Full Name
Edna Conway
Job Title
Founder & CEO
Company
EMC Advisors
Speaker Bio
Edna Conway identifies future trends and digital paths for business success. She is known for consistently ensuring that security and resiliency are “built in”.
Not one to sit still after recently “repurposing” from her operating executive roles, Edna is currently CEO of EMC ADVISORS, advising governments, CEOs, enterprises and capital investment organizations. She has served on over a dozen Boards of Directors, is currently on 4, serves on the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Cyber Fellows Advisory Council, as faculty for the Carnegie Mellon University CISO Program and Institute for Applied Network Security, is a Sr. Non-resident Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council AND … in her “spare time”, she supports the US and NATO Defense and Intelligence Communities and our US National Risk Management Center’s work on Supply Chain.
She previously served as Microsoft’s VP, Chief Security & Risk Officer for Cloud Infrastructure and Cisco’s Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain. She was a partner in an international private legal practice and served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire. She holds an AB from Barnard College, a law degree from the University of Virginia and additional credentials from MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and New York University.
Inducted into the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Community years ago, recent recognition of her industry leadership includes: 2023 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Pinnacle Award, 2023 & 2026 Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know, 2023 Top 25 Women in Technology (Mission Critical), 2021 Executive Women’s Forum Executive of the Year, 2021 Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame, 2021 Top Cybersecurity Leaders (Security Magazine), Named #5 in The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS (The Software Report, 2020), Who’s Who in Cybersecurity (Onalytica, 2020), Fed 100 Award, CSO of the Year Award at RSA, Machine to Machine and IoT Trailblazer Award (Connected World Magazine), and Reboot Leadership Award (SC Media).
Not one to sit still after recently “repurposing” from her operating executive roles, Edna is currently CEO of EMC ADVISORS, advising governments, CEOs, enterprises and capital investment organizations. She has served on over a dozen Boards of Directors, is currently on 4, serves on the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Cyber Fellows Advisory Council, as faculty for the Carnegie Mellon University CISO Program and Institute for Applied Network Security, is a Sr. Non-resident Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council AND … in her “spare time”, she supports the US and NATO Defense and Intelligence Communities and our US National Risk Management Center’s work on Supply Chain.
She previously served as Microsoft’s VP, Chief Security & Risk Officer for Cloud Infrastructure and Cisco’s Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain. She was a partner in an international private legal practice and served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire. She holds an AB from Barnard College, a law degree from the University of Virginia and additional credentials from MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and New York University.
Inducted into the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Community years ago, recent recognition of her industry leadership includes: 2023 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Pinnacle Award, 2023 & 2026 Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know, 2023 Top 25 Women in Technology (Mission Critical), 2021 Executive Women’s Forum Executive of the Year, 2021 Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame, 2021 Top Cybersecurity Leaders (Security Magazine), Named #5 in The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS (The Software Report, 2020), Who’s Who in Cybersecurity (Onalytica, 2020), Fed 100 Award, CSO of the Year Award at RSA, Machine to Machine and IoT Trailblazer Award (Connected World Magazine), and Reboot Leadership Award (SC Media).
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