Management

Sukumar Haldar

Sukumar Haldar has over 20 years of experience in project consulting in capital markets with leading financial firms such as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Nomura, Pershing, Och-Ziff Capital, Deutsche Bank and MUFG. He provides C-level advice for technology strategy and policy formulation. He is an entrepreneurial executive with notable successes in developing and launching multi-million dollar products in dynamic financial markets. He assumes mission critical roles with authority and responsibility. Ensuring quality and timely execution, bringing to bear the latest management methodologies, such as agile development methods to information technology initiatives.

An example of one of his leading initiatives was the creation of AutoLoan for a premier bank that increased the revenue by 45% in the securities lending group. An additional example is his pioneering development of a compliance monitor that saved approximately 4.5 million dollars annually for a leading hedge fund.

He has led many back-to-back project implementations including solution architecture and infrastructure reengineering with built in regulatory compliance and risk management. He has Front to back management consulting expertise ranging from Product initiation, Design, Market penetration, Financing, Supply chain management, Operational procedures, Accounting, Internal audit to Regulatory compliance. He is the co-author of the paper “Combined Impact of Outsourcing and Hard Times on BPO Risk and Security” with C. Warren Axelrod (US Cyber consequence Unit during Clinton administration). The paper was prepared for the Indo-US International Conference & Workshop on Information Security, Cyber Crime & Cyber Forensics. This paper was also published as a chapter in the book Cyber Security, Cyber Crime & Cyber Forensics: Applications and Perspectives, IGI-Global (2010).

He has worked with senior executives and stakeholders, auditors, clients, in-house and offshore software development groups, regulatory agencies and market data vendors in the U.S. and other countries. He has a particularly strong grasp of business practices, cultural diversity of India and has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors in that country. Some of these companies are Forbes-Forbes & Campbell, Central Railways, BARC, Larson & Toubro, Siemens-India, Bajaj Electricals, Mukund Iron & Best & Compton.

He received the CEO Award for Leadership & Service Excellence at Pershing-DLJ and Chairman’s Award for Meritorious Services at Forbes-Forbes & Campbell (Tata-Sons -India). He has Postgraduate degrees in Technology management from Columbia University and has received a Hofstra University certification for Project Management.

C. Warren Axelrod, Ph.D.

C. Warren Axelrod is the Research Director for Financial Services with the US Cyber Consequences Unit. Previously, he was the Business Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for US Trust. Warren was a founding member of the FS/ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) and represented financial services cyber security interests in the National Information Center in Washington, DC during the Y2K date rollover. He testified before Congress in 2001 on cyber security.

Warren was honored with the prestigious Information Security Executive Luminary Leadership Award, in 2007, and received Computerworld Premier 100 and Computerworld Best in Class awards in 2003. He won the 2009 Michael P. Cangemi Best Book/Best Article Award for his article on security metrics in the ISACA Journal.

Warren’s most recent book is Engineering Safe and Secure Software Systems (Artech House, 2012). He also wrote Outsourcing Information Security (Artech House, 2004) and was coordinating editor of Enterprise Information Security and Privacy (Artech House, 2009). Earlier in his career, he published Computer Effectiveness: Bridging the Management-Technology Gap (Information Resources Press, 1979) and Computer Productivity: A Planning Guide for Cost-Effective Management (John Wiley, 1982). He has published more than a hundred professional articles and chapters in books, with more than a dozen articles posted on IEEE Xplore. He regularly publishes articles in CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering and the ISACA Journal. Most recently he contributed to a book on cybersecurity engineering in the SEI (Software Engineering Institute) Series in Software Engineering to be published in 2016 by Addison-Wesley.

Warren received his Ph.D. in managerial economics from Cornell University, and both a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and an M.A. in economics and statistics, with first and second class honors respectively, from Glasgow University. He is currently certified as a CISSP and CISM, and previously held FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 licenses. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, (ISC)2 and ISACA.