Founder & Principal Advisor
Sanjay Luhade — 34+ years of executive technology leadership.
Founder of C3GEEK and Principal Advisor to boards, CEOs, CIOs and CISOs on cloud, cyber, AI, FinOps, infrastructure, governance and global IT.
Executive Profile
A career built at the intersection of technology, cyber and the boardroom.
Sanjay Luhade is the Founder & Principal Advisor of C3GEEK. Over 34+ years, he has held senior CIO, CISO and global technology leadership roles across banking, cybersecurity, product and enterprise services — advising boards on the decisions that shape the enterprise.
He founded C3GEEK to bring board-level, vendor-neutral advisory to CXOs who need senior counsel — not another delivery pitch — on cloud, cybersecurity, AI, FinOps, infrastructure and digital transformation.
Areas of Expertise
Executive practice depth
Prior Leadership
Where he has led before founding C3GEEK
Wipro
Global enterprise technology and services leadership
Cisco
Enterprise networking and infrastructure leadership
Symantec
Global cybersecurity product and strategy leadership
Citi
Global banking technology and infrastructure leadership
BNY Mellon
Global banking technology, infrastructure and cyber leadership
Quick Heal
Enterprise cybersecurity product and platform leadership
Seqrite
Enterprise cybersecurity strategy and CISO leadership
Roles span global CIO, CISO, product security leadership and enterprise technology strategy across BFSI, cybersecurity and technology services.
Selected Achievements
Executive outcomes across three decades
- Reduced cloud spend by 28% through FinOps and multi-cloud strategy
- Zero major security incidents across a platform serving 3M+ endpoints
- Six consecutive successful audit cycles across ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, DPDP
- Enterprise datacenter modernization across 25,000+ servers and 4,000+ databases
- Directed disaster recovery with zero data loss in a critical enterprise event
- Board-grade cyber-risk reporting adopted across executive committees
Certifications
Professional credentials
CISM
CISA
CRISC
CGEIT
ISO 27001 LA
TOGAF
ITIL
PMP
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C3GEEK partners with boards, CEOs, CIOs and CISOs on executive advisory, vCIO / vCISO mandates, AI governance, cloud strategy and cyber resilience.
- info@c3geek.com
- +91 70383 22971
- linkedin.com/in/sanjay-luhade
- Global · Advising boards across APAC, EMEA & Americas