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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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Omri Kletter

Global VP of Fraud and Risk Management, Bottomline

Prior to joining Bottomline, Omri was responsible for managing the fraud and authentication solutions in the EMEA region for NICE Actimize. Omri began his career in Israel’s elite technological intelligence army unit, where he served as the Head of the Global Counter-Terrorism section.

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Arin Ray

Senior Analyst, Celent

Arin Ray is a Senior Analyst with Celent based in the firm's New York office with over a decade’s experience in tracking business, regulatory, and technology trends in financial services. He has published extensively on technology trends in financial crime compliance operations with specific focus on the role of next generation technology in combatting financial crime. His advisory engagements have included developing technology strategy, market entry and expansion strategy, and benchmarking studies for financial institutions and technology providers. Arin’s research and byline articles have been widely published in the news media and trade journals including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Euromoney, and BusinessWeek among others. Arin regularly speaks at conferences and other industry events on technology trends in risk and compliance.

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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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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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David Masson

Director of Enterprise Cyber Security, Darktrace

David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Security, and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and worldwide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various unique national security issues. David is an operational solutions expert and has a solid reputation across the UK and Canada for delivery tailored to customer needs. At Darktrace, David advises strategic customers across North America and is also a regular contributor to major international and national media outlets in Canada where he is based. He holds a master’s degree from Edinburgh University.

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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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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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Khaja Ahmed

SVP, Head Global Product and Application Security, SAP

Ahmed is currently an angel investor, a sought-after adviser to security startups and a mentor for security professionals from the engineer and architect level to CISOs and CEOs. He recently retired from his role as senior vice president of product and application security at SAP. Prior to that role, he led security efforts at Google (GCP), Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft. In a career spanning three decades, Ahmed has worked on security for chips and firmware, operating systems and applications and the largest and most advanced IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.

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Vinod Brahmapuram

CISO, State of Washington

Brahmapuram was appointed state CISO in October 2019. He oversees WaTech’s state Office of Cybersecurity and is responsible for establishing and leading the strategic direction of cybersecurity for state government, as well as advising the governor and legislators on key cyber issues. He has more than 20 years of IT experience. Before joining WaTech, he served as the deputy CISO for the state of South Carolina and held several security roles for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, including serving as the agency’s CISO in 2015 and 2016.

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Trey Blalock

CISO, Coinstar (Bellevue Washington)

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Michael Bray

CISO, Vancouver Clinic

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Keith Tresh

CISO, State of Idaho

Keith Tresh is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Idaho, Information Technology Services. Keith is a retired Military and State of California cybersecurity professional. He has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and over 27 years of experience in information technology. A retired Army colonel, Mr. Tresh was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 6, 2016 as the commander of the California cybersecurity integration center (Cal-CSIC) within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he served until November of 2018. Prior to his appointment as the commander of Cal-CSIC he was the chief information officer at the California High – Speed Rail Authority. Keith is a veteran C-level IT management professional and an educator with a passion for information assurance and awareness. From 2014 to 2016 Keith was assigned as the chief information security officer (CISO) for the County of Orange, California. In 2011, Governor Brown appointed him to serve as California’s chief information security officer and director of the Office of Information Security (OIS) at the California Technology Agency. Prior to this appointment, Keith was the CIO/J6 for the California National Guard. Keith Tresh served in the Army and the California National Guard (CNG) for more than 33 years including a combat tour in Iraq from 2005-2006. He holds a Master of Science degree in national security and strategic studies from the United States Army War College and a Master of Science in computer information systems from the University of Phoenix. Mr. Tresh lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife Coco and has 4 children – Justine, 33, Austin, 27, Hunter, 23 and Kristina 20.

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Riyad Jazmawi

Head of Information Security and IT Governance, Investbank, Jordan

Jazmawi is head of information securty and IT governance at Investment Bank, Jordan. He is experienced in cybersecurity, business continuity management, and IT governance.

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Narayanan Krishnan

Chief Technology Officer, Falconeye Cybersecurity

Krishnan is chief innovation and security officer at ISA Consultancy Services (AUS) Pty Ltd He is an innovator with 16 patents and two service marks to his name. He has more than 26 years of experience in the cyber security industry.

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