Shailesh's CV
Shailesh Sachan
GCC LEADERSHIP | INFORMATION SECURITY | CYBERSECURITY & SECURITY OPERATIONS LEADER
Profile summary
Information security and technology leader with 20+ years of experience across global cybersecurity, security operations, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, infrastructure, cloud transformation and enterprise technology governance. Experienced in building scalable global security capabilities, standardising controls and operating models, strengthening executive risk visibility, and partnering with technology, risk and business leaders in complex regulated environments. Strong alignment to GCC leadership mandates spanning security operations, cyber risk and assurance, data protection, cloud security, IAM, security architecture, and workforce capability development.
Career highlights
Security Operations Leadership: Directed enterprise security operations and vulnerability management priorities while strengthening cyber governance, scalable service integration, and group-wide security resilience.
Global Infrastructure Management: Managed global cloud, branch, and data-centre services across 180+ branch data centers in 90 countries and three global data centres.
Vulnerability Remediation: Directed vulnerability, risk, and technical-debt remediation across 5,000+ desktops, maintaining vulnerable assets below 1% through coordinated assessment and remediation.
Cost Optimisation: Contributed to $1.7M in cost savings through technology and security optimisation and disciplined operating models.
Key skills
Professional experience
- Lead enterprise security operations and vulnerability-management priorities, strengthening cyber governance, scalable service integration and group-wide security resilience.
- Develop and execute security priorities spanning cloud security, AI security, control maturity, operational resilience, risk-based prioritisation and enterprise technology governance.
- Coordinate technology, risk, business and integration stakeholders across control assessments, remediation, assurance, audit readiness and security-service improvement.
- Support security integration for 18+ M&A entities through standardised controls, tooling, reporting, governance and accountability, reducing duplication and integration risk.
Defined security operations and threat intelligence strategy, steering global monitoring, incident response, and governance maturity across enterprise risk frameworks while providing executive reporting on posture, performance, and transformation.
- Contributed to 1.7M in Syngenta cost savings through technology and security optimisation and disciplined operating models.
- Established governance models connecting security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, and business-risk priorities.
- Directed strategic vendor partnerships to improve capability, accountability, and commercial value while strengthening audit readiness.
Shaped global infrastructure services delivery across cloud, branch, and data-centre environments spanning ninety countries and three global data centres. Steered cloud security, storage, continuity, Linux, Oracle, managed labs, SOX compliance, licensing, and lifecycle operations to maintain service availability.
- Directed 180+ branch data centres through service centralisation, standardisation, and governance.
- Coordinated cross-tower operations to improve scalability, operational control, and cost performance.
Steered end-to-end technology services and operational resilience for branch locations across the region. Acted as the primary escalation leader and technology single point of contact for infrastructure, applications, and third-party services. Directed disaster recovery, annual power-down procedures, and special-event transitions to strengthen service governance.
- Managed vulnerability, risk, and technical-debt remediation across 5,000+ desktops, maintaining vulnerable assets below 1% through coordinated assessment and remediation.
- Delivered resilient trade floor, market data, and IT service management support in a demanding financial services environment.
- Managed incidents, root cause investigations, vendor coordination, standard operating procedures, and customer communications across business critical trading and market data platforms.
- Maintained Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and backup systems to secure data integrity across operational environments.
- Configured firewalls and antivirus controls while overseeing service desk operations and network infrastructure.
- Managed day-to-day service desk operations, data-centre servers, local networks, and exchange connectivity to maintain system stability.
Education
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Languages
English
Hindi
Marathi
Gujarati