Global professional services firm has appointed cybersecurity expert Shannon Sedgwick as a Senior Managing Director, continuing a recent run of senior appointments and promotions.
Since the appointment of Kevin Lavin to succeed founder and former CEO Roger Carlile at start of the year, global business advisory and professional services firm Ankura has embarked on a run of senior appointments and promotions – the latest, cybersecurity expert Shannon Sedgwick, who has been made a Senior Managing Director with a mandate to expand the firm’s offerings to the Asia Pacific and beyond.
To be based out of Sydney, Sedgewick joins from Verizon, where he had served as a principal consultant over the past year, prior to which he spent a brief period as a Senior Manager at Deloitte, helping the develop the firm’s cyber risk practice in Canberra. An MBA-graduate with Deakin University, Sedgewick altogether brings 15 years of professional experience in compliance, risk management and cyber security.
“Shannon is a respected data privacy and cybersecurity leader, and I am pleased to welcome him to our Ankura team,” said Simon Michaels, Chairman of EMEA and APAC at Ankura….
