Khalid Khan Vice President, Security- Center for Excellence
Ghulam Mohammed Director & chief Mentor
Prof. Akella Murthy VP, Research & Development
Mohammed Asfour Director IT & MENA
Ranganathan Haliyur Legal Advisor & I.P-Cyber Law
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Zaki Qureshey Founder & Chairman
With an experience of over 11 years in Diversified fields of IT
Industry, The driving force behind E2-Labs existence and success in the
field of Information Security is due to the vision of Dr. Zaki and his
unrelenting drive to provide the best of the services in Information
Security, an independent computer security and digital intelligence
consultant is the Founder and CEO of E2 Labs- a Hyderabad based IT
security provider, which has been credited with starting the first
school of ethical hacking in Asia. A fountain of talent, Dr. Zaki
Qureshey is a BCA/ MCA with numerous international certifications to
his credit that include CCSA, CCNA, MCSE, NCQE and CNS to name a few.
He also underwent the SANS GIAC/ GCSW training during his initial years
in the field of IT. An avid E-hacker with significant experience in
information systems and information security, he has done extensive
research on Network Security concentrating on social engineering to
detect hackers and he is an authority on network security. His
illustrious career spanning over a decade has been enriched with key
assignments at prominent national and international organizations that
include The Kuwait Airways, Computer information Technology and Union
Carbide to name a few. The school of ethical hacking that he helped set
up is a first-of-its kind school in Asia that has gained immense
popularity for its path breaking efforts in the field of information
security and has been making headlines in national and international
journals such as the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON DC, ASIA WALL STREET
JOURNAL, BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, THE ECONOMIC TIMES AND THE TIMES
OF INDIA. The appreciation that has been pouring in from all quarters
across the globe are epitomized by the 390+ articles in international
media that have featured e2-labs and its school of ethical hacking. Dr.
Zaki Qureshey’s vision is to convert this school of ethical hacking
into a world-class university that provides cutting edge knowledge and
expertise in information security.
In
recognition of his technical expertise and esteem, and the laurels that
his company has come to acquire in the global IT arena, Dr. Zaki
Qureshey has received many awards. His distinctions are profiled below:
National Award by All India Achievers Foundation (AIAF)
Honored National Level “UDYOG RATTAN AWARD” - 2008 (IES, New Delhi)
Recognized for the theme ‘’Dynamics of Disruption’’ (RED HERRING - U.S.A)
Outstanding “Young Achiever” Award of the year 2004.
“Person of the month” Award – Times Of India
Best Speaker award on 19 occasions
Recognized as amongstthe Top-50 IT entrepreneurs of Hyderabad (India)
E2-Labs was awarded Top 100 Companies of ASIA 2005-06.
Khalid Khan Vice President, Security- Center for Excellence B.Sc (Hons), MBCS, CISSP Over 15 years of IS projects and 10 Years of IT Security experience. • A professional Services European director of leading I&AM vendors have gained depth of knowledge and experience in large scale deployments of Identity management and Access Management, SSO technology based solutions.
• A European focused Identity Management professional with experience
of eprovisioning, meta directories, virtual directories, portals, RBAC
policies. • Influenced Analysts (Meta, Gartner) through interviews and presentations. • Influential member of EEMA for formulating RBAC standards prior to submission to NIST. Representing RSA Security.
• Worked closely with European teams , country managers and sales
directors in writing winning bids & proposals, project plans
and proposals for IAM. • Architected, Managed and Delivered
multi-million dollar security projects to agreed parameters of cost,
time and quality. • Provided technical and business leadership
addressing complex security architecture issues, policy issues and
compliance management. • Managed teams of developers, deployment consultants, integrators & PM’s. • Recruited & managed staff in Stockholm, Oslo, Paris, Frankfurt and Helsinki. • Built Architectural component plans for Netegrity Inc & RSA Security Inc across EMEA building it from scratch.
• Introduced high value consulting to leading I&AM vendors through
an exhaustive sales training on Architectures. • Re-engineered RSA
Sales teams to engage with RSA PSO services in complex solution sales
process using Consultancy as an entry point. • Assisted Business
Development teams, country focused sales teams in winning new Identity
Management business in Italy,Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai, South Africa, Holland, France, Belgium,
Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, UK. • Worked very closely with
leading vendors across the industry including SAP, Oracle, BEA, IBM,
Entrust, RSA Security, Netegrity, Thor, Waveset, Radiant Logic,
Maxware, Sun, Microsoft, iPlanet, Siemmens and many more..
Was
part of the top management team of one of India's leading and most
respected conglomerates. Mahindra and Mahindra ltd, where he worked in
varied capacities for over 30 years.
He joined Mahindra &
Mahindra as a management trainee during which period in addition to
formal management education, went through internships in all the
departments and all the companies in the group. Viz. International
Harvester, Dr Beck & Co, Otis, Vickers Sperry, Turner Hoare &
Co, East Asiatic, Mahindra Ugine Steel Co., Mahindra sintered products,
Mahindra Engineering & Chemicals, Mahindra Owen, Mahindra Van Wijk
& Visser, etc.
He was initially head of the I.T and
systems group. He was part of and led a new I.T initiative to implement
state of art I.T systems across all Mahindra & Mahindra plants and
offices. This led to the very first corporate visioning and strategic
planning exercises undertaken in the company. This also gave an
opportunity to study best practices at General Motors and Ford Motor
Co. (USA), Peugeot (France), KIA Motors (Korea) etc and interact with
the leading global I.T companies viz. IBM, Unisys, DEC, Data General
etc. Managing change and training over 5000 engineers/employees to
adopt interactive systems was the challenge.
In 1990 he was
made the Managing Director of Mahindra Exports Ltd. the international
trading subsidiary of the group. During this period the group set up
subsidiaries in the USA and also acquired companies overseas. This
assignment entailed extensive travel across continents and building
global relationships.
In 1999 he was appointed Advisor,
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, and was involved with Strategic Planning
for various group companies, acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures,
project evaluation, financing, project implementation, setting up of
world class and world scale manufacturing facilities and operations
monitoring.
After leaving Mahindras he has promoted two
companies and is currently on the boards of and advisor to, several
companies in the I.T, financial services, infrastructure and energy
sectors in India and the UAE.
Mr. Mohammed has a B.A (Hons)
Economics and Statistics and has a Doctorate in Information Technology
and Management from the University Of California (USA).
Prof. Akella Murthy VP, Research & Development He
has served at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
during 1964- 1999. Has also served the Mechanical Engineering
Department as Professor and then served Reliability Engineering Centre
and Industrial Engineering Department as Professor from 1984 to
1999.Undertook consultancy work from the organizations like Garden
Reach Workshops, Hindustan Copper Limited, SriRam Bearings, Metal Box,
Hindustan Shipping Yard, Bokaro Steel Plant, DoT Kharagpur, Pfizer
etc.,
He visited Germany (erstwhile West Germany) 1975-77 Post Doctoral
Fellow at TU Braunschweig. Research area was Grinder Dynamics, Machine
Tool Vibrations. Visited Austria, Switzerland and neighboring countries
where the visit includes several universities and research labs. He
visited U. S. A. in 1982. The visits include universities at Michigan,
Wisconsin, Georgia Tech., MIT, Brooklyn, Stonybrook, Cleve Land Reserve
etc., totaling more than 25 in number. Chaired at a session in the
International Conference sponsored by ASME, IEEE on CAD and Robotics.
Presented papers at various conferences in W. Germany and USA including
the one held by US Navy. Government of India (MHRD) gave a grant of
nearly Rs. 4 Crores to start a Reliability Engineering Centre (REC) at
IIT Kharagpur. An M. Tech programme and Doctoral programmes were
started in the year 1984.
Mohammed Asfour Director IT & Global Operations Mohammad
Asfour is serving as an Advisor to the Board of Trustees at the
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) and the Ex-Project
Manager for the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship.
Mohammad's work in the government included several tasks such as: Promoting Jordan’s ICT sector:
His Majesty King Abdullah had advised the creation of the REACH
initiative which represented a strategic roadmap for developing the
Jordanian ICT sector. His task included setting up a promotional
strategy, assisting local and foreign ICT companies invest in Jordan,
participation in international events, managing and participating in
promotional missions all over the world, introducing ICT through
education, etc. As a result, and by the end of his term over 60 local
and foreign companies had benefited from our exemptions. Jordan reached
over US$100 million in ICT services exports.
Thomas Nicodemus Advisor Far East Aged
55 years, is a graduate in electronics and an associated member of
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He has
immense experience in telecommunication, process control systems and
super computing networking. He worked in AVB Ltd, ICRISAT and Fonar
Corporation from 1968 to 2003 during which time he contributed to a
number of international publications.
He has developed total
solutions in high technology areas like IC design, Electronic
surveillance, commercial sports software and various other fields over
the last 3 decades. He was rendering advisory services to projects in
National remote sensing, Indian Navy and defense related projects,
apart from the core area of interest in communication relating to GPS
and GIS projects.
Currently with Malaysian, South African and
U.S clients for developing different projects of varied nature like
Agriculture, gaming software, electronic security gadgets and remote
vehicle tracking systems.
Ranganathan Haliyur Legal Advisor & I.P-Cyber Law Bachelor of Commerce, LL.B,, (MBA) Post Graduate Diploma Intellectual Property Rights Post Graduate Diploma Cyber Laws
B.Sc (Hons), MBCS, CISSP
He
has served at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
during 1964- 1999. Has also served the Mechanical Engineering
Department as Professor and then served Reliability Engineering Centre
and Industrial Engineering Department as Professor from 1984 to
1999.Undertook consultancy work from the organizations like Garden
Reach Workshops, Hindustan Copper Limited, SriRam Bearings, Metal Box,
Hindustan Shipping Yard, Bokaro Steel Plant, DoT Kharagpur, Pfizer
etc., 
Mohammad
Asfour is serving as an Advisor to the Board of Trustees at the
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) and the Ex-Project
Manager for the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship. 
