Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Cybersecurity leader

About

Alex Shulman-Peleg, PhD, is a Managing Director and cybersecurity consulting leader at Ernst & Young in the Americas. She is supporting hundreds of clients with modernization and cost reduction via secure enablement of Clouds and AI, addressing the involved risk, cybersecurity and regulatory requirements. In her previous role, she was the Director and Head of Cloud Security at Citibank, where she established and led a global CISO cloud security program, as well as cloud-native security engineering enabling massive modernization and faster application development. Being a pioneer in Cloud security, she led IBM’s early products and groundbreaking R&D initiatives including multi-national European consortiums consisting of industry and research leaders. She has 14 patents and more than 30 scientific publications having thousands of citations. She has decades of technological leadership and holds PhD, MSc and BSc degrees in computer science in the areas of ML, AI and computer vision.

Roles

Mar 2020–Mar 2025

Former role

Cloud security leader

Ernst & Young

New Jersey

Cybersecurity

Drove Technology and Cybersecurity transformations for hundreds of clients across industries. Leading EY's AI security for the financials. Built resilient, scalable cloud security practice, growing revenue 10X, while growing the team. Successfully achieving sustainable revenue growth despite facing complex international market dynamics. Identifying and developing service offerings, overseeing the go-to-market (GTM) strategy, client acquisition, sales, contracting, service delivery, operations, project management, and P&L.

Oct 2015–Mar 2020

Former role

Cloud Security Leader

Citibank

New Jersey

Cybersecurity

Ascended rapidly from Vice President to SVP and then to Director. Operated as the Cloud CISO and established Citi’s pioneering cloud security program, reporting to the CISO, CTO, and heads of business groups. Designed and executed the development of the most advanced security solutions and guardrails, enabling a massive infrastructure modernization, allowing Citi to reduce data center cost management and improve digital services, positioning Citi Group as a financial services leader.

Dec 1994–Oct 1996

Former role

Sergeant

Intelligence Unit 8200

Herzeliya