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Nabil Bousselham

Principal Solution Architect

Nabil Bousselham is a Principal solution architect at Veracode. In this role, Nabil works with Veracode's enterprise customers in the EMEA region to support them integrate application security testing techniques in their SDLC / DevOps teams and implement mature AppSec programs. Nabil has been in the IT industry for 15+ years now and has long experience in the software supply chain, SDLC management, quality assurance and security of software applications.

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Nabil Bousselham

Principal Solution Architect

Nabil Bousselham is a Principal solution architect at Veracode. In this role, Nabil works with Veracode's enterprise customers in the EMEA region to support them integrate application security testing techniques in their SDLC / DevOps teams and implement mature AppSec programs. Nabil has been in the IT industry for 15+ years now and has long experience in the software supply chain, SDLC management, quality assurance and security of software applications.

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Shashi Prakash

Co-Founder and CTO, Bolster

Shashi is the co-founder and CTO at Bolster where he has led the engineering and research efforts since its inception. He has more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. Prior to Bolster, Shashi was senior security researcher at Cisco where he developed machine learning algorithms to catch billions of spam messages. He holds a masters in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University and bachelors in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Dan Sarel

VP, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Dan Sarel's interest in the cyber security world started about 2 decades ago. During these years he managed and helped design many security products in several disciplines. Including VPNs, Firewalls, endpoint security and database security. Dan served as an executive in various companies including Check Point Software, McAfee/Intel Security and Sentrigo. Dan's latest company, Demisto, where he was a co-founder and VP of Product, was acquired by Palo Alto Networks In February 2019, and is now known as Cortex XSOAR. Cortex XSOAR is providing the world's most advanced SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response).

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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 Pepper

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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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Christopher Hertz

VP of Sales for Cloud Solutions, Rapid7

Chris is the VP of Cloud Security Sales for Rapid7, where he combines his technical background and cloud technology expertise with his love of sales and marketing. Chris leads a team of solution architects, marketing, and sales professionals who partner with customers to deeply understand their goals and challenges, and provide the education, insights, and solutions they need to run cloud and container environments securely and compliantly.

Chris served as DivvyCloud's Chief Revenue Officer prior to Rapid7's 2020 acquisition. Prior to his leadership position at DivvyCloud, Chris was founder and CEO of New Signature, a systems integrator, and managed service provider. Under his leadership, New Signature helped hundreds of companies adopt and operate Microsoft Azure and Office 365, achieved 12 years of consecutive double-digit revenue growth, and won more than 120 awards, including being named twice as Microsoft's United States Partner of the Year

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Thomas Martin

Founder, NephōSec and former CIO at GE

Since leaving GE in 2017, Thomas has dedicated his efforts to helping companies and technologists by sharing his in-depth expertise and insights related to large scale enterprise adoption, application migration and management of cloud technologies.

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Matt Ashburn

National Security Engagement Lead, Authentic8

Former CIA Cyber Security Officer, and National Security CISO at the White House - National Security Engagement Lead, Authentic8

Engagement Lead, focusing on engagement with national security customers. Prior to Authentic8, Matt served as a CIA officer focusing on cyber issues, including a detail serving on the National Security Council as the Chief Information Security Officer and Special Advisor to the National Security Advisor, leading technical expertise, risk reduction strategies, and policy for national security systems.

At CIA, Matt led the technical direction and coordination to stand up an innovative, unified cyber security operations center to fully harness agency authorities, resources, and talents to prevent and respond to advanced cyber threats. He also led the detection watch floor of CIA's cyber incident response team, and has been recognized with a national intelligence award and service ribbon from the Director of National Intelligence and the IC CIO Partnership Award.

Prior to CIA, Matt gained over 10 years of government and private sector experience focusing on intelligence matters and cyber security initiatives at federal agencies and a major financial institution. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of FBI's Intelligence Basic Course at Quantico, VA. Matt lives in Washington, DC and volunteers as a sworn reserve police officer with the DC Metropolitan Police

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Mark Ostrowski

Head of Engineering for the East, US, Check Point

Mark has over 20 years' experience in IT security and has helped design and support some of the largest security environments in the country. As Head of Engineering for the US East at Check Point Software, Mark provides thought leadership for the IT security industry outlining the current threat landscape and helping organizations understand how they can pro-actively mitigate and manage risk.

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Ahmed Mohamud

VP, Cyber Risk, Morgan Stanley

Ahmed is a multi-disciplinary Technology Risk professional. He brings expertise in the areas of; risk management (operational/IT/enterprise), cyber security, business process improvement, internal audit (IT and financial), creating financial tools, and technology implementation. He has substantial experience applying technical knowledge to complex business issues and presenting well developed findings and recommendations to executive management.

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Stephen Scharf

Managing Director & Global Chief Security Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

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Sion Retskin

CISO & Head of Knowledge & Practice, Pcysys

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Chris Dobrec

Vice President of Product Marketing, Armis

As Vice President of Product Marketing, Chris is responsible for Armis' product marketing strategy and vision. He is a seasoned product and business development executive leading teams through development and marketing of exceptional products and cutting-edge technologies across enterprise and consumer market segments. Prior to Armis, Chris held executive management roles in product management, product marketing and business development at MobileIron, Cisco, Nokia, Ipsilon Networks and Kalpana. Chris' journey to Silicon Valley started after leaving college early to pursue his passion for building great products.

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Homayun Yaqub

Senior Director of Strategy, Forcepoint

Homayun Yaqub is Forcepoint's Global Security Strategist. In this role, he partners with executives across various industries to architect and deliver tenable strategies addressing core business issues to reduce risk exposure and better protect their data and people assets. Homayun brings more than 25 years of security experience in the U.S. military, government, and private sector to Forcepoint.

Prior to joining, Homayun led multiple security initiatives at JPMorgan Chase & Company. As an independent consultant, Homayun advised Global 1000 companies on strategies to better manage risk and enhance their security posture. He was also a founding member of The MASY Group, a global security and risk consulting firm.

Homayun held multiple leadership and executive roles in the Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community with his last role serving as the DCS Deputy Director at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Homayun began his career as a U.S. Army Officer.

Homayun holds a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and a Bachelors in International Business rom James Madison University. He is a board member of the Homaira Rahman Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to creating sustainable opportunities for Afghanistan's orphans.

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