James McLeary

associate managing director, Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, Hong Kong

James McLeary is an associate managing director in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll in Hong  Kong. He has extensive international experience in Asia Pacific, in global risk governance, risk management, IT strategy and leadership, cyber threat incident response and IT security. He is a modern CISO with a strong risk and technical background, who has exemplary crisis management skills and cyber response capabilities. In his new role, James will lead Kroll’s Virtual CISO (vCISO) engagements in Asia Pacific by establishing technology risk frameworks and governance and boosting cyber security maturity across organizations. Before joining Kroll, James worked at TMB Bank in Bangkok as Group Head of Information Security Office and EVP previous experience includes those at Siam Commercial Bank, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Barclays Wealth Management, GE and Mitel Telecom.