London, United Kingdom, August 2026 — Anthropic has appointed Shakira Talbot as Head of Strategic Pursuits – EMEA. Based in Greater London, Talbot brings more than 20 years of experience spanning enterprise technology sales, strategic accounts, customer operations, revenue growth and sales leadership.
Talbot joins Anthropic after more than 12 years at ServiceNow, where she progressed through a series of senior commercial leadership positions. Most recently, she served as Group Vice President, CRM – EMEA, with end-to-end sales and success accountability for CRM across business segments and industry verticals in the region. Prior to this, she was Group Vice President, Global Customer & Field Operations, focusing on high-performing teams, pipeline generation, sales execution and revenue acceleration.
Earlier at ServiceNow, Talbot served as AVP – UK&I Commercial, leading multiple sales teams across industry verticals. She previously spent three years as Sales Director – Public Sector and five years as a Senior Account Executive, where she worked with major government organizations and focused on new revenue acquisition.
Before ServiceNow, Talbot was Account Director – Global Strategic Accounts at BMC Software and an Account Executive at Gartner. Her earlier career included roles with Cititec Associates and SThree, where she developed experience across technology, banking and financial services sales and recruitment.
Her appointment brings extensive experience in enterprise sales, strategic pursuits, customer engagement, commercial leadership and revenue growth to Anthropic’s EMEA organization. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on AI research and products, including Claude, with an emphasis on developing capable AI systems while advancing safety and responsible development.
About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI research and product company and public benefit corporation. Its work focuses on developing advanced AI systems while researching areas including AI safety, alignment, interpretability and the broader societal impacts of increasingly capable AI.
The company develops Claude, its AI model and assistant, alongside conducting research aimed at making advanced AI systems safer and more beneficial.
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