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Ryan Stolte

Founder & CTO, Bay Dynamics

As a founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, Ryan Stolte has spent more than 20 years of his career solving big data problems with analytics. Starting in the early days of the Web, his first user behavior analytics challenges were to find innovative ways to recommend products to end users and drive sales on e-commerce sites. With the proliferation of the connected enterprise, his attention turned to new analytics challenges with internal IT, cloud, and cybersecurity initiatives. With two decades of experience in user behavior analytics, a portfolio of analytics patents, and an unparalleled leadership team, Ryan is focused on finding innovative ways to provide smart cybersecurity solutions for the enterprise.

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Patrick Knight

Senior Director of Cyber Strategy & Product Management, Veriato

Patrick Knight is the senior director of cyber strategy and product management at Veriato, an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in insider threat protection, where he helps organizations protect critical data from threats by trusted insiders. For over 17 years, his cyber security career has helped enterprises protect against online threats through the development of anti-malware, network intrusion detection, computer and network forensics and encryption technologies. He is a writer and speaker on topics of cyber security in multiple forums including Virus Bulletin. He served in the U.S. Intelligence Community and the United States Army for 12 years in the fields of Signals Intelligence Analysis and Cryptanalysis and as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian Linguist. He can be reached on Twitter at @PatrickKnight70 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/PatrickKnight70.

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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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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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Tony Howlett

CISO, SecureLink

Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP, GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. He is currently the CISO of SecureLink, a vendor privilege access management company based in Austin.

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Justin Strackany

Chief Customer Officer, SecureLink

Strackany is the Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access. He has been with SecureLink since it was founded in 2003 and has served in many customer-focused capacities, including sales engineering, implementation, customer success, account management, and onboarding new clients. Over the years he has developed deep partnerships with some of the largest, most complex enterprise organizations and technology vendors across the country and internationally in industries such as healthcare, gaming, legal, finance, and retail.

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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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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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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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Todd Carroll

CISO and VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

Todd M. Carroll currently serves as the CISO and VP of Cyber Operations, North America for CybelAngel. He joined the Paris-based company in January 2019 as part of CybelAngel's expansion into U.S. markets. Carroll retired from the FBI in December 2018 as the Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Division. Carroll entered duty with the FBI in 1998 and was assigned to the Washington D.C. Field Office working Counterterrorism matters. He was a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) with the Critical Incident Response Group/Rapid Deployment Logistics Unit from 2003-2004. From 2006 to 2011, he was assigned as the SSA over the Cyber program in the Chicago Division developing the FBI's intrusion capabilities.

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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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Cris Ewell

CISO, UW Medicine

Ewell, PhD, is CISO at University of Washington Medicine. Previously, he was CISO of Seattle Children's Hospital. Before that, he served as the director of information security operations at the University of Washington, chief security officer for PEMCO Corp. and chief technology officer for Breakwater Security.

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Carlos Pero

AVP and Head of Cyber Application Security, Zurich Insurance

Carlos Pero currently serves as AVP, Head of Cyber Application Security with Zurich Insurance. Prior to joining Zurich, he was a Product Manager for Rand McNally, responsible for the planning, design and maintenance of several mobile and web applications. Earlier in his career, Pero held the titles of eBusiness Manager for an educational resources company, ETA Hand2Mind, Director, Technical Product Development for Cars.com and other notable entities. Having been entrenched with technology from the Web's infancy, Pero has gained his experience alongside cyber security's evolution.

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Randy Sabett

Special Counsel, Cyber/Data/Privacy Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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Tim Horton

VP, Global Merchant Security and Compliance Solutions, First Data

Tim Horton currently serves as Vice President of Global Security and Fraud Product Management at First Data. This organization represents the integrated technologies that provide merchants globally a multi-level defense to manage cyber security threats. In this leadership role, Horton is responsible for managing First Data's Cyber Security and Compliance development initiatives for SMB and National Merchants to equip them with the right tools to protect their sensitive data and maintain PCI DSS Compliance. In addition, Horton represents First Data on the PCI DSS Board of Advisors. Horton joined First Data in 1995, and has since held a variety of leadership roles. Prior to his current position, he served in Corporate Strategy working on large company initiatives with third-parties.

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