Deepak Dadhwal

Role: Responsible for PAN India security of corporate assets (Offices, printing presses, television and radio studios, and media teams in the field).

Major Accomplishments

• Implemented Strategic Security Alignment: Developed a comprehensive five-year roadmap aligning the security function with Times Group's business objectives across multiple domains.
• Enhanced Efficiency and Direction: Executed security organization restructuring, standardizing processes, and establishing policy directions to drive increased overall efficiency.
• Capacity Building and Training: Created and delivered comprehensive security awareness and training programs, fostering enhanced capabilities among employees and the security team.
• Fire Prevention and Safety: Collaborated with key stakeholders to address frequent fire incidents. Successfully implemented best practices in fire prevention, resulting in a reduction of the annual fire incident rate from three to zero.
• Proactive Risk Management: Conducted detailed risk assessments in the dynamic media environment, leveraging advanced technology and threat intelligence for proactive risk management.
• Emergency Response and Crisis Management: Developed and executed emergency response and crisis management plans, ensuring seamless business continuity in time-sensitive media operations. Successfully dealt with political violence directed against the Times Group, and IR issues.
• High-Profile Event Security: Organized security operations for high-profile media visibility events, ensuring flawless execution and attendee safety.

Responsible for ensuring that security and safety risks to Aircel's people, physical assets, products, processes, and profits are adequately managed and company interests protected. Worked closely with other security leaders of Maxis Group and supported crisis situations and emergencies in the APAC Region.

Major Accomplishments

• Security Integration: Established close collaboration with diverse functional and business leaders, seamlessly integrating security practices into core business processes. Cultivated a pervasive culture of security-consciousness throughout the organization.
• Security Surveys and Risk Assessments: Performed routine security surveys and risk assessments, consistently updating and refining risk mitigation measures to bolster organizational resilience.
• Security Documents & Communication: Enhanced the dissemination of security reviews, assessments, and guidelines, fostering a heightened level of security awareness. This proactive approach led to improved employee responsiveness and adherence to their security responsibilities.
• Law Enforcement Collaboration: Established robust connections with Law Enforcement agencies to ensure timely support, enabling the expeditious response to security incidents.
• Anti-terrorism: Successfully managed the company's response to a terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir. Leveraged personal presence and implemented strategic countermeasures to support and inspire business teams, ensuring a prompt resumption of operations. Formulated and implemented Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and anti-terrorism measures for company assets, effectively mitigating the risk of future attacks.

Role involved providing leadership to HCLs security organization and securing HCL assets globally.

Major Accomplishments

• Standardization and Consolidation: Orchestrated the standardization and consolidation of security policies as a pivotal step in the global business integration process. Led the centralization of the security organization, fostering a unified approach to security across all business lines. This strategic initiative led to streamlined processes, centralized security risk management, and an elevated overall security posture.
• Global Security Oversight: Provided insightful guidance and mentorship to facility heads globally, ensuring consistent and effective security operations across the organization's diverse locations.
• Driving Security Technology Projects: Led the ideation and execution of key security technology projects on a global scale, leveraging innovative solutions to bolster the organization's security capabilities.
• Security Partner Consolidation: Successfully consolidated security partners to optimize costs efficiency, while maintaining high-quality security services across the organization.
• Crisis Management Planning: Developed comprehensive crisis management plans for all global regions, enabling the organization to respond effectively to potential security threats and crisis situations.
• Security Surveys and Risk Assessments: Conducted meticulous security surveys and risk assessments to evaluate the company's security preparedness, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary enhancements.

Delivered Environmental, Health, Safety, and security project for Optomen productions. Conducted off site security risk assessment and on-site health, safety, and security cover for filming of Man Vs Monster series for the National Geographic Channel. Ensured successful, incident free and timely completion of the project, despite challenges of working with foreign media teams in Maoist infested areas of India.

• Infantry officer from the Gurkha Rifles with extensive training and operational experience, and demonstrated expertise in- Administration, Risk Management, and Leadership.
• Opted for a second career in corporate security, leveraging military experience and leadership skills to excel in new role.