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Hank Schless

Sr. Manager of Security Solutions and host of the Endpoint Enigma podcast, Lookout

After working for fintech and database technology companies, Hank has found a home in cybersecurity. Before Lookout, he was the 20th employee at a cloud infrastructure security startup and helped the company grow to over 160 employees. At Lookout, he is a Senior Manager on the Security Solutions team, enabling internal teams and informing the market about the growing need to secure mobile devices as part of their larger security strategy.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

Todd Carroll joined the CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. Mr. Carroll retired from the FBI in December 2018 after spending over 20 years with the FBI, serving in the Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and a Master of Science in Cyber Security from University of Maryland, University College in 2012. He also graduated from Carnegie Mellon University CISO Academy in 2017.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

Todd Carroll joined the CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. Mr. Carroll retired from the FBI in December 2018 after spending over 20 years with the FBI, serving in the Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and a Master of Science in Cyber Security from University of Maryland, University College in 2012. He also graduated from Carnegie Mellon University CISO Academy in 2017.

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Chris Fredde

Board Member, Votiro

Chris Fedde is a Board Member at Votiro, a cybersecurity company that sanitizes files of malware and other embedded threats while maintaining full file usability and functionality. Previously, Chris Fedde served as the CEO of Bandura Cyber, Inc, leading the company through its early growth in cyber threat intelligence while raising two institutional capital raises. Prior to Bandura, Mr. Fedde founded and led Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc, which was acquired in 2016.

Prior to Hexis he was president and Chief Executive Officer of SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection. SafeNet was sold to Gemalto in 2014. Mr. Fedde currently serves on the boards of Votiro Cybersecurity, Netcraftsmen, and other technology firms and non-profits, as well as advisory boards of tech companies. Mr. Fedde holds several technology patents.

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Frank Johnson

SVP at SecuLore Solutions

Frank Johnson previously served as a City Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Frank was charged with leading and supporting all digital transformation programs and efforts to modernize the City's IT capabilities, scale the local IT ecosystem and drive awareness/tech investment to the city.

As a former "ransomware battle-tested" CIO, he is now focused on helping others in all aspects of cybersecurity by providing cyber thought leadership and best practices as an Ambassador of the Cybersecurity Collaborative and SVP at SecuLore Solutions.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Paul McKay

Senior Analyst, Forrester

Paul is a senior analyst on the security and risk team. He works with organizations to help them shape and deliver their cybersecurity strategies to support the delivery of their core business vision. Paul's research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions, Europe-specific regulation for cybersecurity, CISO and security leadership research, and the European vendor market landscape focused on managed security service providers and consultancies.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solutions Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Ashutosh Jain

CISO, Axis Bank

Ashutosh Jain currently serves as CISO with Axis Bank. He provides strategic direction and delivers cyber security, information risk and security governance at Axis Bank, including eight international branches. His earlier career has spanned across: Barclays Bank, where he headed multiple roles for technology risk, information risk for India and emerging markets, a cluster of 14 countries across Asia and Africa; Nomura India, where he headed the technology governance, global IT security operations, global IT security engineering and Asia technology risk teams for the global investment bank, based out of India; AXA Business Services, where he managed enterprise risk as CISO; Bank of America, where he established the technology audit function for South Asia, and was responsible for bank audits in the South Asia and Far East Region; PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was responsible for operations and systems risk management services for various engagements in business process controls, application reviews and IS security.

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Ravinder Pal Singh

Chief Information & Innovation Officer, Tata Singapore Airlines (Air Vistara)

Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an award winning technologist and has fathered various IT organisations and created their future technology avatars. Ravi is global speaker and international seasoned traveller with an extensive global experience ranging from strategy to execution in 5 continents. He is also a holder, in his personal capacity, of several technologies patents, advance practitioner of yoga and can fly aircraft. In recent past he has been associated with a leader in technology and big 4 management consulting firm to help their Fortune 500 customers and government institutions in transformation. In his last tenure at a leading Aviation Engineering Services firm Ravi realised 4 digit % increment in digitisation amidst constraint of cash and culture to achieve non-linear business growth (34x) across multiple continents. Now as Chief of Information and Innovation he is helping Tata-SIA (Vistara) to consolidate, identify, acquire, evaluate and incubate right technology for its business. He will also induce innovation and thoughtfulness as core to Vistara's culture thus by creating communities and co-creation to realize ideas as true business differentiators.

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Kim Green

Sr. Director IT Security and Compliance, Rodan and Fields

Kim has served in several executive and senior-level IT and InfoSec roles, and as an advisor and investor to several security and healthcare companies. With over 25 years' experience in both private and public healthcare sectors, Kim has consulted federal and state government healthcare agencies and private companies on security and privacy best practices.

Kim routinely speaks internationally on security and privacy topics. In 2013, she spoke to members of the European Commission in Brussels on behalf of the COCIR European Trade Association providing recommendations for GDPR.

Kim studied computer software engineering and computer science at Brandeis University and Cal Lutheran University. She also served in the United States Army and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for her exemplary service

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Kevin Murphy

Former CISO, City of Seattle

Kevin was the VP of Cybersecurity Operations and Governance at IOActive.com, a retired US Air Force intelligence officer, and the former Director of Windows Security Architecture at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience in threat intelligence and information security. Kevin holds the CISM, CISSP, and CGEIT security certifications.

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Jim Weaver

CIO, Washington State

Jim Weaver was appointed Director and State CIO for Washington Technology Solutions in December 2018. Jim has over 32 years of experience in the IT industry, having served in varying management and technical positions, most notably as the Commonwealth of PA's Chief Technology Officer, as well as Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the commonwealth's Departments of Human Services, Aging and Insurance.

During his tenure, he had responsibility for planning, directing, and evaluating Commonwealth IT operations and was a key contributor for the IT shared services transformation effort to align technology staff and services into functional matrix-based teams. In his agency roles, Jim was responsible for planning, directing and evaluating the IT operations of the three agencies, which included mainframe and distributed systems platforms, data base design and application/software development, telecommunications, IT security and business intelligence.

Jim has proven expertise with successful large scale modernization efforts with an enterprise approach to technology and information security management - many of these efforts have been nationally recognized by NASCIO (2008, 2013, and 2014) and Computerworld Honors (2010 and 2013). Jim holds numerous ITIL certifications and earned his Certified Government Chief Information Officer qualification from Harrisburg University. Jim is also an active member of the armed forces serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard with over 33 years' experience in personnel information management systems.

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Sami Laine

Principal Security Architect, Okta

Sami Laine is Principal Security Architect at Okta. Over the last two decades, Sami has helped many of the world's largest enterprises, financial institutions, and public sector organizations protect against fraud, malware, threats, and data breaches. At Okta he helps companies embrace identity as the new security perimeter.

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Rajan Pant

Founder, IT-SERT of Nepal and CIO, CG Corp Global

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Jeff Greene

Director, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, NIST

Greene is the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NCCoE is a collaborative hub where industry, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to identify pressing cybersecurity issues and to develop practical cybersecurity solutions to address them. Prior to joining NIST, Jeff was the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy at Symantec, and served as an appointed member of NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board from 2015 to 2020. He was also a special government employee at NIST supporting the President's 2016 Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Before Symantec Jeff worked on both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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Randy Trzeciak

Director, CERT Insider Threat Center, CMU

Trzeciak heads a team focusing on insider threat research, threat analysis and modeling, assessments and training. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on database design, development and maintenance. In addition to his role with CERT, he is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, Graduate School of Information Systems and Management.

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Ginger Armbruster

Chief Privacy Officer, City of Seattle

As the City of Seattle's Chief Privacy Officer, Ginger Armbruster leads a team of privacy specialists in the execution of the City's Privacy Program, following a principles-based approach to the City's management of the public's personal and sensitive information. Prior to this role, she worked for Microsoft on an international team of privacy specialists to resolve issues associated with multi-million-dollar marketing initiatives. Before moving into privacy, she spent the first 20 years of her career working in sales and marketing for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson, as well as several medical technology startup companies.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Pepper

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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Randy Sabett

Special Counsel, Cyber/Data/Privacy Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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