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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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Andrew Hunter

Senior Cyber Security Advisor, Field Effect

Andrew Hunter has spent the last 15 years building teams across the Canadian intelligence community. Most recently, he led the development and operation of tradecraft to support national and Five Eyes intelligence outcomes as the Deputy Director General at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Andrew began his career as a Security Researcher at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 2004. In this role, he performed ground-breaking software vulnerability research and cross-platform development. As the Senior Cyber Security Advisor at Field Effect, Andrew will work alongside clients to ensure flawless integration customized to their needs. His professional experience has given him unique insight into how to best protect businesses of all sizes from cyber threats.

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Andrew Milne

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Field Effect

Andrew Milne builds and creates connections between products, clients and market fit. With a career that spans more than two decades, he inspires clients and audiences to innovate, change, and challenge traditional business thinking. He is a sought-after speaker on marketing, digital transformation and audience engagement, and how these topics will shape the future of business.

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Nisar Aslam

Cloud Security Specialist, Cisco

Nisar Aslam has over 20+ years of experience across multiple architectures including Security, Enterprise Networking and Data Centre and collaboration across Enterprise Finance, Commercial and Public Sector.

Nisar has worked in Finance, Legal and Education in end customerroles in Networking, Security and Collaboration roles spanning 15 years before joining Cisco as a Systems Engineer in Enterprise Finance working with many of the fortune 500 companies across the entire Cisco portfolio.

Currently, Nisar is working as a Cyber Security Specialist in the UK&I SecOps team, helping customers and partners with their Cyber Security challenges and in particular, focusing on integrated security architectures such as Secure X and helpinghybrid working with SASE.In his spare time, Nisar loves to spend time with his wife and 3 children and enjoys running, bike riding in the countryside, swimming as well as reading and football.

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Phil Wood

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Phil is currently a Technical Solutions Architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He joined Cisco last year as part of the SourceFire acquisition, having worked in IT Security for over 20 years with a number of companies specialising in anti-malware software and services. With previous roles including technical support, sales engineering and product management, Phil has experience in many aspects of anti-malware, from helping to resolve widespread virus outbreaks to the development of new technologies.

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Tommy Todd

VP of Security, Code42

Tommy Todd is Vice President of Security at Code42 with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on data privacy and data protection strategies. Prior to Code42, Tommy served in security roles at Symantec, Ionic Security, and Optiv as well as many other firms. Throughout his career, he has acted as a leader, mentor, engineer, architect, and consultant to solve difficult data protection challenges. Tommy is passionate about data – both consumer and commercial – and strives to improve the security posture in organizations he works with.

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James Slaby

Director, Cyber Protection, Acronis

James is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis. He has also worked as an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud services and networking at research firms like Forrester and the Yankee Group. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and hundreds of tech publications. Slaby has also held product and solutions marketing roles at tech vendors like Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks, and Motorola.

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Rami Abbas

Regional Sales Manager – SecOps Group

Rami Abbas is an IT industry veteran with close to 10 years of experience in the Cyber Security space. Rami currently leads Cisco SecOps Sales across the Middle East. Before Joining Cisco, Rami held positions at different Cyber Security Industry leaders. He brings with him a strong experience in the space of Managed Cyber Security as he worked for multiple years at leading Service Providers in the region.

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Ibrahim Yusuf

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Ibrahim is currently a cyber security solutions architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He has been in security for almost two decades, his expertise lies in network wide defensive and offensive security and forensics. Ibrahim is a Certified SANS forensics Analyst (GCFA) and Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

In his current role at Cisco, he guides and assist organisations mitigate and reduce their exposure to breaches and incidences. He helps security teams adopt an attacker’s mindset through threat hunting workshops and cyber threat response exercises. Ibrahim is a motivator of technical teams to appreciate the level of threat complexity organisations are up against.

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Katie Petrillo

Senior Manager, LastPass Product Marketing, LogMeIn

Katie Petrillo leads Identity Product Marketing for LastPass at LogMeIn. With a decade of experience in customer-focused go-to-market strategy, messaging, and execution, Katie specializes in cybersecurity and loves to ask about your most embarrassing password (that you're no longer using anymore, of course).

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Adam Tomeo

Product Marketing Manager - Cisco AMP for Endpoints, Cisco

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David Klein

Senior Director of Product Strategy

David is the Senior Director of Product Strategy at ProcessUnity. He has more than 20 years’ experience in product management and strategic roles for leading technology providers.

In his past roles at Pitney Bowes, Monster.com, Invoke, and Brainshark, David launched digital products and SaaS businesses across the globe while also driving product and feature development and forging innovation across mobile, eLearning/mLearning, and cloud-based landscapes.

David is responsible for keeping his finger on the pulse of the marketplace and delivering high-value risk and compliance solutions. In his role, he helps to define ProcessUnity’s overall strategic direction.

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Katie Petrillo

Senior Manager, LastPass Product Marketing, LogMeIn

Katie Petrillo leads Identity Product Marketing for LastPass at LogMeIn. With a decade of experience in customer-focused go-to-market strategy, messaging, and execution, Katie specializes in cybersecurity and loves to ask about your most embarrassing password (that you're no longer using anymore, of course).

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Suheb Ahmed

Senior Customer Advisory Consultant, Financial Crimes, SAS Institute

Suheb is an accomplished Financial Crime executive with more than 16 years' experience in Financial Crimes Compliance & Financial Crime Analytics spanning across South Asia, MENA & ANZ. Suheb is a results-oriented leader and has helped financial institutions by running financial crime risk assessments, developing innovative solutions, managing projects and full-cycle assessments. Suheb has in-depth knowledge of the financial crime domain, systems, and processes and the unique expertise to manage risk across multiple areas.

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Paul Franks

Director, Financial Services, SAS Institute

Paul has over 30 years professional and commercial experience in financial services covering banking, insurance and wealth management. He is a former partner at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

As Director, Financial Services for SAS Australia and New Zealand, he is responsible for sales and industry strategies for banking customers and risk management solutions and a member of the Global Banking Council for SAS. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of FINSIA and a certified finance and treasury professional. During his time at SAS, he has been Executive Sponsor for several of our largest Australia and New Zealand financial services customers including overseeing major sales and technology solution delivery initiatives in risk management and regulatory compliance for banking and insurance clients. These include credit risk, Basel II, RWA, stress testing, IFRS 9, regulatory and economic capital, pricing and claims management.

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Eric Schou

AVP, Security Product Marketing, Splunk

Eric Schou is a product marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He has managed all aspects of global solutions and product marketing strategies as a technical evangelist, message builder, and leader of solution and product marketing teams.

Eric currently puts his deep security experience to work as AVP of Security Product Marketing at Splunk, where he is responsible for messaging, strategy, and go to market efforts. Prior to Splunk, Eric was responsible for product, solutions, partner and services marketing as Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and before that, was Director of Product Marketing at HPE, the software security division of HP. He also held previous positions at both McAfee and Symantec.

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James Young

Global Security Strategist, Splunk

With over 20 years experience, James has always taken every opportunity to learn more about, and in turn improve how security can be done. In his current role at Splunk as a Global Security Strategist, he has the fortune of speaking with a broad range of different people, and advising organizations around developing and maturing their cyber security operations capabilities. This work also often involves collaboration across a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and improve the joint solutions Splunk and their security ecosystem partners bring to market to help solve a range of cyber security challenges.

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Gaurav Gupta

Head-Tech Regulatory and Audit Management, United Overseas Bank

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Hemanshu Parekh

Hemanshu has over 10 years of experience in areas of compliance, AML and finance Audit, he has worked in several banks including Bank of America, standard chartered bank and ANZ bank.

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Keith Swanson

Regional Director, Asia Pacific / Japan, Fraud, Financial Crime & Security Intelligence, SAS Institute

Keith Swanson is the Director of Fraud, Financial Crimes and Security Intelligence for SAS Asia Pacific/Japan. Keith has worked with customers or directly for organisations across North America and Asia in industries including Financial Services, Government, and Communications, with many of these with global or regional remit. Keith and his team work extensively with customers in developing strategies and applying solutions to combat financial crime, fraud, waste and abuse, and security initiatives, including public security, intelligence and cyber. Keith’s work with customers, SAS colleagues, and partners has helped grow the SAS APAC/J fraud and security business by over 13x in the last 5 years. Keith has presented to a variety of industry bodies and organisations including Executive Briefings, Bankers Associations, Industry conferences and leading consultancies.

Prior to joining SAS in late 2010, Keith held a number of senior positions with a longstanding SAS customer in the financial services sector in the USA. He also spent time in management, business process and analytics consulting with leading organisations including IBM Global Business Services where he worked with clients to identify and deliver business value in financial and customer intelligence, advanced customer insight, business analytics strategy and advanced analytics and optimisation across a variety of industries. Key to his experience is understanding how individual and group behavioural insights can be used to address a variety of business opportunities and challenges, being able to discuss and translate across IT, business and project groups.

Keith Swanson has focused on applying analytics in business through a variety of roles since earning his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, and commenced studies for his Master of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to further studies in Information Security, Keith has previously earned Project Management Institute (PMP) and Life Management Institute (FLMI) accreditations and has sat on Forrester’s Database Marketing Council.

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Omri Kletter

Global VP of Fraud and Risk Management, Bottomline

Prior to joining Bottomline, Omri was responsible for managing the fraud and authentication solutions in the EMEA region for NICE Actimize. Omri began his career in Israel’s elite technological intelligence army unit, where he served as the Head of the Global Counter-Terrorism section.

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Arin Ray

Senior Analyst, Celent

Arin Ray is a Senior Analyst with Celent based in the firm's New York office with over a decade’s experience in tracking business, regulatory, and technology trends in financial services. He has published extensively on technology trends in financial crime compliance operations with specific focus on the role of next generation technology in combatting financial crime. His advisory engagements have included developing technology strategy, market entry and expansion strategy, and benchmarking studies for financial institutions and technology providers. Arin’s research and byline articles have been widely published in the news media and trade journals including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Euromoney, and BusinessWeek among others. Arin regularly speaks at conferences and other industry events on technology trends in risk and compliance.

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