Lillibett Machado

MBA, CBCP, CISA, CISM, ITIL-BSM

Lillibett has 25 years experience in the Manufacturing Industry on Information Technology Management and Quality Systems complemented, with 8 years in the Banking Industry on Technology Governance & Risk, and Business Continuity Management.

Currently, Lillibett has been involved on multiple consulting contracts for the Energy, Chemical, Aerospace and Banking industries. Mostly focus on the areas of Business Continuity Planning, Technology Risk Management, IT SOX Compliance Assessments, CoBit and ITIL Service Management.

As Vice President of Technology Risk Management for a leading financial institution, Lillibett was the leader in creating the Corporate Business Continuity framework. She introduced a comprehensive approach to Business Continuity Management by promoting the necessary awareness and commitment through all levels of management and by creating a manageable plan that works on mitigating the impact of planned and unplanned events. She also expanded the Business Continuity process to include preventive measures, increasing operational resilience with the objective to optimize the enterprise agility and protection.  

Lillibett has been highly involved in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) initiatives. In this responsibility she led multiple consulting projects in relation to Business Continuity Planning, IT Governance, Compliance and SOX Preparedness. The many years experience and research on CoBit Framework allowed her to use the Maturity Model effectively to evaluate and enhance IT processes, achieve optimal controls and established target maturity levels for Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory requirements.

Prior responsibilities include Information Systems Manager for key institutions such as Alcon Laboratories, Eli Lilly S.A., General Foods-Kraft, and Caterpillar.  At these institutions she applied her expertise on IT project management, strategic planning, budgeting, system migration, systems development, and quality assurance. Major projects included computer system validation, evaluation and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), multiple platform/systems, technology operations and DR sites, and legacy & client server applications.

In addition, Lillibett is a board member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and Past President of the Association of Contingency Planners.  She holds certifications as Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), Information Security Manager (CISM), Information Systems Auditor/ANSI (CISA) and ITIL-Business Service Management to complement her M.B.A from the University of Houston.