Vivek Khindria, President  and Principle Consultant of Risk Embrace Inc., was the former Senior Vice President of Cyber Security, Network, and Technology Risk at Loblaw Company Limited. Vivek has earned his Chartered Director designation from McMaster’s DeGroote’s school of business program on board governance. He also holds CISSP, CISM, and a BSc. Vivek has been leading large-scale security, network, cloud migration, and technology risk programs for one of Canada’s largest businesses, with $62+ billion in annual revenue. Loblaw has over 22 brands, more than 230,000 employees, and 3,000+ stores and clinics across retail, pharmacy, beauty, healthcare, banking, transport, and media—plus Canada’s largest loyalty program. Over his career, Vivek has held technology and cyber leadership roles at McMaster University, BMO, CIBC, and Bell. He is both a hands-on technical expert and an international speaker on cyber security, with field tested experience in incident response, cyber security testing, cloud security, PCI-DSS compliance, AI governance, and quantum computing readiness.

He was a founding contributor to the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX.ca), helping Canadian businesses share threat data and best practices. From 2016 to 2024, he represented Canada on the Information Security Forum Advisory Council, a global coalition of Fortune 500 firms focused on cyber security research and solutions. Known for making complex topics accessible, Vivek continues to guide C-suite, boards, and startups in understanding and managing technology risks including artificial intelligence, cyber security, incident response, security operations, quantum computing, network, cloud, IoT, OT, identity, cryptography and resilience.