Vivek Kumar is a senior cyber security professional with over 15 years’ experience in the financial industry as well as 25+ years in IT and security Operations. He has an excellent history in managing global teams in Cyber Security engineering and security operations, IT Operations, production support, virtualization, and asset optimization and risk management & improvement. Mr. Kumar is well respected for spotting once-overlooked opportunities to increase security posture of the firm, operational efficiencies and bottom-line organizational cost savings. Vivek is also lauded for promoting alternative thinking and championing new perspectives that departs from the status quo. Throughout his career, Vivek has been highly regarded as a consensus builder to find common ground.

Vivek is also an accomplished public speaker and advisor. His most recent engagements include being a featured speaker at the FS-ISAC US conference on Security related topics for all FS-ISAC members, speaking at the Gartner Evanta CIO summit, and participating as a member of the governing body for Gartner Evanta NJ/NY.