Simmi Puri

Simmi Puri

Director, CISO Cybersecurity

India

Seasoned Advisory & Management professional with 25+ years of experience in Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Innovation in the field of Education and Technology Simmi is the co-founder of an Edtech start-up CISO Cybersecurity, backed by The Statesman group and has launched secure online assessment and proctoring platforms to foster inclusive education by enabling quality online education and testing to the remotest corners of the nation. She has vast experience in the field of education, training and consultancy. Her journey began as a lecturer in economics in Delhi University, thereafter she forayed into IT and designed and conducted technology training program for the Princeton Center of Hong Kong Communication Art Centre (HKCAC) and the English Schools Foundation. She is a certified cybersecurity professional in Information Security Risk Management and Privacy and has launched cybersecurity trainings for higher education and corporates. She is the founder of ‘unHACK’, a pan- India schools program to raise cyber awareness and ‘Pink Code’, an initiative to teach technical coding skills to girls.