Meet the founder, and advisory bench
FOUNDER, CEO & MANAGING PARTNER
Dr. Sandeep Kumar, PhD
Two careers, one trade. Thirty‒seven years and counting.
Sandeep founded NirVyn in 2025 after two careers that together span close to four decades — twenty-two years as a commissioned officer in the Indian Navy, followed by fifteen leading enterprise security and risk for some of India's largest industrial businesses. He has set risk and security strategy at Reliance, Vedanta, and G4S — operating at the scale and complexity that the firm's current clients are themselves navigating. The bench he has built at NirVyn extends that practitioner orientation.
His view of the practice is direct: security is not a cost centre to be tolerated; it is the quiet enabler of growth. Most security problems are systemic, not symptomatic. Paracetamol brings the fever down; it does not cure the disease. The endeavour at NirVyn is to find the root cause and design for it — measured, evidence-based, fitted to the business rather than lifted from a template. A PhD in Management and three and a half decades in the field have convinced him of one thing: good security is good judgement, applied early — and most security problems are design problems before they are operational ones.
Indian navy
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES Limited
vedanta limited
g4s india (p) ltd
education
certifications
published writing
Commander (Retd.), 1989–2011 — twenty‒two years' commissioned service
Senior security leadership for Risk Management, Governance, and Business Transformation — Mumbai, 2011–2018
Director, Risk and Security — Odisha, 2018–2021
Director Solutions & Business Head, Integrated Technology Solutions — Gurugram, 2022–2025
PhD, Innovation Management · Symbiosis International University, Pune
QMS Lead Auditor (ISO 9001:2015) · Design Thinking and Innovation
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The best time to think about security is before you need it. The second-best time is now.
Senior advisor and consultant
Murli Menon
Cyber security, data protection, and AI governance leader
Cybersecurity, AI governance and data protection leader with over four decades spanning the Indian Navy and global technology services. Most recently Director and Chief Information Security Officer at Atos, where he advised Group Security on cyber strategy and served as Data Protection Officer for India, leading cyber security and crisis management across delivery centres in eight countries. He also built the firm's internal audit capability across Europe and Africa. Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 27001, 22301, 20000 and 14001, and Lead Implementer and Lead Auditor for ISO 42001, the AI management system standard. He anchors NirVyn's cyber, data protection and AI governance depth.
Senior advisor and consultant
Deepak Pokhariyal
Physical security and maritime security specialist
An industry veteran with about forty years' experience across maritime, offshore, industrial and enterprise security. Retired from the Indian Navy as Commodore before leading corporate security at Reliance Industries and Cognizant. Authority in physical security architecture, risk management, and industrial and urban security design, with deep specialisation in offshore and maritime security. At NirVyn, Deepak leads on physical security design and risk mitigation strategies for clients with large physical asset footprints.
senior advisor
Dr. Rajbir Singh, PhD
Global business and IT consulting leader
Global business and IT consulting leader with more than thirty years' experience. Co-founder and CEO of i4 Mentors Foundation (a startup accelerator), and founder and consulting partner at Value Centria (a boutique business consulting practice). An Electronics Engineer and management professional whose lens at NirVyn is on commercial value, scale, and the technology-and-innovation dimension of complex client engagements.
senior advisor and consultant
Venkatraman R
Industry Leader - Public Sector, Private Sector & MNCs
Industry veteran with more than forty years' experience across restructuring, turnaround consulting, interim management, and investment advisory. Has worked across public sector, private sector, and multinational operations in India. At NirVyn, his judgement shapes engagements that intersect with M&A, organisational transformation, and operational restructuring — the situations where security is one dimension of a wider business question.
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