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Samrah Kazmi

Samrah Kazmi holds the position of Expert CISO at Primary Venture Partners [1]. As a Chief Information Security Officer in a venture capital context, this role involves responsibility for information security strategy and governance within the organization.

Insights & ideas

**Insights & ideas**

Kazmi frames resilience not as an innate trait but as "a muscle that you can build," something she deliberately strengthened after a career marked by repeated disruption from layoffs, mergers, and the credit crisis [1]. Rather than viewing her lack of a linear career path as a weakness, she describes it as building a "portfolio of competencies," drawing on past experience across trading, credit structuring, and green banking to identify and act on future trends in emerging technology [1]. She argues that organizational resilience for startups depends on building strong governance and security frameworks early, which is the focus of her risk advisory work [1].

She also positions alternative data, drawn from sources like cell phones and satellites, as an exploding and largely unstandardized field, and argues institutional investors need defined standards to use it efficiently, which is the premise behind Maiden Century [1]. Kazmi additionally emphasizes that sustainable innovation is structurally biased toward male founders, motivating her creation of a dedicated support community for women in the space [1].

Experience

  1. Chief Information Security Officer
    RESRGJul 2020 to Present
  2. Expert CISO
    Primary Venture Partners2024 to Present
  3. Adjunct Professor
    New York UniversityJul 2020 to Present
  4. Founder & CEO
    Women in Sustainable Innovation2020 to Present
  5. Advisor
    Harvard Business Review2020 to Present
  6. Chief Information Security Officer
    Koxa2023 to 2024
  7. Visiting Professor
    Pratt Institute2022 to 2024
  8. Co-Founder, COO & CISO - Board Member
    Maiden Century2021 to 2022

Education

Media & appearances

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