Manan Kakkar Email and Phone Number

Lead the Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk, PMO, M&A, Comms and Business Admin functions for the cyber team.Focused on risk-based strategy and prioritized execution of bodies of work that reduce cyber risk across Providence's 52 hospitals and 1000+ clinics.

Building patient trust

Work with CIOs and CISOs on IT and Cybersecurity due diligence, operating model design and transformations triggered by a transaction

Guide CISOs in designing and developing a cybersecurity organization, cyber operating models, develop cyber budget models through transactions such as divestitures / spin offs

At EY, I’m part of a growing team that is building a new competency and market offering on cybersecurity within EY's Transaction Advisory group - Developing go-to market strategies, identifying opportunities to grow the M&A cybersecurity offering, building and managing relationships - Managing vendor relations and onboarding vendors to support the new offering- Conducted 35+ buy-side cyber due diligence on targets across manufacturing, entertainment, eCommerce, financial services, healthcare, automotive, transportation, critical infrastructure, hospitality, Internet of Things (IoT) industries- Identify deferred one-time costs to be considered as net debt and recurring expenses to be considered as a reduction to EBITDA during deal negotiation- Developed sell-side cyber diligence framework for divestitures (full enterprise sale, carve-outs, and spin-offs)- Developed secure integration approach for acquisitions - Developed playbooks for cyber due diligence to identify material business risks and plan for secure post close integration - Conducted integration planning and developed cybersecurity framework for Fortune 500 technology manufacturer integrating 3 companies- Developed methodology to conduct open source threat intelligence gathering on companies based on publicly available information leveraged by hackers

At Deloitte, I worked with executives to develop strategies and roadmaps that enabled secure business operations and mitigated business risks arising due to technology. I worked with clients across industries - pharma manufacturer, hospitality, public sector etc. - Led development of risk management frameworks, organization risk assessments, and developed strategic remediation roadmaps - Worked closely with IT Risk Management leadership for a Fortune 500 pharma manufacturer to develop roadmap and strategy to secure IT operations through new internal processes, technologies, and external vendor support - Managed delivery of strategy and roadmap to the CTO at a Fortune 500 hospitality client to enable secure operations at corporate and restaurants locations - Led execution of comprehensive strategy to address IT risks for a system processing health benefits for a State Department of Health and Human Services - Responsible for maintaining and developing client relations for the service offering at. Led sales effort for more than $10 Million at the client - Developed risk remediation plans for multiple state Department of Health and Human Services information systems containing sensitive citizen information covred under federal regulations - Developed information risk governance policies and processes for managing system access, employee trainings for incident response, and disaster recovery - Developed go-to market strategy for new market offerings and led sessions for client outreach - Managed project for implementation and configuration of security controls across access management, continuous monitoring of the environment using SIEM, application vulnerability management

- Started a new online edition covering developments in the rapidly growing Indian IT industry and how they impact global market- Built audience and readership through marketing on social media - Published over 140 articles on topics such as product strategies and reviews, mergers and acquisitions and other developments across the enterprise and consumer IT industryhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/

Contributing as an editor covering latest consumer technology news.http://techie-buzz.com/author/manan

• Build test environment for clients based on specific requirements and help in migrating existing client databases• Documenting requirements to decommission more than 35 ancillary applications• Assist in preparing a plan to decommission ancillary applications and deploy new health records management suite

• Prepared solicitation draft to outline the organization’s charter and brainstorm ideas to promote the student organization• Designed and developed website for the organization using HTML, PHP and Wordpress

I covered events for the School of Information Studies (iSchool) for the school website and was a contributing author for the school's technology bloghttps://ischool.syr.edu/author/manankakkar/

• Working on the School of Information Studies alumni databases that use ACT! and Sungard BSR.• Reconcile alumni information of over 1000 alumni members between two databases • Conduct additional research on alumni status and activities

• Provided guidance to a class of 30 students in the Information Analysis of Systems Organization course• Evaluated and graded student assignments on creating Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams

Podcast co-host, handling post production. https://mstalkinblog.wordpress.com/

I started the channel and covered Microsoft for them alongwith writing my opinion on Microsoft. The archives can be seen here:thenextweb.com/microsoft/author/manan

• Led meetings with senior executives to understand business processes and flow of information within the organization• Designed and setup internal IT network comprising of eleven Windows and three Linux machines and remote access• Provided creative direction and reviewed promotional artwork, corporate presentations and demonstrations for the organization • Represented the company at five exhibitions and acted as liaison with advertising agencies