Payal Vadhani

Payal Vadhani is the partner-in-charge of Aronson LLC’s Technology Risk Services Group. She is an innovative and seasoned executive with more than fifteen years of technology risk advisory and assurance experience. Her experience has been providing internal auditing, IT risk management, information and cyber security, third party reporting, compliance, process improvement, and additional technology risk services to clients across industries. In particular, she has extensive financial services experience.

Throughout her career, she has sought to align clients’ needs and strategic objectives with an approach that manages the risks of technology with the benefits. As a trusted advisor to her clients, Payal succeeds in breaking down complex technology concepts and developing pragmatic, cost-effective solutions that minimize risk and add value. She offers significant experience building technology risk management programs and managing large advisory engagements.

In her current role, she is focusing on the development of risk services related to existing and emerging technologies including cloud (private and public) computing, mobile computing, big data, social media, and internet of things.

Payal earned a Master’s of Business Administration degree in Information Technology from American University. She received her Bachelor’s in Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune, one of the premier universities in India. She holds credentials in IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).