Nitesh Kumar is an internationally recognized executive with extensive global experience in Financial Services across the United States, United Kingdom, and India. Currently serving as the Managing Director for 2nd Line of Defence responsible for Cyber and Payments systems Control testing at BNP Paribas Group. Proven expertise in Cyber Security, Cyber Audit, Data Privacy, Technology, and Operational Risk Management.

He holds Electronic Engineering degree and MBA with many certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CRISC CGEIT certified.

He has successfully created agile and sustainable risk and audit teams, supporting digital transformation, secure cloud adoption, and innovation strategies. His recent success includes publishing the work program for LLM audit and AI Red Team aligning with Microsoft PyRIT framework