Co-Founder & Practice Head (Infosec)

  • Master’s Degree – BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore University (1989)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), ISACA – USA (2004)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ISACA (2007)
  • Certified Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), ISACA (2009)
  • IRCA Registered Lead Auditor – ISO27001
  • Lead Auditor – ISO27701
  • Certified Auditor – ISO 20000-1
  • Certified Auditor – ISO 9001:2015
  • Certified Lead Auditor – ISO 22301
  • HIPPA & HITECH Lead Assessor Certified
  • Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer (CPISI)
  • Certified Implementer of Personal Data Protection & GDPR
  • XLRI, Jamshedpur – Executive Management (2018)

He is involved in implementing Information Security & Privacy Protection for multiple organizations in India. As an external resource, he has Audited and certified over 40 organizations in multiple countries on ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 20000, ISO 22301.

Over 3+ decades of deep understanding and expertise in driving Information Technology, Information Security & Compliance for large and small organizations. He is a subject matter expert in ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, IT Services Management, Digital Privacy Data Protection, Business Continuity.

He currently provides organizations in India and abroad implement Information Security and established sound and robust information security frameworks for them, establish teams and get organizations certified on International Standards like ISO 27001, GDPR, DPDP, HIPAA, PCI DSS

His core competencies come from his leadership positions with MNCs, which includes 8 years as the Head of Information Security (CISO) for the World’s largest retail franchisee company ‘MH Alshaya’ Kuwait (65000 staff, 4500 retail stores and US$ 6 billion in topline)

HIS PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Director : ISACA Cochin Chapter
  • Director : Rotary Club of Kalamassery, Cochin 
  • Life Member : Indian Society For Technical Education
  • Alumnus of BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore 
  • Managing Committee Member of Computer Society of India, Cochin
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
  • He is recipent of the CIO award 2018 in Doha, Qatar for his work on Digital Transformation at Galfar AlMisnad Engineering, Doha, Qatar.

  • Winner of UAE Emirates Award for highest score in CISM exam in Middle East, conducted by ISACA USA, 2007  


  • Master’s Degree – BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore University (1989)
  • PGDBA, MS (BITS-Pilani)
  • Professional Certifications: PMP®, SDC™, SMC™, SPOC™, SAMC™, SCT™.
  • Authorized Training Instructor for PMP®

RKN has over 33 years of extensive experience in software services industry and of which about 12 years with managing and delivering large and high revenue software projects. He has proven experience in project and program management successfully delivering some of the key and strategic projects.

Having held Senior Project/Program management experience over the last three decades and since 2012, RKN has a successful career spanning over 13+ years as a Consultant/Coach/Trainer in areas of Project / Program management and trained and mentored hundreds of senior project management professionals and mentored them for implementation of industry best practices besides mentoring on “Ways of Working (WoW)” using Agile Methodologies. RKN has delivered several in house and Corporate Project Management trainings globally having trained Professionals in areas of Project Management and global Certifications such as

  • Project Management Professional – PMP®
  • Certified Associate in Project Management – CAPM®
  • Project scheduling using Microsoft Project
  • Scrum Master Certified (SMC™)
  • Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC™)
  • Agile for Managers
  • Agile for Product owners
  • Estimation and Planning – Agile Way
  • Agile for Executives at Mid and Senior Level Management Professionals.

Currently, he is a senior practicing trainer, mentor and coach helping organizations to transform their project teams and adopt realistic and effective project management practices. RKN is a “ScrumStudy Certified Trainer (SCT™)” from Scrum Study and a Certified PMP® Professional from PMI- USA since 2011. Recently, he is a certified PMI Authorized Training Partner Instructor. RKN has an average training rating of 4.8 on a scale of 1 to 5. His training sessions are popular for real time case studies, learning by role play, concepts driven through games and hands on activities using audio, video methods. He has a distinct of training and mentoring Japanese mid and senior level practicing project managers and has conducted over sixteen such batches exclusively for Japanese participants on project management & Agile trainings since the last eight years.