(AI Strategy, AI governance, Enterprise Cybersecurity, Data Security, Product evaluations, Emerging technologies, Architecture reviews, Risk management, Incident
response, Assurance, Audit, Data security, Privacy, Governance, IT Risk, IT Controls, regulatory & Legal compliance reporting).
• Led the development of an enterprise AI security strategy supporting over 500+ GenAI use cases across SBD, establishing responsible AI governance, RACM
controls, assurance frameworks, and a comprehensive AI security tooling and architecture roadmap—resulting in a 28% increase in executive visibility into AI
risk posture.
• Architected scalable AI-enabled security services, securing the full AI lifecycle (data, models, pipelines, tooling) against adversarial threats including data
poisoning and prompt injection, through Agentic guardrails and a cyber blueprint—achieving 30% reduction in threat exposure.
• Drove cross-functional AI integration and automation across operations, partnering with privacy, legal, procurement, data science, and data lakes teams—
accelerating secure AI deployment timelines by 35% and enhancing platform operational maturity.
• Partnered with business and IT to embed secure-by-design principles based on NIST guidelines, ensuring compliance and enhanced cybersecurity maturity by
60%.
• Spearheaded Vulnerability management with robust stakeholder management to reduce aging by over 800+ days and 50% reduction in Critical vulnerabilities
within a year.
• Designed & Led Cyber governance foundation framework for Gen AI services, Agentic AI and Data lakes across the organisation.
• Led the initiative to reduce the technical debt due to legacy and local applications and saved $3.6 M USD in FY creating significant business impact.
• Curated first time a regional level risk registers for South Asia, increasing risk visibility to risk board & senior stakeholders.
• Orchestrated a successful change management initiative, deploying two new tools, impacting 25, 000+ employees and improving operational resilience with
layered security controls across 32 factories.
• Partnered closely with technology teams to influence assurance KPIs based on fresh performance metrics derived from innovative tools; this initiative improved
the assessment process efficiency by 58% across security operations.
• Conducted investigations with DPO, privacy, legal and engineering teams for digital frauds & Cyber incidents.
• Collaborated with C-Level, BISO, CIO & CISO to deploy state-of-the-art threat detection systems; this initiative achieved a 35% faster average response time to
incidents while enhancing overall security posture across South Asia in matrixed environment.
• Drove cyber cultural transformation in South Asia, reducing incidents by 14% and increasing awareness by 23%, aligning with security strategy and
transformation.
• Recognised 04 times by CISO as Security champion for innovative security measures resulting in increased resilience & upgraded security posture.
- Company industry:
- FMCG