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Ron Arden

Executive Vice President, CTO, and COO, Fasoo

Ron Arden is the Executive Vice President, CTO and COO of Fasoo, Inc. where he is responsible for operations and successful deployment of products and services to Fasoo's customers. He has over 30 years of strategic planning, marketing, sales, business development, consulting and technical experience in the information technology and cybersecurity industries. Ron has held executive, management and technical positions at numerous organizations, including Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang Laboratories and IKON Office Solutions. Prior to working for Fasoo, he was the Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at eDocument Sciences, LLC where he focused on improving the way customers manage documents with document security, cloud and collaboration solutions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.

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Brad Gandee

Information Technology Professional

Brad is an Information Technology Professional with more than 20 years of experience in digital media security and protection technologies. He has expertise in business strategy, market research, market development, and product management. Brad led product management and sales for a leading document security firm. He also was the technical evangelist for ContentGuard, a leading ERM technology development company, where he was responsible for the company's strategy in the standards arena and the licensing program to the mobile telecom industry. Prior to ContentGuard, Brad was President of DeskGate Technologies, which offered proprietary technology for packaging, distribution, and tracking of digital content.

Brad has served on the Boards of Directors of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance and the MPEG Industry Forum, and has been a frequent speaker at digital media industry conferences. He has played a pivotal role in the development of XrML, eXtensible rights Management Markup Language, the baseline technology for the Rights Management Services platform available from Microsoft. Brad holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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Deborah Kish

Executive Vice President, Marketing & Research, Fasoo

Deborah is EVP of marketing and research at Fasoo. She is responsible for leading Fasoo's research, marketing and product strategies in the unstructured data security and privacy space. She brings more than 20 years of experience in research with her prior employer, Gartner where she worked in the technology and service provider security team, responsible for tracking data security technologies and advising thousands of end user and vendor clients. She also monitored privacy regulations and management tools such as consent management and anonymization. Prior to that, she successfully tracked switching and signaling and security in the carrier network infrastructure space for 15 years.

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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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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Chip Mason

Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom

Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.

Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

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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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Gidi Cohen

CEO and Founder, Skybox Security

Gidi Cohen co-founded Skybox in 2002 and has been instrumental in building awareness and adoption of Security Risk Management solutions in the marketplace. A noted expert on the business and technical implications of network security, risk management, and modeling and simulation technologies,i Cohen is a frequent speaker at security conferences. Prior to Skybox, Cohen was the CEO and co-founder of Vigil Technologies, Inc. bringing to market analytic solutions for Global 2000 companies. Cohen also served as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps, leading an elite software development unit developing information security solutions. Cohen holds Bachelors of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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Jon Atchison

Lead of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, CAPTRUST

Jon Atchison serves CAPTRUST as Lead of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, joining in February 2020. Prior to joining CAPTRUST, he worked at Welch Hornsby, Inc. for over 17 years in a variety of capacities, ranging from publication management to cyber security. He has a passion for process and information technology. He holds an undergraduate in Fine Arts from Auburn University Montgomery and holds an MBA from Troy University.

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Dov Goldman

Director of Risk and Compliance, Panorays

Goldman has years of experience in the third-party risk and compliance field, as well as a long history as a serial entrepreneur, software and network engineer. He focuses on the evolving best practices and industry standards in third-party management and regulatory compliance. Previously, Goldman was VP of innovation at Opus, director of product marketing at Navigant, and founder and CEO of Cognet Corp and Dynalog Technologies. He has spoken at industry events around the world and has been quoted in numerous industry press articles, as well as The Wall Street Journal, about information security and privacy.

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Ben Nahorney

Threat Intelligence Analyst, Cisco

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Rob Roj

Senior Solutions Architect, Shape Security

Rob Roj, Senior Solutions Architect at Shape Security, has over 20 years of early stage start up experience with over 7 years within the Cybersecurity and Identity space. He has been with Shape when there were only three customers and has consulted with F500 companies

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Sunil Chand

Canada Security Leader, CGI

Sunil Chand is a security management professional with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Grant Thornton LLP, he held the role of Director, Information Security Consulting Services for TELUS Security and Chief Information Security Officer for a number of other organizations. Furthermore, he has developed and executed go-to market strategies for Governance, Risk and Compliance and Threat and Vulnerability Assessment services, corporate information security strategies aligned to organizations' business goals, among other recognized accomplishments.

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Olivera Zatezalo

CSO, Huawei Canada

Olivera Zatezalo is the Chief Security Officer at Huawei Canada, and her responsibility is to ensure Huawei Canada's operations is compliant with Canadian cyber security laws and regulations. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, Zatezalo is best known for creating value through collaborative leadership style, agile execution, and for her global cyber security expertise. Up until joining Huawei Canada, she was responsible for cyber security governance, management and operations within an international communication provider operating in Canada, US, UK and France, and was a member of Canadian Security Telecommunication Advisory Committee.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Imran Ahmad is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a specialization in technology, cybersecurity and privacy law. As part of his cybersecurity practice, he works closely with clients to develop and implement practical strategies related to cyber threats and data breaches. He advises on legal risk assessments, compliance, due diligence and risk allocation advice, security, and data breach incident preparedness and response. In addition, Ahmad acts as "breach counsel" in the event of a cybersecurity incident, such as a data or privacy breach. He also provides representation in the event of an investigation, an enforcement action or a litigation. He is the author of Canada's first legal incident preparation and response handbook titled Cybersecurity in Canada: A Guide to Best Practices, Planning, and Management (LexisNexis, August 2017). He advises on licensing, outsourcing and service-provider arrangements, as well as on other commercial matters with respect to carrying on business over the internet, the cloud and the digital environment. In his privacy law practice, he advises clients on compliance with all Canadian federal and provincial privacy and data management laws. He has a particular focus on cross-border data transfer issues and enterprise-wide governance programs related to privacy and information governance

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Robin Gould-Soil

Former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer, HSBC

Robin Gould-Soil is the former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer for HSBC Canada. She is a recognized authority on privacy, conduct, data ethics, risk and compliance management with extensive experience consulting on policy and operational guidance to a wide variety of stakeholders group. While at HSBC she was responsible for leading HSBC's Conduct and Privacy function with a focus on delivering fair outcomes to customers without disrupting the integrity of financial markets. Prior to joining HSBC, Robin was the Director of Privacy and Access and Chief Privacy Officer at UHN, as well as the lead for the building Connecting GTA's Privacy and Security program for Ontario's Shared Electronic Health Record. Under her leadership, Connecting GTA received the Privacy Innovation Award presented by the international Association of Privacy Professionals. Gould-Soil also had the privilege to work for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada through a government Executive Interchange Program where she was responsible for opening of the first Toronto Office, leading the privacy investigations unit and being a key spokesperson.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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Yaz Alattia

Managing Director, Accenture Security Canada

Yaz Alattia leads Accenture Security's Canadian practice, overseeing the full spectrum of Accenture's end-to-end cybersecurity offerings, including cyber strategy and risk, cyber defense, digital identity, cloud security and managed security services. Yaz has nearly two decades of experience in building, assessing, transforming and executing enterprise security programs and solutions that balance protection with agility. Prior to joining Accenture, Yaz held various cyber security leadership positions including most recently as Chief Information Security Officer at Canada's largest payment provider. Prior to that, Yaz delivered cybersecurity and technology risk consulting services to security and technology teams in over 11 countries and across various industries. Based in Toronto, Yaz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University holds a number of security, technology and management certifications including CISSP, CCSP, PMP, CISM, CISA, SABSA SCF and ISO27001 LA.

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Chase Hinson

CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP, Consulting Manager, OneTrust

Chase Hinson (CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP) serves as a consultant for OneTrust GRC - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. He advises companies throughout their risk management implementations to establish processes to support operations and align with their enterprise objectives, including adopting industry best practices and adhering to requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG and more). Hinson works with clients to realize the extent of their risk exposure, helping clients to map their digital infrastructure, assess risks, combat threats, monitor ongoing performance, and document evidence throughout the risk lifecycle.

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