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Matt Egan

Director of Technical Strategy, Corporate Development at Okta, Inc.

In his role at Okta, Matt Egan focuses on finding, developing, and supporting technical partnerships in the identity ecosystem. He provides specialized coverage to technology partnerships, including the Spectra Alliance focused on Zero Trust, which includes Okta, Crowdstrike, Netskope, and Proofpoint. Before joining Okta, Matt held various operational IT roles ranging from Help Desk to Security Architect. Over this twenty-plus-year career, he was an active customer of many technologies he now covers.

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Ward Holloway

Director of Technology Alliances, Zscaler

With over 20 plus years of experience in network and information security, F. Ward Holloway III is a Director of Technology Alliances at Zscaler. In his current role, he is responsible for a number of Zscaler's Tier-1 strategic partnerships and partner ecosystems, including Splunk. He has previously held executive, director and engineering positions in business development, sales and engineering at several IT security companies and startups including Check Point Software Technologies, Crossbeam Systems, FireMon, Fireglass (acquired by Symantec) and TokenEx.

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Rajan Koo

Chief Customer Success Officer & DTEX I3 Lead, DTEX Systems

As SVP of Customer Engineering, Raj is responsible for enterprise customer success, managing DTEX installations, services, and implementation at some of the top enterprises in the world. This includes critical tasks such as developing custom architecture for customers’ specific needs or scaling DTEX across hundreds of thousands of users. Raj has a long history in technological innovation. As a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 15 years of engineering experience, Raj has been awarded patents for his work in R&D (including for DTEX’s unique anonymization features) and has led technical reviews for multi-million-dollar industrial automation projects.

As a leader, Raj drives focus to deliver projects from conception to implementation. He believes in fostering learning and knowledge sharing within his team, believes that lifetime learning is integral to innovation.

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Raghu Nandakumara

Field CTO, EMEA and APAC, Illumio

Raghu Nandakumara is a Field CTO at Illumio based in London, UK, where he is responsible for helping customers and prospects through their segmentation journeys. Previously, Raghu spent 15 years at Citibank, where he held a number of network security operations and engineering roles. Most recently, he served as a Senior Vice President, where he was responsible for defining strategy, engineering, and delivery of solutions to secure Citi’s private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Raghu holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cambridge, and a master’s degree in advanced computing from Imperial College London.

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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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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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Anup Ghosh

CEO, Fidelis Cybersecurity

Anup Ghosh is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Fidelis Cybersecurity. An established cybersecurity leader, Ghosh brings extensive senior leadership experience, successfully managing and expanding markets for start-ups and mature cybersecurity companies. Mr. Ghosh’s charter is to establish Fidelis as the go-to partner for high fidelity adversarial detection and response solutions in the Global 2000 and Government segments. Prior to joining Fidelis Cybersecurity, Ghosh was managing director and global platforms lead at Accenture Security, where he led strategic technology investments that scaled Accenture Security’s rapid growth in the managed security services business. Previously Ghosh founded and ran Invincea, Inc., a Virginia-based machine learning cybersecurity company, through its acquisition by Sophos in March 2017. Prior to founding Invincea, he was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he created and managed an extensive portfolio of cybersecurity programs for the US Government DOD and Intelligence Community.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Mark Harris

Senior Director Analyst, Digital Workplace Security team, Gartner

Mark Harris is a Sr. Director Analyst in Digital Workplace Security team specializing in endpoint security including EPP/EDR/NGAV. Mr. Harris has extensive industry experience in cybersecurity and malware trends. He is also a researcher, analyst and contributor to research papers.

Previously while at Sophos, Mr. Harris held various roles including running SophosLabs: the team of malware and security analysts, the engineering teams responsible for the core detection technologies at Sophos and most recently overall architecture for Sophos Intercept X.

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Dean Perrine

Deputy CISO, Fox Corporation

Dean Perrine is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for Fox Corporation (FOX), where he leads a forward leaning team managing cybersecurity across Fox Sports, Fox TV Stations, Fox Entertainment, Fox News, and other subsidiaries.

Before the March 2019 spin off of Fox Corporation by 21st Century Fox and the establishment of FOX as a standalone public company, Mr. Perrine spent 12 years in Engineering and Technical Solutions at 21st Century Fox, most recently in the Office of the CTO, working closely with CIOs, the Global CISO, and the business technology teams.

During his time at 21st Century Fox, Mr. Perrine played an integral role in security, linear and digital content distribution, infrastructure engineering, development operations, and cloud engineering. He supported the launch of FS1 and FS2, as well as major television events including Super Bowl XLII, XLV, XLVII, and LI.

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Bill Bernard

Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at deepwatch

Bill Bernard, CISSP, is a cybersecurity expert serving as Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at deepwatch. According to Bill, he is a “a career information security professional who has learned through hard won experience that the engineer's ‘right answer’ isn't always the ‘right answer’ for the business.” Bringing 20 years of experience to his security role at deepwatch, Bill approaches information security as a necessity for all companies, but understanding that one size does not fit all. With a "top down" focus on information security any company can implement a security program appropriate to it's needs.

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Jerry Chapman

Engineering Fellow IAM, Optiv Security

Jerry Chapman has been with Optiv Security for more than 15 years, developing and delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. With over 18 years in identity, he has been successfully enabling clients in designing and implementing an IAM strategy that aligns with both their security and business objectives. His role also includes architecture, engineering, and software development, architecture and support. Chapman supports other cybersecurity practices and experts in positioning identity and data as core components within their enterprise security infrastructure. He also is a key spokesperson for Optiv’s Zero Trust strategy and speaks at industry events.

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Tom Field

Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG

Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

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Paul Kaspian

Principal Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Paul Kaspian is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for Palo Alto Networks, specializing in Zero Trust and how this modern security methodology can help organizations secure their digital transformation. He brings close to 20 years of experience in product management and product marketing where prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he held strategic positions at Aruba Networks, IBM Security, Watchfire, and Checkpoint Software Technologies.

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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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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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Chris Hickman

Chief Security Officer, Keyfactor

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

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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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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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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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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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