George Eapen
“George Eapen is currently the Group CIO for Petrofac (FTSE 250), one of the world's largest O&G EPC Companies with 12,000 employees and $4B annual revenue with Operations in Malaysia, India, Middle East, UK, US and Mexico. In his previous capacity as Group Head of Cyber Security, he was managing IT and OT Security for the organization
In his earlier stint with GE, he spent a significant portion of his corporate career of 12+ years, rising through the ranks. In his last role with GE he was the Group CISO of Global regions including LATAM, Europe, Russia, China, South Asia, Greater China & Asia Pacific which contributed almost 60% of total company revenues. He is a graduate of GE IT leadership program (ITLP), GE Six Sigma Black Belt program and graduate of GE Corporate Audit Staff (CAS), a fast track Executive leadership program of GE.
He was selected among 50 senior professionals world wide, to undergo the prestigious MIT Sloan EPGM program. As a well known CyberSecurity technology / key note speaker, he has presented topics at 30+ conferences, spanning across Middle East, USA, Portugal and UK including Gartner conference-2016, GISEC-2018, MILIPOL- 2017, Cloud MENA-2017. He is an IBM Security Board of Advisor and sits on the Board of several other CyberSecurity organizations & committees”