Peter Cavicchia is an EVP and Chief Technology Officer at Fiserv, one of the world's leading payments and financial technology providers. As an Executive Leadership team member making critical decisions for a Fortune 100 company, his responsibilities span:
Leading the global technology infrastructure organization responsible for designing, delivering, optimizing, and maintaining the technology environments that enable Fiserv's applications and product portfolios. This infrastructure includes physical data centers around the world to large scale distributed, virtualized and cloud deployed technology.
ABOUT
During his time at Fiserv and previous roles in payments, banking, and government, Cavicchia has held various top positions within the fields of physical and cyber security, investigations, information technology risk, and various positions in fraud management across product portfolios in merchant, credit, debt, and prepaid payment. In addition, he has managed and led company infrastructure, administration and operations in global real estate, facilities management, and strategic sourcing. This includes the management of multi-billion dollar budgets and spending strategies with outside partners across tech and other sectors.
Cavicchia, who joined First Data in 2013 prior to its combination with Fiserv, most recently served as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer.
At First Data, he led the company's information security and fraud control functions during the company's turnaround and $2.65 billion initial public offering in 2015. Later, as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, corporate real estate and strategic sourcing were added to his responsibilities. Following Fiserv's acquisition of First Data in 2019, he worked to deliver synergies across his areas of responsibility before being named Chief Technology Officer in June 2021. Before joining First Data, Cavicchia served in various leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. across the firm's anti-fraud, cybersecurity, and information technology risk functions.
Secret Service
Prior to joining the financial services industry, Cavicchia served nearly seven years with the United States Secret Service, where he led complex criminal investigations and became an expert in fraud, computer forensics, and cybercrime as one of the founders of the agency's national cybercrime task force initiative designed to facilitate collaboration between government and private sector experts. In 2001, he received the Secret Service's highest honor, the Medal of Valor, for courageous actions at the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Early Career
Mr. Cavicchia began his career in 1996 as an investigative agent in the Morris Country, N.J. Prosecutor’s Office, where he served in the High Tech Unit of the Major Crimes division. He specialized in recovering evidence from computers and other electronic devices. He holds a BA in Psychology from Seton Hall University.
Thought Leadership
Mr. Cavicchia participated in the panel discussion, “Keeping Ahead of the Threat” —addressing key threat areas and the security infrastructure surrounding them — at The 2nd annual Summit on Security, presented by Fiserv, November 12-13, 2019 at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
He was interviewed by PYMNTS that same month in the article, Kicking Fraudsters Out Of Online Games. In it, he called for the same layers of defense in gaming that are being used to stop fraud in well-known e-commerce payment channels like trusted devices, step-up authentication and consumer alerting.
Mr. Cavicchia blogs about trends and best practices in cyber security and IT leadership, focusing on topics of interest to CIOs, CTOs, and other IT professionals, as well as anyone concerned with the security of their data.