Michelle is a Partner with EY Oceania, working within the cyber security practice, together with startups and scale-ups through EY Private.
Prior to joining EY, she was a Director and the CEO of AustCyber, a non profit under the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Centres Initiative.
Prior to AustCyber, she was at the ANU National Security College and also held various senior roles across the Australian Government, including at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where she was instrumental to the delivery of the 2016 Cyber Security Strategy.
How Michelle is building a better working world
Michelle is the architect of the world’s first national security strategic risk framework, an author of Australia’s first national Cyber Security Strategy and co-author of Australia’s first comprehensive economic analysis of the cyber security industry (Australia’s Cyber Security Sector Competitiveness Plan). She is one of the world’s foremost experts in developing and shaping the foundational elements that make for a successful cyber security industry – green and brownfield modelling, trends and risk; policy and regulation; R&D and commercialisation; capital raising; economic and trust incentive structures; platform infrastructures; innovative capability delivery; workforce development and participation; and trade and global networks.