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Suheb Ahmed

Senior Customer Advisory Consultant, Financial Crimes, SAS Institute

Suheb is an accomplished Financial Crime executive with more than 16 years' experience in Financial Crimes Compliance & Financial Crime Analytics spanning across South Asia, MENA & ANZ. Suheb is a results-oriented leader and has helped financial institutions by running financial crime risk assessments, developing innovative solutions, managing projects and full-cycle assessments. Suheb has in-depth knowledge of the financial crime domain, systems, and processes and the unique expertise to manage risk across multiple areas.

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Paul Franks

Director, Financial Services, SAS Institute

Paul has over 30 years professional and commercial experience in financial services covering banking, insurance and wealth management. He is a former partner at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

As Director, Financial Services for SAS Australia and New Zealand, he is responsible for sales and industry strategies for banking customers and risk management solutions and a member of the Global Banking Council for SAS. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of FINSIA and a certified finance and treasury professional. During his time at SAS, he has been Executive Sponsor for several of our largest Australia and New Zealand financial services customers including overseeing major sales and technology solution delivery initiatives in risk management and regulatory compliance for banking and insurance clients. These include credit risk, Basel II, RWA, stress testing, IFRS 9, regulatory and economic capital, pricing and claims management.

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Tom Pattinson

CISSP, Lumen

Tom is a 20 year veteran of the IT Security Industry. Over an eight year period with IBM, he held various positions which involved him managing delivery of security solutions into Key strategic Accounts. More recently at Hewlett Packard, he was responsible for managing their Security Products business for UK Public Sector and SI partners. Since July 2014 at Lumen Technologies, Tom has been responsible for consulting with EMEA clients on appropriate security solutions as well as delivering webinars and tech talks about Network Based Threat Intelligence; DDoS & Security.

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Graham Smith

Head of Security Solutions,

Graham Smith is Head of Security Solutions for Lumen EMEA. Graham has over 21 years experience managing Cyber Security related disciplines supporting National Governments, Law Enforcement and large Enterprise Customers globally. Roles have included heading up Security Product Management, Security Operations Centre (SOC), CERT, Forensics and InfoSec functions. Graham brings unique insight into how to develop effective defence strategies against increasingly sophisticated threat actors.

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Eric Schou

AVP, Security Product Marketing, Splunk

Eric Schou is a product marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He has managed all aspects of global solutions and product marketing strategies as a technical evangelist, message builder, and leader of solution and product marketing teams.

Eric currently puts his deep security experience to work as AVP of Security Product Marketing at Splunk, where he is responsible for messaging, strategy, and go to market efforts. Prior to Splunk, Eric was responsible for product, solutions, partner and services marketing as Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and before that, was Director of Product Marketing at HPE, the software security division of HP. He also held previous positions at both McAfee and Symantec.

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James Young

Global Security Strategist, Splunk

With over 20 years experience, James has always taken every opportunity to learn more about, and in turn improve how security can be done. In his current role at Splunk as a Global Security Strategist, he has the fortune of speaking with a broad range of different people, and advising organizations around developing and maturing their cyber security operations capabilities. This work also often involves collaboration across a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and improve the joint solutions Splunk and their security ecosystem partners bring to market to help solve a range of cyber security challenges.

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Gaurav Gupta

Head-Tech Regulatory and Audit Management, United Overseas Bank

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Hemanshu Parekh

Director - Financial Crimes Compliance, Standard Chartered Bank

Hemanshu has over 10 years of experience in areas of compliance, AML and finance Audit, he has worked in several banks including Bank of America, standard chartered bank and ANZ bank.

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Keith Swanson

Regional Director, Asia Pacific / Japan, Fraud, Financial Crime & Security Intelligence, SAS Institute

Keith Swanson is the Director of Fraud, Financial Crimes and Security Intelligence for SAS Asia Pacific/Japan. Keith has worked with customers or directly for organisations across North America and Asia in industries including Financial Services, Government, and Communications, with many of these with global or regional remit. Keith and his team work extensively with customers in developing strategies and applying solutions to combat financial crime, fraud, waste and abuse, and security initiatives, including public security, intelligence and cyber. Keith’s work with customers, SAS colleagues, and partners has helped grow the SAS APAC/J fraud and security business by over 13x in the last 5 years. Keith has presented to a variety of industry bodies and organisations including Executive Briefings, Bankers Associations, Industry conferences and leading consultancies.

Prior to joining SAS in late 2010, Keith held a number of senior positions with a longstanding SAS customer in the financial services sector in the USA. He also spent time in management, business process and analytics consulting with leading organisations including IBM Global Business Services where he worked with clients to identify and deliver business value in financial and customer intelligence, advanced customer insight, business analytics strategy and advanced analytics and optimisation across a variety of industries. Key to his experience is understanding how individual and group behavioural insights can be used to address a variety of business opportunities and challenges, being able to discuss and translate across IT, business and project groups.

Keith Swanson has focused on applying analytics in business through a variety of roles since earning his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, and commenced studies for his Master of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to further studies in Information Security, Keith has previously earned Project Management Institute (PMP) and Life Management Institute (FLMI) accreditations and has sat on Forrester’s Database Marketing Council.

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Chris Frost

Technical Solutions Architect, Cloud Security, Cisco

Chris has been working in Cyber Security for over 6 years. He joined Cisco Security as Technical Solutions Architect via the OpenDNS acquisition. Over his time in cloud security, he's conducted 100s of cloud security customer assessments and advised on solutions.

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Nilesh Halai

Cloud Security Specialist, Cisco

Nilesh Halai is an experienced technology specialist with 15+ years of experience across multiple architectures including Security, Enterprise Networking and Data Centre in Commercial, Public Sector, and Channel Partners. Nilesh joined Cisco as a Product Sales Specialist in Meraki, focused in supporting customers and partners simplify enterprise networking and embrace emerging technologies such as Next Generation Wi-Fi, Smart Camera’s and SD-WAN. Nilesh in his current role as a Sales Specialist in Cloud Security, is focused in supporting customers and partners across the region on their journey to cloud, with transformational technologies such as Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as well as securing web, email and end point with Cisco’s integrated security platform.

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Daniel Clayton

VP of Global Support and Services, Bitdefender

Daniel Clayton has been responsible for building and delivering global operations for the National Security Agency (NSA), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Rackspace and Bitdefender over a 30-year career.

As VP of Global Support and Services, he is responsible for Bitdefender’s global operations in support of customers, including the strategy, service delivery and oversight of Services and Support Operations, including the Security Operations Center, Customer Success Operations and associated engineering functions.

In his previous role as leader for all Information Security operations at Rackspace, he was a key member of the executive team that aligned strategy, technology and execution across the Rackspace global enterprise, which served 300,000+ customers in over 120 countries. He was responsible for service delivery of the Global enterprise-wide security operation, security operations strategy, and associated support services and oversaw the Rackspace Cross-Platform Operations organization, which encompassed Rackspace Managed Security Operations and Rackspace Application Services.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Daniel spent more than two decades with UK and US government intelligence and security services, where he developed and managed intelligence and security operations programs in multiple international locations, to include SOCs within the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

As the Operations Center Intelligence Officer and Branch Chief with the U.K. Government, Daniel designed, implemented, coordinated and supervised the collection, analysis, and dissemination of nationally significant information across a network of three internationally deployed SOCs for a staff of 130 analysts and reporters.

Daniel is an experienced Operations leader, who has operated effectively in many roles on both sides of the Atlantic and having built and led 7 Operations Centers globally, including 2 commercial Security Operation Centers but has extensive Information Security and Cyber experience. Additionally, having built and launched two separate Managed Security Services organizations, he can also call upon significant Product and Marketing experience.

Daniel has a MS in Leadership and Management and BA in Intelligence Management from City and Guilds (Royal Charter) in London, as well as a BA in Russian from the University of Westminster.

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Tom Llewelyn

Technical Architect, Sysdig

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Darragh O'Flannagn

Partner Solutions Architect ISV EMEA, AWS

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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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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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Lee Harris

MSSP & Cloud Pak for Security Sales Leader, IBM EMEA

Lee Harris served eight years in the British Army before embarking on a career in IT Sales. With 26 years sales experience across IT, he has spent the last 15 years in Cyber Security. Joining IBM 6 years ago specialising in Threat Detection and Remediation, he has worked in most sectors of the market, concentrating on MSSP's for the last three.

He now leads the Sales Strategy in EMEA for MSSP's and Cloud Pak for Security.

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Michael Dessert

Senior Executive Advisor - Workforce and Customer Identity and Access, Okta

Mike Dessert provides global executive advisory services at Okta. Mike is an industry expert in Enterprise IT, with specializations in Identity andAccess Management (IAM) technology, large-scale software development, enterprise architecture, and DevSecOps. Prior to joining Okta, Mikeserved as an IT executive at a major Detroit-based Big3 Automotive Corporation over two decades, leading global solutions in Sales and Marketing,Dealers Networks, Supply Chain, Aftermarket, and Corporate Staffs, as well as leading the Enterprise, Security, and Solution Architecturepractices. Mike launched his IT career building applications and infrastructure at EDS and Netscape Communications, and is a proud graduate ofthe University of Michigan.

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Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Raj is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services practice with 17 years of experience in information technology and security. Raj have extensive experience in providing cutting-edge Identity transformation solutions to diverse clients globally. Raj is currently leading advanced authorization and support Zero Trust offering from IAM perspective and focuses on guiding clients across industries to architect, design and implement multi-layered identity and access management solutions that minimize the business impact of cyber incidents and other technology disruptions. Raj is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Project Management Professional (PMP) with hands-on experience and strategic perspective

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Andrew Rafla

Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Andrew, a principal at Deloitte & Touche LLP, is a member of the Cyber & Strategic Risk practice of Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory. He has a deep technology and operations background spanning his 20+ year career in cybersecurity. Andrew focuses on helping clients enhance operational efficiency while reducing exposure to cyberthreats and managing operational, regulatory, and emerging risks.

Andrew is currently Deloitte’s Zero Trust offering leader and has extensive experience in network and infrastructure security, adversarial simulation, security operations, and security logging and monitoring. He primarily focuses on serving some of the world’s largest financial services organizations but also has experience in other industries and verticals such as federal/ department of defense (classified and unclassified), power and utilities, retail, and life sciences.

Andrew received a BS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and an MS in Information Assurance from Capitol Technology University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is certified through the SABSA Chartered Foundation.

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Henry Carse

Senior Solutions Engineer, Delphix

Coming from a Healthcare Systems implementation background, Henry knows first hand the importance of masking sensitive data and the headaches that come with trying to do that without the right tools. Moving into a technical, pre-sales role allowed him to make a positive impact to more organisations by fitting customer needs to great products.

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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

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

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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