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Brett Foy

Staff Solution Architect, VMware

A member of VMware's Cloud Incubation team, Brett focuses on helping customers, partners, VMware field and others with enablement for new VMware Cloud technologies. Brett came to VMware in July 2020 as part of the Datrium acquisition and has been largely focused on both VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Cloud Flex Storage, both solutions having been developed from Datrium technologies. Most of Brett's time recently has been helping with the evangelism and education around the risk of ransomware and lack of general recovery technologies that inhibit our customers' ability to manage meaningful recovery strategies to execute a quick return to service.

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Jacob Serpa

Sr. Portfolio Marketing Manager, Zscaler

Jacob lives in Silicon Valley and works as a Sr. Portfolio Marketing Manager at Zscaler, the One True Zero Trust Platform. He is passionate about helping others to protect their personal information and earned his MBA from the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University, where he graduated at the top of his class. He has worked in the cloud security space for six years and is currently focused on the Zero Trust Exchange platform.

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Mark Toussaint

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Mark Toussaint is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the NetWall product line. Mark joined OPSWAT in 2023, bringing with him a strong cyber security background and a proven history of providing comprehensive cyber security solutions to a wide range of critical infrastructure industries. Mark has a unique ability to take complex technical concepts and transform them into business value-oriented Go-to-Market product strategy. With over 30 years of experience at high tech and B2B companies, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, he is now focused on accelerating the launch and market acceptance of the NetWall product line for OPSWAT. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Mark held Senior Product Management roles at Owl Cyber Defense, Bell & Howell and Pitney Bowes. Based in Connecticut, Mark holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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Matt Wiseman

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Matt Wiseman is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the OT product line. Matt’s focus is on product, engineering, product marketing and cybersecurity strategy. Matt has experience working in large industrial organizations and has worked to provide comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for all key critical infrastructure industries. His passion for cybersecurity comes from a love of solving unique business cases and deciphering complex problems. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Matt served in various cybersecurity strategy and global marketing leadership roles at Honeywell. Based in Canada, Matt holds an MBA and a BA in Business Management with an Honors Specialization in Finance. In addition, Matt has obtained a variety of cyber related certifications from the Department of Homeland Security, GISF and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Outside of the office, Matt is committed to on-going education in all aspects of life, loves the outdoors and spending quality time with family and friends. Always up for a new challenge, he is looking forward to helping others navigate the fast-paced world of cybersecurity

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Mark Toussaint

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Mark Toussaint is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the NetWall product line. Mark joined OPSWAT in 2023, bringing with him a strong cyber security background and a proven history of providing comprehensive cyber security solutions to a wide range of critical infrastructure industries. Mark has a unique ability to take complex technical concepts and transform them into business value-oriented Go-to-Market product strategy. With over 30 years of experience at high tech and B2B companies, ranging from start-ups to large multi-nationals, he is now focused on accelerating the launch and market acceptance of the NetWall product line for OPSWAT. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Mark held Senior Product Management roles at Owl Cyber Defense, Bell & Howell and Pitney Bowes. Based in Connecticut, Mark holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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Matt Wiseman

Sr. Product Manager, OPSWAT

Matt Wiseman is a Sr. Product Manager at OPSWAT managing the OT product line. Matt’s focus is on product, engineering, product marketing and cybersecurity strategy. Matt has experience working in large industrial organizations and has worked to provide comprehensive cybersecurity solutions for all key critical infrastructure industries. His passion for cybersecurity comes from a love of solving unique business cases and deciphering complex problems. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Matt served in various cybersecurity strategy and global marketing leadership roles at Honeywell. Based in Canada, Matt holds an MBA and a BA in Business Management with an Honors Specialization in Finance. In addition, Matt has obtained a variety of cyber related certifications from the Department of Homeland Security, GISF and is a member of the GIAC Advisory Board. Outside of the office, Matt is committed to on-going education in all aspects of life, loves the outdoors and spending quality time with family and friends. Always up for a new challenge, he is looking forward to helping others navigate the fast-paced world of cybersecurity

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Tim Frazier

Sr. Solutions Engineer, Anvilogic

With a background in electrical engineering, Tim started his career in the US Army as a signal officer, where he learned about satellite communications and computer networking. During this time, Tim read Cyber War by Richard A. Clarke, where he learned how cybersecurity could be used as a form of national defense, and since then, cybersecurity has been the focus of his career. After a stint in consulting, Tim ran the gamut of hands-on-keyboard experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority: blue teaming, cyber tool chain engineering, risk management framework development, and more. Tim later realized there was an opportunity to help more people across many organizations and industries, so he pivoted to the vendor side of cybersecurity, where he’s been helping to solve customer challenges ever since.

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Rahul Gupta

Head of Security & GRC, Sigma Computing

Rahul is a Cyber Security and compliance leader with 17 years of experience in helping companies establish trust and manage infrastructure security, privacy, IT and business risk, and compliance in the digital business ecosystem. Mr. Gupta is a people-first and positive leader focused on action, results, learning, teaming and collaboration, quality, integrity, value, and relationships. He is experienced and has wide Knowledge in Systems and Network security, Product Security, Global Compliance frameworks, Architecture Design, Incident analysis & Response, Business continuity and Recovery Planning to provide a powerful combination of analysis, Implementations, and support. He hold various industry recognized certifications and is a trusted consultant for the organization and its clients. He is a self-starting IT professional with experience in leading and managing high-level systems security architecture, facilitating requirements and design sessions, and understanding complex business interactions and how they translate to complex system interactions. Although an IT generalist and able to work in many domains, he is specialize in multiple security and compliance domains and have build the programs for various large enterprises and start ups.

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Kelly Huang

Product Marketing - Cybersecurity, Snowflake

Kelly Huang is the Lead PMM for Snowflake’s Cybersecurity Workload, helping security teams embrace the Data Cloud as a security data lake. Kelly began her cybersecurity journey at Splunk, where she helped bring Splunk SOAR Cloud to market.

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Sean Martin

Director of Product Strategy, CSI Business Solutions Group for Managed Services

Sean Martin is director of Product Strategy, CSI Business Solutions Group for Managed Services. He has worked to establish cybersecurity programs for financial institutions for over 15 years. Previously, Sean has served as Network and Security Operations Manager, Product Manager, and various engineering roles since 2001. In his role, Sean identifies and implements solutions designed to maximize security and profitability for financial institutions. Sean speaks regularly on a variety of financial technology issues, ranging from managed services to IT security best practices.

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Jennifer Ellard

Sr Director, Product Marketing at Elastic

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TJ Mai

Sr. Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

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David Merkel

Chief Executive Officer, Expel

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Jeff Pollard

VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Jeff primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for security and risk professionals. He leads Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO, specializing in topics related to security strategy, budgets, metrics, business cases, and presenting to the board. His research also includes security services, featuring global coverage of managed security services, professional security services, and security-as-a-service. Jeff also takes an active role in Forrester’s forward-looking research on security innovation, the security market, and security predictions.

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Simon Perry

Security Evangelist, VMware Carbon Black

Simon Perry has 40 years of work experience and has provided strategic cyber security advice to private enterprises and the public sector around the world, including as an expert speaker to the European Commission, and as an advisory stakeholder member of the EU's European Network Information Security Agency.

He has had experience in the building block tools of the Security Operations Center; SIEM, NDR, EDR, and Identity monitoring since the earliest days of their introduction to the defender’s arsenal. He is also one of VMware Carbon Black’s leading voices on Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

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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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Tom Dager

CISO, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Dager is CISo at Archer Daniels Midland Company. He develops, implements and monitors a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information owned, controlled or processed by the organization. Previously, he was with Delta Community Credit Union as an audit committee member.

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Katherine Licup

Chief Privacy Officer, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Katherine (Katie) Licup is Chief Privacy and Information Risk Officer and Senior Counsel at ADM, a global agricultural processing and food ingredient company headquartered in Chicago that operates nearly 1,000 facilities in approximately 200 countries and is a leader in the futures brokerage industry. Katie is helping the century-old Fortune 50 company navigate a digital transformation that will enable it to streamline operations, leverage data to better serve its global suppliers, customers and employees, and fulfill its mission to solve global nutrition challenges of today and the future. Prior to ADM, Katie was Vice President, Enterprise Compliance Programs at Discover Financial Services where she was responsible for oversight of Discover’s Fair and Responsible Banking and Privacy Programs, which assessed and monitored fair lending, Unfair, Deceptive and Abusive Acts and Practices (UDAAP), and privacy risk across Discover Financial Services. She previously was Director, Privacy Compliance and Chief Privacy Officer, where she established Discover’s privacy program within Corporate Compliance and expanded it to cover international and employee privacy. Katie began her tenure at Discover in 2011 as a consumer protection regulatory attorney, where she advised several different marketing units and provided counsel on significant product launches.Katie earned an undergraduate degree in journalism and U.S. Navy commission from Northwestern University. She served on a U.S. destroyer based out of San Diego, and as a Navy public affairs officer. She received her J.D. with honors from Loyola University Chicago School of Law while completing her final tour of active duty.

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Chris Goettl

Director of Product Management, Ivanti

Goettl is the Director of Product Management for security products at Ivanti. Chris has over 15 years of experience working in IT, where he supports and implements security solutions for Ivanti customers and guides the security strategy and vision for Ivanti security products. He is also a security evangelist speaking at security events globally where he gives guidance around modern cyber threats and how to combat them effectively. Chris hosts a monthly webinar focusing on Patch Tuesday and security vulnerabilities, and frequently blogs about security topics. You can find contributed articles as well as commentary from Chris in notable security news sources like SC Magazine, Redmond Magazine, ComputerWorld, ThreatPost, Help Net Security, and more.

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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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