Sudhir Ethiraj

TÜV SÜD AG

Global Head of Cybersecurity Office (CSO)

Description

In his role as the Global Head of Cybersecurity Office (CSO), Sudhir leads the global team of Cybersecurity within TÜV SÜD across the different divisions and global business units. He is responsible for driving TÜV SÜD’s transformation for being a trusted partner in areas of Cybersecurity and digital trust business with focus on developing a comprehensive service offering portfolio and driving TÜV SÜD’s exchange with political and industry bodies. He also leads the topic of strategic partnerships for TÜV SÜD’s Cybersecurity business. Next to his role as the Global Head of CSO, Sudhir also leads TÜV SÜD’s active participation at the Charter of Trust with 18 large industry partners focusing on achieving collaboration in cybersecurity and aimed at being the voice of the industry for cybersecurity. He also heads the principle taskforce “Security by Default” in the Charter of Trust. Before joining TÜV SÜD, Sudhir worked at Cisco Systems in Germany where he was responsible consulting engineer for large banks and other financial institutions in Europe for the topics of data center, routing and switching. He also was driving the strategic partnership for Cisco for a Deep Learning/Machine learning project. Sudhir holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in robotics and Master of Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management with focus on risk management.