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Krystal Jackson

Open Philanthropy Junior AI Fellow

Krystal Jackson is an Open Philanthropy Junior AI Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) as part of the CyberAI project, where she conducts research into how advances in artificial intelligence may alter cyber capabilities. She received her M.S. in Information Security Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.

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Shawn Surber

Senior Director, Technical Account Management, Tanium

Shawn Surber is Senior Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium. Over his 20+ year career he has worked his way up through the guts of IT, supporting applications, servers, desktops, networks, security, and most importantly, end users. In his work at major healthcare institutions, Shawn led efforts to modernize and operationalize IT Security tools, processes, and policies. At Tanium, he has helped a wide variety of customers achieve a better state of cyber hygiene through effective application of principles of good operational and security practices. A passionate builder of teams and products, Shawn has led product management, technical solutions, and technical account management teams helping guide customers through their digital transformations.

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Doug Browne

Director for SaaS Security (SSE, Duo and Cloud Security), APJC at Cisco Systems

Doug Browne has over 24 years' experience in the IT industry across the EMEA, Oceania, Japan, China and Asia Pacific region with the majority of that focused on the security industry. He has extensive involvement in overseeing and building security operations since 2000. Having filled leadership, technical, consulting and sales roles has given him a solid understanding of the technical and business issues being faced by clients in all sectors. He is a purposeful, results orientated, competitive individual who knows the importance of involving the necessary people. He responds positively and actively to challenges and pressure, and has confidence in his ability to handle problems, address conflict and deliver quality outcomes.

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Jason Lewkowicz

Executive Vice President, Chief Services Officer, Optiv

Lewkowicz is a senior executive with Optiv. He has more than two decades of experience in IT and security, including in risk governance, crisis management, IT/security transformation, outsourcing and operations. Lewkowicz is responsible for leading the services organization and evolving Optiv’s services capabilities. He joined Optiv from Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he was the global chief information security officer (CISO). Prior to Cognizant, he was the deputy CISO of Accenture and was instrumental in building, developing and transforming their information security organization. He led a team of more than 100 security operations and response professionals across seven countries.

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Tim Frazier

Sr. Solutions Engineer, Anvilogic

With a background in electrical engineering, Tim started his career in the US Army as a signal officer, where he learned about satellite communications and computer networking. During this time, Tim read Cyber War by Richard A. Clarke, where he learned how cybersecurity could be used as a form of national defense, and since then, cybersecurity has been the focus of his career. After a stint in consulting, Tim ran the gamut of hands-on-keyboard experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority: blue teaming, cyber tool chain engineering, risk management framework development, and more. Tim later realized there was an opportunity to help more people across many organizations and industries, so he pivoted to the vendor side of cybersecurity, where he’s been helping to solve customer challenges ever since.

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Rahul Gupta

Head of Security & GRC, Sigma Computing

Rahul is a Cyber Security and compliance leader with 17 years of experience in helping companies establish trust and manage infrastructure security, privacy, IT and business risk, and compliance in the digital business ecosystem. Mr. Gupta is a people-first and positive leader focused on action, results, learning, teaming and collaboration, quality, integrity, value, and relationships. He is experienced and has wide Knowledge in Systems and Network security, Product Security, Global Compliance frameworks, Architecture Design, Incident analysis & Response, Business continuity and Recovery Planning to provide a powerful combination of analysis, Implementations, and support. He hold various industry recognized certifications and is a trusted consultant for the organization and its clients. He is a self-starting IT professional with experience in leading and managing high-level systems security architecture, facilitating requirements and design sessions, and understanding complex business interactions and how they translate to complex system interactions. Although an IT generalist and able to work in many domains, he is specialize in multiple security and compliance domains and have build the programs for various large enterprises and start ups.

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Kelly Huang

Product Marketing - Cybersecurity, Snowflake

Kelly Huang is the Lead PMM for Snowflake’s Cybersecurity Workload, helping security teams embrace the Data Cloud as a security data lake. Kelly began her cybersecurity journey at Splunk, where she helped bring Splunk SOAR Cloud to market.

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Ilkka Turunen

Field CTO, Sonatype

lkka Turunen is Field CTO at Sonatype, working with leading companies across the globe to understand and improve their software supply chains. Prior to Sonatype, he architected several commercial projects for organizations at Cloudreach, and co-founded and served as the CEO of Nestronite, a cloud-based service provider. As a software engineer, developer advocate, and passionate DevOps strategist, Turunen has previously spoken at DevOps Days, QCon, Devoxx and more. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from JAMK University of Applied Sciences.

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Tom Baumgartner

Cloud Solutions Marketing. Cisco

Tom has 20+ years of experience in teams and organizations across product marketing, marketing communications, demand generation, business development, sales enablement, GTM strategy, and digital transformation in companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, F5, Alaska Airlines, and Virtuozzo. He currently is focused on product marketing for Cisco Umbrella.

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Mark Toussaint

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Mark Toussaint is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the NetWall product line. Mark joined OPSWAT in 2023, bringing with him a strong cyber security background and a proven history of providing comprehensive cyber security solutions to a wide range of critical infrastructure industries. Mark has a unique ability to take complex technical concepts and transform them into business value-oriented Go-to-Market product strategy. With over 30 years of experience at high tech and B2B companies, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, he is now focused on accelerating the launch and market acceptance of the NetWall product line for OPSWAT. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Mark held Senior Product Management roles at Owl Cyber Defense, Bell & Howell and Pitney Bowes. Based in Connecticut, Mark holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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Matt Wiseman

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Matt Wiseman is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the OT product line. Matt’s focus is on product, engineering, product marketing and cybersecurity strategy. Matt has experience working in large industrial organizations and has worked to provide comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for all key critical infrastructure industries. His passion for cybersecurity comes from a love of solving unique business cases and deciphering complex problems. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Matt served in various cybersecurity strategy and global marketing leadership roles at Honeywell. Based in Canada, Matt holds an MBA and a BA in Business Management with an Honors Specialization in Finance. In addition, Matt has obtained a variety of cyber related certifications from the Department of Homeland Security, GISF and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Outside of the office, Matt is committed to on-going education in all aspects of life, loves the outdoors and spending quality time with family and friends. Always up for a new challenge, he is looking forward to helping others navigate the fast-paced world of cybersecurity

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Nastassja van den Heever

CISO, FNB South Africa

Van den Heever is the CISO of First National Bank in South Africa. She is a skilled cybersecurity leader with more than 12 years of experience in solution design concepts, security consulting and vendor management across sectors, including financial services, utilities and the telecommunications industry.

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Kavita Viswanath

Vice President & General Manager, JFrog, APAC

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Mike DePalma

Vice President of Business Development, North America, Datto

Michael represents Datto at numerous trade shows and technology conferences throughout North America, frequently presenting alongside members of the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. The objective of these presentations is to connect with business owners and IT professionals to educate them on current cyber threats and the role business continuity plays in combatting these threats.

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Keanan Ball

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Datto

Keanan Ball is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Datto. He loves waking up every day to tell MSPs about how automation that will both make their lives better and make them more money! Keanan has led over 30 successful launches for startups and publicly traded companies alike. When not working on product launches you can find Keanan cracking dad jokes, hiking the backwoods of British Columbia, or hanging with his two Sphynx cats.

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Sameer Raje

General Manager and Head, India & SAARC Region, Zoom

Sameer Raje is General Manager and Head for India & SAARC Region for Zoom. He joined Zoom in April 2019 to kick start and grow its operations in the country and is responsible for leading Strategic Initiatives, Operations, Pre-sales, Sales, Customer Success, Support and General Management functions. Prior to Zoom, Sameer was at West Unified Communications (Intercall) for about seven years as Director Sales, India & Director, Inside Sales Small Medium Businesses APAC. He charted the journey of increasing West Corporations’ market share across APAC countries. Sameer has previously held senior leadership positions in technology MNCs including Cisco WebEx, IBM and Microsoft during his career where he built and led high profile teams across Pre-Sales, Sales and Support. Sameer has an Engineering degree from M. S. University of Baroda.

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Mehar Ullipalem

Manager-Solution Engineering- India, Zoom

Mehar Ullipalem is head of solution engineering for Zoom in India. He joined Zoom in January 2022 and he is responsible for leading the pre-sales function, provide leadership and guidance for design and deployment of complex products/applications/solutions.Prior to Zoom, Mehar was with NTT India for about 8 years leading the Digital Workplace Solutions Practice, he worked with technology firms including Wipro, AGC in his career. He is consultative sales and solution focused specialist with strong expertise in UCaaS, CCaaS & Digital Workplace domains.

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Alan Cunningham

CIO, State of Nevada

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Bill Smith

CISO, State of Alaska

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Jim Weaver

CIO, State of North Carolina

Jim Weaver was appointed Director and State CIO for Washington Technology Solutions in December 2018. Jim has over 32 years of experience in the IT industry, having served in varying management and technical positions, most notably as the Commonwealth of PA's Chief Technology Officer, as well as Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the commonwealth's Departments of Human Services, Aging and Insurance.

During his tenure, he had responsibility for planning, directing, and evaluating Commonwealth IT operations and was a key contributor for the IT shared services transformation effort to align technology staff and services into functional matrix-based teams. In his agency roles, Jim was responsible for planning, directing and evaluating the IT operations of the three agencies, which included mainframe and distributed systems platforms, data base design and application/software development, telecommunications, IT security and business intelligence.

Jim has proven expertise with successful large scale modernization efforts with an enterprise approach to technology and information security management - many of these efforts have been nationally recognized by NASCIO (2008, 2013, and 2014) and Computerworld Honors (2010 and 2013). Jim holds numerous ITIL certifications and earned his Certified Government Chief Information Officer qualification from Harrisburg University. Jim is also an active member of the armed forces serving in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard with over 33 years' experience in personnel information management systems.

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Krystal Jackson

Open Philanthropy Junior AI Fellow

Krystal Jackson is an Open Philanthropy Junior AI Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) as part of the CyberAI project, where she conducts research into how advances in artificial intelligence may alter cyber capabilities. She received her M.S. in Information Security Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.

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Shawn Surber

Senior Director, Technical Account Management, Tanium

Shawn Surber is Senior Director of Technical Account Management at Tanium. Over his 20+ year career he has worked his way up through the guts of IT, supporting applications, servers, desktops, networks, security, and most importantly, end users. In his work at major healthcare institutions, Shawn led efforts to modernize and operationalize IT Security tools, processes, and policies. At Tanium, he has helped a wide variety of customers achieve a better state of cyber hygiene through effective application of principles of good operational and security practices. A passionate builder of teams and products, Shawn has led product management, technical solutions, and technical account management teams helping guide customers through their digital transformations.

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