Kris Lovejoy is Kyndryl’s Global Head of Strategy, responsible for the company’s integrated strategic and operational plan for growth as our customers’ trusted advisor in the AI era.
Previously, Kris led Kyndryl’s Security and Resiliency global practice. She came to Kyndryl from EY, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations, where she was the global consulting cybersecurity leader and responsible for the organization’s multi-billion dollar security practice. Earlier, she was the founder and CEO of BluVector Inc., an AI-driven threat detection company that was successfully acquired by a large broadband network provider in 2019. She was also general manager of IBM’s Security Services division, where she led teams that built end-to-end security programs for IBM’s global clients.
An internationally recognized leader in the fields of AI, cybersecurity and resiliency, Kris brings a unique combination of experiences as a deep technologist, an entrepreneur and business founder, and elite C-suite advisory leadership. Her background enables a commercially grounded perspective on technologies that help global enterprises achieve sustained value – and how they adopt and scale innovation across complex mission-critical operational environments.
Kris holds US and EU patents in areas around Risk Management, was named Consulting Magazine’s “Top Woman Technology Leader” in 2020, and serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s cybersecurity committee.