Bala Rajagopalan
Head of Information Security at BlueMountain Capital Management

Bala Rajagopalan is the Head of Information Security for Bluemountain Capital Management. He is responsible for the company’s security policies and strategy, cybersecurity strategy, business continuity, security framework, security risk assessment, data protection and security operations. Bala is a thought leader with over sixteen years experience leading information security programs for world-class financial organizations. He is the former Global Head of Information Security for BNY ConvergEx Group where he was managing their information security practice and providing valuable contribution to their corporate IT risk program. At Citi, Bala was Senior Vice President- Information Security for Citi’s Global Electronic Trading group. He also held similar positions at World Bank, GE Capital and Reuters.

Bala is an advisory board member on multiple security-based vendor firms providing strategic advice on product and technology development. He is an active member of committees led by SIFMA, an US regulatory body and Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and provides valuable insights in the development of several information security and cybersecurity policies and framework formation.