Ashwin Ram is a senior cyber security thought leader within the Office of the CTO. He brings a rare combination of CISO consulting experience and deep technical knowledge to become a sought after trusted advisor to enterprises, startups and industry collectives. He is able to apply technical threats into appropriate business contexts to determine overall risk to organisations. His ability to "talk tech" one minute and then talk "business" at executive level the next, has stood him in good stead. Ashwin has deep security capability in cloud, threat intelligence, network, endpoint as well as mobile and IoT.

As a passionate individual, he readily take up new challenges and deliver results. He is a regular keynote speaker at global cyber security events, sharing real-world stories and security research to demonstrate the critical importance of striving for cyber resilience.

Ashwin is also a winner of the fiercely competitive ‘Cyber Leadership Program (2020)’ and the ‘Cyber Strategy and Transformation Program (2021)’ from the prestigious Cyber Leadership Institutes.