Shelley  Westman

Shelley Westman


Shelley Westman is currently a Principal and Partner with Ernest and Young’s Cyber Security Practice. Prior to joining EY, Shelley served as a Senior Vice President of Alliances & Field Operations at Protegrity. And before that Shelley spent 18 years with IBM, ending her time with them as the Vice President, Operations & Strategic Initiatives for IBM Security. She was the founder of "WISE" — Women in Security Excelling, an IBM group devoted to advancing women in security.
In 2016, Shelley was appointed to a three-year term on the Board on Higher Education & Workforce for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. She is a 2016 Honoree of "40 over 40" and received a 2016 Executive Women's Forum Women of Influence Award in the category of Security Corporate Practitioner. And more recently, Shelley was named a 2018 Leader in Diversity for her work on getting more women and minorities into Cyber Security.