Vikram Desai is a senior managing director at Accenture where he leads the global cybersecurity strategy and organization practice. He has more than 25 years of experience as a senior operating executive, across public and privately held product, service, and consulting companies. Desai has deep cross-sector business and operational knowledge spanning cybersecurity, analytics, information technology (IT) infrastructure, application networking, and communications, spanning many industries including life sciences, retail, industrial, travel, and consumer goods and services.

Prior to joining Accenture, Desai served as CEO and a board member of technology pioneers including Kavado, Liquid Computing, and Vizient Corp. He was also the chief operating officer of Radware Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDWR), where he successfully established the company as a leader in the intelligent application switching and cybersecurity markets and led the company through nine consecutive quarters of double-digit growth.

Desai is frequently interviewed by the media to discuss security and technology trends and a speaker at national and international security and IT conferences covering topics spanning digital transformation, business resiliency, identity management, wireless security, intrusion detection and incident response, and information security. He has served on the boards of Security Innovation, Basic6, Nextcloud, and Endgame Inc. and currently volunteers his expertise as a mentor of Yale University's Entrepreneurial Institute.