Shamla Naidoo served as Head of Cloud Strategy and Innovation of Netskope Inc., a private company providing global cybersecurity services from June 2021 until July 2024. From August 2015 to June 2021, she served as the Global Chief Information Security Officer and Information Technology Risk Managing Partner of International Business Machines Corp., a global technology company. From May 2011 to August 2015, she served as Chief Information Security Officer of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, a hospitality company now owned by Marriott International, Inc., and in 2009, she led the Technology, Physical and Intellectual Property protection function for Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm. From 2007 to 2008, Ms. Naidoo served as Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer at WellPoint, Inc. (now known as Elevance Health, Inc.), a health benefits company. She also served as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Worldwide Technology Risk for Northern Trust Corporation, a financial services company, from 2005 to 2007, as Vice President, Security/Technology Architecture and Compliance of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a bank headquartered in the Netherlands, from 2001 to 2005, and as Vice President, Technology, Chief Information Officer of Leo Burnett Technology Group, a communications agency, from 2000 to 2001. Prior to Leo Burnett, Ms. Naidoo held various roles with the U.S. consulting division of Spherion Corporation, a staffing and recruiting firm, Anglo American plc, a global mining company, South African Petroleum Refineries, an international oil refinery, and South African Druggists, a pharmaceutical company. Since January 2025, Ms. Naidoo has served on the Board of Directors of Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABG), one of the largest automotive retail and service companies in the U.S. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Reference Point LLC, a private consulting company, and on the Board of Directors of QBE North America, a division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd. (ASX: QBE), a publicly-traded insurance company headquartered in Australia. She previously served as a director of StoneBridge Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, prior to its merger with DigiAsia Corp. (NASDAQ: FAAS) in April 2024. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law since 2010, where she develops and teaches courses on information technology, security and privacy law, and she has been a faculty member at the Institute for Applied Network Security since 2021. She frequently speaks at the American Bar Association and formerly served as the Committee Chair on Legal Technology for the Illinois State Bar Association. Ms. Naidoo received a diploma in Management Information Systems from the South African Institute of Management, bachelor's degrees in Information Systems and in Economics from the University of South Africa, and a J.D. from the John Marshall Law School (now the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law). She is admitted to practice law in Illinois and Washington, D.C.