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WiCyS UKI Announces Brand New Leadership Team and Structure

Published: 18th May 2024

WiCyS UKI are continuing to pursue our mission – to help build a strong gender-diverse cybersecurity workforce by facilitating the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and non-binary individuals in the field.

In April 2024 we held our AGM (Annual General Meeting), where we reflected on the incredible success of the Affiliate across the previous year - this was all down to our amazing volunteers, supporters and partners - we want to firstly say a big THANK YOU!

We are incredibly proud of what we've achieved over the past couple of years, but we recognised that to keep up this incredible momentum, our team needed to grow. This is why, as an Affiliate, we are incredibly excited to announce the establishment of our new leadership team for 2024, complete with an all-new leadership structure including new verticals and focus areas. 

Announcing our leadership board:

• Zoe Mackenzie (President)

• Julie Osborne (Vice-President)

• Sonakshi Kashkari (Secretary)

• Saja Aljulaud (Treasurer)

• Jennifer Cox (Director for Ireland)

• Mollie Chard (Chief Advisor)

• Laure Lydon (Chief Advisor)

• Katherine Hutton (Chief Advisor)

• Natasha Harley (Chief Advisor)
  
  

Announcing our new verticals and teams:

Academic Team:

• iuliana Silvasan PhD (Head of Academic)

• Angel Rose (Ambassador)

• Devika Menon (Ambassador)

• Bettina Mavrommatis (Ambassador)

Early Careers Team:

• Claire Harratt (Head of Early Careers)

• Rachel Hulme (Opportunities Lead)

• Sabiha Khan (Employability Lead)

• Funke Omolere (Training Lead) 

• Yochana Henderson (Ambassador)

• Anastasia Grunina (Ambassador)

• Rashmi Joshi (Ambassador)

• Johnsey John (Ambassador)

Advancement Team:

• Alexandra Juegelt (Head of Advancement)

• Emma Fang (Executive Lead)

• Dr. Saritha Arunkumar (Executive Lead)

• Rachael Coull (Executive Lead for Scotland)

• Diana Moldovan (Ambassador)

• Sophie Dean (Ambassador)

Community Team:

• Saja Aljulaud (Head of Community)

• Laura Reilly (Marketing Lead)

• Zeinab Raadsato (DE&I Liaison)

• Nicola Currall (Membership Lead)

• Jasjit Deol (Ambassador)

• Valentina Coppola (Ambassador)

• Kathryn Hockman (Ambassador)

• Céline P (Ambassador)

• Helen Ridley (Ambassador)

Partnerships Team:

• Debbie Israel-Bolarinwa (Head of Partnerships)

• Danu Sivapalan (Industry Partnerships Lead)

• Beth Allen (SIG Partnerships Lead)

• Laura Bennett (Media Partnerships Lead)

• Emna Haddouk (Ambassador)

• Jumoke Eluwa (Ambassador)

Regions Team:

• Jess Matthews (Head of Regions)

• Sabina Bucur (Ambassador)

Scotland Team:

• Joyce Tannor (Scotland Lead)

• Rachael Coull (Executive Lead - Scotland)

• Chinyere Chinekezi (Regional Ambassador - Scotland)

• Emma Mackenzie (Regional Ambassador - Scotland)

• Adenike Ajayi (Regional Ambassador - Scotland)

Ireland Team:

• Jennifer Cox (Director for Ireland)

• Ketki Shekhar Jakatdar (Academic Lead - Ireland)

• Sudha Iyer (Early Careers Lead - Ireland)

• Muskan Mangla (Advancement Lead - Ireland)

• Agata Crowley (Community Lead - Ireland)

• Aisling Sheridan (Partnerships Lead - Ireland)

• Glenda Deveney (Ambassador - Ireland)

We are thrilled to be welcoming so many amazing new faces, and of course to be welcoming many fabulous old faces back too. 

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