Andrea Manning
Acorn Life, Group CISO
Galway, Ireland
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Andrea Manning is the CISO at Acorn Life, bringing a decade of hard-won experience shaped by an unconventional career shift. Originally from South Africa, she began her cybersecurity journey through an access course, went on to complete a degree in Business Information Systems, and built her own cyber and privacy consultancy and app before taking on a senior leadership role. Her story challenges assumptions about who belongs in tech, and she advocates for broader, more diverse entry points into the cybersecurity profession.
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