Naveen Sarvada is a technology and cyber risk executive with extensive experience helping financial institutions navigate complex technology, cybersecurity, regulatory, and transformation challenges.

As Director of Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Management at Royal Bank of Canada, he heads technology and cyber risk for the U.S. banking organization, overseeing a broad risk portfolio and working with senior technology, cybersecurity, risk, and business leaders on cyber posture, regulatory readiness, and control effectiveness.

Naveen’s experience spans across RBC, EY, IBM, and Deloitte, with a career that includes directing cybersecurity risk through M&A due diligence, leading post-merger integration of cyber programs across financial institutions, building and transforming cyber risk functions, and driving complex regulatory remediation from identified gaps through sustainable corrective action. He has also helped organizations translate regulatory expectations into practical risk frameworks, metrics, and governance models that support executive decision-making.

What distinguishes Naveen’s approach is his ability to connect technical risk, regulatory expectations, and business priorities and turn complex risk issues into practical actions that executives and board can act on. His work increasingly focuses on the risk governance challenges surrounding emerging technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum technologies, and how organizations can build risk frameworks that remain effective as technology continues to evolve.

Naveen brings a practical leadership perspective to technology and risk through understanding the technology, challenge the assumptions, and build governance that enables the business to move forward with confidence.