Clemence is responsible for the enablement of Galvanize’s new partners across the EMEA region. She also supports our partners in their GRC implementation projects, drawing on her previous experience helping clients in their adoption of HighBond by delivering complex multi-bonds implementations.

Prior to joining Galvanize, Clemence worked as an information security and data privacy consultant, advising organisations on their risk management policies and business management strategies in order to streamline their information security and GDPR processes. She also carried out audits and assessments of ISO 27001 and GDPR readiness through gap analyses, report productions and suggested action plans.

Nichol Deaddis is a seasoned technology solutions leader at Galvanize.He has over15 yearsofexperiencein business transformation and technology management,with a highly successful track record for delivering complex enterprise software implementations within global organisations. Nichol hasanin-depth knowledge of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) technologies, business processesand delivery requirements, supporting risk and assurance teamsacrossvarious industries(BFSI, government and energy)to strengthen and protect their organisation."

Dr. David P. Doyle is an EU Policy Adviser and Expert specializing in financial services regulation, covering the banking, insurance and securities' sectors. A former long-serving diplomat based on mainland Europe in both multilateral and bilateral assignments, notably with the Irish trade mission (now Enterprise Ireland) in Paris, and ambassador to UNESCO. David is a long-standing member of the Board of the joint MEP-EU industry advocacy body, The Kangaroo Group, and secretary of its Financial Services Working Group at the European Parliament. He also sits on the board of the joint UK cross-parliamentary/SME-owner body at Westminster, The Genesis Initiative, focused on SME policy development. His authored works include Cost Control - A Strategic Guide (CIMA/Elsevier: London, 1994 and 2002) which was translated into 15 foreign languages, as well as contributing EU chapters to The Future of Finance after SEPA (Wiley: London, 2008), and A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance (Sweet & Maxwell: London, 2010). His alumni include the Dublin Institute of Technology, Trinity College, University of Dublin (Ireland), and Kingston University (UK). He is also a Graduate member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.

Yordanka Ivanova is a Legal and Policy officer in the European Commission (DG CNECT) who has worked on the legal proposal on Artificial Intelligence adopted by the Commission on 21 April 2021.

Outside the Commission, she has acted as an attorney-at-law advising companies on EU regulations, including in the area of data protection, digital services, financial services and copyright.

Andrew Clark is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Monitaur, a machine learning assurance company. Monitaur is a Machine Learning Assurance platform addressing the needs of companies using models to make decisions in regulated industries. Monitaur delivers the transparency and confidence necessary to manage compliance and unlock innovation by the recording, auditing, monitoring, and assurance of machine learning models.

Andrew received a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, an M.S. in Data Science from Southern Methodist University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Reading. He also holds the Certified Analytics Professional and American Statistical Association Graduate Statistician certifications.

Dr Ozgur Heval Cinaris a lawyer. Presently, he is an associate professor at the University of Greenwich, School of Law and Criminology. Hecompleted his PhD at the School of Law, University of Essex. Previously, he was a post-doc fellow at the University of Oxford between 2012-2016.

Dr Aysem Diker Vanberg is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich. She responsible for teaching Competition Law at postgraduate level. At undergraduate level, she teaches Contract Law and Intellectual Property Law.Aysem’s main research interests lie in data protection law, EU and UK competition law, application of competition law in digital markets, online platforms, competition and technology including Artificial Intelligence, law and economics. She is particularly interested in the interplay between data protection law and competition law.

Prior to joining the University of Greenwich, she worked at Anglia Ruskin Universityas a Senior Lecturer and at the University of Essex as an Associate Lecturer and Research Associate.

Before moving to the UK, she qualified as a lawyer in Turkey and worked as a lead In-house counsel for multinational companies including MAN Nutzfahzeuge AG and Cimpor Cimentos de Portugal.

Aysem has an LLM in European and International Law from the University of Bremen and an LLB from the University of Ankara, Turkey. She holds a PhD in Competition Law from the University of Essex. Her doctoral thesis entitled ""An analysis of the application of Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of European Union to platform-based businesses: Google as a case study"" draws on Competition Law, Commercial Law, economics and IT Law in order to assess the suitability of EU competition law to digital platforms such as Google and Facebook.

Mirra is the Global Head of Technology Risk at Schroders with over 13 years of experience in technology risk and assurance within the financial services industry. Her key focus is to embed a culture of risk awareness within technology functions that enables faster pace of change and adoption of new technologies to achieve business objectives whilst ensuring security, stability and resilience of business operations. Mirra is a member of the Next Generation Leadership Council at TheCityUK which is an advocacy group that enables members to shape engagement with the highest level of governments, with policymakers and other leading stakeholders on issues relating to the industry. She also sits on the strategic Advisory Board for Global Policy Insights for their AI and public policy programme. Outside of the technology role, Mirra passionately champions Diversity and Inclusion initiatives and was featured in Financial Times - Top 50 Empower list of Ethnic Minority Future Leaders 2018 and UK’s top 100 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic leaders in Technology sector. More recently, Mirra was recognised as the finalist for the WeQual Award which recognises senior women who have the potential to become C-suit leaders.

Analia (Ana) started her career as an auditor in PwC Argentina while she was still at university. In 2007 she moved to the UK where she joined the PwC Technology, Information, Communications, and Entertainment audit practice based in London. During this period, Ana became passionate about working with teams and clients re-imagining the way we audit, with a particular interest in risk and controls associated with transformation and emerging technology. In 2015, Ana moved to Hong Kong, where she helped clients on a variety of tech projects ranging from readiness assessments and audits of information security controls. Since she moved back to the UK, she has joined PwC’s Audit Risk and Quality team advising auditors on technology related matters.
Outside work, Ana is a mum to a 2 year old girl who keeps her on her toes and in her spare time she is trying to pick up gardening, loves cooking and is looking forward to travelling again, especially to Argentina where her family still lives.

Harriet is EMEA CISO at media and advertising firm Dentsu, leading security for the region of approximately 15,000 users across over 40 countries. Harriet has also worked across industry and government sectors, including security consulting in the big four and financial services. Harriet has in-depth experience of security breach response and crisis management, having helped lead the European Equifax business through a large-scale security breach in 2017.

Harriet’s career in information security started almost fourteen years ago, following a high profile data breach in UK Government. Harriet made an unconventional move from a civil service policy role to join a taskforce reviewing and remediating the impact of the breach across the department, and influencing changes to government guidelines on data handling. With a degree in Sociology, Harriet has progressed her security career with a keen focus on security awareness and human behaviour, and a passion to educate users and business leaders to make the right decisions by understanding the security risks in the work that they do.

Harriet holds ISACA CISM certification, is an ISO27001 Lead Auditor and is an EC Council Certified CISO. Harriet is also a mother to an energetic toddler, and is passionate about supporting flexible working for all. "

Sanja Kekic, one of 50 Women of Influence in Cybersecurity Europe in 2019 ( SC Magazine UK's list), President of ISACA Belgrade Chapter and SheLeadsTech Liaison, devoted to promoting the visibility of ISACA and its core values in the Serbian market for which she received 2018 ISACA’s Outstanding Leaders Award in Small Chapter category. Besides, she is one of the ISACA Belgrade Chapter founders. In addition, she is a very active International volunteer in raising awareness about the ISACA’s SheLeadsTech program. She has been a member of the ISACA SheLeadsTech Chapter Engagement Working Group. Her specific role has been to include European Chapters in this program by raising awareness of the program's mission and goals.

In her 22-year career path, Sanja has led and executed various complex IT and business processes projects related to GRC, including (or with a focus on) cybersecurity in Serbia and the SEE region. Sanja has gained invaluable experience by working for Big 4, several largest banks and financial institutions in Serbia, and the largest mobile operator in Serbia. Her background is in mathematics and informatics, as well as an Executive MBA in finance. Holds certificate for information system risk and control (CRISC), COBIT 5 Foundation, and Internal audit in the public and private sector.