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Nikfar Khaleeli

Vice President of Product, Blue Cedar

Nikfar brings a wealth of experience to Blue Cedar, having worked in mobility and security at both early stage and mature technology companies. At Blue Cedar, Nikfar is responsible for product management and product marketing. Nikfar previously worked at Good Technology (acquired by BlackBerry) where he was responsible for product marketing of the Good Dynamics (now BlackBerry Dynamics) Platform. Nikfar also worked at ProtectWise (acquired by Verizon), McAfee, Vontu (acquired by Symantec), and Wind River Systems.

Nikfar began his career as a Software Engineer. He received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and a BA in Physics from the College of Wooster.

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Thomas Bain

Senior Vice President, Marketing, RiskRecon

Tom Bain is Senior Vice President of Marketing for RiskRecon. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company and has 15+ years of experience with leading IT Security organizations.  Previous to RiskRecon, Mr. Bain was Vice President, Marketing with Morphisec. He has served in previous roles at innovative cybersecurity companies including Chief Marketing Officer with Centripetal Networks and Vice President, Global Marketing for CounterTack/GoSecure. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and holds a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. Mr. Bain sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.

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Tony Howlett

CISO, SecureLink

Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP, GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. He is currently the CISO of SecureLink, a vendor privilege access management company based in Austin.

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Justin Strackany

Chief Customer Officer, SecureLink

Strackany is the Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access. He has been with SecureLink since it was founded in 2003 and has served in many customer-focused capacities, including sales engineering, implementation, customer success, account management, and onboarding new clients. Over the years he has developed deep partnerships with some of the largest, most complex enterprise organizations and technology vendors across the country and internationally in industries such as healthcare, gaming, legal, finance, and retail.

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Franklyn Jones

Chief Marketing Officer, Cequence

Franklyn Jones currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Cequence. He has been involved in innovative cyber security startups for more than a decade. Prior to joining Cequence, Franklyn held CMO positions at Bromium, Spikes Security, and Cyphort (acquired by Juniper Networks). Franklyn was also with Palo Alto Networks for 5 years starting in 2007, helping the company create a leadership position in the next-gen firewall market.

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Nathan Burke

Chief Marketing Officer, Axonius

Nathan Burke is the Chief Marketing Officer at Axonius. Passionate about bringing new technologies to market to solve real problems, he has held marketing leadership roles at Hexadite (acquired by Microsoft), Intralinks, MineralTree, CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), and is a frequent speaker and contributing author on topics related to the intersection of collaboration and security. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, daughter, and dogs, and enjoys watching the unfairly dominant New England Patriots.

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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 Sanders

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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John DiLullo

CEO, Lastline

DiLullo has nearly 30 years of demonstrated success in enterprise security, networking, cloud, and AI, plus go-to-market expertise spanning sales, marketing, customer success, technical support, and operations. His career includes extensive time domestically and abroad with market leaders such as Cisco Systems, Avaya, SonicWall, and Aruba Networks serving customers large and small through traditional and emerging channels. Prior to joining Lastline, DiLullo was the EVP for F5 Network's $2B+ Worldwide Sales and Customer Operations. He is an avid technologist, an author, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an accomplished public speaker.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT

Tom Bienkowski has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at NETSCOUT, he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on NETSCOUT's industry leading DDoS Protection solution.

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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Kish is EVP of marketing and research at Fasoo. She is responsible for leading Fasoo's research and product strategies in the unstructured data security and privacy space.She brings more than 20 years of experience in research with her prior employer, Gartner where she identified growth patterns, market sizes and changes in competitive landscapes due to emerging trends and end-user needs. For the past five years at Gartner, she worked in the technology and service provider security team, responsible for tracking data security technologies and advising thousands of end user and vendor clients. She also monitored privacy regulations and management tools such as consent management and anonymization. Prior to that, she successfully tracked switching and signaling and security in the carrier network infrastructure space for 15 years.

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Gonzalo de la Hoz Arespacochaga

Identity & Access Management Segment Leader, Europe, IBM

Gonzalo de la Hoz has been leading IBM's Identity and Access Management software business in Europe for the past 6 years. He has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting his career with technical consulting and pre-sales engineering, followed by different sales positions. More recently he has held several technical and sales management positions for IBM in Southern Europe.

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Vaughan Harper

Consulting Security Specialist - IBM Security Systems

Vaughan Harper is an IBM Security Architect with over 25 years' experience in the IT industry, the last 15 years in IT Security. He is currently the European technical lead for IBM's IAM products, and has spent most of the last ten years supporting the IBM Security products in Europe and in the UK. Prior to that he consulted, implemented and supported IBM's cryptographic and network security products. Before that he held various software development and system design jobs in the UK and the US. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

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Chris Calvert

VP Products, Respond Software

Chris has over 30 years' experience in information security. He led the build for eight Fortune-50 SOCs and created the blueprint deployed by the ArcSight solutions team at over 45 security operations centers. He has served as HP's WW director of solutions innovation, CEO of Laconic Security, director of services for Cybertrust, and manager of security intelligence and operations for IBM's MSS.

Before joining IBM, Chris spent 14 years in the National Defense and Intelligence community in the field of information operations. He supported such agencies as the DOD Joint Staff, Land Information Warfare Activity, Space Warfare Center and other intelligence agencies. Chris also served for 10 years in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence and Special Forces.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud, data security, and consumer compliance issues. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees. Formerly, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was SVP and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank.

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Alex Niu

Director of Solution Engineering, DataVisor

Niu has more than nine years of experience in financial industry serving large banks in the area of risk management using advanced analytics. As the director of Decision Science at American Express, Niu was involved in developing and implementing machine learning based solution for both credit assessment and fraud detection. He also led efforts to build machine learning models for credit line assignment for American Express portfolios. Prior to American Express, Niu served as a consultant to top financial institutions.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Justin Fier

Director of Cyber Analysis and Intelligence, Darktrace

Fier is the director of cyber analysis and intelligence at Darktrace, based in Washington D.C. With more than 10 years of experience in cyber defense, Fier has supported various elements in the US intelligence community, holding mission-critical security roles with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Abraxas. Fier is a highly-skilled technical officer, and a specialist in cyber operations across both offensive and defensive arenas.

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Michael Sherwood

Director of Technology and Innovation, City of Las Vegas

Sherwood is the Director of Technology and Innovation for the City of Las Vegas. Sherwood has more than 20 years of management experience, specifically in the field of technology, process improvement and innovation with the majority of that experience being in municipal government operations. Most recently he served as the deputy director of public safety, business services and city technology for the city of Irvine, CA since December 2013. Prior to that, he was the CIO and the information technologies manager for the City of Oceanside, CA.

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Giovanni Vigna

Co-founder and CTO, Lastline

Vigna has been researching and developing security technology for more than 20 years, working on malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and intrusion detection. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara and is the director of the Computer Security Group at UCSB. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences, and workshops, a book on intrusion correlation, and (as an editor) a book on mobile code security. Vigna has been the program chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (in 2010 and 2011). He is known for organizing and running an annual inter-university Capture The Flag (iCTF) hacking contest that involves dozens of institutions and hundreds of students around the world. Vigna also leads the Shellphish Hacking Team, the longest-running team playing at DefCon's CTF.

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