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Dr. Jai Ganesh

Chief Product Officer, VP & GM - Technology, HARMAN DTS

Dr. Ganesh is the chief product officer at HARMAN International. He is an award-winning digital transformation and innovation leader with expertise in leading technology strategy, organizational innovation, research and development, and new product and service innovations.

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Albert Yirenchi Danquah

CISO, Stanbic Bank Ghana

Danquah is the chief information security officer at Stanbic Bank Ghana, responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise cybersecurity vision, strategy and program to ensure information assets and technologies are protected. He is also a board member for the ISACA Accra chapter.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Danny Manuel

Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Security, Crowdstrike

Danny is the Senior Product Manager for CrowdStrike Cloud Security. At work, he’s passionate about enabling customers to meet their security goals with CrowdStrike cloud managed security platform. At leisure, he enjoys the casual outdoors and fun games with his family.

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Narendran Vaideeswaran

Director of Zero Trust & Identity Protection Product Marketing, CrowdStrike

Narendran Vaideeswaran is a Director of Product Marketing for Zero Trust & Identity Protection, at CrowdStrike. Narendran has over 15 years of experience in driving product marketing and GTM strategies at cybersecurity startups and large enterprises such as HP and SolarWinds. Narendran was previously Director of Product Marketing at Preempt Security, which was acquired by CrowdStrike. Narendran holds a M.S. from University of Kiel, Germany, in Computer Science.

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Siva Balu

VP & CIO, YMCA of the USA

Siva Balu is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at YMCA OF THE USA. In this role, he is working to rethink the work of Y-USA’s information technology strategy to meet the changing needs of Y-USA and YMCAs throughout the country. YMCA of the USA is the national resource office for the nation's YMCAs. The Y is the leading nonprofit in 10,000 communities across the nation delivering positive change through 2,700 YMCAs focusing on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Siva is the creator of the new Y Cloud digital platform to deliver digital, virtual and mobile products to members across the nation. Y Cloud is the world's first digital platform built for non-profits by non-profit. As the CIO, Siva works with the key stakeholders across the nation’s YMCAs in achieving the strategic vision. He leads the creation and execution of the technology strategy through collaboration and thought leadership including digital transformation, data strategy, cloud strategy, information security, project management, mobile apps, social media, CRM, data warehouses & business intelligence, IT infrastructure & operations to support the YMCA movement. Prior to his current role, Siva has 20 years of healthcare technology experience in leadership roles for Blue Cross Blue Shield, the nation's largest health insurer, which provides healthcare to over 107 million members—1 in 3 Americans. He most recently led the Enterprise Information Technology team at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. He has created several highly scalable innovative solutions that cater to the needs of members and patients throughout the country in all communities. He provided leadership in creating innovative solutions and adopting new technologies for national and international users. Siva earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Bharathiar University in India, a master’s in business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and executive master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT in Innovation, Strategy and Artificial Intelligence.

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Ian Holmes

Global Lead, Enterprise Fraud Solutions, SAS Institute

Ian Holmes is a Global Lead for Enterprise Fraud Solutions with the SAS Fraud and Security Intelligence practice. Previously, Ian gained extensive banking industry leading experience through fraud strategy roles, with specific expertise in payments fraud and application fraud. His career developed from the ‘ground up’ to embrace a customer focussed approach alongside analytics and strategy. Ensuring the bank was best placed to prevent fraud attack Ian gained deep expertise of industry decisioning systems. Ultimately, Ian became Head of Fraud in a UK division of HSBC and was recognised globally by his contemporaries. Joining SAS in 2011, Ian’s global role is to provide fraud expertise to drive the product enhancement; pre-sales and business implementation of the banking fraud solution globally. Ian’s team are SME’s and solution experts whom support new and current customers to maximise fraud performance as well as presenting business case capability to potential clients. Ian’s fraud expertise is pivotal in retaining SAS’ recognition and reputation in the industry by customers and analysts; supporting marketing initiatives and strategic collaboration with key third party vendors.

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Todd Roberts

Partner, Consulting, Deloitte

Todd leads Deloitte’s National Payments Practice and co-leads Deloitte’s efforts in Digital Identity. He is responsible for managing a team of payments and identity professionals across a range of leading financial institutions, networks and payments service providers. Todd is a senior advisor to executive teams, Boards of Directors, investors and regulators.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Todd was the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Payments and Innovation at CIBC. Prior to CIBC, Todd led the Corporate Strategy Practice at Deloitte and the North American Financial Services sector at Monitor Company. Todd has served on the Boards of various payments companies and industry stakeholder groups.

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Yuri Rueda

Fraud Expert, SAS LATAM

Yuri Rueda Fraud Expert for SAS LATAM, is an expert in Fraud Prevention, Anti Money Laundering, Internal Control and Risks. He has more than 15 years of experience in the area of Fraud Prevention with checks, credit cards, debit cards, prepayment and electronic banking.

He has collaborated in financial institutions such as Citibank, Banamex, Scotiabank, as well as in organizations such as BNP PARIBAS PERSONAL FINANCE, SI VALE México, Broxel FINTECH, among others. As part of the SAS team, he works as a specialist in Fraud Prevention and Anti Money Laundering issues for the various institutions in the region.

Yuri is a graduate of the Bachelor of Administration from the Universidad Chapultepec, A.C.; He has a Master's degree in SMEs from the Universidad Chapultepec, A.C. and Certificate in Risk Control and Fraud Prevention from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).

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Nastassja van den Heever

CISO, FNB South Africa

Nastassja van den Heever is CISO, 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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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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Massimo Carlotti

Solutions Engineering Manager, Italy, CyberArk

A sales engineer for more than 15 years, Carlotti excelled in consultant, business developer, and presales roles. In 2007, he joined the RSA Sales Engineer team and primarily supported Channel partners in Italy on strong authentication, SIEM, and DLP practices. He then became a senior sales engineer at ARROW ECS (formerly Computerlinks) to strengthen presales activities and help maintain their value-added distributor leadership while deepening his expertise in other areas such as WAN Optimization (Riverbed), SIEM (ArcSight), IPS (TippingPoint), and more. After returning to the vendor world in 2017, he joined the CyberArk presales team as a sales engineer. He is currently the solution engineering manager for Italy.

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Khizar Sultan

Sr. Director of Solutions Strategy, CyberArk

Sultan is Sr. Director of Solutions Strategy with CyberArk. Previously, he led the Solution Engineering team at OneLogin. He is an expert at all things related to IDaaS/IAM and specializes in working with clients to understand their needs and tailor solutions to improve IT efficiency, reduce security risk and help provide enhanced user experience.

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Perry Carpenter

Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, KnowBe4

Perry Carpenter is the Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer at KnowBe4. He is the author of "Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors" and coauthor of "The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer." He previously led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research, in addition to covering IAM strategy, CISO program management mentoring, and technology service provider success strategies.

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Joanna Huisman

Senior Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, KnowBe4

Joanna Huisman is Senior Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research at KnowBe4. She is a marketing, training and communications professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic, internal and customer-facing engagements in the financial services/tech industries with added experience in sales, operations and organizational development. Huisman was previously senior research director at Gartner in the areas of security awareness, education, behavior management, culture, crisis communications, security and risk program management. Prior to that, she was senior director of global security communications, training and awareness for ADP.

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Chris Mckie

VP, Product Marketing Security and Networking Solutions

Having more than 15 years of cybersecurity experience, McKie leads the security solutions product marketing team at Datto and Kaseya. Prior to joining Datto, he managed global market strategy and product marketing for FireEye’s network security product portfolio. Additional experience includes having worked at Cisco, Fortinet, MetricStream, and WatchGuard. McKie has authored numerous articles regarding compliance, cybersecurity frameworks, email security, ransomware and lateral threat detection. He holds a JD in law.

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Marcus Ward

GM & Product Director, Datto Networking

Marcus Ward is the GM and Product Director for Datto Networking and brings over 16 years of product innovation and development to the team. With broad experience ranging from being a founding member of multiple IoT startups to consumer technology innovation at Nike and smart building systems at Steelcase, Marcus has held both Engineering and Product leadership roles in the development of connected devices, leveraging state of art wireless technologies, security, and turning big data into actionable insights. Marcus joined Datto in January of 2019 as part of Datto Labs exploring managed services of the future. He is now leading the Networking team in the fast paced and rapidly changing technology landscape of networking solutions for MSPs.

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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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