Jelena Zelenovic Matone

Jelena Zelenović Matone
Nationality	Italian, Canadian
Education	MBA, University of Toronto, IT, York University
Occupation	Chief Information Security Officer

Jelena Z. Matone is global chief information security officer and an advocate for women's empowerment in technology. She is best known for her role as the CISO of European Investment Bank and Founding Board Member and the first President of the Women Cyber Force & Women 4 Cyber (W4C) chapter, a global initiative aimed at promoting cybersecurity awareness, education, and gender equality in the industry.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Background and education

Matone is a cybersecurity professional with an emphasis on cyber security risk management, IT operations, audit, risk mitigation, IT governance. She has won many awards, one of which the 2019 CISO of the year award for Luxembourg, Sentinel CISO Global 2020, EU CISO 2020, and Ambassador of the year 2021 in Luxembourg.^[6][7][8]

Matone is the CISO of the EIB, and has also served as the Senior Operational Risk and ISO for the European Stability Mechanism, the crisis resolution mechanism for euro area countries.^[9][10] Earlier in career, Matone managed IT Audit and Compliance for Sobey’s, one of the two national grocery retailers in Canada and Audit, Corporate Development, M&A and growth strategies and IT Audit for George Weston, one of the Canada’s largest publicly traded food processing and distribution companies.^{[citation needed]} She speaks several languages.^{[citation needed]}

References

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2. "Intervju sa Jelenom Zelenović Matone: Strast prema onome što radite je ključ koji vodi ka uspjehu". Žene od uticaja (in Serbian). 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
3. "Jelena Zelenovic Matone: "The only way to do great work is to love what you do"". SECURITYMADEIN.LU. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
4. "CYBERSECURITY: MITIGATING RISK DURING AND AFTER COVID-19". ECSM. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
5. "Jelena Zelenovic Matone". Forbes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-23.
6. "Jelena Zelenovic Matone - CISO of the year 2019 - Luxembourg | Cybersafe News". 2019-10-25. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
7. "Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg". New York. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
8. LFF. "Cybersecurity: increased vigilance at all levels". Luxembourg for Finance. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
9. Nada (2021-02-02). "European Cybersecurity STARtup Award Final Competition". ECSO. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
10. Gagliardi, Sandra (2022-10-26). "Jelena Zelenovic Matone". Rivista Cybersecurity Trends (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-06-26.