Summary
Eder Marques is a payments-focused cybersecurity executive with 15 years of experience helping major global financial institutions shore up cyber resilience, privacy and regulatory compliance. Currently Head of Payments Security at RBC, he previously led payments security and high-value assets at BMO and built payment-security practices at PwC and EY, with hands-on expertise in SWIFT CSCF, PCI, cloud security and CI/CD reviews for G-SIBs. He combines deep technical chops—14+ certifications across CISM, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE, vendor cloud certs and Linux—with regulatory fluency spanning OSFI, NYDFS, MAS, HKMA, EBA and industry frameworks like SOX and SWIFT. A practiced communicator and instructor, he regularly briefs boards, audit committees and industry forums and runs CIAM and Digital Crown Jewels programs. Notably, his background includes infrastructure deployments at the UN and early-career technical work across heterogeneous OS environments, giving him rare operational perspective on secure, auditable payments systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, International Management, Master of Science, International Management at University of Liverpool
Executive education, Business of Payments program, Executive education, Business of Payments program at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Harvard Advanced Manage Mentor, Harvard Advanced Manage Mentor at Harvard Business School
Technical degree, Computer Science, Technical degree, Computer Science at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará
Bachelor of science, Business Management, Bachelor of science, Business Management at Universidade Estadual do Ceará
English, Spanish, Portuguese