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John Downey

Vice President, Sales, Acronis SCS

John Downey is the Vice President of Sales for Acronis SCS. John has 15 years of experience selling enterprise information security and data protection software to the US Public Sector. He has deep expertise in mapping product capabilities to key US federal government policies, creating enterprise license agreements for systems integrators, and developing sales and channel strategies to maximize customer attainment and satisfaction. John received his bachelor degree from Towson University. He resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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Bill Serva

Vice President, IT

Bill Serva has been working in IT for over 20 years across several different industries including foodservice distribution, grocery, and not for profit companies. For the last 10 years, he has worked for Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona and is currently the Vice President of Information Technology. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Arizona and a MBA from the University of Phoenix.

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Gary Alterson

VP of Security Solutions, Rackspace

Gary Alterson is VP of Security Solutions at Rackspace. In this role he acts as GM for Rackspace’s security solutions focused on cloud customers. Previously, Gary led CX Product Management at Cisco Systems where he built programs for the implementation, adoption, use, support, and expansion of technology addressing cloud security and advanced threats. At Cisco and at Neohapsis, a nationally recognized cybersecurity boutique consultancy, Gary and his teams were instrumental in transforming enterprise and government security programs to effectively address shifting business models, emerging technologies, and the evolving threat environment. As a previous CISO and security architect, Gary has a history on the front lines of security, both protecting and responding to threats across multiple industries. Gary is often sought out to speak on secure digitization, cloud, and emerging technology security frameworks as well as enterprise security.

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Tony Lauro

Director of Security Strategy, Akamai

Tony Lauro is currently Director of Security Strategy for Akamai Technologies. He's been involved with Information Security since the late 90's when he worked for a large US based telecom provider. Since then, Tony has worked with Akamai’s top global clients to provide cyber security guidance, architectural analysis, web application and network security expertise. With over 20 years of Information Security operations experience Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications. He is currently responsible for Akamai’s North / Central / South American clients advising in the areas of adversarial resiliency, security architecture, and cyber security strategy. Tony’s previous responsibilities include consulting with public sector/government clients at Akamai, managing security operations and pen testing for a mobile payments company, and overseeing security and compliance responsibilities for a global financial software services organization.

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Hunter Hogan

Digital Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Hunter Hogan is a Digital Technical Specialist at Microsoft, with responsibilities covering modern work solutions including Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows 10/11. In his day-to-day role, he routinely helps solve customer challenges by removing technical blockers through presentations and product demonstrations. The Defender suite of products has quickly become his favorite topic of discussion due to the way it is revolutionizing the modern security landscape.

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Arun Singh

Vice President, Product Marketing, Abnormal Security

Arun Singh is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Abnormal Security. Prior to joining Abnormal, Arun held leadership roles in product marketing, product management, and engineering at notable companies including Okta, Cloudflare, Salesforce, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. He has more than 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with an in-depth understanding of network security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and identity and access management.

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Shawn Kok

Solution Engineer, APAC, TeleSign

With over 10 years of combined experience in digital Identity, solution architecture, and fraud prevention. Shawn is currently the Solution Engineer (APAC) in Telesign.

Past experience includes digital identity and fraud prevention pre-sales at LexisNexis Emailage, fraud data analytic & leading payment solutions implementation at Apple.

He is passionate about risk assessment, protecting, and preventing online fraud through digital identity. He is currently based out of Singapore.

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Abhijit Kulkarni

Vice President APAC, TeleSign

A Business Strategist with 19 + years of experience in Communications, SaaS and BFSI sector. Abhijit currently heads up the Asia Pacific operations at TeleSign - a market leader in Digital Identity and Programable communications. Prior to TeleSign, he has been in Leadership roles at Vodafone, BICS, Idea Cellular and Tata Communications.

He strongly believes that offering an enriched customer experience and adopting an effective fraud management strategy are equally important for a business to be successful in the Digital economy.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Ryan Patrick

VP, Adoption, HITRUST

Ryan Patrick brings over 20 years’ experience in security and information technology. Prior to joining HITRUST, Ryan served as the Senior Vice President of Security for Intraprise Health. Working within organizations like MetLife and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a security analyst, Ryan has gained a wealth of experience conducting risk assessments against HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 and PCI-DSS. He is a retired Colonel in the United States Army, holds a CISSP, a Masters of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and an MBA from Norwich University.

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Jon Hencinski

Director of Global Operations, Expel

Jon Hencinski is the Director of Global Operations at Expel. In this role, he's responsible for the day-to-day operations of Expel's security operations center (SOC) and detection and response engineering. He oversees how Expel recruits, trains, and develops security analysts. Jon has over a decade of experience in the areas of SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response. Prior to Expel, Jon worked at Mandiant, BAE Systems, and was an adjunct professor at The George Washington University.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Ryan Patrick

VP, Adoption, HITRUST

Ryan Patrick brings over 20 years’ experience in security and information technology. Prior to joining HITRUST, Ryan served as the Senior Vice President of Security for Intraprise Health. Working within organizations like MetLife and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a security analyst, Ryan has gained a wealth of experience conducting risk assessments against HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 and PCI-DSS. He is a retired Colonel in the United States Army, holds a CISSP, a Masters of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and an MBA from Norwich University.

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Felipe Cerqueira

Global Head of Operations, Rappi

Felipe Cerqueira is responsible for fleet quality in Rappi, a Latin American super app present in 9 countries and over 30 million customers. Felipe is passionate about data driven decisions that transform business. A big part of his job is paving the way for couriers to be successful in the platform and ensuring security for them as well as users and partners.

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André Ferraz

CEO & Founder, Incognia

André Ferraz is the CEO and co-founder of Incognia, a location identity company based in Palo Alto, California, that provides mobile authentication to banks, fintech and mCommerce. André is an expert on location technology and a strong advocate for user privacy. To this date, the location technology developed by André and his co-founders has been deployed on more than 200M smartphones.

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Felipe Cerqueira

Global Head of Operations, Rappi

Felipe Cerqueira is responsible for fleet quality in Rappi, a Latin American super app present in 9 countries and over 30 million customers. Felipe is passionate about data driven decisions that transform business. A big part of his job is paving the way for couriers to be successful in the platform and ensuring security for them as well as users and partners.

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André Ferraz

CEO & Founder, Incognia

André Ferraz is the CEO and co-founder of Incognia, a location identity company based in Palo Alto, California, that provides mobile authentication to banks, fintech and mCommerce. André is an expert on location technology and a strong advocate for user privacy. To this date, the location technology developed by André and his co-founders has been deployed on more than 200M smartphones.

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Ayelet Avni

Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead, IBM Trusteer

Ayelet Avni, current serves as a Senior Market and Offering Strategy Lead for IBM Trusteer. In her role as an Offering Strategy Lead at IBM, she works with customers to build and drive Trusteer portfolio, an industry leading solution for cybercrime and identity protection. Prior to joining IBM, Avni held various management roles at leading companies including RSA, and Military security. She has over 20 years of experience developing successful security offerings, supported by a broad range of experience in design thinking, product strategy, engineering and product development.

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Will LaSala

Sr. Director Global Security Solutions, OneSpan

Will LaSala is Sr. Director of Global Security Solutions at OneSpan and he brings over 25 years of software and cybersecurity experience. Since joining OneSpan, LaSala has been involved in all aspects of product implementation and market direction within financial institutions as well as top Fortune 500 organizations for enterprise security, healthcare, U.S. government, online gaming and mobile application development. He currently empowers the markets and OneSpan's largest clients with direct communication of new products and features and security changes. A security evangelist on mobile application development and authentication, LaSala is frequently quoted in the media and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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David Vergara

Sr. Director Product Marketing, OneSpan

Vergara is Sr. Director of Security Product Marketing at OneSpan (Formerly VASCO Data Security) and has more than 11 years of experience in the software security space. Prior to OneSpan, he was VP Marketing for Accertify (An American Express Company) leading go-to-market strategy for their online fraud detection solution and he was Sr. Director Product Marketing at IBM with Product Marketing responsibility for the advanced and predictive analytics portfolio.

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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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Nicolas Bédard

Google Cloud Customer Engineer, Google

Nicolas Bédard is a Google Cloud Customer engineer, specializing in Cybersecurity. Working in IT for the last 20 years, Nicolas holds industry certifications like Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA), Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, Forrester Zero-Trust Strategist and is based in Montréal, Canada. Also teaching cybersecurity classes as a part-time lecturer at McGill University, Nicolas likes to help everyone understand how technology works, regardless of their professional backgrounds or experience. Before joining Google Cloud, Nicolas worked for the primary Palo Alto Networks partners of Canada, where he was the first to receive the Cyberforce Hero status in the Country, an award only their best partner sales engineer are receiving. Nicolas is also a charcoal grill addict and a half-marathon runner, unsuccessfully trying to balance these two contradictory activities for so many years!

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Matt McLimans

Field CTO North America, Google Cloud - Palo Alto Networks

Matt McLimans is a subject matter expert in securing Google Cloud networks with Palo Alto Networks technologies. Today, Matt serves as Field CTO within the strategic Cloud Partnerships team at Palo Alto Networks. He works closely with the Google Cloud alliance team to integrate and expand Palo Alto Networks products and services into the networking and security offerings within Google Cloud. Matt has experience in developing action plans to assist organizations in their journey to adopt Google Cloud to accelerate their business initiatives. In his spare time, Matt enjoys relaxing with his family and following Formula 1.

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Jeff Orloff

Tech Evangelist & VP of Products, RangeForce

Jeff Orloff is the Tech Evangelist and VP of Products at RangeForce. He has more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, system administration, and computer and network security.

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Christopher Hines

VP, Product Marketing, Axis Security

As VP of product marketing at Axis Security, Hines is responsible for the go to market strategy for the company's cloud-based zero trust application access platform. He works with customers to help guide them on their path to securing a modern workplace with zero trust. Prior to Axis, he spent four years at Zscaler working as Director of Product Marketing for Zscaler's zero trust solution, Zscaler Private Access. Hines has previously worked at Unicorn container company Docker, CASB company Bitglass, and Data Storage company EM Corporation (now Dell).

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