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John Kang

Managing Director, Inspire Health Alliance

John Kang has over 30 years of experience in developing and managing the strategies of rapidly growing companies in healthcare, technology and manufacturing. Mr. Kang founded the leading healthcare information technology company serving over 180,000 physicians in the 1990's leading to a successful IPO and eventual merger with WebMD in a transaction valued at more than $3 Billion in 2000. He also has started numerous companies in healthcare providing services to the physician community. He is currently involved in several healthcare companies that provide services to the orthopedic market as well as accountable care organizations around the country. He is also one of the founders of Inspire Diagnostics which provides a comprehensive testing program for the COVID-19. Mr. Kang graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics in 1985.

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Andrew Peters

Stealth Industry Director, Unisys

Andrew's 25-year background in cybersecurity extends to the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare Center team that created the first commercial intrusion detection technology at WheelGroup and helped turn it into a security staple during his tenure at Cisco Systems. Andrew has experience in networking and security technologies in multiple industries and applications. He has an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and pursued graduate studies at Kellogg School of Business.

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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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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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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 10 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He now serves as the Data-Driven Security Analyst 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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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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Ashley Adams

Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Ashley Adams is a Product Marketing Manager for Security at SolarWinds®. Ashley's areas of focus are owning the go to market activity for her products by developing key product messaging, communicating new product releases and features, working closely with demand gen teams to drive leads, and enabling the sales team through asset creation and training. Ashley is a born and raised Austinite and has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas as well as an ITIL foundations certification. She has 9 years of experience within the cybersecurity field has held positions in both Austin and in Paris, France.

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Manja Kuchel

Senior Product Marketing Manager, SolarWinds

Manja is responsible for Access Rights Manager and Server Configuration Monitor at SolarWinds® as Senior Product Marketing Manager. Manja lives in Berlin, Germany and has built up over 10 years of experience in the tech world working as Team Lead and Business Development Manager for start-ups, agencies and tech organizations.

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Jayesh Raut

CISO and VP (Special Projects), FACTS Online Pvt. Ltd

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Anush Shetty

CEO and Director - Technology, FACTS Online Pvt. Ltd

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Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General - CERT-In

Bahl is currently director general at CERT-In. He has been providing consultancy in the areas of governance, risk, compliance, security, privacy, forensics, investigation and fraud management to national level projects in India. Prior to CERT-In, he was the chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation in India where he was responsible for interaction with the government, academia, key strategic accounts and the CXO community with respect to Microsoft's security policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bahl was the global CSO of TCS where he established an enterprise-wide converged security environment and effectively addressed risk management and security across the organization worldwide. He has also worked with academic and professional communities as well as government groups to enhance their awareness of comprehensive security models. He has been in the IT industry since 1984 with experience in various areas. Bahl is and has been a member of various security committees at national and international level.

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Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam Curry currently servers Chief Security Officer for Cybereason. Previously, he served as Chief Technology and Security Officer at Arbor Networks, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of Arbor's technology, security and innovation roadmap. Prior to that role, he spent more than seven years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC) in a variety of senior management positions, including Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Technologist and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing. Curry has also held senior roles at Microstrategy, Computer Associates, and McAfee.

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Jeff Williams

Co-Founder and CTO, Contrast

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. He's very active in the DevSecOps community, recently authored the DZone DevSecOps cheat sheet, and speaks frequently on the topic at conferences like Velocity, DevSecCon, JenkinsWorld, AppSecEU, and more. Prior to Contrast, Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by EY. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 9 years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Bruce Macdonald

Sr. IAM Project Architect, Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.

With 20+ years of experience in the identity and access management field, Bruce is focused on both enterprise identity and privileged access management technologies. Having worked as a senior pre-sales engineer and project architect, his strength is in providing overall strategic direction and execution of corporate identity management programs on a variety of platforms.

A results oriented individual, Bruce enjoys solving new creative and technology challenges. His value is in being able to understand complex technologies and provide strategic design direction, project recommendations and thought leadership to customers and senior executives.

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Ran Shahor, Brigadier General (Ret.)

CEO & Founder, HolistiCyber

Ran Shahor is a Brigadier General (Ret.) who founded the leading edge Cyber Security program of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence branch and is considered one of the worlds top Cyber Security experts . After 27 years of military service, Shahor took upon himself multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector. Prior to co-founding HolistiCyber, he was the founder and the Co-CEO of Focal energy as well as Managing Partner of Star Ventures, a $1 billion global venture capital group. He started his career in the elite IDF special forces unit "Sayeret Matkal" which he also commanded.

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Chris Hertz

CRO, DivvyCloud

Chris is the Chief Revenue Officer of DivvyCloud where he combines his technical background and cloud technology expertise with his love of sales and marketing.

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Anthony Johnson

Managing Partner, DelveRisk

Anthony has served as the Global CISO and Managing Director for multiple Fortune 100 companies, where he led some of the largest, most complex cybersecurity programs in the world. In addition to advising emerging and startup companies, Anthony is currently a Managing Partner at Delve Risk, where he leads a practice focused on driving technology and risk management transformation.

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Connie Theien

SVP, Industry Relations, Federal Reserve Financial Services

Connie Theien serves as the senior vice president of industry relations and leads efforts to engage payments stakeholders in advancing strategies for improving the U.S. payment system and in collaborating to encourage implementation and adoption of faster payments in the United States.

Theien leads stakeholder engagement by supporting various industry and Federal Reserve work groups and initiatives. She also leads the engagement strategy for the Fed Payments Improvement Community, a group that includes thousands of stakeholders from across the payments ecosystem, to improve the end-to-end speed, efficiency and security of payments in the country.

As part of the Federal Reserve's payments improvement leadership team, she established and managed the Faster and Secure Payments Task Forces, a coalition of 500+ stakeholders that worked from 2015-2018 to lay important groundwork for advancing payments speed and security.

In her tenure at the Federal Reserve, Theien established national marketing in 2004 and industry relations in 2013. Prior to coming to the Fed, she led marketing and public relations efforts for nonprofit, retail and academic organizations. Theien holds a B.A. in speech communication from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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