Marcela Escobar-Alva

Marcela Escobar-Alava served throughout the Biden-Harris Administration, holding several senior-level positions including deputy director of White House Information Technology, special assistant to the president and chief of enterprise applications for the Office of Administration, and as deputy commissioner and chief information officer (CIO) for the Social Security Administration (SSA). Prior to her federal service, she has held several CIO positions in the private and non-profit sectors including Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and Monarch Companies. She is a transformational CIO/CDO/CTO and has built and led teams in large, global and complex organizations across every aspect of technology. She has a BA from LMU and an MBA from USC.