Gary Meshell leads IBM’s World Wide Security business in financial services and is responsible for sales, business development, offering management and the overall go to market strategy for IBM’s security offerings in financial services.

Gary is a recognized thought leader in the areas of security and cloud within the financial services industry and has spoken around the world on these topics including China, Russia and Brazil. He has worked with a number of large insurance companies, international banks and investment management companies supporting the design and implementation of their hybrid cloud and security programs.

In addition Gary leads the IBM Financial Services Regulatory Consortium which consists of 33 financial services companies who are collaborating together to form regulatory standards that will accelerate the deployment of public cloud into the financial services industry. Gary has also worked closely with law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Homeland Security to identify threats and potential attacks to the financial services industry and has facilitated cyber security incident management exercises at the IBM Cyber Range facility with over 100 financial services companies.