Ken Hoyme
Boston Scientific Director, Product and Engineering Systems Security
Mr. Hoyme has 35 years’ experience in the design of regulated safety-critical secure
systems. Recently returning to Boston Scientific, he works with internal and external
stakeholders to drive and improve processes and practices for pre- and post-market
cybersecurity risk management across the company’s products and services. Hoyme is
past co-chair of AAMI’s Device Security Working Group and a member of AAMI’s
BI&T Editorial Board.
Mr. Hoyme spent 3.5 years at Adventium Labs, performing government funded research
on the intersection of safety and security for cyber-physical systems. Prior to joining
Adventium Labs, Mr. Hoyme was a Senior Fellow at Boston Scientific where he was the
systems lead for the development of the LATITUDE Remote Patient Management
system.
Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Ken spent 18 years at Honeywell’s Corporate Research
lab, where he was a Senior Fellow in their real-time computer systems group. He was
awarded the H.W. Sweatt Award, Honeywell’s highest technical recognition for his work
on the Boeing 777.
Ken has been granted 40 US and 9 International patents. He is a member of IEEE and
INCOSE. He received the Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Minnesota.