Aadesh Gandhre is Managing Director and General Auditor at DTCC. Within this role, he is responsible for managing DTCC’s Internal Audit function, with enterprise-wide responsibility for evaluating and strengthening processes, governance, and risk management to support the firm’s compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
Under his leadership, DTCC’s Internal Audit function has undergone a significant digital transformation and was recognized two years in a row at the IIA Great Audit Minds conference through the Protiviti Audit Innovator Awards. In 2025, the team received the inaugural Audit Innovator Award for a breakthrough innovation use case. In 2026, DTCC Internal Audit was honored with the Audit Trailblazer Award, recognizing sustained, multi-year transformation across the function. These honors reflect the team’s work embedding analytics, intelligent automation, and reimagined ways of working across the audit lifecycle.
Aadesh has two decades of leadership and expertise in internal audit and compliance. Prior to DTCC, he served for 6 years as Managing Director and Head of Audit for IT, Operations and Latin America business at Société Générale Americas (SG). In this role, he oversaw a global team managing technology and operations audits across Corporate and Investment Banking activities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America as well as business audits in Latin America. He also held the position of Chief Innovation Officer within the Internal Audit department for the Americas and served on several key committees, including the Audit Executive Committee, Global IT Audit SteerCo and Diversity & Inclusion Council. Before SG, Aadesh held audit positions of increasing responsibility at Goldman Sachs & Co.
Aadesh holds the certifications of CIA, ISACA CISA, ACAMS Sanctions Foundation, ITIL 4, ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, Certified Cryptocurrency Auditor™, BCG Artificial Intelligence, and AI CERTs® AI Enabled Coordinated Assurance. He graduated from the University of Mumbai with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and from the Stony Brook University with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science.
In addition to his corporate leadership, Aadesh proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Hope’s Door NY, a nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic violence and empowering survivors. Leveraging his expertise in governance and risk strategy, he contributes to advancing the organization’s mission of fostering safer communities through advocacy, education, and trauma-informed support services.