Rakesh Sharma

Senior Director, Cybersecurity

Chicago, IL, United States

Details

Education: MBA

Entrepreneurship / Strategy / Technology

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

BA

Major : Economics, Minor : Mathematics

University of Chicago

Experience: 2022 : Present

Cleveland Clinic

Senior Director & Head of Cybersecurity Assurance / GRC

Partnering directly with CISOs of the largest Healthcare payers and providers in the country to scope and manage the execution of multi-year, tactical and strategic programs to enhance Cybersecurity capability development and maturity in alignment with recognized frameworks, e.g. NIST CSF, while ensuring compliance with standards and regulations.

2015 : 2022

Level Nine Group

Head of CISO Advisory Services

Forty6 Group is a full service advisory and consulting firm with a strategic vision and pragmatic approach based upon the diverse, international experience we possess, including Big Four Consulting, Insurance, Banking, Capital Markets, Information Technology, and Cybersecurity across the globe.

We have partnered with the largest financial exchanges in the world to re-architect their enterprises throughout the evolution of electronic trading while working closely with government regulators to ensure strict compliance with regulatory requirements in the United States and Europe.

2015 : 2022

Forty6 Group

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

2011 : 2015

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE)

Global Head, CDS QA Technology

2004 : 2011

CME Group

Director, Clearing Technology

Company: Cleveland Clinic

Years of Experience: 25

Spoken Language: English, German, Russian

Skills Active Directory, Agile Methodologies, Budget Management, Business Analysis, Business Development, Capital Markets, CDS, Consulting, Credit Derivatives, Cybersecurity, Derivatives, Electronic Trading, Endpoint Security, Financial Services, Healthcare, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Security, Information Security Governance, Integration, IT Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Leadership, Management, Market Data, Microsoft Project, Network Security, Options, Oracle, Process Improvement, Program Management, Project Estimation, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, SDLC, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SQL, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Threat & Vulnerability Management, Trading Systems, Unix, User Acceptance Testing, Vendor Management, Vendor Negotiation

About • Information Technology and Cybersecurity executive with multinational exposure to the world’s largest financial exchanges, banks, healthcare payers & providers

• Strong communicator, pairing appropriate visibility with actionable data for executive decision making

• Passionate mentor with a proven record of creating and inspiring high-performing teams

• Empathetic leader with the ability to build and maintain trust with key stakeholders