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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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John Pritchard

CPO, Radiant Logic

John is Chief Product Officer at Radiant Logic, responsible for the company’s global product vision and leading engineering, product and design. John joined Radiant Logic from Okta, where he served as Vice President of Product Management for Okta’s Developer and Partner Ecosystem. His background is in new product development of fault-tolerant distributed SaaS systems and brings more than 25 years of product and engineering experience from Adobe, IBM and Lockheed-Martin.

John holds a B.S in Information Systems from American University, a M.S. in Telecommunications from George Washington University, an MBA from Duke University and is currently completing his PhD at the University of Denver with a research focus on Artificial Intelligence. You can find him on twitter as @IndiaPeloAle.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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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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Dr Tom Winston

Director of Intelligence, Dragos Inc

Dr Tom Winston is a Cyber Security subject matter expert focused on threats to critical infrastructure (ICS/SCADA) systems, as well as foreign cyber threat intelligence and threat analysis. Tom has extensive public and private sector experience in IT/OT threat environments to include hunting, detection engineering and reverse engineering. Tom has extensive experience in mobile devices, removable/fixed media digital forensics. Tom is also a seasoned manager of people, technology, projects, and programs. Multilingual, and with extensive experience in international relations, intelligence, and foreign policy analysis.

Formerly, a highly sought after and award-winning professor Dr Winston was an undergraduate and graduate student advocate and champion; student success is critical - not just in school, but after graduation as well. He built cyber security engineers one student at a time and continues to assist them even well past their graduation by providing career and other professional guidance.

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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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Will Robinson

Senior Solution Engineer, Lacework

A 17-year veteran of the Asia Pacific IT landscape, Will has held several senior roles across DevOps, Security and Networking.

Combining wide-ranging practical and theoretical knowledge, Will informs and assists organisations embracing cloud on best practice security for workload, container and Kubernetes environments and addressing vulnerability and compliance concerns with a unique data-centric approach through his current role with Lacework.

Through his years of consulting, he has worked with some of the biggest national and international names across numerous verticals. Will has also delivered informative talk tracks at local and international events, including AWS Summit & Re:Invent.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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David Monnier

Fellow, Team Cymru

David has been with Team Cymru since 2007. Prior, he served in the US Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He then worked at Indiana University where he helped to build some of the most powerful computational systems of their day. He transitioned to cybersecurity and helped launch the Research and Education Networking ISAC. At Team Cymru, he has been an engineering leader a Community Services team member, and a security analyst. David led efforts to secure the firm’s intelligence infrastructure and established processes the firm relies on today. Currently, David assists CSIRT teams worldwide and fosters data sharing partnerships.

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John Dodds

Director, Product Management , Palo Alto Networks

John has 20 years of experience in launching emerging technologies as a product leader for Symantec, Veritas Technologies, McAfee, and Cisco Meraki. John’s products have leveraged DLP and data classification technologies to help solve problems in regulatory compliance, governance, sensitive data protection, and privacy. John has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business in Winter Park, FL with a finance concentration.

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Ben Yang

Senior Director, Product Management - Cloud Application Security, Palo Alto Networks

Senior Director of Product Management for SaaS Security at Palo Alto Networks. He is responsible for product strategy and roadmap for cloud application security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he drove product strategy for data loss prevention, PKI, tagging, encryption/DRM, and cloud security at Symantec for over ten years. He holds both an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business and a Masters of Science (ABD) from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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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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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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