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John Ford

Cybersecurity Strategist, IronNet

John Ford is an information security veteran with over twenty years in a wide-variety of roles. Prior to IronNet, John was CISO for ConnectWise, the global leader in providing software solutions for Managed Services Providers. In this role he was accountable for customer facing security activities, product security, and served as an advisor to the CEO and leadership team.

Before joining IronNet, John:

• Founded Sienna Group, a firm dedicated to providing data protection solutions to enterprise organizations.
• Held executive roles in the healthcare industry: CISO of WellCare Health Plans, CISO/CCO of MCS Health Plan, VP of Security and Compliance for Ingenix
• Supported DoD, Intel, and FedCivil Security initiatives for SAIC
• Veteran of the U.S. Air Force

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Dr. Christopher Pierson

Founder & CEO, BLACKCLOAK

Dr. Chris Pierson is the Founder & CEO of BlackCloak - a concierge cybersecurity protection suite for high-net-worth individuals and top C-Suite executives. BlackCloak protects its customers from financial loss, cybercrime, hacking, reputational damage, privacy exposure, and identity theft. Dr. Pierson serves on the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee, DHS Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. Chris has been on the front lines of cybersecurity and fighting cybercrime and has over 20 years - with DHS, President of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Arizona Infragard, and in various other roles as a Chief Information Security Officer for financial companies. Chris was a founding executive of Viewpost, a FinTech payments company, serving as their CISO and General Counsel and was also the first Chief Privacy Officer, SVP for the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) U.S. operations leading its privacy and data protection program. Chris was also a corporate attorney for Lewis and Roca where he established its CyberSecurity Practice representing companies who were hacked and fell victim to data breaches. Chris is a globally recognized keynote speaker & cybersecurity thought leader, board advisor for startups, and is frequently quoted by the media on cybersecurity & privacy.

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Chase Hinson

CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP, Consulting Manager, OneTrust

Chase Hinson (CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP) serves as a consultant for OneTrust GRC - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. He advises companies throughout their risk management implementations to establish processes to support operations and align with their enterprise objectives, including adopting industry best practices and adhering to requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG and more). Hinson works with clients to realize the extent of their risk exposure, helping clients to map their digital infrastructure, assess risks, combat threats, monitor ongoing performance, and document evidence throughout the risk lifecycle.

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Dania Buchanan

Head of SmartVault Global, SmartVault

Dania Buchanan is Head of SmartVault and has served in leadership roles since the company was founded in 2008. In her current role, Dania is responsible for the culture, vision and growth of the SmartVault business, which became part of the GetBusy family of products in 2017.

Dania has more than 30 years of experience in the technology sector, building high performing teams across a wide range of channel and marketing strategies. She has worked in both small, venture-backed start-ups, and large, public companies. Prior to SmartVault Dania was President and CEO for ChatYat, Inc., a mobile start-up. And prior to that, Dania was Vice President of Corporate Marketing for NetIQ, where she helped guide the company through several successful mergers and acquisitions.

Dania is a wife and mother of two, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.

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Ivy Donnie

Director of Sales, SmartVault

Ivyson Donnie is Director of Sales at SmartVault, a GetBusy product. In his role, Ivy is responsible for revenue growth in the Sales Acquisition and Sales Expansion teams as well as Channel Development.

Ivy has more than 15 years of Sales experience and a proven track record of growing and developing an "A" culture winning sales team. Most recently, Ivy was a Global Sales Manager at Cogent, a multinational tier 1 internet service provider consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Prior to that, Ivy served as the Senior Market Manager at Cbeyond, where he managed the top two producing markets and a multi-million dollar client portfolio.

Ivy has a Bachelor's degree in Advertising from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

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Joseph Carson

Chief Security Scientist, Thycotic

Joseph Carson has more than 25 years' experience in enterprise security; He has authored Privileged Account Management for Dummies and Cybersecurity for Dummies, is a cyber security professional and an ethical hacker. Carson is a cyber security advisor to several governments as well as critical infrastructure, financial and transportation companies. Carson is a seasoned speaker and has presented at conferences globally.

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Lee Klarich

EVP, Chief Product Officer, Palo Alto Networks

Since early product inception in 2006, Lee Klarich has served as the head of product management at Palo Alto Networks, overseeing the product strategy and roadmap. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the director of product management for Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Previously, he held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University.

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Kumar Ramachandran

CloudGenix Founder & SVP of Products, Palo Alto Networks

Post the acquisition of CloudGenix by Palo Alto Networks, Kumar serves as Senior Vice President of Products for SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products. Kumar co-founded CloudGenix in March 2013 and was its CEO, establishing the category of SD-WAN. Prior to founding CloudGenix, Kumar held leadership roles in Product Management and Marketing for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, he managed applications and infrastructure for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.

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Paul Williams

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Paul Williams is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta. Paul has honed his security expertise over 20+ years with engineering and architecture roles at Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, F5, and SkyHigh/McAfee. When he's not knee deep in security discussions, you might find Paul tinkering with old cars and boats.

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Ben Nahorney

Threat Intelligence Analyst, Cisco

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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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Malu Septien Milan

President, Cryptopon

As President of Cryptopon, LLC, Malu brings more than 25 years of industry expertise in Government, High Tech Manufacturing, Retail and Executive Digital Solutions advisory across every functional vertical for several top 500 firms in the world across domains. Her portfolio of experience includes deep technical product leadership, strong drive for Quality & Operational Excellence, Product Innovation and simplification, Cybersecurity & Privacy (GDPR/CCPA), Process and People leadership across business units and IT. Having a deep passion for how innovation in technology can transform the landscape of an organization, Malu inspires us with creative thinking while being able to define a simple and clear roadmap to drive digital transformation. Malu has served as Board Member to multiple organizations focusing on Digital Transformation, Operational Excellence, Data Management and fostering Engineering non-profit programs for minorities. Malu earned the National Hispanic Engineering Professional Achievement nominee with Motorola, Inc in 1999, and the Professional Role model award by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in 2017 awarded through Boeing.

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J. Peter Bruzzese

J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer, ClipTraining

J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of ClipTraining, is a cyber security advisor, 8x awarded Microsoft MVP (for Exchange/Office 365). J. Peter is a global security advisor and technical speaker, an internationally published author and journalist.

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Scott Kern

Vice President, Customer & Technical Solutions HID Global, Identity and Access Management Solutions

Scott has over twenty years of experience implementing PKI-enabled solutions that provide identity and authentication capabilities to meet a wide variety of compliance-driven initiatives. He has worked closely with Fortune 100 and other companies and industry partners to gain the benefits of managed PKI as a Service by reducing complexity and cost while improving security and performance).

Prior to his current role with HID Global, Scott was Vice President of Solutions with HydrantID, a managed PKI service provider which was acquired by HID in 2019. His role included the design and launch of secure vault-based Offline Root Key Generation services which are used by industry leaders in multiple verticals, and the Dedicated Issuing CA product that is a widely used Microsoft CA replacement service.

Scott previously held the position of Lead Architect for Identity at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he led the design and development of the Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) Gateway cloud service. The service platform is used by CVS, Express Scripts and other major pharmacies to sign and validate millions of PKI-based transactions daily. Prior joining Verizon, Scott held similar positions at SAIC, Arcot Systems, BeTrusted and Digital Signature Trust (purchased by IdenTrust in 2002).

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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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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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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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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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