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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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Husnain Bajwa

Head of Product Strategy, Beyond Identity

Husnain Bajwa serves as Head of Product Strategy for Beyond Identity. He has over 25 years of experience in large-scale networks, infrastructure platforms, and cybersecurity including supply chain and third party risk management. Previously, Husnain held technology leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba Networks, Ericsson, and BelAir Networks.

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Jasson Casey, PhD.

Chief Technology Officer, Beyond Identity

Jasson has served as CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of Engineering at IronNet Cybersecurity, Founder and Executive Director of Flowgrammable as well as Compiled Networks, VP of VoIP Product Development at CenturyTel, among other technical and executive roles. Jasson received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Texas A&M University.

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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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Patrick McBride

Chief Marketing Officer, Beyond Identity

Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and Senior Vice President at META Group. Patrick received a bachelor's degree in management from Keene State College in New Hampshire.

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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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Gasan Awad

Vice President, Fraud and Identity Management, Experian

Gasan Awad is the Vice President of Fraud and Identity Product Management. Gasan brings over 25 years of fraud, identity, and financial crimes industry experience to Experian, where he is responsible for the development and execution of product strategy for the fraud and identity portfolio. His team’s primary focus is to help clients succeed in mitigating their fraud exposure and enhancing the customer experience in a rapidly changing market ecosystem.

Before joining Experian, he led the Fraud and Financial Crimes Product Management team at Fiserv and the Global Identity and Fraud Product Management team at Equifax. In addition, he led Operations and Strategy Fraud and Chargebacks teams at Prudential Bank, CompuCredit, and Revolution Money, an American Express company.

Gasan holds a BA degree in International Business from the University of Georgia, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

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Kathleen Peters

Chief Innovation Officer, NA Decision Analytics, Experian

Kathleen Peters leads innovation and business strategy for Decision Analytics in North America in her current role as Chief Innovation Officer.

Kathleen Peters and her team are continuously looking for new ways to define product strategies, road maps and priorities for Experian’s identity and fraud portfolio, analyzing industry trends and the latest technologies to bring innovative solutions to our clients.

Kathleen joined Experian in 2013 to lead business development and international growth channels for the recently acquired 41st Parameter business in San Jose, California. She went on to lead product management for Experian’s fraud and identity group within the global Decision Analytics organization, launching Experian’s CrossCore® platform in 2016, a groundbreaking and award-winning offering for the fraud and identity market. The last two years, Kathleen has been named a “Top 100 Influencer in Identity” by One World Identity (OWI), an exclusive list that annually recognizes influencers and leaders from across the globe, showcasing a who’s who of people to know in the identity space.

For over 20 years, she has lived and worked in the heart of Silicon Valley in California, working for a variety of companies, including early-stage technology startups. Living in this epicenter of fast-paced innovation, leading-edge technology and business model disruption influences Kathleen’s own approach to strategy and business thinking day to day at Experian.

She has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree, both in electrical engineering.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Matthias Maier

EMEA Product Marketing Director, Security, Splunk

Matthias Maier is Product Marketing Director at Splunk, as well as a technical evangelist in EMEA, responsible for communicating Splunk's go-to market strategy in the region. He works closely with customers to help them understand how machine data reveals new insights across application delivery, business analytics, IT operations, Internet of Things, and security and compliance. He holds the certification of the Certified Ethical Hacker, the CISSP as well as the Certified Information Security Manager.

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Marc Creviere

Technical Product Manager, Rubrik

Marc is a Technical Product Manager for Rubrik, specializing in hypervisors and managed service provider use cases. He is the local leader for the Western Michigan VMware Users Group, a VMware vExpert, and also part of the vExpert Cloud Provider subprogram. Marc joined Rubrik with 12 years of service provider operational experience and multiple VMware certifications. He enjoys spending time exploring area hot spots with his family, playing ice hockey, and video games.

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Jess Pagonis

Senior Product Marketing Manager, LastPass

As a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at LastPass, Jess’s role is to make sure that our customers have the best and most relevant information regarding our products so you can take advantage of the product to its fullest extent.

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Mo Cashman

Principal Engineer and Director, Advanced Technology Specialists, Trellix

Cashman has over 15 years' experience designing, implementing and managing cyber security solutions for large government and enterprise customers globally. In his current role, he leads a team of experienced security architects and technology specialists across Cloud, Endpoint, Data Protection, Sec Ops and Threat Intelligence solutions. Additionally, Cashman was the Chief Security Officer for the Global Public Sector team at McAfee and lead the Computer Security Incident Response Team for the US Defense Department in Europe. Previously at Intel, he advised large customers in Government, Finance and Critical Infrastructure on security transformation and business resilience.

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Sean Morton

VP Strategy, Trellix

Morton is responsible for corporate strategy at Trellix, where he runs tactical and transformational programs across all aspects of the business. He does this by bringing a unique perspective that encompasses technology, strategy, and design, and is a champion for creating incredible experiences for customers, partners, and employees. He joined Trellix from FireEye/Mandiant and has held several leadership positions spanning Engineering, UX, Product, Partnerships, and Marketing.

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Brian Reed

Chief Mobility Officer, NowSecure

Brian Reed brings decades of experience in mobile, apps, security, dev and operations helping Fortune 2000 global customers and mobile DevSecOps trailblazers while growing NowSecure, Good Technology, BlackBerry, ZeroFOX, BoxTone, MicroFocus and INTERSOLV. With more than 25 years building innovative products and transforming business processes, Brian is a dynamic speaker and compelling storyteller who brings unique insights and global experience. Brian is a graduate of Duke University.

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Jason Rowland

Vice President | Penetration Testing & Cloud Services, Coalfire

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Brian Reed

Chief Mobility Officer, NowSecure

Brian Reed brings decades of experience in mobile, apps, security, dev and operations helping Fortune 2000 global customers and mobile DevSecOps trailblazers while growing NowSecure, Good Technology, BlackBerry, ZeroFOX, BoxTone, MicroFocus and INTERSOLV. With more than 25 years building innovative products and transforming business processes, Brian is a dynamic speaker and compelling storyteller who brings unique insights and global experience. Brian is a graduate of Duke University.

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Jason Rowland

Vice President | Penetration Testing & Cloud Services, Coalfire

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Diane Garey

Sr. TLS Strategist, Venafi

Diane Garey is on the product marketing team at Venafi, responsible for the TLS Protect product that enables customers to manage and protect TLS machine identities. Previous to Venafi, she’s worked with a number of security products, including being responsible for product marketing for the popular Nessus vulnerability scanner at Tenable. Diane is originally from Canada but now calls Houston, Texas home.

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Brian Reed

Director, Cybersecurity Strategist, Proofpoint

Brian Reed comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics - cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness.

Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP.

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Joseph Brunsman

Founder, Brunsman Advisory Group

Joseph joined the cyber and professionally liability realm in 2015 after serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, working as an Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Officer responsible for a billion dollars of equipment and 280+ military personnel. Prior to that he served tours as a Combat Information Center Officer and an Electronic Warfare Officer. During his enlisted time he was an Information Systems Technician dealing with Unix database management and network security. Joseph is a 2003 graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and a 2010 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering with a focus on robotics system interoperability. He is the resident expert in cyber law, insurance and compliance—writing 2 consecutive books on the subject. He enjoys Jiu Jitsu, powerlifting, business theory, and biohacking.

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James Slaby

Director of Cyber Protection, Acronis

James R. Slaby is the Director of Cyber Protection at Acronis, where he evangelizes cybersecurity and data protection solutions for business. Previously, Slaby was an industry analyst covering cybersecurity, cloud computing and networking at Forrester Research, HFS Research, Yankee Group and The Info Pro. With over 300 published tech research reports, he has been quoted in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and countless tech publications. Slaby has also held solutions, vertical, product and campaign marketing roles at tech security and networking vendors including Sonus, Acme Packet, Bay Networks and Motorola.

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Dave Sobel

Host, The Business of Tech Podcast

Dave is the host of the Business of Tech podcast, and owner of MSP Radio. The Business of Tech” is a leading IT services focused news and analysis podcast and YouTube show, with thousands of listeners and subscribers. He also co-hosts of the podcast “Killing IT,” and authored the book Virtualization: Defined. He was a CRN Channel Chief, on the CRN UK A-List, a Channel Futures Circle of Excellence winner, and one of Channel Pro’s 20/20 Visionaries. Dave has been recognized as one of the top virtualization experts globally as a Microsoft MVP for Virtualization. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and two cats. His interests include travel and food, cheering the Washington Nationals and Capitals, smoking barbeque, enjoying craft beers, and collecting and playing retro and modern video games among others.

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Richard Stiennon

Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest

Richard Stiennon is an industry analyst and adviser to many security companies from startups to the very largest. He has been writing and speaking about cyber security since 1995. Richard has 26 years experience in the industry, from pioneering MSSP Netrex (now part of IBM), to Gartner to Fortinet. He is the author of seven books, and publisher of Security Yearbook 2021. He has presented in 31 countries on six continents. Stiennon has a BS in aerospace engineering and an MA in War in the Modern World, from King’s College, London.

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