acquirers. He has nine patents in software and distributed systems to his name, and has worked on projects as diverse as data-center application management, secure electronic communication, electricity power grid optimization, and consumer photo-video management. Firdaus earned BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, where he was a Henry Ford II scholar for “exceptional potential for leadership in technology.” He also won the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition.