Upendra Mardikar

Chief Information Security Officer at TIAA

Mr.Upendra Mardikar is a prolific inventor and cyber security & digital identity business-enabler executive with an “art of possible” mindset who led global teams to secure world class organizations and held executive and executive and senior leadership positions at TIAA, American Express, Visa, PayPal and is credited with 99 patents.
He is a regular speaker at esteemed conferences for Stanford University, Global Big Data Conference, NFC forums, European Identity Conference, KNOW Identity Conference, Global Retail Conference in Canada, IOT conference and others.
He has been Featured in Genius Journal, he helped pioneer blockchain in Amex and filed patents on blockchain and DLTs.
He and his team worked on IOT security and payments and participated in several industry standard bodies like EMV,Global Platform, PCI-DSS, FIDO, etc.
He is an advisory board director for select security startups and helps venture capitalists evaluate companies.