Joanna Burkey is a transformational leader, board director, and senior executive with deep experience in cybersecurity, technology, and digital transformation.

Joanna has held a variety of roles throughout her career, primarily focusing on cybersecurity, strategy, engineering and risk. She is passionate about increasing diversity within technology and using her decades of experience in security and risk to serve others. Her experience in crisis and risk management in addition to her technical acumen inform her boardroom expertise in the areas of audit/risk, governance, and compliance.

She has held senior executive roles at multiple global corporations and has lived and worked in both the US and Europe. Her most recent corporate role was as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at HP Inc, and she now serves as an advisor and consultant to multiple enterprises. The breadth of her roles has covered a wide spectrum from customer facing to internal shared services, and spanned company sizes from twelve employees to four hundred thousand. She has been on the front end of transformational change at technology leaders such as HP Inc and Siemens AG, and is therefore able to take the best practices and lessons learned into other entities that are beginning, or are on, similar journeys of transformation.

Throughout her career, Joanna has focused on leading functions and organizations that need turnaround and development in order to function at their best. This has provided multiple opportunities for Joanna to refine her strategic leadership skills to recognize unique situations, design appropriate outcomes, and enable the optimal path forward in each individual circumstance.

Joanna is a director and member of the audit and compensation committees at Beyond Inc (NYSE: BYON), an independent director at CorVel Corporation, and an independent director and chair of the risk/compliance committee at ReliabilityFirst Corporation. She is a member of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter board and holds both Directorship Certification from NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) and Qualified Technology Executive certification from DDN (Digital Directors Network). Joanna is also a publicly recognized thought leader and speaker with excellent communication skills. She was named to the Top 100 CISOs in 2022 and has been published in multiple articles as well as the book Tribe of Hackers: Security Leaders. She has a Computer Science and Mathematics background from both Angelo State University and the University of Texas Austin, as well as a certificate in Finance and Accounting from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

When not working, Joanna enjoys creative fiber arts, especially knitting, and can usually be found experimenting with new patterns to push the boundaries of just how colorful a handknit sweater can be.