Alina Timofeeva is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybercrime expert. She is an Influencer Board Member for the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for IT, a multi-award-winning strategic advisor in Data & Technology to major financial services organisations, and a thought leader and a sought-after speaker at large industry events and broadcast and technology media commentator.

Alina has worked at Accenture, PWC, KPMG and Oliver Wyman as a management consultant and clients have included banks HSBC, Nat West, Santander, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse.

Alina has won Digital Leader of the Year, Digital Transformation Leader, Cloud professional of the Year, and Most Inspirational Individual of the Year.

She has featured on BBC News, Forbes, The Banker by Financial Times. Her TEDx talk ‘Fail but Never Give Up’ got over 500k views, is translated into 23 languages and became the top 10 World's Most Watched TEDx talks released in Dec 2021.

She is a LinkedIn Top Voice. She speaks about Data and Technology on at the Banking Transformation Summit, and at the University of Oxford, LSE and Imperial College London. Audiences are drawn to her unique story of tenacity as she grew ultra-fast in the male dominated industry.