Anne Leslie is Cloud Risk and Controls Leader EMEA at IBM Cloud for Financial Services. She has over 15 years of experience in international roles in banking and related technology businesses, spanning the intersection of financial services, European regulatory policy, cybersecurity, and Cloud.

Bilingual in French and English, Anne holds an Executive MBA from HEC Business School in Paris, the CISM certification from ISACA as well as the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC)², and multiple cybersecurity platform certifications.

Since joining IBM, her focus has been on accompanying European financial institutions in securely accelerating their journey to Cloud and transforming their cybersecurity operations to keep pace with a dynamic business, regulatory, technology, and threat landscape. 

Widely known for her public speaking, Anne regularly contributes her thought leadership to industry conferences and working groups on topics such as operational resilience and hybrid warfare. A recognized trusted advisor, she has a proven ability to orchestrate outcome-oriented dialogue on complex industry issues by cultivating positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.

Irish by nature and French by design, Anne was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland and lives happily with her three children in Paris, France which has been her home now for over twenty years.