Tata AIA Life Insurance

Brought on board to spearhead enterprise transformation across channels, compliance, data, and applications. Modernized partner compensation for 80K+ agents, unified corporate systems, and lead India’s first IFRS 17 tech implementation. Elevated to shape AI and data strategy, consolidating six BI systems into a cloud-native platform powering real-time, regulation-ready business intelligence.

• Spearhead profitable growth initiatives across bancassurance, broking, and digital platforms at Tata AIA Life Insurance. • Enhance multi-channel distribution and strengthened partnerships to drive sustainable business growth. • Manage large onsite and remote teams, focusing on productivity and customer-centric expansion. • Pioneer new-age distribution models and digital enablement to support ecosystem-driven growth.

An executive role focused on protecting enterprise digital assets, preventing breaches and minimising downtime ensuring rapid recovery and continuous operations during Cyber Attacks or IT disruptions. Drive a “security-by-design” culture across IT, Operations, and product lines bridging proactive cybersecurity governance with disaster recovery and crisis management. Cybersecurity Strategy: Heading information security program, risk management, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ensuring enterprise cybersecurity strategies are aligned with business objectives and its reporting to the Board of Directors and Risk Committee on Risk posture and maturity. Cyber/Operational Resiliency and BCP: Maintaining resiliency and recovery plans/procedures so critical operations can continue or recover quickly during an incident. Building regional incident response playbooks, coordinating crisis communication, resilience and forensic capability running simulation/stress-testing exercises. Risk Management & Governance: Establish InfoSec governance frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, etc.). Integrate cybersecurity into the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), conduct risk assessments and maintain a Risk Register, validating controls, and articulating complex cyber risks for non-technical boards and stakeholders. Audit and Compliance: Driving compliance with global and regulatory frameworks- IRDAI, NIST, ISO 27001, Cert-In, GDPR, DPDP, CSCRF. Partner with Legal and Compliance teams on audits and external assessments. Security Engineering: Oversee secure architecture design across Cloud, Data Centers, and Applications. Drive initiatives like Zero Trust, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Encryption. Ensure third-party risk management and vendor security assurance. Awareness & Culture: Build a cyber-aware workforce through training and simulations. Champion security culture transformation across all levels.