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Pete Chestna

CISO, Checkmarx North America

Pete Chestna serves as the CISO of North America at Checkmarx, where he provides customers and prospects with practical advice for building successful application security programs. Bringing more than 15 years of direct AppSec practitioner experience, Pete has held roles ranging from developer and development leader to his most recent position as the Global Head of AppSec for the Bank of Montreal.

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Eitan Worcel

Co-founder and CEO, Mobb

Eitan Worcel is the co-founder and CEO of Mobb, the recent Black Hat StartUp Spotlight winner. He is an application security expert with more than 15 years of experience as a developer, product management leader, and now business leader. Throughout his career, Eitan has worked with numerous companies to help them detect security issues and is now on a mission to help make those findings actionable with trusted automated vulnerability remediation. In the past, in his spare time, Eitan used to be a long-distance runner and participated in a few marathons, including the Red Rock Canyon Marathon, and even did an ultra marathon. Now, since starting Mobb, he simply doesn't have spare time...

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Omer Yoachimik

Senior Product Manager, Cloudflare

Omer Yoachimik has over 13 years of experience in Cyber Security from enterprise, start-up, and military backgrounds. He started his career in the Israeli Military Intelligence reaching Lieutenant rank and focusing on tactical cybertech for special forces. Omer is based out of London, where he has been leading Cloudflare’s industry-leading DDoS protection service for almost 4 years.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Scott McAvoy

Cloud Security Competency Lead, IBM

An information security professional with over 20 years of experience leading teams in technical environments, across highly regulated industries and delivering complex solutions. Historically I have designed, built and supported integrated security solutions on-premise or in data centres and have transformed this experience and my skills to apply to the Cloud. I have a broad understanding across all security domains and specialise in applying this agnostically to Public Cloud and DevOps environments. Having supported production workloads for UK Government on AWS from 2010 onwards I have seen the public cloud emerge and mature. Initially I supported clients to understand the cloud landscape technically and influence decision makers and accreditors to gain approval to transform and modernise workloads, whilst maintaining necessarily high levels of security. Now my team and I design and delivery solutions across all Cloud Service Providers and industries with a recent focus on enterprise level Financial Services.

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David Monnier

Fellow, Team Cymru

David has been with Team Cymru since 2007. Prior, he served in the US Marine Corps as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He then worked at Indiana University where he helped to build some of the most powerful computational systems of their day. He transitioned to cybersecurity and helped launch the Research and Education Networking ISAC. At Team Cymru, he has been an engineering leader a Community Services team member, and a security analyst. David led efforts to secure the firm’s intelligence infrastructure and established processes the firm relies on today. Currently, David assists CSIRT teams worldwide and fosters data sharing partnerships.

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Joshua Picolet

Head of S2 Threat Analyst Unit, Team Cymru

Joshua Picolet joined Team Cymru as Director of the S2 Threat Analysis team. Over his 17+ year career in the Cybersecurity field, he served in the United States Air Force, supported US Government contracts, and led teams performing Red Teams, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence services. He brings a deep understanding of offensive techniques and defensive countermeasures to help Team Cymru track and report on the most complex investigations.

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Andrew McGuigan

Security Engineer Manager, Global Accounts, Check Point Software Technologies

Andrew McGuigan is the Security Engineering Manager for Global & Strategic Accounts at Check Point Software Technologies. He leads a team of security experts, supporting large global organisations across multiple sectors, including finance, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Andrew joined Check Point in 2004, and has more than 20 years’ experience working in Cyber Security.

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Nic Miller

Virtual CISO, Aedile Consulting

Miller is the owner and director of Aedile Consulting, a U.K.-based company specializing in cybersecurity. Previously, he was CISO for Brevan Howard, a global hedge fund, and security operations lead for IG, a financial services firm that provides a derivatives trading platform. He began his career at the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, working on cybersecurity, counter-terrorism and other issues.

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Becky Pinkard

Head of Global Cyber Defence, Vodafone & former CISO, Aldermore Bank

Mentioned on the '100 Global CISOs for 2020' list and awarded 'CISO of the Year, 2020' by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky is experienced with business case preparation and execution through to funding and implementation. She has excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to distil highly technical concepts for an executive audience. Becky has strong vendor management and relationship-building capabilities. Her background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security and data monitoring, vulnerability and risk assessment, web application security and policy development.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and is a co-founder of the 'We Empower Diversity in Start-ups' (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosts a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on current cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

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Simon Jackson

Director Systems Engineering, A10 Networks Inc

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Stuti Deshpande

Partner Solution Architect, AWS

I come from a Computer Science background, specializing in Data Science and currently working as Associate Solutions Architect in New York. Interacting with customers to discuss their business problems, designing and implementing the industry-focused cloud solutions has given me an in-depth knowledge about the business use cases, cloud architecture and implementations and how solutions can be tailored to resolve the customer's real-world business problems.

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Omer Ganot

Product Manager, Algosec

Omer Ganot is the Cloud Security Product Manager for Algosec, experienced with multiple cloud and security device vendors. Omer has an extensive experience in product management as well as software engineering and managing engineering teams. Outside of AlgoSec, Omer enjoys traveling and playing board games with his family, reading and enjoying music.

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Bobby Ford

CSO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise & former Global CISO, Unilever

Prior to joining Unilever, Ford was the CISO for Abbott Labs, a global life sciences organization. With a diverse background in cybersecurity, he has spent the bulk of his career in the aerospace and defense industry. As a soldier in the U.S. Army, he was one of the charter information security analysts for the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team.

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Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, KnowBe4

Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and an award-winning author of 13 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines from 2005-2019.

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Mitch Rosen

Principal Solutions Engineer, Keeper Security

Rosen, a Principal Solutions Engineer at Keeper Security, Inc., has over 30 years of information technology experience that spans startups to Fortune 500 companies, to federal government agencies. A veteran of the United States Navy, Mitch has worked in IT support, devOps, technical training, and solutions engineering. He has focused the last six years helping thousands of organisations better understand and reduce the risks associated with privileged accounts and password.

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Matt Johnson

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Transunion

Matt Johnson is a seasoned product marketing professional experienced in directing and executing product marketing strategy, go-to-market, sales enablement and creating messaging that clearly communicates differentiated value. Matt currently works as the advisor for fraud product marketing at TransUnion.

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Jasbir Singh Solanki

CEO-Homeland and Cybersecurity, Mahindra Defense Systems Ltd.

Solanki is the chief executive officer - homeland and cybersecurity - at Mahindra Defence System. He is an armed forces veteran with experience in business development, concept creation, sales and project management team development in defense, homeland security, and smart cities industry.

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Dr Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing Director, PwC; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing/Director at PwC, LEGC, & KPMG; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook is a recognized author, trainer and expert witness in cybercrime investigations, working with ForgePoint Capital and consulting to Fortune 500 clients across the US, UK and Japan.

Dr. Shook brings more than 30 years of experience in IT/risk management and cybersecurity investigations, including serving in Cryptology with the USAF, and in leadership roles at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He sits on the boards of several companies and is often called to testify on US state and federal administrative matters, and in criminal, class action, and IRS, SEC, EPA, and ITC cases.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to over a dozen patents and in conferences for technical standards definitions on security, communications, and operations continuity. He is a frequent presence in financial industry summits and periodicals concerning computer disaster recovery and application security practices. Dr. Shook holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Phd. in Organization and Management, Communications Technology from Capella University. https://forgepointcap.com/team/shane-shook/

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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