Marc Tobias Daniel Gondrom

Security is everyone’s responsibility. Our people are our strongest link to support and protect our customers. A strong risk culture, knowledge sharing, and training and developing our talent allow us to develop innovative solutions in a secure way, protecting our customers and ensuring trust in the wider industry today and for the future.”

Marc Tobias Daniel Gondrom
IBF Fellow (2022), Technology & Operations

Marc Tobias Daniel Gondrom

Managing Director, Group Chief Information Security Officer, UOB

Biography

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 standardisation 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. 

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 organisation 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.

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