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Chad McDonald

CISO & CIO, Radiant Logic

Chad brings more than 20 years’ experience building and managing information security programs. Chad has leveraged his security leadership to dozens of organizations across the technology, education and medical sectors. Prior to Radiant Logic, Chad defined security and technical integrations of 5 acquisitions and attained FedRAMP-in-Process status for Digital.ai. While serving as the Executive Director of the Office of the CISO at Optiv, he defined the security strategy for a $70 billion dollar merger between two technology giants. Chad holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Southern Polytechnic State University, as well as multiple certifications including CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and PMP (Project Management Professional).

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Johan Dreyer

Field CTO, EMEA, Mimecast

Johan has spent the majority of his career striving to understand how technology can help organizations. The early years started in Harare, Zimbabwe before moving onwards to Dubai, where he spent 7 years, and more recently to the UK where Johan is now Field CTO for EMEA at Mimecast.

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Rory Duncan

Go to Market Leader, Security, NTT UK & Ireland

Rory has over 25 years’ experience within the IT security industry. He joined NTT Ltd at its formation in 2019 having previously led the UK security business at Dimension Data. Rory brings with him in-depth knowledge and expertise in protecting clients and their businesses. As the Go to Market leader of the UK security business, he is involved in developing innovative solutions for a range of multinational and global clients across all industries and frequently presents on challenges facing organisations as they undertake their digital transformation.

Rory regularly works with NTT’s global clients, helping them evolve their cybersecurity posture and move to predictive cybersecurity models to protect them in the rapidly changing landscape.

In his spare time, he enjoys skiing with his wife and two daughters.

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Prashant Pai

SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives, SecurityScorecard

Prashant is the SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives at SecurityScorecard. He has experience in building and growing organizations. Previously, Prashant has demonstrated leadership and excellence in building risk consulting into a multi-million dollar business.

Prashant brings varied quantitative and qualitative risk management background spanning market, credit, operational, and cybersecurity risk. He has hands-on experience developing risk management systems as well as positioning these systems to senior management within financial institutions for wider adoption.

In his current role, Prashant is actively working to help shape a cyber risk market, where an enterprise can measure and manage cyber risk both qualitatively and quantitatively and both parties to a cyber risk transfer transaction have transparency of data and insights.

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Nir Moatty

Global Head of Solution Consulting at Outseer An RSA Company

Nir has had a distinguished 20-year career building high performing teams that deliver innovative market leading solutions. With experience spanning multiple industries, his passion to fight fraud led him to Outseer as an RSA Business.

At Outseer he has led a series of strategic engineering programs, building his technical acumen and ultimately bringing that expertise to the companies go-to-market efforts. Today, Nir leads a global organization dedicated to transforming how Outseer collaborates with customers and partners to solve the most difficult emerging fraud challenges.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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George Tubin

Director of Product Strategy, Cynet

George Tubin is the Director of Product Strategy at Cynet and a recognized expert in cybercrime prevention. He was previously VP of Marketing at Socure and Senior Research Director at TowerGroup where he delivered thought leadership and insights to large enterprises on cybersecurity as well as identity and fraud management.

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Nuno Almeida

Consulting Engineer, BitSight

Nuno has been working at BitSight helping organizations tackling their Security and Risk Challenges as a Consulting Engineer. Previously he’s had a number of different roles as a Pre- Sales Engineer in Telecom, Project Manager, IT Management Network and Systems Engineer.

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Brian Mulligan

Director of Product Management, SPM, BitSight

Brian leads product management for BitSight’s Security Performance Management offerings. He collaborates with security leaders across organizations to understand their needs and to help them quantify, manage, and communicate cybersecurity risk. Brian joined BitSight from IBM Security where he led product management for the access management and authentication portfolio. He holds an MBA from Harvard, an MA in Applied Economics from John Hopkins University, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science from the College of the Holy Cross.

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Scott West

Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management - SPM, BitSight

Scott West is the Principal Product Marketing Manager for Security Performance Management (SPM), BitSight’s cyber risk-reducing platform that enables organizations to optimize their security program for efficiency, effectiveness and scale. Before joining BitSight, Scott built his passion for value selling in various Product Marketing, Senior Sales and Executive positions for more technology and software startups than he cares to remember.

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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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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Fred Harris

Head of Cybersecurity Risk, Data Risk and IT Risk, Societe Generale

Fred Harris is the Head of Cybersecurity Risk, Data Risk and IT Risk at Société Générale Americas. Fred is an accomplished Technology Executive with more than 30 years of technology and cybersecurity experience in the financial services industry. Before joining SG, Fred was in a similar role at Bank of America and before that he was with Deloitte for 16 years in a variety of roles.

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Yogesh Mudgal

Director, Operational Risk Management - Technology/Cyber, Citi

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Karl Lankford

RVP, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford is RVP of Solutions Engineering EMEIA at BeyondTrust. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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Javvad Malik

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Javvad Malik is a Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, a blogger event speaker and industry commentator who is possibly best known as one of the industry’s most prolific video bloggers with his signature fresh and light-hearted perspective on security that speak to both technical and non-technical audiences alike. Prior to joining KnowBe4, he was a security advocate at AlienVault. Before then, he was a Senior Analyst at 451’s Enterprise Security Practice (ESP).

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