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Ron Arden

Executive Vice President, CTO, and COO, Fasoo

Ron Arden is the Executive Vice President, CTO and COO of Fasoo, Inc. where he is responsible for operations and successful deployment of products and services to Fasoo's customers. He has over 30 years of strategic planning, marketing, sales, business development, consulting and technical experience in the information technology and cybersecurity industries. Ron has held executive, management and technical positions at numerous organizations, including Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang Laboratories and IKON Office Solutions. Prior to working for Fasoo, he was the Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at eDocument Sciences, LLC where he focused on improving the way customers manage documents with document security, cloud and collaboration solutions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

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Brad Gandee

Information Technology Professional

Brad is an Information Technology Professional with more than 20 years of experience in digital media security and protection technologies. He has expertise in business strategy, market research, market development, and product management. Brad led product management and sales for a leading document security firm. He also was the technical evangelist for ContentGuard, a leading ERM technology development company, where he was responsible for the company's strategy in the standards arena and the licensing program to the mobile telecom industry. Prior to ContentGuard, Brad was President of DeskGate Technologies, which offered proprietary technology for packaging, distribution, and tracking of digital content.

Brad has served on the Boards of Directors of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance and the MPEG Industry Forum, and has been a frequent speaker at digital media industry conferences. He has played a pivotal role in the development of XrML, eXtensible rights Management Markup Language, the baseline technology for the Rights Management Services platform available from Microsoft. Brad holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Deborah is EVP of marketing and research at Fasoo. She is responsible for leading Fasoo's research, marketing 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 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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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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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Chip Mason

Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom

Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.

Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

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Gidi Cohen

CEO and Founder, Skybox Security

Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies,i Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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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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Brittany O'Shea

Global Product Strategist, Veracode

Brittany is a Global Product Strategist at Veracode. She is passionate about helping developers and security professionals navigate emerging threats, regulations and security trends to help organizations and their applications thrive in today's complex digital world. Before joining Veracode, she worked in various roles at RSA and IBM Security globally with the mission to support customers raise their security posture.

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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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Rob Roj

Senior Solutions Architect, Shape Security

Rob Roj, Senior Solutions Architect at Shape Security, has over 20 years of early stage start up experience with over 7 years within the Cybersecurity and Identity space. He has been with Shape when there were only three customers and has consulted with F500 companies

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Yaz Alattia

Managing Director, Accenture Security Canada

Yaz Alattia leads Accenture Security's Canadian practice, overseeing the full spectrum of Accenture's end-to-end cybersecurity offerings, including cyber strategy and risk, cyber defense, digital identity, cloud security and managed security services. Yaz has nearly two decades of experience in building, assessing, transforming and executing enterprise security programs and solutions that balance protection with agility. Prior to joining Accenture, Yaz held various cyber security leadership positions including most recently as Chief Information Security Officer at Canada's largest payment provider. Prior to that, Yaz delivered cybersecurity and technology risk consulting services to security and technology teams in over 11 countries and across various industries. Based in Toronto, Yaz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University holds a number of security, technology and management certifications including CISSP, CCSP, PMP, CISM, CISA, SABSA SCF and ISO27001 LA.

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