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Jason Georgi

Global Field CTO, Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks

Jason is the Global Field Chief Technology Officer for Prisma SASE at Palo Alto Networks. He is an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation initiatives across global organizations. Jason collaborates with CIOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders on strategies aimed at enabling business outcomes.

His recent previous experience includes being the global head of Zscaler’s business consulting practice, and eight years at GE where his organization was responsible for enabling GE’s cloud journey through network and network security transformation.

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Danielle Syvertsen

Cloud Security Sales Leader, IBM Cloud & Cognitive , Americas

Danielle Syvertsen has over 15 years of sales and business development experience in a variety of diverse industries. Danielle began her career in the technology field, serving as a Managing Consultant for IBM’s Strategy & Change consulting practice. She led numerous strategic client projects as well as driving internal transformational initiatives across IBM.

Midway through her tenure, Danielle transitioned to the IBM Security practice where she built, and now leads the development, and growth of the cloud security practice via strategic Ecosystem partnerships and the Hyperscalers (MSFT Azure, AWS). She also works very closely with our R&D, Solution Labs, and Product Management Teams to design and develop industry-specific use cases and solutions (i.e. 5G and Edge security).

Danielle also speaks and presents on many different topics including cybersecurity, sales and marketing. She thrives on helping Clients secure and protect their organization while helping them accelerate their journey to Cloud.

Syvertsen holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Fordham Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in biology/sociology with a pre-med concentration from Columbia University.

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Darrell Johnston

Internationally experienced Cyber Security sales professional with a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex sales cycles, open and capitalise on new markets and significantly enhance existing revenue streams. I have a consistent history of exceeding individual quota as well as leading teams to exceed quota attainment. Expertise forging and fostering strong working relationships with clients, sales teams, product management, and strategic partners are amongst some of the key skills which drive me to continued success and proven results.

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Ivar Kangur

Director, Intelligence / Business Solutions

Ivar is a career security professional, with over two decades of information management and security experience across public and private sectors. As Silobreaker’s Director of Intelligence/Business Solutions, Ivar is able to apply his threat intelligence and cyber security expertise to ‘see the bigger picture’ and deliver solutions that protect organisations’ critical data and assets, while minimising business risk. His previous roles include Threat Intelligence EMEA Lead at the London Stock Exchange Group and CISO of Statistics Estonia, part of the Estonian Ministry of Finance.

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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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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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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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Jacob Salassi

Director of Product Security, Snowflake

Jacob Salassi is Director of Product Security at Snowflake. Jacob led Snowflake's pre- & post IPO transformation from a bottlenecked, security engineer centric process that slowed teams down to a developer owned security process that ships features faster and more securely. Today his teams handle security architecture, software security assurance, software engineering, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability research for the Snowflake product. Jacob is an active member of the application security and threat modeling communities, and his team is known for their industry leading approach to modeling threats.

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Omer Singer

Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake

Omer Singer is Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Omer led Snowflake's innovative, data-driven security engineering program before taking responsibility for the company's cybersecurity business and ecosystem. Prior to Snowflake, Omer was Vice President of Security Operations at a global security services provider and served as a cyber intelligence officer. Omer is an active member of the Information Security Leadership Foundation (ISLF) and has spoken at Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) events on topics such as security metrics and cloud-native threat detection and response.

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Peter Craig

Director, Product Marketing, Cybersecurity, Human Security

Peter is Director of Product Marketing – Cybersecurity at Human. He has worked in cyber security for more than 20 years mainly in product marketing but also in sales engineering and enablement. Peter enjoys helping organizations find the right security product for their business.

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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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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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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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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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