Faculty

Summit

Dr. Bharat Soni

CISO,DPO
GTBank Plc

Biography

Soni is the chief information security officer at GTBank. His areas of expertise include information security and risk management, vendor governance, IS-Audit, compliance, and identity management. Prior to joining GTBank, Soni held leadership roles at DBOI, HDFC Bank and IDBI Bank.

Company

Guaranty Trust Bank Limited (GTBank) is a multinational financial institution that provides individuals, businesses, private and public institutions across Africa and the United Kingdom with a broad range of market-leading financial products and services. Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria and with subsidiaries in Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom, the Bank currently employs over 12,000 professionals and has Total assets and Shareholders’ Funds of ₦4.057trillion and ₦661.1Billion respectively.

CISO,DPO, GTBank Plc

Future Events

September 11, 2025

Cybersecurity Summit: London Financial Services

September 11, 2025

Building Trust at Speed: DevSecOps for the Modern Enterprise

September 17, 2025

CNAPP: Secure Gen AI and Cloud Innovation Without Slowing the Business

Future Events

September 11, 2025

Cybersecurity Summit: London Financial Services

September 11, 2025

Building Trust at Speed: DevSecOps for the Modern Enterprise

September 17, 2025

CNAPP: Secure Gen AI and Cloud Innovation Without Slowing the Business

September 18, 2025

Cybersecurity Summit: Healthcare New York

October 23, 2025

Cybersecurity Summit: Financial Services Toronto