Valerie Lyons

Biography

Valerie Lyons is COO of BH Consulting, where she designs and delivers projects across a vast range of topics such as GDPR, Data Protection, ISO 27001, CyberStrategy, Enterprise Security Risk and Incident Response. Prior to BH Consulting, she spent almost 15 years as Head of Information Risk in KBC Bank and has extensive senior-level experience in the financial services sector. Her background spans compliance, corporate and ICT governance, data protection, information privacy, cyber auditing, cyber risk management, cyber strategy and team leadership.

Valerie has an in-depth knowledge of GDPR and is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences, most recently keynoting at COSAC’s International Security Conference 2019. Valerie is currently pursuing a PhD in DCU’s Business School (under a scholarship award from the Irish Research Council) researching the effectiveness of organizations’ privacy protection orientations. A certified CISSP for almost 20 years, she holds a Master of Science in Business Leadership from University College Cork and a BSc in Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin.