Nandita Jain Mahajan is Chief Privacy Officer and VP -- Information Security, Compliance & Business Continuity of IBM Daksh. Her responsibilities include formulating privacy, information security, and business continuity strategies; seeing to their execution; operationalizing processes; and driving down organizational risks. Ms. Mahajan began her career at the University of California--Berkeley, USA. Over a career spanning 23 years, she has played various IT leadership roles. She worked with organizations such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), American Express, GE, and Fidelity Investments before moving to IBM. Her experience in business process outsourcing started with American Express in India in 1997. Working in IBM Daksh has given her exposure to a large third-party BPO firm that provides services to many Fortune 100 clients.

Ms. Mahajan holds a BSc degree from St. Stephen's College in New Delhi. She also holds MS and MBA degrees from Ohio University (Athens, Ohio, USA). Ms. Mahajan is a Certified Quality Analyst, having led two organizations to CMMi Level 5, as well as a Certified Information Security Manager. She is the coinventor of IBM's Voice Masking technology and has been the recipient of the Microsoft Security Strategist Award for displaying excellence in security leadership in the IT/IT enabled service (ITeS) area. Ms. Mahajan can be reached at nandita.jain.mahajan@dc.ibm.com.