Romain Dayan

CTO | CIO and Executive Committee Member Brazil and Americas

São Paulo, Brazil

About

Result an Product driven CIO / CTO / CPTO with 15 years of experience. Motivated by people development, product, agility, IA, data, cyber security, and innovation that impacts the business. International and multi-cultural profile having lived in 4 countries (France, Brazil, Italy and Spain) and worked in many more (developed markets like Europe, USA and developing markets like Brazil, Mexico, India). Previously held Group Chief Information Security Officer(CISO) and Telecommunications Director with broad experience in Information Security (IS) and Telecommunication. Specialties: Product, Agility, Digital Transformation, IA and GenIA, Digital Strategy, Cyber Security, Innovation, Business driven IT, Business Intelligence, RPA, eCommerce, Outsourcing, Data Driven, payment industry with extensive experience and market knowledge in the major economies, pre-paid solutions' development, biometry solutions and FinTech operations.

Experience

  • CTO | CIO and ExCo Member Brazil and Americas at Edenred
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • CTO | CIO and Exco member Edenred (Ticket) Benefits Brazil at Ticket
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    International Board level IT leader reporting to Benefit Business Line Group Extended ExCo (Edenred Benefits Brazil General Manager and Business Line group CTO). Direct management of the Tech Team (digital, payment, operation and innovation) of 250+ FTE in a BU of 100M€+ EBITDA.

  • CTO | CIO Edenred España at Edenred España
    Feb 2021 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

  • Edenred (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Southern Europe & Middle East CTO (CIO | IT Director | SEA | ME | Europe) at Edenred
      Jan 2019 - Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Board level IT leadership & strategy role spanning southern Europe & Middle East countries and 50M€+ EBITDA managing international team of 80+ FTE. Reporting to Benefit Business Line Group Extended ExCo. Significant experience in product driven organization where technology is enabling the value creation trough agility and innovation. Edenred’s digital payment services and solutions cover 4 business areas: food (Eat), fleet and mobility (Move), incentives and well-being (Care) and corporate payments (Pay). Listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and part of the CAC Next 20 index, Edenred operates in 46 countries with 12.000 employees.

    • Group CISO and Telecommunications Director (CISO | RSSI)
      Jan 2015 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Define Security Policy and strategy matching new business challenge (migration from paper to digital) for 42 Business units. Build a global / international added value network. Lead an international team of 25+ IT. Responsible for global security and network budget (Capex/Opex). Member of Edenred IT board (ComEx report).

  • Information Security Manager Americas at Edenred Brasil
    Mar 2012 - Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Responsible of the review and overall implementation of IT security for 9 countries. Performed due diligence network/security audits across business units (BU) and data centers (DC). Secure and processing transactions network and platform (PCI-DSS). Coordinate and lead a team of 9+ IT. Large-scale deployments of network/security technologies and products across Americas.