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Dynamic leader in cybersecurity, cloud computing, privacy and applied AI. Entrepreneur, patent holder, and execution-oriented tech executive. CEO and co-founder of Key AI, the early-stage startup - watch this space! Previous: Technical co-founder and CISO of PrivacyCode.ai (exited 2024), where I led R&D to build an enterprise cloud platform for privacy engineering. Extensive experience leading global security, privacy, and product teams through high growth periods at Lookout, Oracle, McKesson, and Workday. Key part of the Lookout research team that discovered state-sponsored threat actors and responsibly disclosed to the major platform vendors. Selected as Finalists for 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and named a Cybersecurity DIVA - the most influential women in cybersecurity. Dynamically building the future for Cybersecurity and Privacy industries: • Co-founder of technology startups; board member and technical advisor • Built 5 innovative, global cybersecurity + privacy teams at enterprises, led teams to >10x growth • Completed a Master of Information and Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley School of Information • Delivered 40+ security and privacy product solutions, increasing revenue by 100%+ growth YOY • Led Product for mobile threat intelligence serving 200M+ users • Co-inventor of 4 patents in database security, forensics and privacy engineering • Lead team member in discovery, mitigation and responsible disclosure of state sponsored threats Career Impact: • Invited as a thought leader to guide public policy discussions with government policymakers in the US, EU and Africa, influencing legislation including GDPR and US state law • Managed over $3.5 billion in risk, and reported to c-suites on cyber risk and quantification of risk • Speaker at RSA, IAPP, Oracle Open World, The Rise of Privacy Tech, Day of Shecurity (keynote) Languages: Python, C, SQL, Apache Lucene Tools and Platforms: AWS, Azure, Elasticsearch/ELK, Oracle RDBMS, Burpsuite, Wireshark Areas of expertise: AI and cloud security, mobile security, privacy engineering, threat intelligence, applied AI/ML (for security, privacy engineering and SAST/DAST), network encryption, IAM, and database security.