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

April 22, 2025

Stop Identity Attacks Across On-Premises, Cloud and in SaaS Environments

April 24, 2025

DevSecOps for the C-Suite: Balancing Innovation, Security and Compliance DevSecOps for the C-Suite

April 29, 2025

A Modern Approach to Third-Party Risk Assessments

Future Events

April 22, 2025

Stop Identity Attacks Across On-Premises, Cloud and in SaaS Environments

April 24, 2025

DevSecOps for the C-Suite: Balancing Innovation, Security and Compliance DevSecOps for the C-Suite

April 29, 2025

A Modern Approach to Third-Party Risk Assessments

May 15, 2025

Data Security Summit: Dallas

May 22, 2025

Spark USA: The Future of AI-Reinforced Threat Detection