Jennifer Buckner

Jennifer “Jen” Buckner leads Mastercard’s Technology Risk Management Global Governance and Operations team. She is a former U.S. Army Brigadier General who held numerous intelligence and leadership positions throughout her 30-year military career. In her last government role, Jen served as the U.S. Army’s Director of Cyber, where she led governance and oversight of cyber capabilities and championed emerging technologies to enable detection and disruption of significant cyber threats.
In operational roles, Jen shaped U.S. Cyber Command’s response to major cyber events attributed to nation-state adversaries, led a U.S. government interagency task force to counter ISIS in cyberspace, and established relationships with U.S and foreign partners focused on mitigating the threat of cyber-attacks. As Chief of the Army’s cyber branch and training center, she developed and implemented strategies for cyber talent recruitment, retention, and leader development.