A dynamic, results-driven and accomplished professional with progressive experience of over 3 decades in Information Security, IT & Leadership roles in development and delivery of strategy, framework, operations and assurance of information security, risk, governance & compliance program, IT infrastructure and applications security in Telecom, ITES/BPO, Software, ISP, BFSI, and Education domains with multi-geographical and regulatory exposure.A Post Graduate Honors Diploma in Systems Management,& Masters in Science with professional certifications like CISA, CISM, 6Sigma GB, & CNEPrestigious Awards:DSCI (Data Security Council of India) Security Leader of the Year Award – For two years 2011 & 2013.Featured in CISO Power List (Top 15 CISOs in India) 2012Top 100 CISO Award for three consecutive years - 2011, 2012 & 2013Key Areas of Skills:- Implementing & Managing Information Security Policy, Risk Governance & Compliance program in large global enterprises with diversified industry and geographies exposure- Driving assurance programs in line with business, customer and complex industry domain and regulations compliance requirements & security standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, EU-Directive- Strong stature as a change catalyst to deliver security and compliance to business strategic/transformational initiatives like, SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud), Virtualization- Leading security & compliance risk assessments for large Merger &Acquisitions, driving integration for standardization of security policies & controls- Implementing global security operations centre (SOC) & Security Metrics for monitoring security compliance for large scale and complex IT infrastructure - Design, implementation and operations of large scale Networking, & Systems infrastructure in BFSI and ISP sector- Application Security as part of SDLC- 6 Sigma and Lean to instil process rigor in operations & service delivery- Defining and managing information security budget independently;