Danielle Syvertsen

Principal Global Telecommunications Industry, IBM

Speaker Bio

Danielle Syvertsen has over 15 years of sales and business development experience across a variety of industries. Danielle began her career in the technology field, serving as a Managing Consultant for IBM’s Strategy & Change consulting practice. She led numerous strategic client projects as well as driving internal transformational initiatives across IBM.



Midway through her tenure, Danielle transitioned to the IBM Security practice where she built and developed IBM Security’s Cloud security practice via strategic Ecosystem partnerships and the Hyperscalers (MSFT Azure, AWS). She also works very closely with our R&D, Solution Labs, and Product Management Teams to design and develop industry-specific use cases and solutions (i.e. 5G and Edge security).



Today, Danielle works with our top Telco and M&E clients, helping to protect their organizations on their ongoing journey to Cloud while accelerating their secure adoption of AI and Automation.



Syvertsen holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Fordham Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in biology/sociology with a pre-med concentration from Columbia University.