Rajesh Thapar

Speaker Bio

Rajesh Thapar is President and Chief Information Security Officer at YES Bank. He has more than 20 years of Information Technology and Security experience primarily in Banking and Financial sector with assignments in assessing and implementing Information Security tools and practices; Risk Management including IT Risk Governance and Technology Compliance.

Prior to YES Bank, he was with IBM India Pvt Ltd. as Information Security and Risk Management Lead, delivering IT security and Risk Management functions across multiple strategic outsourcing clients. He has also worked with Citigroup Global Services (now TCS eServe) and IDBI Bank.

Rajesh is B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) from NIT, Jalandhar and M. Tech, with specialization in Banking Technology and Information Security from IDRBT, affiliated to University of Hyderabad.