Ram Sankaran (He/Him) is a passionate IT leader with deep experience in Cybersecurity, AI, Cloud, Application and Enterprise Architecture. While technical savvy, he considers himself an organizational culture geek, helping build teams and communities, having led organizations in startup, Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, during complex Digital and IT transformations. He likes to combine technical and people skills to define and implement a successful holistic strategy that decompose the high-level vision into details that include design, implementation and cultural integration.

He is currently a Director of InfoSec leading the Application Security and Security Architecture practices for a major Healthcare company, while also the Vice President of the Phoenix Chapter of ISSA. He was previously the Vice Chair of Technology for an Arizona based investment group. He is currently helping expand the collaboration in the Arizona Cyber community.

He likes to share his passion and knowledge through blogs, trainings and presentation at conferences. He hold an MBA and a M.S. (Computer Science) from Arizona State University.