From Compliance to Competitive Advantage

Roland Carandang is a leading digital security and resilience expert who heads a world-class consulting team at Protiviti, specialising in modernising and protecting businesses against evolving digital threats. With over two decades of experience spanning ethical hacking, security implementation / operations, and strategic resilience planning, Roland has established himself as a trusted advisor to organisations navigating complex cyber landscapes. His career journey from Philadelphia to Australia to London has equipped him with unique global perspectives on technology risk and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Sean brings extensive expertise in optimizing enterprise IT landscapes and unlocking strategic value from technology investments. His experience spans global enterprises where he has led major digital transformation initiatives, including heading IT and Cybersecurity for multinational organizations. Sean combines deep technical knowledge with strategic insight to help organizations transform their application portfolios into engines of innovation. His practical approach to portfolio optimization has helped numerous organizations free up IT budget for strategic initiatives while reducing technical complexity.

Michael CISOs, CIOs, and senior architects at some of the UK's largest financial institutions on cybersecurity, technology transformation, and risk management. Over a career spanning London and Seattle, he has built and led international teams delivering security and portfolio transformation, operating model revisions, infrastructure discovery, and identity and access management rogrammes for £1B+ revenue banks, asset managers, and global SaaS providers. Michael's work with Ardoq focuses on helping clients translate enterprise architecture insight into measurable business outcomes, from portfolio rationalisation to technology modernisation and regulatory-driven change.

Joe has more than two decade of experience spanning three industries: financial services, consulting and technology. He combines deep subject-matter-expertise and relationship building skills to influence and advise at the very top levels within complex, global financial services organisations. Joe has led numerous transformation programmes across all three lines of defence, but with a particular specialism in the Risk, Resilience and Compliance space. He leverages his practical experience along with creative and disruptive thinking to deploy tech-powered solutions which deliver tangible value to clients.

Angela Sanfilippo hosts this conversation between Ardoq and Protiviti. She spent the first part of her career building go-to-market and product marketing programs for high-growth SaaS and AI companies, including Wrike, PunchTab, and Hightail, driving growth that carried each through to acquisition, by Citrix, Walmart, and OpenText respectively. At Ardoq, Angela leads Global Partners & Alliances, running point on exactly the kind of partnership you'll witness in this session.