A prolific inventor and cyber security & digital identity business-enabler executive with an “art of possible” mindset who led global teams to secure world class organizations and held executive and executive and senior leadership positions at TIAA, American Express, Visa, PayPal and is credited with 99 patents.
Accomplishments
> Led digital transformation of security for American Express
> Designed creative business solutions with Amazon and other integrations
> Led cybersecurity of Visa Checkout, Google Pay, Apple Pay at Visa
> Pioneered security safeguards for PayPal
> Led identity transformation initiatives at PayPal and Amex
> Led securing hybrid cloud.
He is a regular speaker at esteemed conferences for Stanford University, Global Big Data Conference,
NFC forums, European Identity Conference, KNOW Identity Conference, Global Retail Conference in
Canada, IOT conference and others. Featured in Genius Journal, he helped pioneer blockchain in
Amex and filed patents on blockchain and DLTs.
He and his team worked on IOT security and payments and participated in several industry standard bodies like EMV,Global Platform, PCI-DSS, FIDO, etc.
He is an advisory board director for select security startups and helps venture capitalists evaluate
companies.
He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, California and Bachelor of Engineering in Computer
Science from VNIT, Nagpur, India.
He is credited with 95+ patents issued and pending and has received
awards for innovation and leadership.
