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Chris Calvert

Co-Founder, VP of Product Strategy, Respond Software

Chris has over 30 years of experience in defensive information security: 14 years in the defense and intelligence community and 17 years in the commercial industry. He has worked on the Defense Department Joint Staff and held leadership positions in both large and small companies, including IBM and HPE. He has designed, built and managed global security operations centers and incident response teams for six of the global Fortune-50. As he often says, if you have complaints about today's security operations model, you can partially blame him. It's from his first-hand experience in learning the limitations of the man vs. data SecOps model that Chris leads product design and strategy for Respond Software.

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Matt Ferrari

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, ClearData

Matt Ferrari is a skilled technology veteran with more than a decade of success delivering managed hosting and secure cloud-based computing to companies around the world. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), he is responsible for the strategy and execution of ClearDATA's healthcare technology platform and services. In this role, he oversees Engineering, Product Management, and back-office systems. Matt's HIPAA and HITECH expertise, combined with his extensive understanding of Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery, make him uniquely qualified to build healthcare storage environments for organizations that require a high degree of scalability, data security, and regulatory compliance.

Prior to ClearDATA, Matt was the Chief Technology Officer at HOSTING.COM. He architected and built the company's fast-growing line of managed cloud products and services at HOSTING.COM for over a decade, focusing largely on driving automation and cloud product innovation.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Matt has presented at events such as AWS Re:invent, EMCWorld, VMWorld, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), IT Expo, InterOp, and others. He joins top partners in panel discussions about cloud computing, and nurtures many strategic technology relationships.

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Markku Rossi

Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security

Markku Rossi currently serves as Chief Technology Officer, SSH Communications Security. With more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, he is responsible for R&D and directs the company's technology strategy. Prior to his current role, Rossi served as CTO at Navicore and Chief Architect at Nokia. He also co-founded several companies, including Codento and ShopAdvisor. Rossi served SSH previously to these roles, serving as Chief Engineer and has been heralded as a major contributor to the SSH software architecture.

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Craig Dore

Lead IAM Strategist, RSA, APJ

Craig Dore is the lead IAM strategist for RSA Asia-Pacific, India and Japan. He has 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, 20 of which has been at RSA. Previously, he held other positions at RSA in engineering, QA and as a presales architect. He now serves as a product evangelist, public speaker, sales specialist, author of numerous published articles and technical expert.

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Rajnish Gupta

Regional Director - India & SAARC, RSA

Rajnish Gupta is regional director, India and SAARC, at RSA, responsible for supervising sales and driving the company's growth in the region. Previously, he worked at Symantec, where he managed the north and east regions and government business across India. He has also held senior-level positions at Cadence, MindTree and Wipro. He started his professional career with PCS in 1990.

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Kalyanaraman Seshadri

Industry Veteran and Senior Security Executive, RSA

Kalyanaraman Seshadri, a security consultant, has two decades of experience at security managed service provider companies. He recently led transformation initiatives at Cognizant as head of information risk management and global head of vendor risk management. Earlier, he led security for HCL Technologies, where he planned and executed security strategy, transformation and consolidation for more than a decade.

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Scott M Giordano

V.P. & Sr. Counsel, Privacy and Compliance

Scott M. Giordano is an attorney with more than 20 years of legal, technology, and risk management consulting experience. An IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), Scott serves as Spirion's subject matter expert on multinational data protection and its intersection with technology, export compliance, internal investigations, information governance, and risk management. Prior to joining Spirion, he served as Director, Data Protection for Robert Half Legal and established the global privacy program for Esterline Technologies Corporation in Bellevue, WA. During his career, Scott has held senior positions at several legal technology firms and is listed as co-inventor on Intelligent Searching of Electronically Stored Information, patent application no. 13/842,910. In addition, he taught the first law school course anywhere on electronic evidence and e-discovery. Scott is a member of the bar in Washington state, California, and the District of Columbia.

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Thomas Bain

Senior Vice President, Marketing, RiskRecon

Tom Bain is Senior Vice President of Marketing for RiskRecon. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company and has 15+ years of experience with leading IT Security organizations.  Previous to RiskRecon, Mr. Bain was Vice President, Marketing with Morphisec. He has served in previous roles at innovative cybersecurity companies including Chief Marketing Officer with Centripetal Networks and Vice President, Global Marketing for CounterTack/GoSecure. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and holds a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. Mr. Bain sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.

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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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David Severski

Lead Data Scientist

David F. Severski is an information security data scientist, specializing in quantified risk management. He has provided risk management expertise across diverse industries -- retail, aerospace, finance, energy, and healthcare. David brings both broad and deep expertise in a number of technical areas with a special focus on cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He strives to combine rigorous methods, technical expertise, and a human-centered approach to advance the state of evidence-based information security risk management. David lives in Seattle, Washington with a low-maintenance spouse, a high-maintenance house and a spiffy fedora.

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Brittany Carambio

Director of Corporate Marketing, Egnyte

Brittany Carambio is the Director of Corporate Marketing at Egnyte focusing on governance, compliance, and security across the Egnyte platform. Brittany is a long-time go-to-market advisor for B2B technologies in unstructured data security, encryption, cloud and hardware security. Brittany was previously Director of External Affairs at In-Q-Tel, where she helped the world's leading cybersecurity, AI, and big data companies position their products for customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

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Jeff Sizemore

VP, Governance & Compliance, Egnyte

Jeff Sizemore, Vice President of Governance and Compliance at Egnyte, is responsible for the strategy and execution of the Egnyte Protect content governance solution. Jeff has an extensive background in data protection, specifically in encryption, key management, data loss prevention, and identity and access management. Jeff has helped define the market by contributing to several start-ups, including PGP (now part of Symantec), Ionic Security, and Port Authority (now ForcePoint DLP).

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Chad Skipper

VP Product Innovation, Lastline

Skipper is the VP Product Innovation at Lastline. With more than 25 years in information security, he serves as an executive security technologist and strategist and has played a significant role in the security design and architecture of endpoint, network, cloud, and hosted security services, as well as in advancements of security prevention, management, monitoring, testing, and intelligence mitigation solutions. Skipper is a public speaker covering a variety of security topics and is co-author of "Next-Generation Anti-Malware Testing for Dummies."

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Chip Witt

Head of Product Strategy, SpyCloud

Chip Witt has nearly twenty years of diverse technology experience, including product management and operations leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Webroot, VMware, Alcatel, and Appthority. He is currently the Head of Product Strategy and manages the Customer Success Program at SpyCloud, which provides cloud-based security services to help businesses of all sizes prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. Chip works closely with field intelligence teams specializing in OSINT and HUMINT tradecraft, actor attribution and underground monitoring.

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Ian Lowe

Product Marketing Management Director

Ian is Product Marketing Director for HID SAFE and is passionate about marketing all things related to Identity, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud, and Digital transformation. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognized product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and security solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organizations and Governments around the world today.

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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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Colin Casillas

Business Development Executive, ReversingLabs

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Chip Epps

Director Product & Solutions Marketing, ReversingLabs

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Keith Casey

The API Problem Solver

Keith Casey currently serves on the Product Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously, he served as an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress. His underlying goal is to get good technology into the hands of good people to do great things. In his spare time, he helps build and support the Austin tech community, blogs at CaseySoftware.com and is fascinated by monkeys. He is also a co-author of "A Practical Approach to API Design" from Leanpub.

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Lisa Lorenzin

Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler

Lisa Lorenzin is Director of Transformation Strategy at Zscaler, specializing in secure access to private applications. She has worked in a variety of Internet-related roles since 1994, with over twenty years of focus on network and information security, and has contributed to open standards for endpoint integrity and network security from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Lorenzin is currently concentrating on software-defined perimeter / zero-trust architecture and seamless user experience across cloud and mobile environments.

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Dirk Jan Koekkoek

VP, DMARC, Mimecast

Dirk Jan Koekkoek is the founder of several successful companies, including the Hilversum cybersecurity company DMARC Analyzer. This company was recently taken over by security specialist Mimecast. Koekkoek now works at Mimecast as VP DMARC.

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Elad Schulman

VP, Brand Protection, Mimecast

Elad Schulman is the Brand Protection Vice President in Mimecast Ltd. Elad has a vast background in enterprise software and cybersecurity from corporates (SAP, HP), startups (OpTier, Mercury) and from his military service in the IDF. Elad has a MA in Business Administration and BSc in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University. In 2017 Elad co-founded Segasec, a digital threat protection startup, and acted as CEO until it was acquired by Mimecast at the beginning of 2020.

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