Paladion appoints Sunil Gupta as president and COO

NEW DELHI: Global cyber security firm Paladion today announced the appointment of Sunil Gupta, a former COO from Infosys’ EdgeVerve as president and chief operating officer, in a company statement. Gupta will be responsible for the business strategies and outcomes in MEA and India, and will direct all business units and delivery.

Over the past 30 years, he has held several leadership roles; VP of engineering in Aricent (erstwhile Hughes Software Systems), CTO in Symphony Teleca, COO in Logica India, and EdgeVerve Systems (an Infosys company). His expertise lies in translating strategic vision into action, building high performance teams and helping businesses innovate and grow.

“Security management is transitioning from slow people-based processes to a more active posture by leveraging automation and analytics. Paladion has been at the forefront of these developments and delivers leading edge CyberActive services through a proprietary, high performance analytics and orchestration platform. Sunil brings a wealth of experience in building great organizations that deliver platform-based services, and will help position Paladion effectively to solve the next generation challenges of security management,” said Paladion’s chief executive officer and co-founder, Rajat Mohanty.

“In my new role, my main focus will be to make Paladion a highly proactive, responsive, learning organization with clients and people at the centre of the business. My immediate emphasis will be on operational efficiency and to expand Paladion’s footprint into new markets in the pursuit of growth. We will also create new partnerships and business models to deliver greater value to our clients,” said Gupta on his new appointment.

For over 15 years, Paladion has been actively managing information risks for over 700 customers. The company provides a complete spectrum of information risk management comprising of security assurance, compliance, governance, monitoring, security analytics and security management services to large and medium-sized organizations.