Anne Leslie CISM CRISC CCSP's Linkedin Analytics

🎯 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 As a trusted advisor to senior decision-makers in the financial services sector, I am known for helping firms, regulators and supervisors simplify the technology complexities they face. My expertise spans across critical areas such as: 🌐 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 🌐 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 🌐 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 🌐 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🌐 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🌐 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 With a deep understanding of industry challenges and opportunities, I am known for leading cross-functional teams to deliver impactful client solutions that drive growth, innovation, and resilience. 🤝 Let's connect. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞: ↪️Anne Leslie is the Cloud Risk and Controls Leader EMEA at IBM Cloud for Financial Services. With over 18 years of experience in international roles spanning banking and related technology businesses, she is an expert at the intersection of financial services, AI, cloud, operational resilience, cybersecurity, and regulation. Bilingual in French and English, Anne holds an Executive MBA from HEC Business School in Paris, CISM and CRISC certifications from ISACA, the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC)², and multiple security platform certifications. ↪️Since joining IBM, her focus has been on accompanying financial institutions and supervisory authorities around the world in securely accelerating their adoption of public cloud and AI as they transform their operating models and build capacity to keep pace with a dynamic external environment. ↪️ Co-editor of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 and co-author of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤, Anne is known internationally for her public speaking, regularly contributing her thought leadership to C-level conferences and working groups convened by public authorities on topics related to AI and cloud in financial services, operational resilience, information security, digital risk and hybrid warfare. As a trusted advisor, she excels at orchestrating outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues by fostering positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups. ↪️Irish by nature and French by design, Anne grew up in the Republic of Ireland and lives happily with her family in Paris, France which has been her home now for almost 30 years. A lifelong learner, Anne is an avid drummer, a surfer, a traveler, a dog owner, and a lover of books, music, and everything the outdoors has to offer.