Paul Simmonds
CISO & CEO, Global Identity Foundation
Paul Simmonds is the CISO and CEO of the Global Identity Foundation and a Director of the Cloud Security Alliance (Europe). He was formerly the global CISO of AstraZeneca, and prior to that he has held posts as the global CISO of ICI, Head of Information Security with a high security European web hosting company and as Global Information Security Manager with Motorola. He was awarded the first “Chief Security Officer of the Year” as well as "Best Security Implementation" at the SC Magazine Awards and is twice listed as one of (US publication) Network World’s “most powerful people in networking.” He is a noted speaker presenting the opening keynote for both Blackhat US and Blackhat Europe and has presented on the RSAC (London) Keynote stage, as well as many other conferences.