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Kundan Kumar

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Chief Information Security Officer at Lyca Mobile UK
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Kundan is the Chief Information Security Officer at Lyca Mobile, overseeing cybersecurity strategy across 23 countries. With over 20 years of international experience in telecom, cloud infrastructure, and national security, he holds PMP and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

He was recently recognized as one of the "TOP 100 CISOs of Europe & UK" on the 2025 CISO Power 100 Index.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Chief Information Security Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Kundan shows up

ROI Conscious
Hard To Convince
Demanding

They respond well to confident salespeople. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles.

Priorities

Topics Kundan cares about

Quantum Cryptography
He is focused on the future of security, highlighting the need for organizations to prepare for migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by 2035.
Telecom Fraud Prevention
Actively follows industry-wide initiatives, such as the GSMA Open Gateway, to combat sophisticated mobile fraud like SIM swapping and improve identity verification.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Chief Information Security Officer
Lyca Mobile UK
10-2021 - 10-2024
Programme Manager
Eutelsat Group
12-2019 - 10-2021
General Manager - Chief Solution(Telecom Security) Architect
Syborg Informationsysteme b.h. OHG
3-2019 - 10-2021
Founder & Board of Director
luffa.io
10-2014 - 10-2021
Founder & Board of Director
iBlink
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2000 - 2003
Bachelor's degree
Utkal University
7-2011 - 7-2013
EPGP/EPGDM
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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