Ms. Lefebvre joined Travelers in 2018 and leads the combined technology, data and analytics, cybersecurity and insurance operations functions. Her team’s leading-edge work has been honored with prestigious industry recognitions such as the CIO 100 Awards in 2020 and 2021, and the Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Awards in 2019 and 2020.
As a prominent advocate of women, she founded EmpowHER+, an internal professional business group committed to inspiring women to achieve their career goals with the support of allies. She is also a member of Travelers’ Executive Diversity & Inclusion Council and executive sponsor of the company’s partnerships with the nonprofits Girls Who Code and AnitaB.org.
Ms. Lefebvre has been honored with such distinctions as Digital Insurance’s Women in Insurance Leadership Award; a Woman to Watch in Science and Technology by the Boston Business Journal; the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology; and a placement among the top three for the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award.
Prior to Travelers, she was CIO for Liberty Mutual’s Global Risk Solutions. She also held a variety of senior business and technology leadership roles across the financial, high-tech and biomedical industries, including strategy consulting firm Bain, technology provider EMC and medical device provider bioMérieux.
An Iranian American who immigrated to the U.S. in 1985, Ms. Lefebvre has lived in six countries and speaks three languages. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and her undergraduate degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.