Stephen Martin

About Stephen Martin

Stephen Jesukanth aka Stephen Martin is a leader with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. He is currently focused on building a robust strategy that can drive sales for Cognizant cybersecurity practice, using his deep understanding of clients, cybersecurity practices and technology partnerships. He has deep expertise in Infrastructure Security, Incident Response and Data Security. He established multi-year, strategic cyber-transformation programs for F200 companies, and has a cross-industry experience with a greater focus in Financial Services and Healthcare. He is also a public policy enthusiast with education from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is pursuing social change through technology-led transformation.

Experience

1. Markets Leader - Cybersecurity, North America, AVP

   Cognizant

   Jan 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Heading the Cybersecurity markets for North America, driving strategy and execution, growing our footprint with clients through build and managed services- Helping clients mitigate their security risks while continuing to transform digitally- Collaborating with key alliance partners to ease clients\' adoption of their products- Leveraging cybersecurity technologies and transformative capabilities including Gen AI to continue to defend and improve trust in digital services

Education

• Green Valley School, Kotagiri, The Nilgiris, India

  Higher Secondary Education

  1993 — 1998

• Pandiaraj Memorial School, The Nilgiris, India

  High School

  1986 — 1993

• Harvard Kennedy School

  Public Leadership Credential, Public Administration

• Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

• IDEO U

  Designing Strategy

Skills

• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Dlp
• Business Acumen
• Pre-Sales
• Infrastructure
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Project Delivery
• Management
• IT Solutions
• Information Security
• Solution Selling
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Strategy
• Computer Security
• Trusted Advisor
• Enterprise Architecture
• Identity Management
• Consulting
• Unified Communications
• Business Alliances
• Disaster Recovery
• Cissp
• Information Technology
• Thought Leadership
• Managed Services
• Networking
• IT Management
• Solution Architecture
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Saas
• Virtualization
• Innovator
• Siem
• Network Security
• Vendor Management
• IT Strategy
• Itil