{"id":3916,"date":"2025-07-16T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=3916"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:01:56","slug":"conal-hickey","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/people\/conal-hickey\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f3nal Hickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00f3nal\u00a0is the Vice President and Global Cyber Resilience practice leader for Kyndryl in Strategic Markets. Kyndryl is the world\u2019s largest Infrastructure services company with ~ 4,000 clients and 16bn in annual revenue. Strategic Markets is one of four externally reported segments within Kyndryl with 3.6bn revenue operating across 50 markets \/ countries. As Global Cyber resilience leader he is responsible for running the practice across Strategic Markets group\u00a0dedicated to helping our clients become more cyber resilient in their IT and digital transformation journeys. As a senior member of the Kyndryl operations transition team, Conal was responsible for leading the IT separation workstream in the Kyndryl spin off from IBM. Prior to that role\u00a0C\u00f3nal\u00a0held a number of senior executive positions in IBM including\u00a0responsibility for IBM\u2019s Network Services and for all strategic and vended relationships across IBM Technology services organisation associated with Networking. He was previously responsible for running IBM Network services delivery within IBM\u2019s Global Technology services organisation leading a team of 3,000 professionals. Prior to that he established and led IBM Cloud migration services practice enabling clients transform their workloads to digital and to move their applications across hybrid \/ multi-cloud environments. Based in Dublin Ireland, C\u00f3nal is married with 4 boys who are all of school going age. C\u00f3nal holds a Batchelors degree in Commerce from University College Dublin and a Masters of business studies degree from Smurfit school of business. He has been appointed as an \u201cAd Personam\u201d advisor to the management board of ENISA for a term of two and a half years from 1 August 2025.\u00a0 ENISA is the European Union agency for Cyber Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3917,"menu_order":3,"template":"","categories":[53],"class_list":["post-3916","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurity.imhbusiness.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}