The practitioner behind the practice.
Viren Mantri
Viren Mantri is the Founder of Grey Orbits. A Singapore citizen with more than three decades across technology, cybersecurity, and risk, he has held senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, McAfee, UBS, and KPMG, with earlier development work at Citibank in India and the UAE.
As Chief Information Security Officer at SC Ventures, the venture-building platform of Standard Chartered Bank, he led cybersecurity across twenty fintech ventures in digital banking, supply chains, cryptocurrency, and tokenisation.
Prior to SC Ventures, his long tenure at Standard Chartered covered cyber architecture, design, operations, governance, risk and compliance. Earlier, he led Strategic Security Services at McAfee across Asia, ran global security monitoring at UBS, and supervised risk consulting at KPMG across banking, telecommunications, healthcare, and government. His work has remained anchored in regulated financial services, with regulatory engagement across jurisdictions and a record of authoring board papers and executive briefings.
Viren founded Grey Orbits years earlier, and has delivered international engagements across Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.
At Singapore Management University Executive Development, he designs and delivers programmes for senior executives on Blockchain, Digital Currencies and Tokenisation, AI Governance, Cybersecurity, and Quantum Readiness.
He is the author of three proprietary frameworks: the PETALS™ Framework for AI Governance, whose name is registered as a trademark with IPOS; the Cybersecurity Model for Startups; and the Framework for Cyber Insurance. He writes on the convergence of AI, digital assets, and quantum disruption.
Viren holds a Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence Systems (formerly Knowledge Engineering) from NUS, an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology (US), and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Mumbai (India). He is a certified AI Governance Professional and has completed Full Stack Development with AI at NUS and the SANS Blockchain and Smart Contract Security programme.