Bharat Halai

• Experienced head of IAM, with extensive experience managing largest Identity environments globally with subject matter expertise
• Transformed the Identity & Access space taking it from a back-office service to the front and centre of technology
• Strategic leader during extinction level event to bring back a multibillion-dollar business within weeks of major outage
• Made key decisions to recover the IT estate over several months – bought back the core estate within 3 months
• Sponsored multimillion-dollar projects from upgrades to procurement of multimillion-dollar services
• End user focus with everything that is in the IAM space and broader together to ensure that applications work together and optimum user experience with user security best practise in mind
• Unified IAM across business units into one central team with centralised backlogs and demand management
• Extensive stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and communicate with senior stakeholders
• Global management of identities across multiple organisations and business units providing strategic focus to Enterprise Architecture as well as technical
• Led on Cyber Security Programmes (CSP) to mitigate multiple risks across complex applications and services making decision under pressure
• Led a large team – from people management to technical direction and managed service vendors
• Trusted advisor for many CxO customers to proactively manage their IAM product as well as training and mentoring technical teams