Serdar Cabuk is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Financial Advisory business, based in London. He focuses on growing Teneo’s cybersecurity capabilities, helping bring them to market across EMEA and other key markets globally.
Serdar brings more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, technology and risk consulting, having held senior technical and leadership roles across the Big Four and IBM. He advises clients in the financial services and energy sectors on cybersecurity strategy, response to and recovery from major cyber incidents, and cybersecurity and technology trends and regulation. He also has a track record of embedding cybersecurity across key client issues such as M&A due diligence, pre-IPO valuations, complex supply chains and the safe adoption of emerging technologies.
Prior to Teneo, Serdar was the UK lead partner for risk consulting and energy consulting at KPMG and previously led the Nordic cyber business at Deloitte and the European security consulting business at IBM. Earlier in his career, he developed secure payments solutions at Visa Europe and was granted industry patents on trusted computing at HP Labs, a precursor to blockchain.
Serdar is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University.