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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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Everett Stern

CEO & Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

Everett Stern currently serves as CEO and Intelligence Director of Tactical Rabbit, a private intelligence agency that provides clients with actionable business intelligence. He made international headlines as a government whistle-blower who helped uncover one of the largest banking scandals of all time. When Stern joined HSBC Bank in 2012, he discovered that the bank was facilitating the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars by terrorist organizations and major drug dealers, in clear violation of U.S. law. Stern quit HSBC and filed a whistle-blower claim with the SEC. In late 2012, in part as a result of Stern's efforts, HSBC agreed to pay a record $1.9 billion in fines to U.S. authorities. Stern later founded Rabbit Capital Management, a hedge fund, dedicated to uncovering fraud and money laundering activity that feeds the financial needs of terrorist organizations and drug cartels. He has been featured in dozens of news articles and broadcasts, and appeared in a Netflix documentary, "Dirty Money," on Wall Street and corporate greed.

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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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Don Leatham

Sr Manager Business Development, Splunk inc.

Don Leatham is a 15-year veteran of the security software market. Having held senior roles in security product management, OEM technologies, and strategic technology alliances, Don provides a unique perspective and understanding of how security technologies, products, and market relationships come together to form today's complex InfoSec environment.

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Hugh Pyle

Director, Solutions Management, ReversingLabs

Hugh Pyle is Director of Solutions Architecture at ReversingLabs, with a focus on integrations and developer tools for threat intelligence and object analysis. His career includes software engineering, product management and consulting roles in security and privacy, enterprise data management, and collaboration software with IBM, Microsoft, Ab Initio and several startups.

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Cris Ewell

CISO, UW Medicine

Ewell, PhD, is CISO at University of Washington Medicine. Previously, he was CISO of Seattle Children's Hospital. Before that, he served as the director of information security operations at the University of Washington, chief security officer for PEMCO Corp. and chief technology officer for Breakwater Security.

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Tim Horton

VP, Global Merchant Security and Compliance Solutions, First Data

Tim Horton currently serves as Vice President of Global Security and Fraud Product Management at First Data. This organization represents the integrated technologies that provide merchants globally a multi-level defense to manage cyber security threats. In this leadership role, Horton is responsible for managing First Data's Cyber Security and Compliance development initiatives for SMB and National Merchants to equip them with the right tools to protect their sensitive data and maintain PCI DSS Compliance. In addition, Horton represents First Data on the PCI DSS Board of Advisors. Horton joined First Data in 1995, and has since held a variety of leadership roles. Prior to his current position, he served in Corporate Strategy working on large company initiatives with third-parties.

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Timothy Hunt

Seattle Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force, United States Secret Service

Timothy Hunt has been a member of the United States Secret Service since 2004. He currently serves as supervisor of the USSS Seattle Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF). This task force is a strategic partnership of local, state, and federal law enforcement entities, as well and partners from private industry and academia. The goal of the ECTF is to identify, prosecute, and suppress technology-based criminal activity. Before his current assignment, Hunt served as part of the USSS Covert Telecommunications Intercept Group. This group conducted Title III wiretaps and court-ordered pen registers, pursuant to relevant legal process, on telephone and computer networks in order to further USSS and partner investigations. Previously, Hunt served as a member of the USSS Seattle Field Office ECTF where he conducted forensic examinations of electronic media for evidence of criminal activity, and worked cases with a nexus to computers and electronic crime.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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Ronald Raether

Partner, Troutman Sanders

Ron Raether leads the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice and is a partner in the Financial Services Litigation practice group at Troutman Sanders. Ron is known as the interpreter between businesses and information technology, and has assisted companies in navigating federal and state privacy laws for over twenty years. Raether's understanding of technology led him to be involved in legal issues that cross normal law firm boundaries, including experience with data security, data privacy, patent, antitrust, and licensing and contracts. This experience allows Raether to bring a fresh and creative perspective to data compliance issues with the knowledge and historical perspective of an industry veteran.

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David Houlding

Principal Healthcare Program Manager, Microsoft

David Houlding currently serves as the Principal Healthcare Lead on the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences Team. He currently serves as Chair of the HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, a group of ~100 leaders from across healthcare worldwide, collaborating to advance blockchain in healthcare. Houlding also currently serves as an advisor to both the British Blockchain Association and Lifeboat Foundation. He has led the successful creation and deployment of a wide range of solutions to help reduce the cost of healthcare, improve patient outcomes, experiences, and engagement. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2018 Houlding served for over 10 years at Intel Health & Life Sciences where he was the Director of Healthcare Privacy & Security, responsible for enabling healthcare organizations worldwide to achieve compliance with regulations and data protection laws, and implement effective privacy and security programs. In his current role at Microsoft, Houlding works with key partners and industry influencers to enable healthcare organizations make use of cloud computing and related technologies to reduce healthcare costs, and enable new transformative healthcare use cases to improve patient outcomes, leveraging strategic technologies such as such as AI / ML, blockchain, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), and others. Houlding has a proven track record for innovation with 5 patents granted by the USPTO.

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Anne-Marie Scollay

CISO, Axiom Law

As CISO for Axiom Law, Anne-Marie Scollay leads the information security strategy for Axiom's products/services, corporation, and governance risk and compliance (GRC). She specializes in building teams for mission critical systems and seamlessly bridging the languages of technology and business. With over 20 years' experience in technology and logistics, Scollay has a passion for operational excellence and a knack for thinking strategically. Prior to joining Axiom, she built-out and oversaw the infrastructure and security for a Seattle-based SaaS startup and global multi-nationals. Scollay has overseen security for high-availability sites and applications, provided thought leadership around information security and is a respected leader with a proven ability to coach teams to excellence.

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Carlos Pero

AVP and Head of Cyber Application Security, Zurich Insurance

Carlos Pero currently serves as AVP, Head of Cyber Application Security with Zurich Insurance. Prior to joining Zurich, he was a Product Manager for Rand McNally, responsible for the planning, design and maintenance of several mobile and web applications. Earlier in his career, Pero held the titles of eBusiness Manager for an educational resources company, ETA Hand2Mind, Director, Technical Product Development for Cars.com and other notable entities. Having been entrenched with technology from the Web's infancy, Pero has gained his experience alongside cyber security's evolution.

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Trace Fooshee

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Trace Fooshee is a senior analyst in Aite Group's Fraud & AML practice, covering fraud and data security issues. He started his professional career in Singapore, where he focused on delivering process automation solutions for banking and securities clients by way of workflow and document management-based transformations. After moving back to the United States, Fooshee broadened the scope of his focus to include consulting with clients on customer relationship management practices and client loyalty for Ernst & Young. Prior to joining Aite Group, he was head of fraud strategy for SunTrust Bank, where he was responsible for developing, managing, and articulating strategic investments and transformation initiatives that sought to improve the balance between loss prevention, client experience, and operational expense. Additionally, Fooshee partnered with stakeholders in various business units to govern and oversee the bank's fraud program. His experience in fraud management started in 2007 when he began working with the bank's fraud management unit to transform it from a federated operating model to a consolidated enterprise shared service. By 2010 he joined the bank's fraud unit full time to lead the development and deployment of a fraud analytics team. In 2014 he joined Deloitte's advisory group, where he provided strategic advisory consulting services for financial institutions globally, then returned to SunTrust in 2017 as head of fraud strategy. A former member of the Bank Policy Institute's BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee, Fooshee has also been active with the American Bankers Association and National Cyber Forensic Training Alliance Foundation.

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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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Dan Fitzgerald

CISO, McKinsey & Company

Dan Fitzgerald currently serves as CISO, New Ventures for McKinsey & Company. He currently leads cybersecurity for a large cloud hosting and software development business unit at McKinsey & Company. Having spent 19 years dedicated to solving the biggest security problems in several industries and capacities, he previously served as the CISO for Uptake - a Series D startup in the predictive maintenance space with a $2.3B valuation - Fitzgerald created and implemented a robust cloud security program for the rapidly growing IIOT startup. Prior to this, he spent numerous years as a consultant with PwC, Accenture and Trustwave helping clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies deal with their cyber security, privacy and IT risk challenges.

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Ilker Taskaya

Principle Solutions Engineer, Delphix

Ilker Taskaya currently serves as Principle Solutions Engineer for Delphix. Having begun his career 25 years ago as a database analyst in the financial services sector, he has specialized in financial services and healthcare industry data security solutions and holds a number of patents in the data security field. Prior to 2006 Taskaya consulted in data warehousing for clients in financial services, insurance, and health care.

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Ajay Cherian

Security Intelligence & Threat Protection Segment Leader - Asia Pacific

Cherian is responsible for Security Intelligence and Threat Protection Segment for IBM Security in Asia Pacific. This includes Security Operations Center Solution and Technology Sales, Channel Sales, Business Development, Client Acquisition & Retention, Key Account Relationships, Organisational Leadership, Technology Transformation Leadership.

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