James Savory is a regional vice president for the UK & Ireland, where he helps scale Island’s EMEA business and shape how global enterprises secure, manage, and enable the AI era of work through the Island Enterprise Platform.
He is responsible for leading Island’s regional growth strategy, enterprise sales execution, and customer outcomes across one of Island’s fastest-growing international markets.
Before joining Island, James spent five years at Splunk, joining in 2017 as part of the founding UK public sector team.
He also worked in the insurance and risk sector, where he helped refine the go-to-market strategy for one of the world’s leading Kidnap & Ransom brokerage firms, building a multimillion-dollar digital consultancy line and exploring the parallels between traditional risk management, extortion, and the emerging challenge of ransomware.
Earlier in his career he spent over a decade as part of the UK Special Forces.
