Tobias Gondrom
Group Chief Information Security Officer
United Overseas Bank Limited

Mr Tobias Gondrom joined UOB in 2018 and is the Group Chief Information Security Officer. He is responsible for ensuring the end-to-end information security in UOB and implementing all cyber security initiatives across the Bank.

Tobias has more than 20 years of experience in information security, software development, application security, cryptography, electronic signatures and global standardization strategies. He has held various roles in independent software vendors and large global corporations in the technology, financial and government sectors. Prior to joining UOB, Tobias was the Chief Technology Officer (Security) at Huawei.

He holds a London Business School Sloan Masters degree in Leadership and Strategy.

Since 2021, Tobias is the chair of the ABS (Association of Banks in Singapore) Standing Committee on Cyber Security (SCCS) and in 2022 has been awarded by the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF) as IBF Fellow. From 2014 to 2018, Tobias was a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) and the chair of the IETF Trust. From 2004 to 2018, he was also the chair of multiple IETF workings groups in the security domain, the latest one being the chair of the DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) working group and a member of the IETF security directorate until 2018.

Since 2007, Tobias has also held leadership roles for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a global not-for-profit organization aimed at improving software security, including as a member of the board from 2014 to 2017 and former global chairman. In addition, Tobias is former a board member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hong Kong and Macau Chapter and a former member of the NIS Platform of the European Commission, where he advised the European Union on Cyber Security and Risk Management.