Manav Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Summit, NJ, US

New York, NY, US

• Emerging Risk
• Risk Monitoring
• Risk Enablers
• Risk Intelligence and Analytics
• SNOW IRM Governance

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Head of the innovation and CoE group responsible to elevating risk management capabilities in the US firm.

New York, NY, US

• Enable 2nd line oversight across the federated IT universe in the US firm to assess 1st lines compliance with the ERM and technology risk framework. Drive enforcement of 2nd line policies and standards across the IT.
• Direct the risk oversight team for the execution of broad-scope and targeted risk assessments in, information security, software and system lifecycle, system architecture, IT operations, IT service management, program.
• Manage relationships with C-level stakeholders to drive risk decision making – risk reduction and monitoring when key metrics (KRIs, KPIs) thresholds are breached. Includes escalations to the 1st and 2nd line.
• 2nd line program owner responsible for developing and driving the technology risk strategy and governance, the technology risk taxonomy, risk framework and thresholds. Includes research and adoption of leading risk.
• Bowtie analysis, scenario development and risk contagion;
• Risk quantification; and

New York, NY, US

GB

• Director in the Cyber Security and IT Risk Management advisory practice responsible for the development and operationalization of 1st and 2nd lines of defense for Financial Services clients.
• Lead director with primary responsibility for the establishment of the 1st line of defense of an overall IT Risk Management program at a global financial organization.
• Lead project manager for the development of a business case relating to the complete re-haul of a Fortune 100 insurance organization’s security firewall global infrastructure.

New York, New York, US

• Operational lead of Citi’s global IT Risk exception management program. Team size: 8
• Instituted operational process improvements resulting in reduced processing (from12 days to 2 days).
• Analyzed areas of risk congregation and exposure – with appropriate escalation to risk owners.
• Vastly improved operational reporting to the global risk and control community, senior management and risk committees.

London, GB

• Security strategy and architecture for core security solutions deployed at HSBC globally - One Time Passwords (OTP), CAPTCHA, Entitlements, and Data Privacy.
• Architect for HSBC’s conceptual IAM program leading to the establishment of the first Global IAM program with 5 sub-streams with a multi-year budget.
• Lead security architect for the OneHSBC Entitlements program and member of an IT and Business workstream for the HSBC global Role and Entitlement definitions.
• Defined the strategy for the inclusion of a 200-person offshore team and their restructuring within the group.
• Executed the security strategy of a 200-person offshore team Manager of the global operations and support of the HSBC's One-Time Passwords (tokens) in the UK and India – business ordering, loading, initializing, vendor.
• Drove establishment of the Information Classification policy as the first successful attempt made by HSBC in Data Security leading to a complete shift in the way information is viewed and handled within HSBC's Software.

London, GB

• Managed multiple teams of 2-10 consultants at client locations in Identity and Access Management (IAM) projects. Lead security architect and designer for IAM projects while driving the E&Y methodology for IAM.
• Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company: - Led a team of 15 senior client stakeholders in the development and acceptance of their IAM architecture. - Developed a security operating model for the office of the CISO that led.
• Global telecommunications Company: - Defined enterprise roles to enable streamlined staff on-boarding/off-boarding process to support SOX objectives. - Led a team of 5 to design, develop and deploy tools and processes.

• Java development for PortalPass – the flagship product that enabled SSO between different authentication products:
• Designed and developed the first versions of PortalPass.
• Streamlined the internal development processes in the company by establishing a strict SDLC code.
• Analyzed multiple client architectures and defined integration patterns to integrate with PortalPass.
• Analyzed the SSO environment of a financial client to streamline operations.

New York, New York, US

• Member of the development team of the organization’s Authorization product – CitiSAFE (in a UNIX/C environment). Lead for the process improvements to apply for SEI CMM Level 5.
• Designed the Sybase database replication for the application – migrating it from a centralized deployment to a globally distributed architecture.
• Streamlined the processes within the development team to achieve SEI CMM Level 5 rating – the 5th organization to achieve it at the time.

B.Sc, Maths

Master Of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science