Venkatesh Subramaniam

Speaker Bio

Venkatesh is a seasoned information security professional with over twenty years of experience in IT and has worked in diverse areas of security in critical sectors like finance and telecom, and in Fortune 50 companies globally. He combines a strong technical and business management background in evaluating, developing and managing strategic solutions and securing critical infrastructure on a global scale. He has relocated back to India last year from the US.

In his current role of CISO of Idea & its subsidiaries, he is responsible and accountable for all aspects of Information Security that includes Security Strategy, Policy & Risk Governance, Security Engineering and Operations - right from evaluation of solutions to deployment and operations. He is also responsible for Business Continuity Management and Privacy.

Venkatesh has been a speaker/panelist in many events and won several awards for information security. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Boston University and an MBA from FMS Delhi.