Ari Kumar

Background

About Ari Kumar

Over a period of nearly 20 years in IT, Ari has worked across the three lines of defense to strengthen the organizational cyber security, risk, and compliance postures of 450+ Fortune clients he has advised. He specializes in leading organizations through innovative transformations to achieve their strategic business goals by blending his deep technical skills in enterprise IT and emerging areas such as Cloud (AWS and Azure) and AI, matured managerial expertise with organizational values and culture. Ari is experienced in global information security, cyber security, risk and compliance planning, operations and management leading large scale globally distributed teams, as well as strategic planning and fiscal management of the technology function for large scale business units. Time and again, Ari has received outstanding performance awards and accolades from peers and clients alike for his abilities of big-picture thinking, ownership and deep diving to solve complex problems, anticipation of challenges, and solutioning preemptively to work collaboratively with mid and C-level management stakeholders to propel organizations to often achieve more than anticipated success. Committed to providing exemplary services, Ari holds the following certifications: CISSP, Azure Solutions Architect, ISO Lead Auditor, ITIL Foundation, Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner.