Zaki Abbas is a Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Brookfield Asset Management in Toronto, Canada. In 2017 Zaki joined Brookfield which is a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $725 billion of assets under management across real estate, infrastructure, renewable power, private equity, credit and insurance solutions and has over 15+ years in the Information Security field. Before joining Brookfield, Zaki was the Assistant Vice President of Information Security at Economical Insurance. Previous, to Economical, Zaki worked as an Information Security Officer at Great-West Life for over 8 years and an Information Security Advocate at IBM for 10 years. Zaki holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from York University.