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Upendra Mardikar

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Chief Information Security Officer at TIAA
📍 Fremont, California, United States

Upendra Mardikar is the EVP and Chief Information Security Officer at TIAA, with over 25 years of experience leading security transformations at firms like American Express, Visa, and PayPal. He is a prolific inventor with over 99 patents in cybersecurity and digital identity. Colleagues describe him as a brilliant, practical, and intellectually agile leader.

Outside of work, Upendra is an author, advisor, and mentor who co-created the "Purple Book of Software Security" and its online community. An interview reveals he is influenced by spiritual leaders and focuses on personal growth, creating "good karma," and treating colleagues with humility to be a better human being.

He was instrumental in developing the security for technologies like Apple Pay and Google Pay and co-authored the first version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Chief Information Security Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Fremont, California, United States
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Topics Upendra cares about

Cybersecurity Leadership
As a multi-time CISO and author, he views security as a "community sport" and focuses on communicating cyber risk as a core business problem to boards and executives.
Digital Identity
His career at PayPal, Visa, and American Express involved leading initiatives for next-generation identity, authentication, and authorization systems, backed by numerous patents in the field.
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Career

Work history

8-2022
Chief Information Security Officer
TIAA
2-2020 - 8-2022
Chief Information Security Officer
Snap Finance
9-2014 - 2-2020
Vice President Information Security Strategy, Arch, Identity, Engineering and Application Security
American Express
6-2013 - 9-2014
Senior Business Leader: Security Architecture and Engineering
Visa
3-2010 - 5-2013
Director/Distinguished Security Architect, Security Architecture, Engineering and Key Management
PayPal
In the press

Media appearances

Upendra Mardikar - TIAA Speakers - Cyber Security & Cloud Expo North America. Featured in Cyber Security & Cloud Expo North America
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Upendra Mardikar | TIAA Speaker - TechEx Events. Featured in TechEx Events
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Education
9-1996 - 8-1999
MBA
Santa Clara University
2003 - 2003
CISSP
ISC2
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