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Nikfar Khaleeli

Vice President of Product, Blue Cedar

Nikfar brings a wealth of experience to Blue Cedar, having worked in mobility and security at both early stage and mature technology companies. At Blue Cedar, Nikfar is responsible for product management and product marketing. Nikfar previously worked at Good Technology (acquired by BlackBerry) where he was responsible for product marketing of the Good Dynamics (now BlackBerry Dynamics) Platform. Nikfar also worked at ProtectWise (acquired by Verizon), McAfee, Vontu (acquired by Symantec), and Wind River Systems.

Nikfar began his career as a Software Engineer. He received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and a BA in Physics from the College of Wooster.

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Tim Buntel

VP of Application Security Products, Threat Stack

Buntel is VP of Application Security Products at Threat Stack. Prior to this role, he has built globally recognized software businesses for 20 years at startups, midsized companies in transition, and the largest global brands, including Atlassian, Adobe, Microsoft, and XebiaLabs with an emphasis on developer tools and platforms; helping developers build better software. He is also a founding mentor and Board member at Smarter in the City, a non-profit high-tech accelerator with a mission to diversify Boston's startup sector by providing support and resources for local minority-run ventures.

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Brian Dailey

CTO & Co-founder, Stratasan

Dailey is the CTO and co-founder at Stratasan and leads their product efforts. He has worked in healthcare technology for almost 20 years.

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Marshall Toburen

GRC Strategist, RSA

Marshall Toburen is a GRC Strategist with RSA Archer specializing in Enterprise, Operational, and Third Party Risk Management. He has 30 years of experience in financial services including roles as Enterprise Risk Manager, Operational Risk manager, Information Security Officer, Chief Audit Executive, and Assistant Controller. His credentials include: M.A. in Economics, Univ of Missouri; B.A.s in Economics & Political Science, Baker Univ; & holds CIA, CISA, & CBA certifications (non-practicing).

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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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Cindy Valladares

Product Marketing Director, Onapsis

Cindy Valladares is a cybersecurity professional, currently leading the product marketing team Onapsis. Ms. Valladares has been a speaker at various security, risk and privacy conferences in North America, Europe and Latin America, is a regular contributor to the Onapsis blog, shares her perspective on Twitter @cindyv, and would love to connect on LinkedIn. She holds an international MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and a BBA in Marketing and International Business.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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John Trest

Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning

Trest is responsible for leading the development of Inspired eLearning's award-winning library of content, from the solid instructional design to the high-quality multimedia production. He has been a member of Inspired's team since 2009 and has more than 19 years of experience in creating and delivering eLearning courses for a broad variety of industries and subjects. He's passionate about creating quality eLearning content that is both engaging and impactful.

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Sam Small

Chief Security Officer, ZeroFOX

Dr. Sam Small serves as the Chief Security Officer of ZeroFOX, helping its customers implement world-class social-media protection programs and supporting ZeroFOX to continuously advance its role as the innovation leader of social-media and collaborative-technology security solutions. After earning his doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Sam was a lecturer, led an academic security research lab, and launched two security-industry startups, including Fast Orientation where he most recently served as CEO and continues to maintain a non-operational role as Chairman. In addition to his technical and entrepreneurial pursuits, Dr. Small has provided expert technology and security assessments of dozens of organizations and vendor products and conducted due diligence assessments for more than a dozen software-industry investments, mergers, and acquisitions. He has also served as an expert witness in several high-profile security, software, and network-related lawsuits. His work and research have been covered in publications including Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, CNET, ZDNet, and slashdot.

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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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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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Christopher Bontempo

VP Security Marketing, IBM Security

Chris Bontempo currently serves as Vice President of Security Marketing, Routes and Offerings for North America. He is responsible for demand generation and product marketing for IBM Security in the U.S. and Canada. Bontempo also focuses on route optimization and new offering launches for prospects, partners and IBM Digital. He joined IBM in 2005 and has led marketing teams in Market Intelligence, Cloud and IBM Security, which he joined in 2014.

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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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