Jen Ellis is the founder of NextJenSecurity, where she focuses on advancing cybersecurity by building collaboration between the security community and those outside it. Partnering with security experts, technology providers and operators, civil society, and governments, Jen is committed to driving greater understanding of cybersecurity challenges and ways of addressing them.
She serves on the UK Cabinet Office’s Government Cyber Advisory Board and the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Cyber Resilience Expert Advisory Group.
She is also a co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force, sits on the boards of the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, I Am The Cavalry, the Aerospace Village, and the Rapid7 Cybersecurity Foundation, and is a member of the board of advisors for the CyberPeace Institute and the Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Ransomware Harms investigation. She has testified before U.S. Congress and spoken at numerous security or business conferences.
