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Mike Lynch

Senior Sales Engineer, Core Security a HelpSystems Company

Mike Lynch has more than 25 years of experience in technical sales, product development, technical support, and customer success. Currently, he is a Senior Sales Engineer for Core Security, a HelpSystems Company, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM), Vulnerability Management and Network Threat Detection.

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Jasson Casey, PhD.

Chief Technology Officer, Beyond Identity

Jasson has served as CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of Engineering at IronNet Cybersecurity, Founder and Executive Director of Flowgrammable as well as Compiled Networks, VP of VoIP Product Development at CenturyTel, among other technical and executive roles. Jasson received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Texas A&M University.

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Patrick McBride

Chief Marketing Officer, Beyond Identity

Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and Senior Vice President at META Group. Patrick received a bachelor's degree in management from Keene State College in New Hampshire.

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Richard Bird

Chief Customer Information Officer, Ping Identity

Richard Bird is the chief customer information officer for Ping Identity. He is a cyber security veteran and former chief information security officer. He is an internationally recognized identity-centric security expert, leveraging his diverse experiences as a strategic advisor, solutions provider and former global head of identity for JP Morgan Chase's consumer businesses. Richard is a frequent speaker on keynote platforms around the world. He is a Forbes Tech council member and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Business Insider, CNN, TechRepublic, Solutions Review, and the NYSE on topics ranging from data protection regulations to cybersecurity enabled consumer protection. He is also frequently quoted in the media on the importance of protecting people in the digital realm.

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Will LaSala

Sr. Director Global Security Solutions, OneSpan

Will LaSala is Sr. Director of Global Security Solutions at OneSpan and he brings over 25 years of software and cybersecurity experience. Since joining OneSpan, LaSala has been involved in all aspects of product implementation and market direction within financial institutions as well as top Fortune 500 organizations for enterprise security, healthcare, U.S. government, online gaming and mobile application development. He currently empowers the markets and OneSpan's largest clients with direct communication of new products and features and security changes. A security evangelist on mobile application development and authentication, LaSala is frequently quoted in the media and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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David Vergara

Sr. Director Product Marketing, OneSpan

Vergara is Sr. Director of Security Product Marketing at OneSpan (Formerly VASCO Data Security) and has more than 11 years of experience in the software security space. Prior to OneSpan, he was VP Marketing for Accertify (An American Express Company) leading go-to-market strategy for their online fraud detection solution and he was Sr. Director Product Marketing at IBM with Product Marketing responsibility for the advanced and predictive analytics portfolio.

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Baber Amin

West CTO, Ping Identity

At Ping Identity, Amin is engaged in Ping's strategy around open and secure API, privacy, consent, and distributed identity implication across Ping's product portfolio. Previously, he was responsible for product and go-to market strategy as well as for Ping solutions in employee- and consumer-centric identity and access management. Before joining Ping Identity, Amin served as Senior Director of Product Management for IDaaS solutions at Oracle Corp. and CA Technologies, as well as Director of Cloud Security with Novell Identity and Security. Additionally, Amin is an author on several patents in software security, web caching and content distribution.

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Balraj Dhillon

Engagement Director - Key Accounts, Simeio

At Simeio Solutions, Balraj leads technology delivery and implementation across IDaaS and identity proofing solutions. Prior to joining Simeio, he co-founded an AI healthcare startup, delivering natural processing (NLP) experiences to solve patient engagement using voice and chat based interface. He also served as Director of Product at Ontario Health, where he led multiple modernization initiatives focused on consent, privacy, healthcare provider identity and API gateway. Balraj has a robust background in developing, deploying and positioning products/solutions across multiple domains.

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Naasief Edross

Senior Technical Leader

Naasief focuses on the integration of the Cisco Security portfolio to aid in cybersecurity investigations and incident response. His background includes operating as a practitioner and providing consultation in security architecture and operations.

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Joakim Lialias

Director of Product Marketing

Joakim Lialias is Director of Product Marketing at Cisco. Joakim leads a high-performing team of product marketers that bring Cisco's endpoint security, network traffic analytics, network access control and security platform solutions to market globally. He's laser-focused on delivering compelling messaging, go-to-market initiatives and enablement for products and solutions that are impactful to the security industry. Joakim has extensive product marketing and business development experience across multiple security domains having worked at McAfee, SecureWorks, Symantec, Intel and IBM prior to joining Cisco.

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Rahim Ibrahim

Business Development & Technology Alliances Manager, Zscaler

Rahim manages an alphabet soup of partners at Zscaler, ranging from SIEM, SOAR, CASB, and UCaaS to find solutions that make customers more secure and efficient.

Each winter, Rahim eagerly awaits for the first storm to blanket the mountains, where he can get stranded and sharpen his skills on the slopes.

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Aaron Maben

Corporate Solutions Engineer, Security, Cradlepoint

Aaron is the Corporate Solutions Engineer for Security at Cradlepoint and approaches everything with what the well-known poet and philosopher, Deadpool, calls "maximum effort". Whether leading an intra-departmental security team, building interoperability solutions for the highest echelons of government or just mowing the lawn, he always approaches projects with 100% focus and dedication.

At Cradlepoint, Aaron helps clients reduce the complexity of their distributed networks, decrease workload of over-extended IT teams and increase operational efficiency while delivering ROI via cloud-managed, software-defined endpoints.

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Dave Gruber

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst, ESG

ESG Senior Analyst Dave Gruber covers endpoint security, application security, email security, and MDR at ESG, where he helps product marketing and management leaders develop winning strategies in these highly competitive markets. Dave researches CISOs' and security teams' most pressing needs, working together with endpoint, application, and email security vendors to develop successful product and go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging. Building on a strong technical background with early roles in enterprise application development, Dave became interested in figuring out why some products were more successful than others, which eventually led him to senior roles in software product management and product marketing.

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Chris Kirsch

Director, Product Marketing, Veracode

Chris Kirsch | Director, Product Marketing at Veracode. Chris works on product strategy at Veracode and has 23 years of experience in security, particularly in the areas of application security testing, security assessments, incident response, and cryptography. He is the winner of the Social Engineering CTF Black Badge competition at DEF CON 25.

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Russell Rice

VP, Product Strategy, Ordr

Russell Rice brings 25 years of experience in the network security industry and is current VP Product Strategy at Ordr. Russell has held senior leadership roles in product management, technical marketing, and engineering in startups and established companies spanning Cisco, Skyport Systems, Global Internet, and Dow Jones. At Cisco, Russell was the executive business leader for network access control (NAC), policy (including the Identity Service Engine / ISE), and remote access products. Russell is an accomplished speaker and his teams were responsible for the Cisco SAFE network security guidelines. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

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Scott M Giordano

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

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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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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Jamie French

Director of Strategy & Portfolio, Unisys

Jamie French, Director of Strategy and Portfolio for Unisys Security Solutions is a seasoned information security leader and practitioner with over 25 years' experience. Throughout his career, Jamie has worked with every major market vertical globally holding a variety of roles focused in the realm of security ranging from SOC Analyst, Solution Architect, Technical Pre-Sales, Standards and Enablement, Research and Development, Product and Solution Management, Risk/Technical/Strategic Consulting , IT Security Auditor, Advisory Board Member, Strategist, Practitioner, Educator, Mentor, and Leader.

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Clifford Shier

Managing Principal, Unisys

Over 25 years of Clifford Shier's career have been in IT Leadership roles (CIO/CISO/CTO).   Mr. Shier has extensive experience in collaborative partnering to deliver sustainable results for market leading Fortune and Critical Infrastructure companies in both the Private and Public Sector.  He has led numerous business transformation and high growth initiatives resulting in significant measurable gains in performance, profitability and competitiveness.  As Trusted Executive Advisor and IT/Business Strategist to Unisys clients globally, Mr. Shier brings expertise to deliver on the promise of sustainable and secure Digital Transformation.

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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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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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Russ Warren

Program Manager, IBM Security

Russ Warren is the Program Manager for technology alliances for the IBM Security group. He has extensive experience (40 years) in developing products for the management of systems, networks, applications, business systems, storage and security - working through the full life cycle of software development: product management, development, test, support, and beta programs.

In his current role, he leads a team of technical staff, working with technology partners, to integrate and add value to the IBM Security product portfolio. He is a key leader for the evolution of our IBM security ecosystem, aligning IBM strategy and development with the needs of expanding our technology partner solutions. Russ executes with his peers across sales, product management, development, support and services to provide technology partnership solutions that provide IBM with a rich ecosystem, contributing to higher customer value.

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Scott M Giordano

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

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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Mark McIntyre

Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft

Mark McIntyre is a Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Mark works with the US government, NATO, allied governments, and the larger defense contractor ecosystem, helping them transform their missions and businesses while moving securely to the Cloud. Mark supports CISOs and their teams with cybersecurity reviews and helps them understand Microsoft's perspectives on the evolving cyber threat landscape and how Microsoft defends its enterprise, employees and users around the world. Mark is based in Redmond, WA.

Before joining CSG, Mark ran Microsoft's Government Security Program, Microsoft's global trust and transparency initiative for national governments. Mark also previously ran Microsoft's Security Cooperation Program, and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) initiative, through which Microsoft partnered with international law enforcement agencies to combat the online sexual exploitation of children.

Mark joined Microsoft in June, 2007, after 11 years in the US government working on information assurance, counterterrorism and regional security issues. Mark has an MA from the University of Washington, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and a certificate in Korean language from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He also holds CISSP and CCSP designations from ICS2.

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Sudhir Mehta

Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy, Unisys

Sudhir Mehta is the Global Vice President for Product Management and Strategy wherein he leads and executes our strategies across products and applications, partnering with Technology product owners, Enterprise Solutions and Unisys Federal to achieve our defined business outcomes.

Sudhir is an accomplished leader with deep global experience in product management, managed security services, infrastructure transformation, SaaS and public cloud (including Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform). Most recently he was responsible for Symantec's Cloud Strategy with SaaS Products and Partner Integrations, leading the acceleration of Symantec's Security SaaS solutions. At Symantec he also directed product management for Global Systems Integrators and Norton products.

Prior to Symantec, Sudhir held several leadership roles with HP and Nokia in which he managed product P&L, drove large services businesses, established partner programs and mentored and grew teams.

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