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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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Mariana Pereira

Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace

Mariana Pereira is the Director of Email Security Products at Darktrace, with a primary focus on the capabilities of AI cyber defences against email-borne attacks. Mariana works closely with the development, analyst, and marketing teams to advise technical and non-technical audiences on how best to augment cyber resilience within the email domain, and how to implement AI technology as a means of defence. She speaks regularly at international events, with a specialism in presenting on sophisticated, AI-powered email attacks. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and speaks several languages including French, Italian and Portuguese.

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Karl Klaessig

Director of Product Marketing, Security Operations, ServiceNow

Karl is ServiceNow's Director of Product Marketing, Security Operations, and has over 15 years of experience in product positioning and marketing of enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, and endpoint technologies, most recently from product marketing roles at RSA and McAfee, where he was responsible for the positioning of their security operations and automation platforms.

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.

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EG Pearson

Security Architect, Unisys

EG Pearson is a Security Architect for Unisys working on the Stealth platform. With twenty years of IT support and administration experience he has decent scope of knowledge, with a focus on cybersecurity for the past five years.

About Unisys

Unisys is a global information technology company that builds high-performance, security-centric solutions for the most demanding businesses and governments. Unisys offerings include security software and services; digital transformation and workplace services; industry applications and services; and innovative software operating environments for high-intensity enterprise computing. For more information on how Unisys builds better outcomes securely for its clients across the Government, Financial Services and Commercial markets, visit www.unisys.com.

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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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John Walker

Visiting Prof., Nottingham Trent University; Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), University of Kent and Fmr Royal Air Force Security and Counter Intelligence

John Walker is a specialist providing consultancy to Middle East based organisations, government, and military clients. 22 years in Royal Air Force Security/Investigations and Counter Intelligence operations within a SCIF/Comint/Sigint environments, working alongside GCHQ, CESG, UK and US Agencies, ITSO and Systems Security Manager for CIA Accredited Systems, Visiting Professor School of Science/Technology - Nottingham Trent University [NTU], Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) - University of Kent, Mentor to Tallinn University (Estonia) Masters Students Cyber Research, Practicing and Registered Expert Witness, Certified Forensics Investigator Practitioner [CFIP], Editorial Member at MedCrave Research for Forensics & Criminology, ENISA CEI Listed Expert, Editorial Member of the Cyber Security Research Institute [CRSI], Digital Forensics/Cyber Security Listed Trainer in Dubai for Certified courses, Fellow of Royal Society for the Arts [FRSA], and a Belkasoft (Digital Forensics) Partner.

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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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Mark Ostrowski

Head of Engineering for the East, US, Check Point

Mark has over 20 years' experience in IT security and has helped design and support some of the largest security environments in the country. As Head of Engineering for the US East at Check Point Software, Mark provides thought leadership for the IT security industry outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can pro-actively mitigate and manage risk.

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Ahmed Mohamud

VP, Cyber Risk, Morgan Stanley

Ahmed is a multi-disciplinary Technology Risk professional. He brings expertise in the areas of; risk management (operational/IT/enterprise), cyber security, business process improvement, internal audit (IT and financial), creating financial tools, and technology implementation. He has substantial experience applying technical knowledge to complex business issues and presenting well developed findings and recommendations to executive management.

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Stephen Scharf

Managing Director & Global Chief Security Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

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Chris Dobrec

Vice President of Product Marketing, Armis

As Vice President of Product Marketing, Chris is responsible for Armis' product marketing strategy and vision. He is a seasoned product and business development executive leading teams through development and marketing of exceptional products and cutting-edge technologies across enterprise and consumer market segments. Prior to Armis, Chris held executive management roles in product management, product marketing and business development at MobileIron, Cisco, Nokia, Ipsilon Networks and Kalpana. Chris' journey to Silicon Valley started after leaving college early to pursue his passion for building great products.

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Homayun Yaqub

Senior Director of Strategy, Forcepoint

Homayun Yaqub is Forcepoint's Global Security Strategist. In this role, he partners with executives across various industries to architect and deliver tenable strategies addressing core business issues to reduce risk exposure and better protect their data and people assets. Homayun brings more than 25 years of security experience in the U.S. military, government, and private sector to Forcepoint.

Prior to joining, Homayun led multiple security initiatives at JPMorgan Chase & Company. As an independent consultant, Homayun advised Global 1000 companies on strategies to better manage risk and enhance their security posture. He was also a founding member of The MASY Group, a global security and risk consulting firm.

Homayun held multiple leadership and executive roles in the Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community with his last role serving as the DCS Deputy Director at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Homayun began his career as a U.S. Army Officer.

Homayun holds a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and a Bachelors in International Business rom James Madison University. He is a board member of the Homaira Rahman Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to creating sustainable opportunities for Afghanistan's orphans.

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Nabil Bousselham

Principal Solution Architect

Nabil Bousselham is a Principal solution architect at Veracode. In this role, Nabil works with Veracode's enterprise customers in the EMEA region to support them integrate application security testing techniques in their SDLC / DevOps teams and implement mature AppSec programs. Nabil has been in the IT industry for 15+ years now and has long experience in the software supply chain, SDLC management, quality assurance and security of software applications.

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Donald Smith

Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle

Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle. He brings global enterprise software experience, ranging from startups through Fortune 500 companies. Donald has decades of experience speaking about Java, open source, community development, business models, business integration and software development politics at conferences and events worldwide. Donald's background includes developing the first commercially successful Object-Relational Mapping products for Smalltalk and Java, transitioning to Java EE Application Servers and driving the Eclipse Foundation through years of rapid growth where he still sits on the IP Advisory Committee. For the past eight years Donald has run Java SE Product Management.

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