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Chad McDonald

CISO & CIO, Radiant Logic

Chad brings more than 20 years’ experience building and managing information security programs. Chad has leveraged his security leadership to dozens of organizations across the technology, education and medical sectors. Prior to Radiant Logic, Chad defined security and technical integrations of 5 acquisitions and attained FedRAMP-in-Process status for Digital.ai. While serving as the Executive Director of the Office of the CISO at Optiv, he defined the security strategy for a $70 billion dollar merger between two technology giants. Chad holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Southern Polytechnic State University, as well as multiple certifications including CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and PMP (Project Management Professional).

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John Pritchard

CPO, Radiant Logic

John is Chief Product Officer at Radiant Logic, responsible for the company’s global product vision and leading engineering, product and design. John joined Radiant Logic from Okta, where he served as Vice President of Product Management for Okta’s Developer and Partner Ecosystem. His background is in new product development of fault-tolerant distributed SaaS systems and brings more than 25 years of product and engineering experience from Adobe, IBM and Lockheed-Martin.

John holds a B.S in Information Systems from American University, a M.S. in Telecommunications from George Washington University, an MBA from Duke University and is currently completing his PhD at the University of Denver with a research focus on Artificial Intelligence. You can find him on twitter as @IndiaPeloAle.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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Sameer Prabhudesai

Director Engineering, Cisco

With over two decades of industry experience, Sameer Prabhudesai is an accomplished Leader who is passionate about Technology and the positive impact it has on our communities. He has led large Engineering organizations driving a strong vision to address multi-billion dollar opportunities. He is currently based out of Bangalore and leads the Cisco Engineering charter for Firewalls – across Physical platforms, Cloud migration and Snort IDS/IPS.

Sameer brings an impeccable focus on engineering excellence to produce exceptional results. His hallmark has been creating a team culture that drives innovation to support Customer’s transformation journey. In his previous role at Cisco, he led the Data Center Switching & Controller Infra teams, which was a part of $5 Billion Nexus franchise. Prior to Cisco he has worked at Ericsson leading their IP & Cloud Technology incubation team, Broadcom Inc. leading the 4G/LTE Modem program and so on.

Sameer has an Engineering degree followed by an MBA. Outside of work he volunteers time for Public school education and Community Service. He is passionate about mentoring early stage start-ups and an active member of the Cybersecurity community.

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Johan Dreyer

Field CTO, EMEA, Mimecast

Johan has spent the majority of his career striving to understand how technology can help organizations. The early years started in Harare, Zimbabwe before moving onwards to Dubai, where he spent 7 years, and more recently to the UK where Johan is now Field CTO for EMEA at Mimecast.

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Rory Duncan

Go to Market Leader, Security, NTT UK & Ireland

Rory has over 25 years’ experience within the IT security industry. He joined NTT Ltd at its formation in 2019 having previously led the UK security business at Dimension Data. Rory brings with him in-depth knowledge and expertise in protecting clients and their businesses. As the Go to Market leader of the UK security business, he is involved in developing innovative solutions for a range of multinational and global clients across all industries and frequently presents on challenges facing organisations as they undertake their digital transformation.

Rory regularly works with NTT’s global clients, helping them evolve their cybersecurity posture and move to predictive cybersecurity models to protect them in the rapidly changing landscape.

In his spare time, he enjoys skiing with his wife and two daughters.

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Prashant Pai

SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives, SecurityScorecard

Prashant is the SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives at SecurityScorecard. He has experience in building and growing organizations. Previously, Prashant has demonstrated leadership and excellence in building risk consulting into a multi-million dollar business.

Prashant brings varied quantitative and qualitative risk management background spanning market, credit, operational, and cybersecurity risk. He has hands-on experience developing risk management systems as well as positioning these systems to senior management within financial institutions for wider adoption.

In his current role, Prashant is actively working to help shape a cyber risk market, where an enterprise can measure and manage cyber risk both qualitatively and quantitatively and both parties to a cyber risk transfer transaction have transparency of data and insights.

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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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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 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist 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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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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Nir Moatty

Global Head of Solution Consulting at Outseer An RSA Company

Nir has had a distinguished 20-year career building high performing teams that deliver innovative market leading solutions. With experience spanning multiple industries, his passion to fight fraud led him to Outseer as an RSA Business.

At Outseer he has led a series of strategic engineering programs, building his technical acumen and ultimately bringing that expertise to the companies go-to-market efforts. Today, Nir leads a global organization dedicated to transforming how Outseer collaborates with customers and partners to solve the most difficult emerging fraud challenges.

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Dr Tom Winston

Director of Intelligence, Dragos Inc

Dr Tom Winston is a Cyber Security subject matter expert focused on threats to critical infrastructure (ICS/SCADA) systems, as well as foreign cyber threat intelligence and threat analysis. Tom has extensive public and private sector experience in IT/OT threat environments to include hunting, detection engineering and reverse engineering. Tom has extensive experience in mobile devices, removable/fixed media digital forensics. Tom is also a seasoned manager of people, technology, projects, and programs. Multilingual, and with extensive experience in international relations, intelligence, and foreign policy analysis.

Formerly, a highly sought after and award-winning professor Dr Winston was an undergraduate and graduate student advocate and champion; student success is critical - not just in school, but after graduation as well. He built cyber security engineers one student at a time and continues to assist them even well past their graduation by providing career and other professional guidance.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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Ed Thomas

Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations, ProcessUnity

Ed Thomas leads ProcessUnity's marketing team and is responsible for the company's awareness, demand generation and thought-leadership programs. In his marketing and sales operations roles at ProcessUnity, Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages (now IBM), Ed has helped hundreds of organizations streamline their risk and compliance programs using next-generation automation tools.

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George Tubin

Director of Product Strategy, Cynet

George Tubin is the Director of Product Strategy at Cynet and a recognized expert in cybercrime prevention. He was previously VP of Marketing at Socure and Senior Research Director at TowerGroup where he delivered thought leadership and insights to large enterprises on cybersecurity as well as identity and fraud management.

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Will Robinson

Senior Solution Engineer, Lacework

A 17-year veteran of the Asia Pacific IT landscape, Will has held several senior roles across DevOps, Security and Networking.

Combining wide-ranging practical and theoretical knowledge, Will informs and assists organisations embracing cloud on best practice security for workload, container and Kubernetes environments and addressing vulnerability and compliance concerns with a unique data-centric approach through his current role with Lacework.

Through his years of consulting, he has worked with some of the biggest national and international names across numerous verticals. Will has also delivered informative talk tracks at local and international events, including AWS Summit & Re:Invent.

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Jacob Serpa

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Zscaler

Jacob lives in Silicon Valley and works as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Zscaler, the leader in zero trust and SASE. He is passionate about helping others to protect their personal information and earned his MBA at San Jose State University where he graduated at the top of his class. He has worked in the cloud security space for five years and is focused on CASB and data protection.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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