Vikram Sathish Asokan

Cybersecurity executive with 15+ years of leadership driving cybersecurity strategy, risk governance, and data protection across multinational financial services, consulting, and technology environments. Proven record of shaping cyber programs aligned with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, TRM, GDPR, and regional regulations across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. Adept at partnering with CEOs, CIOs, CROs, and Boards to quantify cyber risk, secure multi-million–dollar security investments, and prioritize resilience initiatives across people, process, and technology.

Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams, maturing security controls across cloud and hybrid platforms, managing complex threat exposure, and strengthening organizational resilience through incident readiness, third-party cyber oversight, data protection, and business-aligned cybersecurity transformation.

• Secured multi-million–dollar cybersecurity investments by building ROI-driven business cases for ISO/NIST control maturity uplift, GDPR compliance, SIEM expansion and endpoint protection modernization across multi-region environments.
• Strengthened cyber resilience by reducing audit findings by ~30–40% and improving control maturity by ~25–35% across access control, vendor security, and data protection domains.
• Reduced vendor and third-party cyber risk exposure by ~20–30% through structured due diligence, contractual security control expectations, and continuous MSP/MSSP performance monitoring.
• Lowered phishing susceptibility and incident recurrence by ~15–25% via global cyber awareness campaigns, simulated phishing exercises, and endpoint hardening across hybrid and multi-cloud estates.
• Matured incident readiness by designing and facilitating executive-level crisis tabletop exercises, strengthening escalation criteria, communication playbooks, and cross-regional response coordination.
• Enabled secure digital transformation by partnering with CIO/CTO functions to embed DevSecOps guardrails, data protection controls and security architecture checkpoints across cloud migration and platform modernization programs.
• Improved board transparency and decision-making with risk quantification models and KPI dashboards, enabling informed prioritization and funding of cyber initiatives.
• Lead enterprise-wide cybersecurity and IT risk governance across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, establishing a strategic roadmap aligned to business and regulatory needs.
• Conduct NIST CSF and ISO 27001 maturity assessments and drive company-wide control uplift, funding prioritization, and implementation accountability.
• Direct vulnerability and threat exposure management through continuous risk monitoring, remediation tracking, and penetration testing oversight.
• Advise executive leadership and audit committees on cyber posture, investment requirements, and resilience improvement priorities.
• Own organizational data protection and privacy programs (GDPR, PDPO), including policy design, control execution, and assurance testing.
• Build crisis readiness by designing and running executive-level tabletop simulations, incident escalation playbooks, and recovery coordination.

KEY METRICS & KPIs

• ↓ ~30–40% reduction in audit findings
• ↑ ~25–35% improvement in security control maturity
• ↓ ~20–30% reduction in vendor security risk exposure
• ↓ ~15–25% reduction in phishing susceptibility and incident recurrence
• Influenced ~USD $500K–$1M in cybersecurity investments (SIEM, EDR/XDR, compliance automation)
• Led 16–25 cross-functional resources across IT, security, risk, compliance, and operations

Professional Experience

1. Head of IT Risk, Cybersecurity & Governance | Bergworx |Feb 2023 – Present | Hong Kong Asia
2. Senior Consultant | Why Innovation! (Client: Leading Insurance & Bank) |Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Hong Kong
3. Project Manager – Technology Risk Transformation | Intelizest Consulting Pvt. Ltd (Client: Oportun Inc) Nov 2019 – Sep 2021 | India / USA
4. Head – Project Management & IT Governance | Infocom IT (HK) Ltd | Dec 2011 – Nov 2019 | Hong Kong
5. Director – Consulting | Tri Inpharmex Services Pvt. Ltd | Apr 2007 – Oct 2011 | India

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) – International Business | Annamalai University, India
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) – Chemistry | Bishop Heber College (Bharathidasan University), India
• ISO 27001: 2022 Information Security Management Systems Certified Lead Auditor | TÜV NORD CERT
• Advanced Risk Management, Security Controls & Monitoring | Packt
• Cybersecurity Foundations for Risk Management | Kennesaw State University
• The GRC Approach to Managing Cybersecurity | Kennesaw State University
• Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework | Infosec
• Foundations of NIST Cybersecurity Frameworks | Packt
• NIST CSF | Infosec
• NIST DoD RMF | Infosec
• Risk Assessment and Management in Cybersecurity | Board Infinity 
• Risk Management for Cybersecurity and IT Managers | Packt
• GDPR Compliance: Essential Training |
• Certified Data Protection Officer (GDPR & DPDPA)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
• ICAgile Certified Professional – Enterprise Transformation (ICP-ENT)
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I & II)
• EXIN Agile Scrum Master (ASM)