Nisha Shankar
Partner, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Financial Crime, PwC Canada
Nisha Shankar is a Cybersecurity, Privacy and Financial Crime Partner at PwC Canada. She helps clients build leading-edge cybersecurity operations—from strategy to implementation.
She thrives at the intersection of business and technology and has a strong focus on operational excellence and innovation. Nisha is a growth catalyst and has helped build consulting practices from scratch in various firms including the Big 4s and has a track record of building and developing high value, high margin consulting business in banking and financial services with a focus on cybersecurity, financial crime, enterprise technology and risk management.
Nisha is passionate about building cohesive, diverse and high performing teams to produce extraordinary results for our clients. She works towards creating cybersecurity business units of tomorrow—the ones that become a source of cyber resilience and strength well into the future.
Outside of work, Nisha is on the technology, audit and risk committee for March of Dimes Canada—an organization focused on empowering people with disabilities. She is also one of the honorees of the Consulting Magazine’s Women Leaders in Consulting for 2022.
