Career profile
Vikas Bangia
Chief Information Security Officer, Bessemer Trust
- Current role, per sources checked 7 September 2026
- Not stated in the sources
Vikas Bangia is the Chief Information Security Officer of Bessemer Trust, promoted to the role in 2026.
Career path
Before joining Bessemer, Bangia worked as the Information Technology Manager at a global fragrance and flavor company.
He then served as a project manager at Ernst & Young, where he focused on encryption technologies.
Bangia joined Bessemer Trust in 2006.
He was later promoted to Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer at the firm, a move reported among new CISO appointments for 2026.
Remit and committee work
As CISO, Bangia leads Bessemer Trust's enterprise information security strategy and oversees the disciplines that protect the firm's systems, data, clients, and business operations.
He provides strategic leadership across cybersecurity risk management, security governance, regulatory alignment, threat management, secure technology enablement, identity and access management, operational resilience, and the adoption of emerging technologies.
He chairs the Corporate Information Security & Privacy Committee and sits on the Crisis Management Operations Team, GenAI Review Group, Digital Technology Committee, Office Closure Team, and Operational Risk Management Working Group.
He is also described as responsible for providing strategic guidance on security architecture and operations.
Bangia is a member of the SANS Advisory Board and InfraGard.
He holds an M.S. in cyber security from Brown University, a B.S. in biochemistry from The Ohio State University, and is a graduate of the Executive Information Technology Management program at Columbia University.
He is a GIAC Certified Incident Handler and Penetration Tester and holds the CISSP and CCSP certifications.
Published writing
Bangia has written for Bessemer Trust's client-facing insights, including a piece on common holiday-season scams and how to guard against them, published December 11, 2025.
He also authored guidance on protecting client offices from cybercrime, published June 10, 2025, which carried his Chief Information Security Officer title.
