Leia Manchanda

Serve as a senior security executive from Oracle Cloud, interacting with customers CISOs, account teams, and the security industry to enable and innovative cloud security engagements, standardize and accelerate adoption of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and help clients transform and mature their programs to meet recommended frameworks and regulations.

Serving as a member of the executive team, whose key objective is to transform the information security and technology program across people, processes and technologies to promote a high-performing, risk-based, customer centric culture and cross-functional collaboration around key organizational and cyber risk objectives as the company migrates from startup to IPO and positions themselves for growth in the financial sector.

Lead the development and implementation of the global enterprise Information Security & Privacy Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Continuity Management strategies designed focused on program alignment to key business objectives, foster the health of the information security environment globally, and enable informed decision making by leadership at Board that resulted in a +50% decrease in security risk. Served as a member of the Pandemic Leadership Council to ensure continuity related to people and systems, and a Diversity Equity & Inclusion advocate fostering awareness around the power diverse perspectives bring to innovation.

Established an enterprise Control Assurance program strategy including associated governance, risk management, education, and testing initiatives to strengthen the first line ecosystem, and foster an environment of continuous improvement and optimization across all three lines of defense, resulting in a 78% increase in control testing and the elimination of 63% of redundant 3 LOD activates in the first year.

Governed relationships with US regulators including the OCC, FRB, FINRA, CFPB, SEC, and NY DFS via quarterly supervisory conversations with senior C-level executives across Technology, Security & Operations, exam management and facilitation, and semiannual regulatory visits to non-US offices to minimize exposure and matters requiring attention (MRAs). Partnered closely with senior executives, particularly the Global CISO, CIO, CDPO, and CTOO, to develop strategies and storylines that showcased advancements in the organization’s information security, technology, and data privacy and governance capabilities, procured board buy-in, and delivered consistent content to regulators, significantly reducing matters requiring attention (MRAs) and diverting +$26M back into digital transformation, and aligning risk management strategies to holistic solutions.

Developed and directed Enterprise Information Security & Technology Risk Monitoring team under the direction of the CISO to provide internal risk consultation, optimize processes and controls, and align program performance to organizational risk through automation and continuous process monitoring to improved reporting to senior technology stakeholders, ensure holistic remediation strategies, and resulted in a 86% increase in remediation rate related to opportunities for improvement prior to regulatory review.

Led the Office of the CIO chartered to shape the design of the organization’s next-gen global technology services and operating model across infrastructure and development to ensure alignment with business objectives Established the organizations global Information Risk Management Program (IRMP) align the organizations security to ISO 27001:2013, NIST CSF and GDPR, which served as the framework for all organizational risk management activities, enabling audit efficiency, education and guidance of the organization compliance obligations and best practices in risk management, security, and internal controls. Led the transformation with IBM as a strategic provider of IT services across 300 operating companies, ensuring key executive stakeholder alignment to the strategic vision of the CIO, and the reduction of IT costs by 82%.

Lead a cross functional team of 100+ to deploy a $120M CRM application globally with specific focus on efficiency in the Treasure and Security Services (T&SS) business line, client management, compliance with GLB and Asian governance regulations, and relationship management stakeholders.

Served as a business analyst, to gather requirements from business and technology stakeholders related to the deployment of SAP workflows, across people, process and technology globally centralizing financial and procurement date across the enterprise.