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Murali Palanisamy

Chief Solutions Officer, AppViewX

Passionate enterprise technology influencer, currently overseeing Innovation, Strategy and Product Direction to enable Customers achieve friction-less application deployment using Automation at AppViewX. As Chief Solutions Officer, Murali is responsible for the overall product vision, development, and technical direction of AppViewX. Before joining the company, he served as Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he led an architecture and engineering team of e-commerce application delivery.

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Nick Barham

DevSecOps Transformation Consultant

During his tenure at Veracode, Nick has collaborated with enterprises across multiple industries to help drive successful AppSec programs and reduce application risk. His close contact with dev teams has helped him build a strong understanding of 'what works’, enabling them with the tooling and mindset needed to code securely and consider supply chain risk when developing software. In his current role, Nick collaborates with existing customers who are either thinking about embedding DevSecOps or are already on the journey to doing so and are seeking guidance in maturing their security practices using Veracode.

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Darrell Johnston

Internationally experienced Cyber Security sales professional with a demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex sales cycles, open and capitalise on new markets and significantly enhance existing revenue streams. I have a consistent history of exceeding individual quota as well as leading teams to exceed quota attainment. Expertise forging and fostering strong working relationships with clients, sales teams, product management, and strategic partners are amongst some of the key skills which drive me to continued success and proven results.

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Ivar Kangur

Director, Intelligence / Business Solutions

Ivar is a career security professional, with over two decades of information management and security experience across public and private sectors. As Silobreaker’s Director of Intelligence/Business Solutions, Ivar is able to apply his threat intelligence and cyber security expertise to ‘see the bigger picture’ and deliver solutions that protect organisations’ critical data and assets, while minimising business risk. His previous roles include Threat Intelligence EMEA Lead at the London Stock Exchange Group and CISO of Statistics Estonia, part of the Estonian Ministry of Finance.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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Mike Britton

CISO, Abnormal Security

Mike Britton is the CISO of Abnormal Security, where he leads information security and privacy programs. Prior to Abnormal, Mike spent six years as the CSO and Chief Privacy Officer for Alliance Data. He brings 25 years of information security, privacy, compliance, and IT experience from a variety of Fortune 500 global companies. He holds an M.B.A with a concentration in Information Assurance from the University of Dallas.

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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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Barak Feldman

Senior Vice President, PAM and Identity Security GTM, CyberArk

Barak is Senior Vice President, Identity Security GTM at CyberArk Software. Joining CyberArk at 2001, Barak brings a deep technical and business background with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing security and compliance solutions at many of the Fortune 500. In his role Barak leads CyberArk’s Privileged Access Management (PAM) business and is helping the company define and lead the Identity Security market; primarily focusing on Cloud Entitlements, Secrets Management, Least Privilege and Just in time. His expertise includes Regulatory Compliance, Access Management and specifically the current threats surrounding privileged access to the highest risk assets within the enterprise.

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Crystal Trawny

Practice Director, Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management, Optiv

Crystal Trawny is a Practice Director at Optiv supporting Privileged Account and Endpoint Privilege Management teams (PAM/EPM). With over 15 years of experience in Identity and Data Management, she is knowledgeable in Identity and Access Management policies, operational support and delivers projects across various industry verticals. Her portfolio includes several companies in the Fortune 500 as well as covering areas of financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. Prior to her leadership role in PAM/EPM, Crystal held a variety of identity centric roles since joining Optiv in 2015.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Giancarlo Casella

Head of Business Development & Growth Strategies, AWS Security Assurance Services

Currently, Giancarlo leads Business Development and Growth Strategies within the AWS Security Assurance Services team. In this role, Giancarlo focuses on growth strategy, sales, business development, marketing and removing compliance as a barrier for customers. Prior to joining AWS ProServe, Giancarlo was the Continuous Security GRC Manager at Salesforce. He also has experience as a leader in the Coalfire Systems’ Strategy, Privacy, and Risk practice serving as a Senior Manager. Prior to joining Coalfire, Giancarlo worked at DayBlink Consulting as a founding member of the Cybersecurity Practice and also at CEB (Now Gartner) as a Strategy and Operations Senior Analyst.

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Joe McDermott

Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure (HITRUST), Coalfire

As a leading compliance expert with Coalfire, Joe brings 14+ years of cloud/IT security and integrated audit services experience and has managed and delivered HITRUST assessments almost exclusively over the past 7 years – including more than 125 HITRUST-related engagements overall. Maintaining a positive reputation and relationships throughout the HITRUST organization have been a focus and have been supported by successful engagements with some of the world’s largest and most complex cloud service provider and healthcare organizations. Additionally, Joe brings ‘Big 4' experience from KPMG LLP, a track record of delivering outstanding business results, and a focus on always providing exceptional quality and client service.

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Jacob Salassi

Director of Product Security, Snowflake

Jacob Salassi is Director of Product Security at Snowflake. Jacob led Snowflake's pre- & post IPO transformation from a bottlenecked, security engineer centric process that slowed teams down to a developer owned security process that ships features faster and more securely. Today his teams handle security architecture, software security assurance, software engineering, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability research for the Snowflake product. Jacob is an active member of the application security and threat modeling communities, and his team is known for their industry leading approach to modeling threats.

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Omer Singer

Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake

Omer Singer is Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. Omer led Snowflake's innovative, data-driven security engineering program before taking responsibility for the company's cybersecurity business and ecosystem. Prior to Snowflake, Omer was Vice President of Security Operations at a global security services provider and served as a cyber intelligence officer. Omer is an active member of the Information Security Leadership Foundation (ISLF) and has spoken at Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) events on topics such as security metrics and cloud-native threat detection and response.

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Felipe Conill

Marketplace WW Leader, Security Category, AWS

Felipe is the AWS Marketplace WW Leader for the Security Category managing a team of Senior Category Managers across Security domains. Category managers are responsible for ensuring that buyers in the AWS Marketplace have the best selection of security offerings to select from. Felipe has two decades of experience growing cybersecurity and analytics practices in diverse roles. Before AWS, Felipe held positions in Development, IT leadership, Sales and Alliances in startups including Terremark (Enterprise Cloud), Cyxtera (Data Center), Appgate (Network Security) and industry leaders like IBM. Felipe holds a Master in Business from Kellogg Northwestern and a Double Major in Computer Engineering and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Trey McCall

VP Growth, Ping Identity

As VP of Growth at Ping Identity, Trey leads a team of Sales and Solutions experts across North America. Trey is passionate about his customers, helping them transform their technology visions into business results. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector developing go-to-market strategy, sales performance, customer success and operations of global field organizations, Trey has worked in companies of all sizes from $4B to $60B in revenue. Before joining Ping, Trey held positions in Sales and Leadership at MobileIron, Ten-X, Avaya, SHI, and Dell. Trey has a BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and when not working enjoys life - fishing, Texas barbecue, and spending time with his family.

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Brad LaPorte

Gartner Veteran | GTM Advisor to Startups, Private Equity & Venture Funds | Board Advisor

One of the most influential voices in cybersecurity and is credited with inventing the term ASM at Gartner. Brad is a former Top-rated Gartner analyst for cybersecurity and threat intelligence, veteran US Cyber Intelligence, Dell, IBM, Kasada evangelist and product leader

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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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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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