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Shuman Ghosemajumder

Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, F5 Networks

Shuman Ghosemajumder is the Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at F5 Networks. Prior to F5's acquisition of Shape Security in January 2020, Shuman was the CTO at Shape. Shape's technology platform protects the web and mobile applications of the world's largest banks, airlines, and retailers, against advanced fraud and cybercrime. In 2018, it was ranked by Deloitte as the #1 fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley and named by Fortune as one of the leading AI companies.

Shuman previously led global product management for click fraud protection at Google, enabling $23B in pay-per-click annual revenue. He joined Google in 2003 as one of the early product managers for AdSense and helped launch Gmail. He is co-author of CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan Publishing), a contributing author to Crimeware (Symantec Publishing), and a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University. In 2011, the Boston Globe named him to their MIT150 list, as one of the top innovators of all-time from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Chase Hinson

CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP, Consulting Manager, OneTrust

Chase Hinson (CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP) serves as a consultant for OneTrust GRC - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. He advises companies throughout their risk management implementations to establish processes to support operations and align with their enterprise objectives, including adopting industry best practices and adhering to requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG and more). Hinson works with clients to realize the extent of their risk exposure, helping clients to map their digital infrastructure, assess risks, combat threats, monitor ongoing performance, and document evidence throughout the risk lifecycle.

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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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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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Jeffrey Brown

CISO, State of Connecticut

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Patrick Ford

CISO, Americas, Schneider Electric

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Rocco Grillo

Managing Director, Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Services Alvarez & Marsal

Rocco Grillo currently serves as a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Disputes and Investigations Global Cyber Risk Services practice. He focuses on leading multi disciplinary teams who provide cyber risk and incident response services to clients globally. He has been a trusted partner of multiple government agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, where his cyber expertise was instrumental in investigating and resolving a variety of cyber based crimes. Grillo's experience and understanding of commercial sector challenges and national security objectives have influenced the development of national policy in cybersecurity, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Prior to joining A&M, he held leadership positions at professional services organizations including Stroz Friedberg/Aon Cyber Solutions, where he served as the Global Leader of the firm's Cybersecurity Services. Prior to Aon Cyber Solutions, Grillo was a founding member of Protiviti Inc's Cybersecurity Practice where he led the development of the firm's Global Incident Response and Forensics Investigations Practice. He also assisted with the development of RedSiren Technologies, one of the first managed security services firm that evolved out of Carnegie Mellon. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility with Lucent Technologies and Bell companies. He is an affiliate board advisor for the Retail & Hospitality ISAC and has assisted with other thought leadership initiatives for the FS-ISAC; and assists in creating its annual Compromise Against Payments Systems (CAPS), the simulated industry cyberattack exercise.. He has served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY Metro ISSA Chapter, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i 4) International Information Integrity Institute Research Steering Committee.

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Harshad Agashe

VP of Product, Emailage

Harshad is the Emailage Vice President of Product. A technologist at heart with a degree in Computer Science Engineering, Harshad brings over 10 years of experience in analytics and product management. He has led global teams of product and technology talent to build data-driven products. Prior to joining the Emailage team, Harshad was at American Express at the forefront of building real-time scalable solutions focused on preventing fraud losses across different business units. Striving to continually improve our products, Harshad's expertise allows him to deliver cutting edge features personalized for each customer by leveraging the power of machine learning.

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Karl Lankford

Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford has been Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA for BeyondTrust for the last four years. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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Jeff Dant

Managing Director, Fraud Operations & Intelligence - Enterprise Fraud Management, BMO Financial Group

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group.

Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

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Carey O'Connor Kolaja

Chief Operating Officer, AU10TIX

Carey is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of AU10TIX, the global leader in automated identity intelligence and cyber fraud prevention. She is one of the top influential women in the FinTech industry, and has more than 25 years' experience, leading the "Fortune 500", start-up ventures to scale-up enterprises. During her time as Global Chief Product Officer at Citi Fintech and Vice President of Global Consumer Products at PayPal, she was responsible for the adoption of innovative technologies and cutting-edge commercial strategies meeting the new and developing needs and interests of customer's both in domestic and international markets.

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Yassir Abousselham

CISO, Splunk

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Tonia Dudley

Security Solutions Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Dudley evangelizes Cofense's approach to phishing defense and incident response to new and existing customers, prospects and the information technology market through speaking engagements, publishing platforms and media opportunities. Dudley also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense's inaugural international customer advisory board. Dudley represents Cofense on the Board of Directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance.

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Aaron Higbee

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Cofense

Aaron is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cofense (formerly PhishMe), Inc. directing all aspects of development and research that drives the feature set of this market leading solution. The Cofense method for awareness training was incubated from consulting services provided by Intrepidus Group, a company that Aaron Co-Founded with Rohyt Belani in 2007.

Aaron remains on the board of directors for Intrepidus Group to ensure it focuses on forging new service lines and attracting motivated researchers and consultants.

Before Cofense and Intrepidus Group, Aaron served as Principal Consultant for McAfee's Foundstone division where he was a lead instructor and known for his ability to mentor and develop junior consultants into expert penetration testers. Prior to his seven years of consulting experience, Aaron worked for large Internet Service Providers handling security and abuse incidents, subpoena compliance, and datacenter security.

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Dr. Siva Sivasubramanian

CISO, Optus

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Andres Rapela

AVP of Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank

Andrés Rapela currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Secure Payments for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the strategy for improving security and resiliency of the U.S. payments system. This work entails collaboration with payments professionals across the financial system, and with interested stakeholders in various related industries. Rapela brings over 25 years of experience in financial services, information technology, and risk management to the Secure Payments initiative. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a vice president at Fidelity Institutional, where for eight years he led the brokerage platform technology risk management function. While at Fidelity, Rapela held several other senior leadership positions in technology, risk management, and compliance across multiple business lines.

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André Ferraz

CEO & Founder, Incognia

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Renee Tarun

Deputy CISO, Fortinet

Tarun is Deputy CISO at Fortinet. She is focused on enterprise security, compliance and governance, and product security. She is also a contributor to the book, The Digital Big Bang. Renee joined Fortinet as the Vice President, Information Security in early 2017. Immediately prior to joining Fortinet, she served as Special Assistant to the Director, National Security Agency (NSA), for Cyber and Director of NSA's Cyber Task Force, in which she advanced NSA's execution of its cybersecurity and cyber-related missions by acquiring, investing, and overseeing resources; defining and integrating mission capabilities; and shaping agency strategy and national level policy.

As the Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Information Assurance Directorate at NSA, her focus areas included strategy, planning, integration, and relationship management, in cybersecurity and related disciplines across NSA and the Department of Defense (DoD).

Renee also served as Senior Cyber Strategist in a joint DoD-DHS organization which orchestrated joint efforts in operational planning, policy, and strategy, for cyber issues across the US Government.

She was the Portfolio Lead for the Protect Data and Networks and Operational Resiliency Portfolios for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information and Identity Assurance. Previous assignments include computer scientist, information technologist, and a variety of policy, programs, and resource jobs.

Renee is also a board member for the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering, creating synergy between the school and the professional community by addressing workforce development demands, industry expectations, and employment trends.

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