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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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John Kang

Managing Director, Inspire Health Alliance

John Kang has over 30 years of experience in developing and managing the strategies of rapidly growing companies in healthcare, technology and manufacturing. Mr. Kang founded the leading healthcare information technology company serving over 180,000 physicians in the 1990's leading to a successful IPO and eventual merger with WebMD in a transaction valued at more than $3 Billion in 2000. He also has started numerous companies in healthcare providing services to the physician community. He is currently involved in several healthcare companies that provide services to the orthopedic market as well as accountable care organizations around the country. He is also one of the founders of Inspire Diagnostics which provides a comprehensive testing program for the COVID-19. Mr. Kang graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics in 1985.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew's 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Andrew has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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Candice Madruga Knoll

Senior Customer Success Manager, Cloudflare

Candice Madruga Knoll is Senior Customer Success Manager with Cloudflare.

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John Turner

Application Security Lead, LendingTree

John leads the Application Security program for LendingTree, focusing on penetration testing and developer training. He also participates in offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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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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David Bradbury

Chief Security Officer, Okta

David Bradbury is Chief Security Officer at Okta. As CSO, he leads overall security execution for the organization and his team is responsible for navigating the evolving threat landscape to best protect employees and customers. In addition, he is instrumental in helping Okta's customers continue to adopt and accelerate Zero Trust security strategies.

Prior to joining Okta, Bradbury was Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec where he led and had global oversight of all cyber security and physical security programs. Bradbury has built an international reputation for leading and delivering cybersecurity at scale. He has worked across his native Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States, leading highly-regarded security teams at some of the world's largest banks, including ABN AMRO, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

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Jinan Budge

Principal Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals, Forrester

Jinan leads Forrester's security and risk research in Asia Pacific. Jinan's research focuses on enabling the success of the chief information security officer (CISO) role; creating transformational cybersecurity strategies; and building security awareness, behavior, and culture programs at the heart of a security strategy. Jinan is a champion for diversity and inclusion in security and brings a local and global perspective and cultural lens to her research and practice.

Previous Work Experience

Jinan's research remains pragmatic, as she recently returned to Forrester after several years as director of cyber strategy at Transport for NSW and a similar role with Qantas Airlines. Jinan has built, stood up, and delivered significant cybertransformation strategies across the public and private sectors. She is an experienced people leader and international keynote speaker, and she's passionate around her purpose in the security field.

Education

Jinan holds two bachelor's degrees in science and commerce from the Australian National University.

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Gordon Beith

Senior Director of Product Marketing , Gigamon

Gordon Beith Senior Director of Product Marketing at Gigamon. He has more than 30 years' experience in telecommunications product management, marketing, hardware and software development, and related next-generation services areas. His background includes product, project, marketing and account-management positions for NETSCOUT Systems, VSS Monitoring, IneoQuest, Empirix, Spirent, Cisco and Ericsson.

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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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Ed Smith

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Corelight

Ed Smith is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Corelight and has seven years experience working in the cyber security industry representing IaaS, DevOps, and vulnerability management solutions, including his most recent roles as Director of Marketing at CloudPassage and Senior Product Marketing Manager at Tripwire.

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Stuti Deshpande

Partner Solution Architect, AWS

I come from a Computer Science background, specializing in Data Science and currently working as Associate Solutions Architect in New York. Interacting with customers to discuss their business problems, designing and implementing the industry-focused cloud solutions has given me an in-depth knowledge about the business use cases, cloud architecture and implementations and how solutions can be tailored to resolve the customer's real-world business problems.

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Omer Ganot

Product Manager, Algosec

Omer Ganot is the Cloud Security Product Manager for Algosec, experienced with multiple cloud and security device vendors. Omer has an extensive experience in product management as well as software engineering and managing engineering teams. Outside of AlgoSec, Omer enjoys traveling and playing board games with his family, reading and enjoying music.

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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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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Strategy, Akamai Technologies

Tony is currently Director of Security Strategy for Akamai Technologies. He's been involved with Information Security since the late 90's when he worked for a large US based telecom provider. Since then Tony has worked with Akamai's top global clients to provide cyber security guidance, architectural analysis, web application and network security expertise. With over 20 years of Information Security operations experience Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. He is currently responsible for Akamai's North / Central / South American clients as well the training of an internal group whose focus is on Web Application Security / and adversarial resiliency disciplines.

Tony's previous responsibilities include consulting with public sector/government clients at Akamai, managing security operations and pen testing for a mobile payments company, and overseeing security and compliance responsibilities for a global financial software services organization. Tony enjoys skateboarding, competitive grappling, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and spending time with his wife and kids in Dallas, TX.

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Gidi Cohen

CEO and Founder, Skybox Security

Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies,i Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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Rebecca Wynn

Global CISO & Chief Privacy Officer, [24]7.ai

As global CISO and chief privacy officer, Wynn leads all aspects of [24]7.ai's global enterprise cybersecurity, compliance, privacy and risk management program. In this role at the customer service software and services company, she helps to ensure compliance and alignment with global industry standards and is responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of the internal audit activities that encompass scoping, risk assessment, planning, execution and reporting.

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Ashley Adams

Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Ashley Adams is a Product Marketing Manager for Security at SolarWinds®. Ashley's areas of focus are owning the go to market activity for her products by developing key product messaging, communicating new product releases and features, working closely with demand gen teams to drive leads, and enabling the sales team through asset creation and training. Ashley is a born and raised Austinite and has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas as well as an ITIL foundations certification. She has 9 years of experience within the cybersecurity field has held positions in both Austin and in Paris, France.

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Manja Kuchel

Senior Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Manja is responsible for Access Rights Manager and Server Configuration Monitor at SolarWinds® as Senior Product Marketing Manager. Manja lives in Berlin, Germany and has built up over 10 years of experience in the tech world working as Team Lead and Business Development Manager for start-ups, agencies and tech organizations.

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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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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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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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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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