
Suraj Shankhpal
Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Head Corporate Security - India & Philippines
Wells Fargo
Suraj is an accomplished security, risk and intelligence professional with more than 20+ years of diverse experience in security operations, project & technology, risk, incident & crisis management, market, digital & social media intelligence, investigation, brand protection, asset tracing, supply chain security and leakage management etc. He is a highly competitive, ambitious individual with proven leadership, managerial, strategical, tactical and operational skill sets. A result oriented, dedicated, resilient professional with strong will power and inclination towards learning. Suraj is currently working with Wells Fargo as ‘Senior Vice President | Director - Corporate Security, India & Philippines’ based out of Bengaluru, India. Prior to Wells Fargo, he has worked with PwC as a ‘Director - Risk Consulting as part of Forensic Services’. Prior to PwC, he has worked with UBS as a ‘Director - Group Corporate Services (GCS) I Head - Corporate Security, India’, stint with Goldman Sachs as an ‘Executive Director’ with the Office of Global Security (OGS) and with The Oberoi Group of Hotels at Trident, Bandra Kurla as the ‘Assistant Chief Security Officer’.
Prior to joining corporate security, he has served in the Indian Army as a ‘Captain’ in an Infantry unit where he was deployed in active counter insurgency operations in the North-East as the unit staff officer.
Suraj is currently the Secretary of the OSAC Mumbai Council, Co-Chairman of the OSAC Bengaluru Council and Chairman - Security Events at Fire & Security Association of India (FSAI) and he was also the past Secretary of the ASIS Mumbai Chapter. He was also awarded the 2016 Dan Grove APAC Regional Award which recognizes an emerging young security management professional in the Asia Pacific region by ASIS International at the ASIS China Conference 2016 in Shanghai, China.
