A practising Chief Information Security Officer — not a sideline consultant. Two decades defending enterprises across forty-two countries, now building sovereign security for Bharat.
Dhananjay has spent twenty years on the sharp end of real incidents — the 3 a.m. breach call, the board that needs an answer, the regulator that needs evidence. iManEdge is the distillation of that experience into products and counsel.
His career spans security leadership across listed enterprises and global delivery organisations, with hands-on work in data protection, OT security, identity and AI governance across forty-two countries. He has built and run security programmes end-to-end — from board charter and risk appetite to SOC, VAPT and compliance — which is why iManEdge engagements begin with strategy, not a product pitch.
Bharat’s digital economy increasingly runs on foreign tooling and borrowed playbooks. Dhananjay founded iManEdge as a sovereign, zero-external-capital company to change that — building Made-in-India products like Citadel DSPM and its proprietary AI engines, SMUGGY AI and TIMMY, alongside practitioner-grade advisory that a Big-4 deck cannot match.
Inducted into the EC-Council C|CISO Hall of Fame in 2025 and serving as President of the IAPP Mumbai KnowledgeNet Chapter, Dhananjay is a frequent speaker and writer on cyber strategy, the DPDP Act and AI governance — reaching a community of more than twenty thousand security professionals.
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