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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world's largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike is the Chief Information Security Officer at Abnormal Security, leading the company’s security, privacy and risk programs. He brings a wealth of strategic and operational experience in cybersecurity and privacy most recently as the CISO and Chief Privacy Officer at Alliance Data.

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Tony Vitello

CISO, URBN

Anthony Vitello served as the CISO at URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, & Free People), beginning his role there in 2019. Before that, he joined Citigroup as Senior Vice President of Global Information Security after retiring from a 24-year career as a senior military officer with cyber operations and intelligence experience in both the U.S. Army and National Security Agency.

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Knox Anderson

Vice President of Product, Sysdig

Knox is Vice President of Product at Sysdig. He has held product marketing and product management roles throughout his career, including five years at Sysdig. As one of the first Sysdig employees, Knox has helped to lead Sysdig from the ground up, with a proven record of building, launching and growing security, health and compliance applications built on top of containers and Kubernetes.

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Stefano Chierici

Security Researcher, Sysdig

Stefano Chierici is a security researcher in Sysdig where his research focuses on defending containerized environments and cloud environments from attacks ranging from web to kernel. Stefano is one of the Falco contributors, an incubation level CNCF project. He studied cyber security in Italy and, before joining Sysdig, he was a pentester and obtained the OSCP Certification in 2019. He was a security engineer and a red team member.

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Manish Gupta

Vice President of Marketing, Java and GraalVM, Oracle

Manish Gupta is the Vice President of Global Marketing for Java and GraalVM at Oracle. Manish has over 25 years of leadership experience marketing solutions in the areas of databases, cloud-based integration and data management, in-memory processing, and timing & synchronization. Immediately prior to joining Oracle, Manish was the CMO at Redis Labs where he helped build the global Redis community and elevated the platform to become the #1 in-memory database in the market. Manish holds masters and bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and MBA from Santa Clara University.

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Joe Linscott

Director of Product Strategy, PKWARE

Joe is adept in the markets of cyber security. He is currently Director of Product Strategy at PKWARE where he aids teams in guiding the overall direction of products. Joe graduated from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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Chris Pin

VP, Security and Privacy, PKWARE

Chris Pin serves as PKWARE’s VP, Security and Privacy. In this role, Chris drives value and awareness for all PKWARE customers regarding the various challenges that both privacy and security regulations bring to the data driven world. He works closely with all customers and potential customers to help them better understand how PKWARE solutions best fit into their environments and processes. He also works very closely with many other departments such as Sales, Marketing, Partners, and Product to help build brand awareness and product insights.

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Lee Harris

MSSP & Cloud Pak for Security Sales Leader, IBM EMEA

Lee Harris served eight years in the British Army before embarking on a career in IT Sales. With 26 years sales experience across IT, he has spent the last 15 years in Cyber Security. Joining IBM 6 years ago specialising in Threat Detection and Remediation, he has worked in most sectors of the market, concentrating on MSSP's for the last three.

He now leads the Sales Strategy in EMEA for MSSP's and Cloud Pak for Security.

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Ian Li

Director of Global Strategic Accounts, Ekata

Ian Li is a Director of Global Strategic Accounts at Ekata, focusing on the financial services and payments industries. In his role, Ian works directly with Ekata’s largest customers across banking and fintech to help them leverage Ekata’s data to improve their onboarding processes and reduce risk and fraud. Ekata, a Mastercard company, currently has over 2,000 customers globally, including companies like Alipay, Equifax, Klarna, and Microsoft.

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David Masson

Director of Enterprise Cyber Security, Darktrace

David Masson is Darktrace’s Director of Enterprise Security, and has over two decades of experience working in fast moving security and intelligence environments in the UK, Canada and worldwide. With skills developed in the civilian, military and diplomatic worlds, he has been influential in the efficient and effective resolution of various unique national security issues. David is an operational solutions expert and has a solid reputation across the UK and Canada for delivery tailored to customer needs. At Darktrace, David advises strategic customers across North America and is also a regular contributor to major international and national media outlets in Canada where he is based. He holds a master’s degree from Edinburgh University.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

>Todd Carroll joined CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. He serves as their global Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Operations leading the U.S. strategy and tactical initiatives. Prior to joining CybelAngel, he retired from the FBI after spending over 20 years in their Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

>Todd Carroll joined CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. He serves as their global Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Operations leading the U.S. strategy and tactical initiatives. Prior to joining CybelAngel, he retired from the FBI after spending over 20 years in their Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

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Janer Gorohhov

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO), Veriff

Janer is in charge of Veriff’s product and innovation to make sure that our verification engine is a trend-setter and outperforms every other solution on the market. He is a tech-savvy innovation enthusiast who started his career as a full-stack developer. Before joining Veriff, he gained experience in project management, and worked with fundraising and finance.

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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 Pepper

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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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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