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Dania Buchanan

Head of SmartVault Global, SmartVault

Dania Buchanan is Head of SmartVault and has served in leadership roles since the company was founded in 2008. In her current role, Dania is responsible for the culture, vision and growth of the SmartVault business, which became part of the GetBusy family of products in 2017.

Dania has more than 30 years of experience in the technology sector, building high performing teams across a wide range of channel and marketing strategies. She has worked in both small, venture-backed start-ups, and large, public companies. Prior to SmartVault Dania was President and CEO for ChatYat, Inc., a mobile start-up. And prior to that, Dania was Vice President of Corporate Marketing for NetIQ, where she helped guide the company through several successful mergers and acquisitions.

Dania is a wife and mother of two, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.

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Ivy Donnie

Director of Sales, SmartVault

Ivyson Donnie is Director of Sales at SmartVault, a GetBusy product. In his role, Ivy is responsible for revenue growth in the Sales Acquisition and Sales Expansion teams as well as Channel Development.

Ivy has more than 15 years of Sales experience and a proven track record of growing and developing an "A" culture winning sales team. Most recently, Ivy was a Global Sales Manager at Cogent, a multinational tier 1 internet service provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Prior to that, Ivy served as the Senior Market Manager at Cbeyond, where he managed the top two producing markets and a multi-million dollar client portfolio.

Ivy has a Bachelor's degree in Advertising from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

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John Kang

Managing Director, Inspire Health Alliance

John Kang has over 30 years of experience in developing and managing the strategies of rapidly growing companies in healthcare, technology and manufacturing. Mr. Kang founded the leading healthcare information technology company serving over 180,000 physicians in the 1990's leading to a successful IPO and eventual merger with WebMD in a transaction valued at more than $3 Billion in 2000. He also has started numerous companies in healthcare providing services to the physician community. He is currently involved in several healthcare companies that provide services to the orthopedic market as well as accountable care organizations around the country. He is also one of the founders of Inspire Diagnostics which provides a comprehensive testing program for the COVID-19. Mr. Kang graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics in 1985.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew's 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Andrew has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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Gordon Beith

Senior Director of Product Marketing , Gigamon

Gordon Beith Senior Director of Product Marketing at Gigamon. He has more than 30 years' experience in telecommunications product management, marketing, hardware and software development, and related next-generation services areas. His background includes product, project, marketing and account-management positions for NETSCOUT Systems, VSS Monitoring, IneoQuest, Empirix, Spirent, Cisco and Ericsson.

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Michael Morris

Director of Business Development and Technology Alliances, Endace

Michael Morris leads business development and technology alliances at Endace where is responsible for building an ecosystem with strategic vendors to provide customers with easy workflows and flexibility to leverage our network history platform. Michael works with peers across our partners sales, product development, marketing, and support teams to drive business development initiatives for joint market growth and customer success.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in software and hardware solutions for infrastructure and network management and security. He has built a multi-million dollar a year services business and has extensive global experience in diverse markets including network equipment manufacturers, services providers, government entities, and Fortune 1000 enterprises. Michael is an innovative technology thought leader, with a wealth of experience in network monitoring, security, and cloud solutions.

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Ed Smith

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Corelight

Ed Smith is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Corelight and has seven years experience working in the cyber security industry representing IaaS, DevOps, and vulnerability management solutions, including his most recent roles as Director of Marketing at CloudPassage and Senior Product Marketing Manager at Tripwire.

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Stuti Deshpande

Partner Solution Architect, AWS

I come from a Computer Science background, specializing in Data Science and currently working as Associate Solutions Architect in New York. Interacting with customers to discuss their business problems, designing and implementing the industry-focused cloud solutions has given me an in-depth knowledge about the business use cases, cloud architecture and implementations and how solutions can be tailored to resolve the customer's real-world business problems.

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Omer Ganot

Product Manager, Algosec

Omer Ganot is the Cloud Security Product Manager for Algosec, experienced with multiple cloud and security device vendors. Omer has an extensive experience in product management as well as software engineering and managing engineering teams. Outside of AlgoSec, Omer enjoys traveling and playing board games with his family, reading and enjoying music.

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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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Alex Corstorphine

Lead Security Solutions Engineer, Rapid7

Alex is a Lead Security Solutions Engineer in the cloud security practice at Rapid7, where he partners with customers to help them ensure continuous security and compliance of cloud services during their digital transformation journeys. He has close to a decade of experience in the security space. Before joining DivvyCloud, Alex worked for several firms in the security and IT operations space, including Dome9 Security, SumoLogic, and Juniper Networks. Alex holds seven certifications including (ISC)² CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Professional and AWS Security Specialty. He received his bachelor's degree from San Jose State University.

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Jeremy Snyder

Senior Director of Business Development and Solutions Engineering, DivvyCloud by Rapid7

Jeremy Snyder is the Senior Director of Business Development and Solutions Engineering for the cloud security practice at Rapid7. He leads the company's solutions architect, partner and international teams. With prior experience at AWS (first field representative in Southeast Asia's ASEAN region) and REAN Cloud (later Hitachi Vantara), Jeremy's been working in the cloud since 2010. He has a BA (Ling) from UNC and an MBA GMU. Jeremy has lived in 5 countries and speaks several languages. He once went 3 days without seeing another human (lots of reindeer, though) and was kicked off a train in Sweden.

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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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Sunil Chand

Canada Security Leader, CGI

Sunil Chand is a security management professional with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Grant Thornton LLP, he held the role of Director, Information Security Consulting Services for TELUS Security and Chief Information Security Officer for a number of other organizations. Furthermore, he has developed and executed go-to market strategies for Governance, Risk and Compliance and Threat and Vulnerability Assessment services, corporate information security strategies aligned to organizations' business goals, among other recognized accomplishments.

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Olivera Zatezalo

CSO, Huawei Canada

Olivera Zatezalo is the Chief Security Officer at Huawei Canada, and her responsibility is to ensure Huawei Canada's operations is compliant with Canadian cyber security laws and regulations. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, Zatezalo is best known for creating value through collaborative leadership style, agile execution, and for her global cyber security expertise. Up until joining Huawei Canada, she was responsible for cyber security governance, management and operations within an international communication provider operating in Canada, US, UK and France, and was a member of Canadian Security Telecommunication Advisory Committee.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Imran Ahmad is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a specialization in technology, cybersecurity and privacy law. As part of his cybersecurity practice, he works closely with clients to develop and implement practical strategies related to cyber threats and data breaches. He advises on legal risk assessments, compliance, due diligence and risk allocation advice, security, and data breach incident preparedness and response. In addition, Ahmad acts as "breach counsel" in the event of a cybersecurity incident, such as a data or privacy breach. He also provides representation in the event of an investigation, an enforcement action or a litigation. He is the author of Canada's first legal incident preparation and response handbook titled Cybersecurity in Canada: A Guide to Best Practices, Planning, and Management (LexisNexis, August 2017). He advises on licensing, outsourcing and service-provider arrangements, as well as on other commercial matters with respect to carrying on business over the internet, the cloud and the digital environment. In his privacy law practice, he advises clients on compliance with all Canadian federal and provincial privacy and data management laws. He has a particular focus on cross-border data transfer issues and enterprise-wide governance programs related to privacy and information governance

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Robin Gould-Soil

Former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer, HSBC

Robin Gould-Soil is the former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer for HSBC Canada. She is a recognized authority on privacy, conduct, data ethics, risk and compliance management with extensive experience consulting on policy and operational guidance to a wide variety of stakeholders group. While at HSBC she was responsible for leading HSBC's Conduct and Privacy function with a focus on delivering fair outcomes to customers without disrupting the integrity of financial markets. Prior to joining HSBC, Robin was the Director of Privacy and Access and Chief Privacy Officer at UHN, as well as the lead for the building Connecting GTA's Privacy and Security program for Ontario's Shared Electronic Health Record. Under her leadership, Connecting GTA received the Privacy Innovation Award presented by the international Association of Privacy Professionals. Gould-Soil also had the privilege to work for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada through a government Executive Interchange Program where she was responsible for opening of the first Toronto Office, leading the privacy investigations unit and being a key spokesperson.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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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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Dania Buchanan

Head of SmartVault Global, SmartVault

Dania Buchanan is Head of SmartVault and has served in leadership roles since the company was founded in 2008. In her current role, Dania is responsible for the culture, vision and growth of the SmartVault business, which became part of the GetBusy family of products in 2017.

Dania has more than 30 years of experience in the technology sector, building high performing teams across a wide range of channel and marketing strategies. She has worked in both small, venture-backed start-ups, and large, public companies. Prior to SmartVault Dania was President and CEO for ChatYat, Inc., a mobile start-up. And prior to that, Dania was Vice President of Corporate Marketing for NetIQ, where she helped guide the company through several successful mergers and acquisitions.

Dania is a wife and mother of two, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.

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Ivy Donnie

Director of Sales, SmartVault

Ivyson Donnie is Director of Sales at SmartVault, a GetBusy product. In his role, Ivy is responsible for revenue growth in the Sales Acquisition and Sales Expansion teams as well as Channel Development.

Ivy has more than 15 years of Sales experience and a proven track record of growing and developing an "A" culture winning sales team. Most recently, Ivy was a Global Sales Manager at Cogent, a multinational tier 1 internet service provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Prior to that, Ivy served as the Senior Market Manager at Cbeyond, where he managed the top two producing markets and a multi-million dollar client portfolio.

Ivy has a Bachelor's degree in Advertising from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

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Aaron Bugal

Global Solutions Engineer, APJ, Sophos

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Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel

Principal Engineer, Intel

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George Nastasi

Associate Partner, Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting, IBM

George leads the IBM Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting practice in Canada. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in security operations working with partners and clients across North America and Europe. As a lead practitioner and subject matter expert, George works directly with organizations in a wide range of industry segments implementing technologies, including SIEM and SOAR, processes, organizational structure, and governance to manage cybersecurity threats and mitigate risk with quantifiable measures. Currently, George is collaborating with global teams to re-align threat management approach specifically for Cloud operations.

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Samer Faour

Sales Engineer, Exabeam

Faour is an Information Security and Risk Professional at Exabeam, with over 11 years of experience in information security, risk management, and consulting. He has a breadth of experience in variety of vertical industries covering various stages of the security lifecycle from designing and architecting solutions as a vendor/consultant, to implementing and operationalizing them as a consultant/SI/MSSP, to using them on a daily basis as a customer/end-user. Mr. Faour is a professional engineer with an M.Eng. Degree in Integrated Security Technologies and Policies from the University of Toronto, and has several certifications including CISSP, CEH, CIH, A+, and many vendor certifications.

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