Krishnan Chellakarai

Passionate, proven executive with over 30 years’ Information Technology experience in multi-national biopharmaceutical and life sciences environments. Proficient in global information security leadership, focused in the areas of digital resilience, intellectual property protection. Enterprise risk management, compliance, data privacy, and and a trusted partner as a strategic advisor and board member for early startups and non-profit organizations. He has business risk mindset and strategic approach working at executive levels and cross functionally across the organization to support strategic goals and plans. EXPERTISE / SKILLS * IT and Information Security knowledge – demonstrated deep understanding and service delivery in areas including, but not limited to, risk management, advanced cyber threat defense, identity and access management, compliance, data protection, mobility, 3rd-party oversight, platform, network, and application security. CISM certified. * Business Impact – exposure to all facets of worldwide pharmaceutical and healthcare business operations, including sales/marketing, research and development, manufacturing, supply chain logistics and external partnership and collaboration. * Recognized industry leader – 2019 Information Security Executive Nomination from T.E.N; regular speaker and expert panel participant at Evanta, CitiGroup, RSA, Gartner, NH-ISAC and other similar events * Stakeholder and Relationship Management – established trust with complex stakeholders, ranging from Board of Director level to technical development groups. Extensive presentation, awareness, communications and strategic influence experience. Established security customer boards with business process owners and end users. * Innovation & Continuous Improvement – Venture Capitalist, Early Adopter, Agile, Six Sigma certified: expert in system and process improvement * External networking – extensive information and threat intelligence sharing as an active member of multiple industry security forums, including DirectTrust, Healthcare CISO Group, Evanta and NH-ISAC * Global Team Development – inspirational leader, having developed motivated, geographically diverse, high-performance teams * Develop IT Security Strategy and Vision based on new innovative security technologies and trends with risk-based approach. Mentor and train others in information security. * Assess threats, risks, and vulnerabilities from emerging security issues. * Develop enterprise security policies, standards and guidelines for systems * Managed a technical team to deliver key IT solutions