Valerie leads the various teams here at BH Consulting, and is responsible for ensuring the effective operation of our services to clients. She is also a senior data protection and privacy consultant. She has focused her expertise and research into shaping privacy as part of the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda. She is an accomplished leader with extensive senior-level experience in the financial services sector. Her experience spans compliance, corporate and ICT governance, data protection, information privacy, daa protection, cyber risk management, data strategy and team leadership. Valerie also designs and delivers a suite of bespoke technical data protection training programmes and workshops covering a vast range of topics such as Data Protection, GDPR, ISO 27001, and general cybersecurity awareness.

Valerie has recently completed an award-winning PhD in Information Privacy (researching organisational approaches to privacy protection and how they can be made more effective by understanding their influence on stakeholders, investors, individuals and society). Valerie is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE). She holds a Master of Science in Business Leadership from University College Cork. She also holds a number of post-graduate diplomas from the Irish Management Institute; 1) Cloud Computing Strategy, 2) Executive Coaching, and 3) Executive Leadership. Her undergrad is a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin.