Lt. Gen Dr. Malik acts as the Chief Board of Advisor to IIRIS. Insurgency, Lt. Gen. Dr. Malik retired as Deputy Chief of the Army Staff in the year 1998, where he was responsible for all the key aspects of the Indian Army, including operational and logistics planning, budgetary management, research and development for all weapons and equipment. He was also responsible for the training and liaising with other armies.

He was deputed to work with the Defence Research & Development organization, and had undergone four years training at the Frunze Military Academy, Moscow. He also served as honorary ADC to the President of India. He has also trained the Iraqi Army Officers as an adviser for their Mechanized Forces at Baghdad. Lt. Gen. Malik has also been a presenter on Disaster Management for “Pacific Area Senior Officers Logistics Seminar” in Australia. In recognition of his thirty-eight year of meritorious service, HE WAS AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS PVSM, THE HIGHEST PEACETIME AWARD FOR “DISTINGUISHED SERVICE OF EXCEPTIONAL ORDER” IN INDIA.

Barry acts as the Advisory Leader of the Board of Advisors to IIRIS. Having an impeccable ability to develop and manage the implementation of effective human, resource, physical, supply chain and information security programs to minimize risk. Barry has assisted many large international companies in assessing and minimizing risk by re-engineering all aspects of their security programs.

His previous experience includes his association with companies like IBM and Pinkerton. As a senior manager and a director at IBM, Barry demonstrated his ability to develop effective programs for workplace violence, information security, physical security, and supply chain security. He is popularly known for having assisted US Customs in the development of their Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism(C-TPAT) post 9/11,and managing Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) for the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma (Operation Safe Commerce was a $40 Million Grant from the US Department of Homeland Security to study and test on nine actual supply chains the best practices and technology to prevent the introduction of weapons of mass destruction).

After a distinguished career at IBM, Barry started a supply chain management consultancy that assisted many large high-tech firms in re-engineering their human resource, physical and supply chain security. Pinkerton recognized his capabilities, and bought his consulting practice and promoted Barry to the position of Vice President. At Pinkerton he developed their supply chain security practice, expanded their employment screening practice and opened Pinkerton India which grew to be their largest international office with over 300 employees in 5 cities in India.

Stephen is currently associated with CBRNE Ltd as Associate Director (Security), where his role involves research into suicide terrorism, managing SME platform for EDEN and delivery of reports for SUBCOP, EDEN, and PRACTICE. He is also the Chief Executive of the Security Innovation and Technology Consortium, where his role includes business development for SMEs involved in security technology, design and delivery of Innovation Pavilions for security technologies, and overseas technology trade fairs. Apart from these, he is associated with 3rd Forensic Ltd. as its Chief Executive.

Previously, Stephen served the Control Risks Group as Senior Security Consultant and Metropolitan Police as the Chief Superintendent. He has been the Head of the Diplomatic Protection Group at Scotland Yard, with responsibility for some 650 firearms officers.

Stephen has commendable training and communication skills. He teaches 2 BTEC level 5 courses with Tavcom Training – Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; and Security Management. He has several publications to his name. Swain S, Routledge: Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Transportation Security Chapter), Swain S, Routledge: Terrorism and the Olympics, and Swain S, The Home Front – Fight Against Fundamentalism, Intersec (The Journal of International Security)are a few among them.Stephen has also presented on protective security, counter terrorism and firearms tactics in over 30 countries.

Maroof Raza acts as the Board of Advisor – Strategic Risk and Global Geo Political Expert with IIRIS. He comes armed with more than 20 years of experience as a mentor, anchor, correspondent, lecturer, writer and a commentator on issues of National Security and Strategic Affairs. His in-depth knowledge, experience, and his association with leading TV channels including TIMES NOW, NDTV, BBC & more makes him one of the most sought after speakers internationally on the subjects of National and International Risk and Security Affairs.

Since 2007, Maroof has been associated with TIMES NOW as their Strategic Affairs Expert and Consulting Editor, and appears frequently on the channel. Apart from his appearances on news debates, he has anchored and presented a 20 part series on the Indian armed forces, titled ‘Line of Duty’, whose episode on the Siachen Glacier won an Award in the military documentary section at the Film Festival in Rome in 2005. This TV series has entered the Limca Book of Records as India’s first military reality show.

He is the Mentor of Security Watch India and is often invited to lecture on India’s foreign policy & security concerns in India and abroad at Indian missions as well as by international think-tanks. From NDA to NDC and LBSNAA , he is an esteemed lecturer at all the leading Indian government and military institutions.

Educated in India (at Mayo College, Ajmer and St. Stephen’s College, Delhi), and subsequently in England (at King’s College, London and at Cambridge University), Maroof has served in the Indian Army’s Grenadiers, Mechanized Infantry Regiments, and as an instructor at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, the Henry L. Stimson Centre, Washington and the War Studies Department of King’s College, London.

A thoughtful and eloquent author, Maroof Raza writes a regular column in the popular Indian magazine, THE WEEK. The books authored by him include Low-Intensity Conflicts (1995) Wars, No Peace over Kashmir (1996), Generals and Governments in India and Pakistan ( 2001 ) and Confronting Terrorism (2009). He is also the General Editor of a Military Affairs series of Har Anand Publications (in India) since 2001. He is the editor-in-charge of a new monthly magazine, “Fauji India” and also publishes a magazine titled ‘Salute’.

Ambassador Gurjit Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1980 and in 37 years of service has served in many different countries. He is well known as a business-friendly diplomat, who has often implemented developmental programmes and expanded India’s outreach. The widening of the scope of India’s perspective in those countries have benefited from his dedication to culture, trade, investment and other popular engagements. He has published and authored the books such as, “The Abalone Factor: An overview of the India-Japan Business Relations” ,“The Injera and the Parantha: Enhancing the Ethio-India Relationship” ,“Masala Bambu: Enhancing the India-Indonesia Partnership” and "Opportunity Beckons: Adding Momentum to the Indo-German Partnership"

On graduation from the National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy he was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1975. He has had his normal share of postings to various Military stations, including the extreme high altitude areas of Leh-Ladakh and a short stint with Headquarters Delhi Area where he independently handled allotment of accommodation, legal, administrative and ceremonial issues of the Delhi Area.

Garry acts as the President to IIRIS. A Six Sigma Green Belt, he is a risk management professional par excellence. With vast experience in setting up and monitoring ERM, intelligence networks, governance, compliance and risk mitigation framework, he has earned unique understanding and aptitude to seamlessly stitch strategy and on ground implementation. Garry is also the Director to ICSS (www.icssindia.org) and board advisor to many other organizations.

During his tenures as a consultant and a corporate professional, Garry worked on numerous labyrinth assignments involving data crunching, assessments, forensics, fact presentation and interviews. While working on many sensitive extortion, kidnap, and high end corporate fraud cases; Garry, through intelligent and practical advice solved complex situations while ensuring economic sense for the client’s business. One of his achievements has been the successful execution of the responsibility of Taj Mahal’s security which was bestowed upon him during one of the high threat times in India.

Apart from his technical expertise, Garry imbibes in himself the quest for innovation, training and communication. He has innovated new practices and written papers on subjects such as NPA Management, risk management, white collar crime etc.

Rodney D. Ryder is a Partner with Scriboard, a full service commercial law firm with cutting edge specialisation in technology, new media and intellectual property laws. He is the author of Guide to Cyber Laws: the Information Technology Act, 2000, E-Commerce, Data Protection and the Internet, the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on the implementation of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Mr. Ryder has been nominated as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ in intellectual property, technology, communications and media law by Asia Law, Who’s Who Legal, Asia Legal 500, amongst other International publications. Mr. Ryder has been listed as one of India’s leading lawyers in the ’40 under 45′ study conducted by Who’s Who Legal, United Kingdom.

His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet [published by LexisNexis] has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work on domain name disputes by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first and only judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names [Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; (2004) 6 SCC 145]. He is advisor to the National Internet Exchange of India [NIXI] and a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with NIXI.

Sanjay acts as the Advisory Leader, Forensics at IIRIS. A Leading “Corporate Seismologist” and Forensic Accounting/Investigations expert, Sanjay has a vast corporate and industry experience in the areas of forensic accounting. His experience includes 71 types of businesses across UK/USA/UAE and India.

Sanjay Dwivedi, F.C.C.A is a UK expat Chartered Certified Accountant and Chartered Quality Institute member. He is also a Certified Information Security Adviser, USA. Before returning back to India after 20 years in UK and 3 years in USA, he served with Deloitte & Touche. During his tenures as Lead Consultant and Corporate Security professional, his stints included partnership in a UK public practice, where he headed the IT enabled services department and acted as an Independent Financial Adviser. He has superior expertise in the setup and operation of diverse businesses across 4 continents and clients, including Go-To-Market Risk reduction for Start Ups, MNC’s, UK Healthcare Industry and USA Real Estate development.

After returning to India in 2000, he served as Executive Director Corporate/Risk with Indian MNC Punj Lloyd, and Chief Marketing Officer and Turnaround CEO at Spectranet. He has direct executive management experience with M & A and has handled several reverse Mergers, De-Mergers, IPO and accounting forensics cases for MNC’s. He has co-founded a diversified global corporate venture firm in association with international startups in the fields of BPO, Pilot Training, and Serviced Offices. Since 2009, he provides his consultancy to a lot of Startups and Turnarounds from overseas and India.

He has worked as Interim Manager CFO/COO/CEO and Lead Consultant with global ‘corporate risk management’ MNC’s and is their go-to Forensics Lead/Corporate trainer. As part of his advisory & mentoring services, he teaches Finance and Accounting Forensics related subjects to a global audience online. He is a top rated trainer at India’s largest Financial Training Institute for MNC clients – The Institute of Chartered Accountants India’s CPE. He is also an Adjunct Prof. at Christ University and has conducted workshop in Niche Consulting at IIM-B.

Vikas is currently the Advisory Leader for Forensics Audits at IIRIS providing professional services relating to Forensic Accounting, Due Diligence, Banking Recovery Consultancy & Financial Investigation. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in the areas of various statutory, internal, tax, special audits, financial fraud investigations and dispute claim services, project consultancy and financing, financial accounting, income tax, Insolvency Law matters, system study & development and management consultancy services for organizations.

He is senior partner at Rajvanshi & Associates, Chartered Accountants since 1988. The Rajvanshi & Associates is IBA empanelled firm for conducting forensic audit of frauds exceeding Rs 50 crores in banks, and also been indented for forensic audits in banks where the amount involved in frauds is less than Rs 50 Crores.

He is one of the leading Practising Chartered Accountant and well recognized consultant. He has in-depth knowledge and expertise in the areas of various statutory audits, internal audits, Tax Audit and representation before authorities in Income Tax, NCLT New Delhi, International Transfer Pricing Matters, Litigation solving expertise, Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, Due Diligence and management consultancy services for organizations. He is currently in editor team of Bank Audit manual issued by ICAI, a referral book which forms the base for the bank auditors in India. He has handled more than 2000 SARFAESI/ Banking Recovery cases. Vikas Rajvanshi has proved to be a remarkable and land marking professional excellence throughout his career and still very active in his field. He has been actively empaneled with CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), SFIO (Serious Fraud Investigation Office), New Delhi, India and with leading banks of the country.

Sagarika acts as the CEO to IIRIS and comes armed with both legal and risk mitigation strategies. She has a niche experience in risk and investigative practice and has worked on diverse engagements dealing with fraud investigations, financial analytical services, integrity due diligence, strategic business intelligence, commercial due diligence and brand protection. Her area of expertise includes Insider Threat Mapping and NPA Management with diverse models of investigative and risk advisory being formulated by her in association with various national organizations and regulators. She has also trained over 500 bank officers in the last one year in areas of Due Diligence and NPA Early Warning tracking. She is also trained and certified in the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation by Reid and Associates, Illinois, Chicago.

Dr. Vikram Singh is an Indian educationist and retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He joined the IPS in 1974 and held the post of Director General of Police in the state of Uttar Pradesh during the period June 2007 – September 2009. He retired from the IPS in May 2010. Limca Book of Records-2014 mentions Dr. Vikram Singh as the `Most Highly Decorated IPS Officer’. He has been awarded with President’s Police Medal for Gallantry 1986, Bar to President’s Police Medal for Gallantry 1987, President’s Police Medal for Gallantry 1988, Bar to President’s Police Medal for Gallantry 1989, President’s Police Medal for Long & Meritorious Service 1990, President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service 1996, Kathin Seva Medal 2001, Bar to Kathin Seva Medal 2002, NRI Award – 2015, Akhil Bharat Vidwat Parishad Award – 2015 at Varanasi bestowed upon by Hon’ble Shri Rajnath Singh, Home Minister, Govt. of India.

Raj Yadav acts as the Leading Advisor for Brand Protect & Protection and Events for IIRIS. His proficiencies include Armament and Munitions, risk assessment, risk management, crisis trouble-shooting, security audit, and security operations among others.

He has over 28 years of experience in Corporate and Indian Army where he held important appointments and responsibilities dealing with security operations of large, multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural organizations at Pan India level with people from diverse backgrounds.

An Ex-army commando and an expert in Armament and Munitions, Raj Yadav is a dynamic leader with proven abilities. He has formulated extensive risk assessment and management strategies for corporations, government and non-government organizations in difficult geographic situations in India & neighboring countries, with the primary focus to de-risk businesses and augment operational efficiency in high risk environments. One of his major strengths is his strong network with local as well as multinational security and intelligence gathering agencies.

Kunal Bhogal acts as the Director of Design and manages the Security & Safety Design Practice. He has been in the building systems industry for over 14 years, and specializes in building security and safety aspects through environmental design as well as operational processes.

Having worked with systems integrators, product companies and consulting firms, Kunal’s expertise helps small, medium as well as large corporations in implementing their corporate security and safety policies through infrastructure management, operational planning and project execution. His expertise in risk assessment and risk mitigation through carefully tailored auditing procedures caters to the needs across business functions and across industry verticals. Kunal is proficient in bringing about value engineering and derive economic efficiencies in the design elements as well as project implementation. He has overseen business continuity & integration aspects of large companies while consolidating their security & safety assets on ground.

In his last assignment in the Middle East, Kunal served as a security design consultant with FIFA and worked on stadiums and large infrastructure projects in the State of Qatar. He has managed large security implementation projects such as one for a major international airport – both in India and Middle East.

A commendable trainer, Kunal serves as an instructor of Industrial Security Management at the World Institute of Security Enhancement (USA) and has been involved in delivering training programs to large oil and energy corporations in the Middle East.

Col Vineet Sehgal acts as the Vice President for Risk Practice at IIRIS. His proficiency include risk assessment, crisis trouble-shooting and security audit. He has served for over two decades in the Indian Army where he held important appointments and responsibilities dealing with security operations. He also, has a seven years of experience in the corporate sector. His previous stint was, as a Chief Security Officer for a major multi-national company with global responsibilities.

A qualified project management professional, Col Sehgal is also qualified in Business Management and Disaster Management programs.

Sukhdeep has Prolific 20 years’ experience in BFSI Industry and is a SEBI certified Investment Adviser. Alumnus IIM Kozhikode. Function-wide enriching experience in the domains of General Management, Retail Banking, Micro marketing Strategy, Customer Value Proposition, Products Development and refinement. His experience includes +16 years of banking experience working with premium banks-- HDFC Bank Ltd and Standard Chartered Bank. His immediate past assignment was as a CEO with IFM, one the leading IFAs across India with Average AUM exceeding $300 million established in 2004 and three times winner of CNBC TV18 - ICRA Best Financial Advisers Award. Published Author of Financial Literacy Books, translated in eight languages. Key-note speaker and trainer. Through his start-up venture CFIL (Centre for Financial Informatics and Literacy) he has Conducted more than 200 workshops of which more than 150 are SEBI – AMFI approved IAPs and Financial Literacy Workshops, across +100 leading Organizations, Blue-chip Companies, Indian Army, Government, Institutes, Embassies and RBI. MBA from IIM Kozhikode (AMBA accredited, Two years executive PGDM ePGP-03). Completed PG Advanced Certification in Strategic management from IIM Kozhikode. Student editor for IIMK Quarterly magazine. INSEAD’s Blue Ocean Strategy expert, Certified Change Agent and Black belt Six Sigma. GEORGIAN from Bangalore Military School (Batch of 93), Member IPSC.

Manish Datta is a Vice President at IIRIS and heads the Special Projects portfolio. He comes with over 24 years of extensive Corporate Security experience encompassing Physical Security, Corporate Investigations, Project Management, Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Life Safety skills across various domains incl. Aviation, Petrochemical, Refinery, Telecom, Financial, Pharmaceutical, etc. During his corporate stint, Manish held key portfolios including APAC and SE Asia roles and was instrumental in implementing security strategies and programs in the region. Manish has profound knowledge of Security Audits & Assessment, Pre-Employment Screening, Security Control Center, Women Security programs, Executive Protection, Event Security, Non-IT Information Security, Product Security & Integrity, Workplace Investigations, Employee Life Cycle protocol, etc.

Asitav Sinha acts as VP Strategy & Infrastructure at IIRIS. In addition to an illustrious career in Strategic Consulting including including business planning & sales strategy development, he has expertise in cross border M&A in various domains. He also been Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions. A Telecom professional, his last stint was with Easylink Services Corporation ( Formerly AT&T. Nasdaq EASY, currently its Opentext.). Asitav has helped forge strategic business relations between companies and successfully effected Joint Ventures of Indian Companies with international companies and secured big infrastructure projects. He has also been consulting on Mergers and Joint Ventures, helping International companies to set up shop here and Indian cos abroad.

Asitav has played major role in setting up Indian operations for Easylink Services Corporation and he was also responsible for Overall operation as a profit center. In his almost 4 years with Easylink he played a key role in fulfilling the responsibilities for new business and post-merger operations. In very little time the India operation became the maximum revenue earner. He headed a manpower of 35 people from sales, engineering, accounts and customer services. Equally large is his passion for sports. A voracious reader, you will always find him breathing life into many more new things.