Edna Conway is the CEO of EMC Advisors, providing board and advisory services to enterprises and governments globally on technology, security, risk management and supply chain resilience. She most recently served as Microsoft’s chief security & risk officer for cloud infrastructure, ensuring the security and resilience of the Azure cloud infrastructure.
Previously, Conway served as Cisco’s chief security officer, global value chain, a partner in an international private legal practice and assistant attorney general for the State of New Hampshire. She holds an AB from Barnard College, a law degree from the University of Virginia and additional credentials from MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and New York University. Conway is an advisor to capital investment organizations, has served on over a dozen boards and is an inductee into the ranks of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women. She serves on the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Cyber Fellows Advisory Council as faculty for the Carnegie Mellon University CISO Program and the Institute for Applied Network Research. Conway is also a senior non-resident fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
