A Cybersecurity and Data privacy professional, leader & strategist with over 18 years of rich & insightful global experience around Telecom, BFSI and consulting industries. A 'thought leader' acting as a conduit between the business and the technology devising a short- and long-term security and privacy roadmap to drive the strategy and compliances across the organization. Proven competence in identifying business and security needs based on geographic risks, regulators and clients demand, internal IT audits, business risk assessments, control-self assessments, and building a competent team to drive security needs across the ecosystem. Strong business as well as technological insight with the ability to design a holistic solution and execute a wide range of technology to cover the security in the domain of Datacenter, endpoint, network, cloud, application including Red and Blue teaming etc. to enhance firm’s security posture based on evolving threats and risk.Have facilitated information security and privacy governance through the implementation of a hierarchical governance program and led organizations in achieving ISO 27001, Business Continuity and Privacy Certifications. I have demonstrated excellence in capacity of project manager, Information Security specialist, Internal auditor and compliance officer for Legal & Regulatory, Certification ISO 31000, BS 25999, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ISO 9000.The nature of my responsibilities required a high degree of interaction at all levels of the organizations, from top management and the board level to the operating and ground level employees. Proven experience as strategist with expertise in managing information security programs and practices, business continuity and risk management with key focus on budget, quality, and time.