About me
Anne Leslie is Head of Cloud Risk for EMEA, where she leads IBM’s engagement with clients on some of the most complex cybersecurity, resilience, and technology‑risk challenges facing regulated industries today. She works closely with financial institutions, regulators, and critical‑infrastructure organisations as they adopt cloud, data, and AI at scale under increasing regulatory and operational pressure.
Anne brings deep expertise in cloud risk, operational resilience, digital sovereignty, and post‑quantum readiness, helping clients translate evolving regulatory expectations into pragmatic architectures and controls that can be implemented and sustained. Her work spans strategy through execution, bridging technical, risk, and compliance perspectives to enable confident adoption of emerging technologies.
A recognised thought leader in technology risk and resilience, Anne is a frequent advisor and speaker on how organisations can build trust, integrity, and resilience into their digital foundations while continuing to innovate.