Bill Shields and Gabe Monroy
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Bill Shields and Gabe Monroy
Bill Shields serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Workday, where he leads the global Cybersecurity & Trust organization. His responsibilities include oversight of Cyber Defense, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Enterprise Security, Security Products, and Threat Prevention. Bill joined Workday in 2025 following four years at TransUnion, he previously held executive leadership roles in engineering and security at Visa, Citadel, and Fidelity Investments. Bill holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, an M.S. from Boston University, and a B.S. from Bentley University.
Gabe Monroy is Chief Technology Officer at Workday, responsible for the strategy and execution of the company’s global platform organization, spanning data, developer, and AI platforms, product engineering, core systems, and infrastructure. He leads Workday’s transition to an AI-native foundation, building the enterprise rails for agentic AI—the APIs, data foundation, and trust layer required to run autonomous agents safely and at scale across the HR and Finance suite. Prior to joining Workday, he served as Vice President and General Manager for Cloud Runtimes at Google, where he led Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and held revenue accountability for a multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure business. Gabe studied Computer Engineering at Tufts University.