Elisabet Haugsbø holds a Master's Degree in Engineering and Cybernetics from NTNU and Executive education Digital Technologies at University of California Berkeley, HAAS School of Business. She has also been elected amongst Abelias "Top 50 women in Tech" in 2018 og 2019 and she is passionate about how technology can make the "impossible" come true.

Professionally she has been working with simulator based testing of control systems for critical infrastructure before she went into the cybersecurity domain. She was part of DNV's pentest team until she started working in HUB Ocean with building a data platform for ocean big data in 2020.

Now, Elisabet is CISO in Zebra Consulting, where her role is to make sure cybersecurity is in "the front seat" when Zebra Consulting delivers services and software to their customers. In addition she is "CISO for hire" where she helps companies to work with cybersecurity more strategically and advise them on everything from security culture, training, security measures, testing and follow-up. She is also the vice president of Tekna and devotes a lot of her time to speak "the Tekna members' cause" in political discussions, but also in companies and the Norwegian society. "We who understand both the potential and the pitfalls that technology brings to society, have a responsibility to help others understand too."