Manish Tiwari

Manish Tiwari is the current Chief Information Officer at Fractal. Prior to joining Fractal, they served as the Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Security Officer at Bharti Airtel from December 2017 to December 2021. In this role, they were responsible for Information security and Risk Management for the company, including security operations, data protection, fraud investigations, brand protection, compliance with regulatory and industry specific requirements, and business continuity planning.

Some of their key initiatives during their time at Bharti Airtel included setting up one of Asia's largest integrated Security Operations Centers, transforming and automating security operations, expanding the cyber security team for complete in-house operations, establishing a new team for service delivery for customer-facing services, partnering with Radware to set up the first Global Scrubbing center in India, and making strategic alignments with global security OEMs like Cisco, Radware, Forcepoint, etc.

Before joining Bharti Airtel, Manish Tiwari served as the Chief(Information) Security Adviser at Microsoft India from October 2014 to November 2017. In this role, they were responsible for providing guidance on Information Security matters to the company's clients.

Prior to their role at Microsoft India, Manish Tiwari served as the Project Director for UIDAI (AVP Service Delivery & Service Engineering) at Aujas Networks Pvt Ltd from January 2014 to October 2014. In this role, they were responsible for leading a team of engineers that designed and implemented UIDAI's IT systems.

Before joining the

Manish Tiwari has a background in computer science and information security. Manish holds several certifications, including CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) and CISP (STQC). Manish has also worked as a Lead Auditor for Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate, GoI. In addition to their work in information security, they also have a background in business management from MDI - Gurgaon.

Manish Tiwari works with Dylan Dias - Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Neal Analytics, Prashant Warier - CEO, Qure.ai, and Vikas Misra - Vice President. Manish Tiwari reports to Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice Chairman.