Annette is the Chief Information Security Officer at the Met Office and has overall responsibility for Cyber Security and Resilience. The Met Office is the UK’s National Meteorological Service which utilises world leading Super Computing to underpin globally recognised science and meteorology. Annette has over 13 years IT leadership experience with the last 10 years in key information security leadership roles.

Annette designed and implemented new and innovative approaches to Cyber Security and represented the Met Office at Big Data Analytics (White Hall Media 2015) on the use of analysing large data sets to deliver actionable security intelligence for the business. She has participated in many webinars and panel discussions including Malwarebytes (2021), Women In Tech Global (2020) and is a finalist in the Women in Tech Global Security Leader of the year awards 2021.