Francisco Fernández Melchor

Senior Principal Architect - Security @IFS

London, GB

Leading R&D Product Security area at IFS, a global Swedish company with 5,500+ employees in more than 80 countries that develops and delivers AI driven enterprise cloud software for companies worldwide who want to differentiate on service.Main activities- Member of the R&D Platform Leadership Team- Member of the R&D Extended Leadership Team (XLT)- Reporting directly to the R&D SVP of Platform area- Managing penetration test and source code review budget- Driving the adoption of Security-by-Design across the R&D area- Managing assessment and resolution of customer Security issues (e.g, external pen-test, vulnerability scans)- Representing R&D Product Security function within a number of different forums (Product Security Board, Quarterly Security Board with company’s CIO, TDA, customer meetings)- Leading and performing selection process (e.g, headcount assessment, writing job descriptions, interviews) for additional R&D Product Security team members- Managing third-party providers.

PMI (Project Management Institute)

PMP (Project Management Professional), Project Management

Vaughan Systems

Executive Master Professional English

Florida Global University

Master of Science, Finance, General

University of Cambridge

Certificate in Advanced English (C1 level), English Language

(ISC)²

Official (ISC)² CISSP CBK Review Seminar

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

BSc Degree, Computer Science

Universidad Europea

MSc Degree, Information & Communication Technology Security