Ramsés Gallego

With a background education in Business Administration (MBA) and Law, Ramsés is a +25-year security professional with deep expertise in the Risk Management and Governance areas. Ramsés is Chief Technologist Cybersecurity with DXC Technology, where he defines the vision and mission, purpose, and promise of the company in that area. He has been Chief Technology Officer for OpenText Cybersecurity and has also been Strategist & Evangelist at the Office of the CTO in Symantec. Before, he was at Dell Security and CA Technologies for 5 and 8 years, respectively. He was Regional Manager for SurfControl in Spain and Portugal and also Chief Strategy Officer of the Security and Risk Management practice at Entelgy. Ramsés served for three years in ISACA’s CISM and CGEIT Certification Committees and also in the Guidance & Practices Committee for three years, from where deliverables are created for the community. He is honored to have been the Chair for ISACA’s ISRM Conference and part of the Program Committee for the events SecureCloud 2010 and 2012. He is President at the ISACA Barcelona Chapter and played an instrumental role in the Planning Committee that prepared the first-ever ISACA's World Congress in Washington, June 2011.

 

He has also been part of the ISACA's CISM PATF Task Force. Ramsés believes that a revolution (rather than an evolution) is needed when considering the move from technology to enterprise risk, and that the cloud dimension offers incredible opportunities for businesses today. Ramsés thinks that governance is essential to facilitate innovation in this changing business environment and holds many certifications that combine different knowledge areas and broaden his vision on technology within the marketplace.

 

Ramsés is a CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of the Enterprise IT), and a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He is the proud owner of the SCPM (Stanford Certified Project Manager) from Stanford University, California, one of the first experts with the CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge), and also an ITIL and COBIT Foundations certified professional. He develops results-oriented, business-focused, people-driven projects due to his Six Sigma Black Belt accreditation. An internationally recognized public speaker, he has visited +25 different countries in the past 12 months and has been awarded 'Best Speaker' many times. He received the John Kuyers Award for Best Speaker/Conference Contributor in June 2013. He has been named 'Privacy by Design Ambassador' by the Government of Ontario, Canada, and is proud of being Past International VP for ISACA's Board of Directors.

 

He teaches in different universities on Digital Transformation, Change, and is a visiting professor in the Master of Cybersecurity for IE Business School. Ramsés is also Executive Vice President of the Quantum World Association and feels honored of having had the US flag flown on his honor in the Capitol on November the 1st, 2013. Ramsés has been inducted into the ISACA Hall of Fame in 2024 and has received the Fellow grade -the highest recognition from IFCIGT, the largest ICT federation in the world-. He lives in Barcelona, Spain, with his wonderful wife and his two loved kids and runs Marathons around the world -22 already-, including the ‘Grand Slam’ (the 6 World Marathon Majors) and other (very) long-distance running adventures.