CORPORATE PRACTITIONER
Valentina Bonsi Director of Cybersecurity, Booking Holdings LinkedIn
Valentina Bonsi is the Director of Cybersecurity at Booking Holdings, a large travel and financial services portfolio company. In her current role, Valentina is focused on increasing the resilience of the entire portfolio against security attacks by delivering innovative solutions through collaboration with various brand teams. She leads strategic security programs at the group level and is
accountable for all the strategic initiatives driven there.
Before her current role at Booking Holdings, Valentina has been with Booking.com for 10 years, where she has held various engineering and leadership roles. She was among the first engineers hired to develop the Booking.com mobile app and has consistently demonstrated her technical capabilities at both strategic and operational levels. As a passionate leader with extensive expertise in Security and Engineering, Valentina is known for leading large and diverse organizations. Her commitment to building a more inclusive environment is evident through her active involvement in women in tech initiatives, individual coaching, and mentoring. Valentina’s contributions to the Women in Tech program at Booking.com and her efforts in encouraging female talent to take on roles typically dominated by males have established her as an advocate for diversity and inclusion. Before her roles at Booking.com and Booking Holdings, Valentina has worked as a Software Engineer at different companies in Europe and in the US, developing innovative mobile applications with a user-centric approach. She holds a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bologna and has conducted research on location anonymization and privacy at the University of California, Irvine.
WOMEN OF INFLUENCE AWARDS
6
Made with FlippingBook Online document maker