
Ira Goel
Senior Cybersecurity and Data Protection Leader
Salary / Daily rate
Frankfurt, Germany
Freelance
Languages
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.
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