Kannan Shivalingam is an experienced professional in information security risk management and governance, currently serving as Assistant Vice President at Mashreq since December 2016. Kannan's expertise includes third-party risk assessment, application control assessment, and governance metrics, among other areas. Prior to this role, Kannan held positions such as Senior Manager - Service Management and Lead - Service Management, focusing on incident management and service level management. Kannan's career includes significant roles at XCHANGING Technology Services as Major Incident Manager and at Alchemy Software Solutions, where responsibility included major incident management. Previous experience includes a leadership role in IT service management at Accenture and technical support roles at HP and Client Logic. Kannan holds a recent certificate from Harvard University in Managing Risk in the Information Age, along with a Bachelor of Business Administration from The ICFAI University, Tripura.