Priya is an accomplished Cybersecurity and Risk Management Executive with ~20 years of demonstrated experience also covering Digital Strategy, Enterprise Resiliency, Privacy, Data / AI Governance, Risk & Compliance. She is currently the CISO at Sheridan College, Ontario. Before moving to Canada, she spent close to a decade advising global Financial Services including some of the largest names in Wall Street & Technology organizations in New York & the Bay Area, respectively. She has a commendable history of both collaborating with Senior Leadership and the Boards of large global companies to formulate robust and agile cyber / risk strategies, and working with the operational teams to implement them, and building trusted relationships with stakeholders internally and externally.
As a recognized leader in the space, she is frequently invited to chair and speak at global summits / conferences including ISACA, ISC2, BlackHat among others – on sharing industry insights, perspective and spreading awareness on cyber risk and DEI topics. She has also authored global thought leadership publications.
Priya’s global exposure working in the US, UK, Canada, China, India for multinational organizations equips her with the quintessential skills of working in a multicultural environment by having a global mindset, working and communicating effectively with people from different backgrounds, being empathetic & adaptable.