Ante Gulam

Ante Gulam is the Chief Information Security Officer at SumUp. Ante has also held this position at EC-Council and Skyscanner. At Skyscanner, they were responsible for solving security at scale at one of Europe’s largest consumer internet companies. Ante improved the overall security maturity by 85% on average across pillars and drove continuous reduction of the risk exposure by over 20% quarterly on average through Security OKRs. Ante also built the function ground up (Barcelona, London, Edinburgh, Shenzhen, Sofia) including product, platform, ops, automation, risk and infosec squads, enabled gamification of security and introduced risk quantification models to drive prioritisation effectively.

Prior to their work at Skyscanner, Gulam served as the CISO, Global Head of Information Security at Wonga from January 2014 to May 2016. In this role, they were responsible for all aspects of information security across the organization. Ante also served as a Senior Information Security Engineer at DefenseCode Ltd. from September 2010 to January 2014.

Ante Gulam has a Master's degree in Business Administration and Management from the London School of Commerce in London, United Kingdom. Ante has also completed Executive Education in Leadership from the University of Oxford. In addition, they have completed an Advanced Computer Security Program from Stanford University. Ante has also completed a Leadership and Management program from City, University of London. Finally, they have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences from Veleučilište u Rijeci / Polytechnic of Rijeka.

They work with Michael Schrezenmaier - CEO, Europe, Aparna Ballakur - Chief People Officer, and Johannes Schaback - CTO. Their manager is Daniel Klein, Co-Founder & CEO.