Balaji Venketeshwar
Executive Director - Cybersecurity Engineering, PwC
Venketeshwar is a cyber risk management business executive and a passionate cybersecurity researcher with more than 20 years of experience. Currently, he serves as director of special technical operations on a confidential project. Most recently, he has worked as executive director- cybersecurity for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and worked on India's largest cyber defense project as key architect & designer. Venketeshwar has filed two global patents and a 'trade secret' in information security domain in last six years. He has also worked for State Bank of India, Wipro as head of risk management & compliance, Bank of America as VP (global information security) for Global Delivery Center & CISO (India) and Secure Matrix. In his current profile, he leads a team of super specialists in cyber security to evangelize cybersecurity education in India's engineering institutions across country and help create a million cyber army for India in next five years.