Kate joined WWT in early 2024. She brings more than 25 years of experience leading and advising cyber security, technology, innovative AI strategies and teams to help shape the industry with better business security and risk decisions. Kate is passionate about developing new ways to enhance and secure our world through emerging technologies and also developing world-class people and companies. Her love for the industry is reflected through her career journey. She has strived for comprehensive understanding of all facets of the cyber ecosystem, purposefully executing multiple roles across her career from CISO, CEO, Board of Director, Advisor, CRO, and CTrO (Chief Trust Officer). Across her career she has worked for companies including Aon, BT Group plc, Verizon, and a number of cyber security early stage companies. In addition, she currently serves on the Board of Directors for HYAS, the Cybermaniacs, and the NTSC. The culmination of her experience ensures Kate always brings expertise and a fresh perspective on emerging trends within technology. Early in her career, she had the opportunity to work with and lead some of the most innovative technologies that have shaped our industries. She led some of the industry’s first projects in DDOS, Ethernet as a network (CPA), SaaS and IaaS, and was on the front line with some of the earliest attacks against the financial services markets. This early exposure to the impact cyber has on our global community shaped her quest for making the world a safer place, which is still at the core of her professional journey. Kate is a trusted advisor, thought leader, speaker, published author, and mentor. Currently, her main area of expertise focuses on the collaboration of Risk Executives and Boards to achieve a successful and secure integrated cyber risk management program in this new normal of ever-changing regulations in this elevated threat landscape. Kate also has expertise in the correlation between security, traditional IT initiatives and the implications of AI. Kate and her family split time between Tucson, Arizona and Long Lake, Illinois. She is an avid hiker and sailor, and she and her family can usually be found outdoors, when she is not behind the wheel of her trusty minivan taking her five children to multiple sports practices and games.