Strengthen Business Resilience with Enhanced Visibility into Third-party Risks and Continuous Monitoring

A highly accomplished Risk and Compliance professional with over 15 years' experience in financial, commercial, and regulatory compliance. Member of senior management team with proven ability to align functional goals with business objectives, partnering with businesses to achieve market penetration and sustainable growth by mitigating risks. Holds an MBA and master’s in accounting, graduated from GE Corporate Leadership Development Program and an accredited UK Govt. recognized consultant. Lived and worked internationally and leading global multi-cultural teams in US, China, Europe, Australia, South-east Asia, India, and Japan. A strong communicator, an avid learner, speaker in various regional and global forums and a strong believer in forging long term relationships.

Infosys Portland is Infosys’ specialist Procurement and Supply Chain Consulting Practice, delivering services across strategy, planning, implementation and technology. Kieran is Infosys Portland’s Supply Chain Risk Practice Lead and brings 20 years of supply chain risk management from industry and consulting. He began his career as an Officer in the Australian Army, designing, implementing and operating High Reliability international supply chains into disaster areas and conflict zones with extreme risk profiles.

After leaving Defence, Kieran continued to design and implement international greenfield supply chains throughout Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia for mining and resources clients and United Nations peacekeeping and peace monitoring missions, increasing his focus on commercial supply chain risk outcomes.

Over the years Kieran has developed and applied an increasingly sophisticated suite of risk tools and methodologies to client supply chains, incorporating High Reliability Organisational theory, Scenario Planning, Reliability Engineering, Machine Learning and genetic optimisation, to deliver adaptive supply chains enabled by real-time predictive and prescriptive risk analytics.

Kieran is a recognised industry expert in Supply Chain Risk, presenting to a range of professional bodies and forums, and lecturing supply chain risk to Postgraduate courses at the University of Queensland.

Based in Sydney, Rory has worked closely with many institutions, corporates, government departments and third parties to establish and maintain best practice Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance programs Gaining considerable experience over the past 20 years holding senior sales positions at global data and analytics service providers such as ISS Governance, IHS Markit, NASDAQ and Thomson Reuters.

Aravind Varadharajan as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific based in Singapore, leads the region, covering customer needs to provide comprehensive solutions for Integrated Risk Management. Aravind is a highly seasoned business leader with over 20 years of experience across sales and business management in Japan, ASEAN and global markets across multiple business verticals. Prior to joining MetricStream, Aravind was Managing Director for the Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure business segment at Accenture.