Carmelo Fabrizio Scordino
I'm a senior information security professional with 12+ years of cross-industry experience. I started at a Global Consulting Firm, then moved into a Systems Integrator, followed by a Telco & Tech Multinational Company where I was part of the Security Center of Expertise. For the past 4 years I've been working in GRC & Strategy Advisory Boutiques. Throughout this journey, I've worked with 70+ organizations and C-levels across critical and highly regulated sectors, designing and delivering complex multi-year transformation programs.
Along the way, I discovered that technical excellence alone doesn't drive lasting change, people do. This led me to o Business & Executive Coaching (ICF ACC certified), an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), and a path of continuous learning. Today I combine technical depth with business acumen and human insight to help organizations build resilient security postures and leaders navigate complexity with confidence.
Information & Cyber Security Areas of expertise
Strategy & Governance
Defining multi-year roadmaps, operating models, and decision rights to raise security posture across the organization.
Developing security frameworks, policies, and governance models aligned to business objectives and risk appetite.
Assessment & Gap Analysis
Evaluating security posture against policies, standards, and regulations. Defining remediation roadmaps.
Security Architecture & Solutions
Advisory on security architecture design, technology selection, and solution integration. Translating business requirements into effective, sustainable security capabilities without vendor lock-in.
AI Governance
Ethical responsible and secure AI adoption, ISO 42001 compliance, and governance frameworks for artificial intelligence.
Compliance
Navigating regulatory requirements and achieving compliance.
CQI+IRCA Certified (at BSI) Lead Auditor ISMS ISO/IEC 27001:2022, BCMS 22301:2019, AIMS 42001:2023. About to become PECB Certified NIS2 Lead Implementer, and NIST CSF 2.0 Practitioner.
Risk Management
Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing threats, vulnerabilities, and control gaps across the enterprise.
CISO Advisory
Supporting CISOs and security leaders with strategic guidance, board-level communication, stakeholder management, and security program oversight. CISO as a Service/Support for organizations without a full-time CISO.
Training & Awareness
High-impact training programs designed around specific objectives. Shaping the learning experience end-to-end: content, language, delivery methods, and channels, tailored to the audience, from boardroom to front line.
Coaching areas of expertise
Business & Executive Coaching
ICF-certified coaching for C-level, executives, managers, and entrepreneurs navigating complexity, transitions, and high-stakes decisions. One-to-one partnerships focused on unlocking potential, sharpening decision-making, and accelerating performance.
Leadership Development & Mentoring
Developing leadership capabilities through structured programs, mentoring, and strategic sparring. I work with emerging and established managers to build self-awareness, strengthen communication, and expand their impact.
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of working with Carmelo in Vodafone as his direct manager in the SDWAN & Cyber Security Centre of Expertise. From the start, he worked hard, eager and ambitious to succeed. He gained skills quickly and the team was able to rely on him to get the job done. Carmelo is very proud of his work and produces great results. He worked well in a high pressure environment and everyone liked it. I highly recommend him for an accountability role and I have no doubt that he will be a great asset that can make things happen
I had the opportunity to work with Carmelo, as his direct manager. He has always carried out the assigned tasks with commitment, passion and dedication, but thanks to his empathy, the ability to read business situations and the flexibility to adapt his way of working to the different contexts, Carmelo became definitely valuable within the team. The ability to literally absorb the know-how from colleagues and the dedication with which he improved his knowledge through training, make him an enviable professional We still collaborate on specific deals, sometimes, but each time I regret not to have him on my team anymore!
Silvio Ferrari
Carmelo is a great professional to work with. I have worked with him on several projects and his work definitely made a huge impact on our success. He is used to go always extra mile and find great ways to quickly solve problems. Moreover he knows how to help the team and get the best out of people. I highly recommend his expertise, as he has a great knowledge of security services and market and he is always very committed and focused on delivering on time.
Maria Beatrice Fasano
Carmelo is a genuine e brilliant person. His continuous desire to learn and improve in different topics make him the right professional for every customer that want to stay up-to-date with the latest trends on the business market.
Federico Schneider
I have shared a two-years MBA course with Carmelo and I have had the opportunity to know the person and the professional. Just in that order. In fact, if his professionalism is undisputed - both in terms of training and work background - to the point of allowing him to be able to aspire to extreme responsibility’s roles in his own sector, what most impresses about him is being a pure giver, without ulterior motives. The ability to make himself available to others, to sacrifice himself more than others in achieving shared goals, the empathy with which he relates to everyone and the ability to listen, make him one of the managerial profiles on which, if I were an entrepreneur, I would bet without any hesitation.
I had the honor of working with Carmelo as a colleague. During this period, I have had the opportunity to deeply understand what makes Carmelo unique: the ability to be both a leader and a great team player with an outstanding ability to understand people. Carmelo is an extremely positive, collaborative, and brilliant person. He is a serious and precise professional with excellent technical and communication skills and a focused business approach. He has a senior mind-set with all the power and initiative of his young age.
Alessandro Villarosa
Carmelo and I worked alongside each other in a vendor/partner relationship on a project to establish a managed service powered by the cybersecurity software vendor I was working for. Carmelo was tremendous to work with - diligent, thoughtful, pragmatic; considered and very responsive - the ultimate professional. He was an absolute pleasure to work with and I sincerely hope our paths cross again in the future.
Carmelo worked in my team for a short period but I had the opportunity to appreciate his strong professionalism. He is every time result oriented and is able to approach new challenges with the right enthusiasm. Team working is something in line with his attitude, but he also has the right competencies to find autonomously solutions to assigned tasks. I see a great potential in him.
Tullia Zanni
I worked with Carmelo Fabrizio and I appreciated his flexibility and his collaboration with the team. He contributed every day to address all working issues and to make positive and optimistic our working environment. He has been always honest with all colleagues and he helped us when we ran into issues within his area of expertise e.g. threat intelligence and customer process. He knew very well our customer.
Alessandro Maio
Tra le persone migliori che conosco. Persona sempre disponibile e di grande cuore, che pone in ogni cosa che fa. Dotato di grande intelligenza e abilità di problem solving, estremamente abile nel lavoro di team grazie alla sua disponibilità e apertura mentale, sempre pronto a mettersi in discussione e sacrificarsi per gli altri e per il lavoro ma sempre deciso, sicuro e forte quando ci sono responsabilità da assumere.
Salvatore Grasso