Ghalib Kassam currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Chief Information Security Officer at Los Angeles Times, which owns and operates Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Studios, and their community and lifestyle publications in Southern California. He leads a high-performing team that focuses on aligning the core mission of journalism with business transformation and technology strategies, optimizing operational service performance through continuous improvement initiatives.

Kassam has over twenty-five years of experience delivering Information Technology solutions and trusted management consulting advice to clients in the aerospace and defense, broadcasting, healthcare, high-tech, insurance, paper products, publishing, retail, transportation, and telecommunications industries. Ghalib has designed, implemented, and managed effective worldwide IT solutions, leveraging both on- and off-shore knowledge teams to drive metric-based business outcomes.

In addition to serving as Board Director and Treasurer for HTLA, Kassam serves as a Board Member on Innovate@UCLA board, Governing Board Member on Evanta Southern California CIO and CISO Community boards, and Board Member on ISACA-LA board. Kassam holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a BS in Information Systems from Grand Valley State University.