Ira Goel

Senior Cybersecurity and Data Protection Leader

Salary / Daily rate

Frankfurt, Germany

Freelance

Languages

EnglishFrenchGermanHindiSpanish

About me

Intro

Award-winning Cyber, Risk & Data Protection Leader with 12+ years expertise in GRC, GDPR, and AI governance. Led comprehensive security programs for fintech, universities, and global organizations, achieving ISO 27001 and SOC2 compliance. I help organizations build robust governance frameworks that drive accountability, transparency, and measurable business value.

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Work experience

Instructor

Learning Tree International

May 2025 - Present

1 year 6 months

AI Governance ISACA CISM Vulnerability Management and more...

Lecturer

European Business Institute of Luxembourg

Mar 2025 - Present

1 year 8 months

Cybersecurity Attack and Defense Fundamentals Advanced Threat Hunting and Incident Response

Founder, CEO and CPO

Gira.GroupFreelance

Sep 2021 - Present

5 years 2 months

Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands

Connect the dots of various compliance, information security, data protection, AI governance, ESG, and CSR programs to become more effective, efficient, and successful. Driving the values of accountability, transparency, ownership, trust, awareness and proactive culture within an organization.

Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance + Data Protection

Nitro, Inc.

Jan 2022 - Aug 2023

1 year 8 months

Delivering strategy for Third Party/Vendor Management/Supplier Management and Compliance program at pace for the department. Delivering Data Protection strategy and operationalizing process. Internal & External Audits for ISO 27001, SOC2 Ensuring business entity compliance with ISO 27001, GDPR, Australian Electronics Communications Act

Senior IT Compliance Manager (ISO)

N26

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

1 year

● OneTrust Requirement Negotiations, Contract Negotiations, SOW, Stakeholder Management, Project Management ● IT Controls Framework - major overhaul of the IT Controls Framework which will improve the efficiency of the controls, risks generated, identification of dependencies on teams, systems and related controls. Stakeholder management and coordination, project management, IT Controls scoping, reviews and approvals. ● Policies and Procedures - new as required and review existing

IT Compliance and Risk Manager

University of Exeter

Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

1 year 4 months

Delivering Risk Management, Third Party/Vendor Management/Supplier Management and Compliance program at pace for the department. Ensuring business entity compliance with ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials+, NHS DSP, and progress towards achieving ISO 27001 in future.

Board Apprentice | Academic Relations

ISACA London Chapter

Apr 2020 - Dec 2020

9 months

Information Security Manager | Database Administrator

Catalysis

Aug 2012 - Oct 2019

7 years 3 months

Greater Seattle Area

Catalysis is a digital marketing and data analytics company providing high quality, high return, digital marketing and analytics services. • Built and lead the Corporate Information Security Program (CISP). Perform Risk Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, Threat Modeling and PIAs for both US and EU markets. Implement and maintain Information Security and Privacy practice for regulatory and contractual compliance needs ranging from state regulations, data breach notifications, EU GDPR and now coming up CCPA • Integrating Privacy and Security Programs into one cohesive program • Manage and perform internal audits of IT systems, applications, assets, environment, processes and documentation Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Education • Primarily NIST Cybersecurity Framework and data breach notifications, moderate ISO 27001/2 and parts of COBIT 5.0 • Proactively identify compliance criteria issues through ongoing compliance management and governance • Initiate, lead, and implement several cybersecurity initiatives, cybersecurity awareness program for training and education for developers and business managers

Information Security Manager

Port of Tacoma

Dec 2013 - May 2014

6 months

Tacoma, WA, USA

Port of Tacoma is major seaport and jointly manage cargo operations with Port of Seattle to strengthen Puget Sound Gateway. Capstore Project: Implement NIST Cybersecruty Framework 1.0 as a critical infrastructure industry.

Database Administrator and Developer

InvestED

Jan 2009 - May 2014

5 years 5 months

Greater Seattle Area

InvestED is a non-profit organization funding schools in Washington State with mini-grants to keep students in schools. Worked as DBA and developer of the web development team and used Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2008. Also, worked as the Salesforce Administrator for InvestED


Education

Gautam Buddha University

Masters

MIT Sloan School of Management

Banasthali Vidyapith

Bachelors of Science

University of Washington

Master's Degree

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