About
AT A GLANCE:
CEO & Founder, Khaos Partners
CEO Global Advisory, 8 Degrees East
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Geopolitical Risk
• Cybersecurity
• National Security
• Global Business
• Strategy
BIOGRAPHY:
Siobhan MacDermott is Founder and CEO of Khaos Partners and CEO Global Advisory at
8 Degrees East. Siobhan’s career has spanned 25+ years at the intersection of global
business, banking, cybersecurity, intelligence, and technology, working in more than
10 countries.
She was recently a partner at the Consello Group in New York. Prior to joining Consello,
she was Vice Chairman at Bank of America as well as head of the Global Cyber Public
Policy team, responsible for Bank of America’s participation in programs dedicated
to improving risk and cyber resiliency of the global financial system. She was the
Co-President responsible for standing up the FS-ARC (Financial Systemic Analysis and
Resiliency Center.)
Prior to Bank of America, she led the Cyber Economics Practice at EY (Ernst & Young),
and consulted to Fortune 500 boards on geopolitics, intelligence and cybersecurity.
Prior to EY, she spent over 20 years working overseas and in Silicon Valley. In addition,
Siobhan is an accomplished author, with six books to her name. She is a Professor
of Practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
MacDermott is an Advisory Board Member at Thunderbird and Temple University. She serves
as Vice Chair of Fund for Peace, is an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security
Policy, is an Aspen Finance Leaders Fellow and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership
Network.
She graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts in German Language and Literature. She holds a Master of Business Administration in Global Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Global Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and is pursuing her Doctor of Professional Practice in Global Strategy and Leadership at Thunderbird. She has worked in over ten countries and speaks five languages.
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
LinkedIn: in/siobhanmacdermott/
PUBLICATIONS:
Little Birds Internet Security Adventure
AVG
The Folded Paper – Inventing Cyberdiplomacy
CreateSpace
Cybermilitia – A Citizen’s Strategy to Fight, Win, and End War in Cyberspace
IT Harvest Press
Wide Open Privacy – Strategies for the Digital Life
IT Harvest Press