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Dr. Christopher Pierson

Founder & CEO, BLACKCLOAK

Dr. Chris Pierson is the Founder & CEO of BlackCloak - a concierge cybersecurity protection suite for high-net-worth individuals and top C-Suite executives. BlackCloak protects its customers from financial loss, cybercrime, hacking, reputational damage, privacy exposure, and identity theft. Dr. Pierson serves on the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee, DHS Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. Chris has been on the front lines of cybersecurity and fighting cybercrime and has over 20 years - with DHS, President of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Arizona Infragard, and in various other roles as a Chief Information Security Officer for financial companies. Chris was a founding executive of Viewpost, a FinTech payments company, serving as their CISO and General Counsel and was also the first Chief Privacy Officer, SVP for the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) U.S. operations leading its privacy and data protection program. Chris was also a corporate attorney for Lewis and Roca where he established its CyberSecurity Practice representing companies who were hacked and fell victim to data breaches. Chris is a globally recognized keynote speaker & cybersecurity thought leader, board advisor for startups, and is frequently quoted by the media on cybersecurity & privacy.

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Joseph Carson

Chief Security Scientist, Thycotic

Joseph Carson has more than 25 years' experience in enterprise security; He has authored Privileged Account Management for Dummies and Cybersecurity for Dummies, is a cyber security professional and an ethical hacker. Carson is a cyber security advisor to several governments as well as critical infrastructure, financial and transportation companies. Carson is a seasoned speaker and has presented at conferences globally.

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Paul Williams

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Paul Williams is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta. Paul has honed his security expertise over 20+ years with engineering and architecture roles at Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, F5, and SkyHigh/McAfee. When he's not knee deep in security discussions, you might find Paul tinkering with old cars and boats.

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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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Ian Howells

CMO, Argyle Data

Howells is a passionate technologist and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experience building successful technology companies through IPO and acquisition. Prior to joining Argyle Data, Howells has held senior marketing roles at Documentum from its early days through to IPO, SeeBeyond through its IPO and acquisition by Sun, Alfresco from a startup to the largest private open source company in the world, StorSimple, acquired by Microsoft, and Couchbase through a period of 400% growth. Howells has a Ph.D. in distributed databases and has published a number of papers and contributed to books on related topics.

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Scott Kern

Vice President, Customer & Technical Solutions HID Global, Identity and Access Management Solutions

Scott has over twenty years of experience implementing PKI-enabled solutions that provide identity and authentication capabilities to meet a wide variety of compliance-driven initiatives. He has worked closely with Fortune 100 and other companies and industry partners to gain the benefits of managed PKI as a Service by reducing complexity and cost while improving security and performance).

Prior to his current role with HID Global, Scott was Vice President of Solutions with HydrantID, a managed PKI service provider which was acquired by HID in 2019. His role included the design and launch of secure vault-based Offline Root Key Generation services which are used by industry leaders in multiple verticals, and the Dedicated Issuing CA product that is a widely used Microsoft CA replacement service.

Scott previously held the position of Lead Architect for Identity at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he led the design and development of the Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) Gateway cloud service. The service platform is used by CVS, Express Scripts and other major pharmacies to sign and validate millions of PKI-based transactions daily. Prior joining Verizon, Scott held similar positions at SAIC, Arcot Systems, BeTrusted and Digital Signature Trust (purchased by IdenTrust in 2002).

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Joanna Schoneveld

Senior Manager, Fraud Programs, Interac Association/Acxsys Corp.

Schoneveld is responsible for the day-to-day operational management of fraud programs and services at Interac, where she has been analyzing fraud trends and leading the development and delivery of fraud programs for more than 11 years. Before joining Interac, Schoneveld worked at CIBC and Sears Canada Bank, where she analyzed and investigated fraud. Her focus at Interac is to empower consumers and businesses to make informed risk decisions by offering innovative and flexible fraud solutions.

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Claire Hatcher

Global Head of Fraud Prevention, Kaspersky

Claire Hatcher currently serves as Global Lead for Kaspersky's Fraud Prevention division. Prior to joining Kaspersky, she worked at RSA (part of Dell Technologies) for 6 years, where she had a number of roles within their fraud and risk intelligence business unit, including leading their business operations and sales strategy functions. Hatcher has worked in cybersecurity for over 15 years, specialising in fraud prevention for the past decade. Throughout her career in fraud prevention she has developed many relationships within the financial services sector, as well as with online retailers and other industries both within Europe and worldwide. This cross vertical and cross geographical experience provides a deep understanding of how fraud threats and trends emerge, develop and evolve.

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Allan Stojanovic

Security Architect and Analyst, University of Toronto

Allan Stojanovic has survived IT for over 20 years. He has worked in nearly every vertical doing may different roles, mostly in the Information Security field. A jack of all trades, he tries to know a little bit about everything, and is a self-proclaimed expert at nothing. The University of Toronto has been kind enough to employ him for the past 6 years.

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Antonio Moreno

Global Business Director, Security and Biometrics, Nuance

Antonio Moreno currently serves as the Global Director for Product Strategy and Go to Market within the Biometrics and Security Group at Nuance. As part of its role, he is in charge of leading the Strategy and Roadmap planning of the Nuance's Security Product Portfolio. Prior to that, Moreno spent 12 years as part of the Agnitio Team, ending his tenure there as Senior Vice President of Product Management. He is also a well-known expert on Forensic Speaker Recognition, having participated in many workshops and conferences all over the world. Prior to this, Moreno worked in Telefónica I+D, the R&D division of Telefónica.

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Everett Stern

CEO & Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

Everett Stern currently serves as CEO and Intelligence Director of Tactical Rabbit, a private intelligence agency that provides clients with actionable business intelligence. He made international headlines as a government whistle-blower who helped uncover one of the largest banking scandals of all time. When Stern joined HSBC Bank in 2012, he discovered that the bank was facilitating the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars by terrorist organizations and major drug dealers, in clear violation of U.S. law. Stern quit HSBC and filed a whistle-blower claim with the SEC. In late 2012, in part as a result of Stern's efforts, HSBC agreed to pay a record $1.9 billion in fines to U.S. authorities. Stern later founded Rabbit Capital Management, a hedge fund, dedicated to uncovering fraud and money laundering activity that feeds the financial needs of terrorist organizations and drug cartels. He has been featured in dozens of news articles and broadcasts, and appeared in a Netflix documentary, "Dirty Money," on Wall Street and corporate greed.

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Laz Macias

Field Solutions Engineer, Cequence Security

Macias has over 15 years of experience developing and executing plans to effectively leverage Information Technology and Cloud Services to redefine Security Programs. Laz has worked for some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Netskope, VMware, and Airwatch, among others. His focus has been Enterprise Application Security, SSO, Mobile and Cloud Security. Laz holds a Masters Degree in Information Security with several industry leading security certifications.

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Simon Marchand

Chief Fraud Prevention Officer, Security & Biometrics Division, Nuance Communications

Simon Marchand is the Chief Fraud Prevention Officer of the Security and Biometrics business unit within Nuance Communications' Enterprise division. He has extensive expertise in fraud prevention, detection, security and authentication in both the banking and telecom industries. Prior to Nuance, Marchand held key fraud prevention positions at Montreal-based Laurentian Bank, Bell, and most recently Québec's Order of Chartered Administrators, where he managed its professional inspection program. Marchand works closely with Nuance clients to design biometric-based authentication and fraud prevention strategies that disrupt criminals while reducing effort and friction for legitimate customers.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud and data security. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees. Formerly, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was SVP and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank.

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