Nicholas Prountzos

Chief Information Security Officer at Viva Wallet

Nicholas Prountzos has over a decade of experience in information security management, consulting, personnel coordination, project management and policy development. Nicholas is currently the Chief Information Security Officer at Viva Wallet, where they oversee all aspects of security for the company. Prior to joining Viva Wallet, Nicholas was the Information Security Systems Lead Engineer at Mellon Technologies from November 2014 to August 2016. In this role, they managed projects pertaining to resource handling, task coordination, communication and successful delivery of information security products and solutions from within the company portfolio. Nicholas also provided technical project management for cloud-based payment solutions. From January 2006 to November 2014, Nicholas was the Information Security Systems Engineer at Mellon Technologies. In this role, they provided information security consulting services towards securing information workflows, applying security best practices & procedures and information security policies for compliance with PCI DSS & PCI PIN requirements. Nicholas also implemented key management & exchange, EMV data preparation, card personalisation and transaction security solutions using payment or general-purpose Hardware Security Modules (HSM). Additionally, they developed procedures and specifications for key management, online secure key exchange and secure communications choosing and implementing trusted cryptography protocols and techniques. Nicholas is also a trainer in cryptography, information security products & best practices.

Nicholas Prountzos has a MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University, a MSc in Digital Communication Systems from Loughborough University, and a BEng in Electronics and Communications from The Nottingham Trent University. Nicholas also has a High School Diploma from Lycée Leonin de Patissia.

They are on a team with Niki Sotiropoulou - Group CMO, Anthony Tsavdaridis - Chief Architect, and Venia Gkegkiou - Chief People Officer. Michael Diamantoulis - Risk and AML Director, Antonis Dragiotis - Risk & AML Investigations Director report to Nicholas Prountzos. Nicholas Prountzos reports to Haris Karonis, CEO & Founder.

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  • Chief Information Security Officer

    September, 2016 - present

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