Andrea Stapley is the Assistant Vice President of the Cloud Computing team globally for Sun Life Financial. She holds a BA from McMaster University and is responsible for Cloud Architecture, Engineering, Operations and Security teams as it relates to Cloud Services hosted with Amazon. Her teams are responsible for developing the Global Cloud roadmap for the Enterprise and executing on that roadmap. The teams architect the cloud solutions for Sun Life and deliver the services required from an engineering and operations perspective for their clients. Before the Cloud role, Andrea was the Assistant Vice President of Security Operations globally at Sun Life Financial. She was responsible for developing the Security Program, architecting the technology used to secure the enterprise and then executing on the security strategy and roadmap. Andrea has been in the Security and Operations Infrastructure field for over 28 years and has held various senior roles at both Rogers Telecommunications and the Bank of Montreal. Andrea continues to be passionate about the IT industry and she is extremely focused on supporting women in their IT careers. She is a #1 International Best-Selling author of the book “Empowering Women to Succeed- Leap” and has just published her second book this year “365 Empowering Stories”. In 2017 Andrea was a keynote speaker at SecTor.
