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Rami Abbas

Regional Sales Manager – SecOps Group

Rami Abbas is an IT industry veteran with close to 10 years of experience in the Cyber Security space. Rami currently leads Cisco SecOps Sales across the Middle East. Before Joining Cisco, Rami held positions at different Cyber Security Industry leaders. He brings with him a strong experience in the space of Managed Cyber Security as he worked for multiple years at leading Service Providers in the region.

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Ibrahim Yusuf

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco SecOps Group

Ibrahim is currently a cyber security solutions architect with the Cisco SecOps Group. He has been in security for almost two decades, his expertise lies in network wide defensive and offensive security and forensics. Ibrahim is a Certified SANS forensics Analyst (GCFA) and Information Security System Professional (CISSP).

In his current role at Cisco, he guides and assist organisations mitigate and reduce their exposure to breaches and incidences. He helps security teams adopt an attacker’s mindset through threat hunting workshops and cyber threat response exercises. Ibrahim is a motivator of technical teams to appreciate the level of threat complexity organisations are up against.

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Katie Petrillo

Senior Manager, LastPass Product Marketing, LogMeIn

Katie Petrillo leads Identity Product Marketing for LastPass at LogMeIn. With a decade of experience in customer-focused go-to-market strategy, messaging, and execution, Katie specializes in cybersecurity and loves to ask about your most embarrassing password (that you're no longer using anymore, of course).

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David Klein

Senior Director of Product Strategy, ProcessUnity

David is the Senior Director of Product Strategy at ProcessUnity. He has more than 20 years’ experience in product management and strategic roles for leading technology providers.

In his past roles at Pitney Bowes, Monster.com, Invoke, and Brainshark, David launched digital products and SaaS businesses across the globe while also driving product and feature development and forging innovation across mobile, eLearning/mLearning, and cloud-based landscapes.

David is responsible for keeping his finger on the pulse of the marketplace and delivering high-value risk and compliance solutions. In his role, he helps to define ProcessUnity’s overall strategic direction.

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Suheb Ahmed

Senior Customer Advisory Consultant, Financial Crimes, SAS Institute

Suheb is an accomplished Financial Crime executive with more than 16 years' experience in Financial Crimes Compliance & Financial Crime Analytics spanning across South Asia, MENA & ANZ. Suheb is a results-oriented leader and has helped financial institutions by running financial crime risk assessments, developing innovative solutions, managing projects and full-cycle assessments. Suheb has in-depth knowledge of the financial crime domain, systems, and processes and the unique expertise to manage risk across multiple areas.

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Paul Franks

Director, Financial Services, SAS Institute

Paul has over 30 years professional and commercial experience in financial services covering banking, insurance and wealth management. He is a former partner at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.

As Director, Financial Services for SAS Australia and New Zealand, he is responsible for sales and industry strategies for banking customers and risk management solutions and a member of the Global Banking Council for SAS. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of FINSIA and a certified finance and treasury professional. During his time at SAS, he has been Executive Sponsor for several of our largest Australia and New Zealand financial services customers including overseeing major sales and technology solution delivery initiatives in risk management and regulatory compliance for banking and insurance clients. These include credit risk, Basel II, RWA, stress testing, IFRS 9, regulatory and economic capital, pricing and claims management.

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Jean-Sebastien Milliere

Cyber Security Specialist, Cisco

Jean-Sébastien MILLIERE is an experienced Sales Specialist for Cloud Security solutions at Cisco, with more than 20 years of experience in sales and consulting in IT security.

He is in charge of developing Cisco Cloud Security, Email Security and EndPoint Protection Solutions in France. Prior to Cisco he worked for SourceFire and Fortinet as Regional Sales Manager. And has a diploma of Engineer in Computer Science (EPITA, Paris).

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Régis Phalivanh

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Régis is a Cloud Security Solutions Architect. Prior to joining Cisco, he held different positions in IT consulting, architecture design and professional services. During his early career, he realised all the potential of cloud computing, especially in security. Since then, and for over seven years now, he has been driving cloud security adoption with his customers. He holds degrees in Networks and IT project management.

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Tom Pattinson

CISSP, Lumen

Tom is a 20 year veteran of the IT Security Industry. Over an eight year period with IBM, he held various positions which involved him managing delivery of security solutions into Key strategic Accounts. More recently at Hewlett Packard, he was responsible for managing their Security Products business for UK Public Sector and SI partners. Since July 2014 at Lumen Technologies, Tom has been responsible for consulting with EMEA clients on appropriate security solutions as well as delivering webinars and tech talks about Network Based Threat Intelligence; DDoS & Security.

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Graham Smith

Head of Security Solutions,

Graham Smith is Head of Security Solutions for Lumen EMEA. Graham has over 21 years experience managing Cyber Security related disciplines supporting National Governments, Law Enforcement and large Enterprise Customers globally. Roles have included heading up Security Product Management, Security Operations Centre (SOC), CERT, Forensics and InfoSec functions. Graham brings unique insight into how to develop effective defence strategies against increasingly sophisticated threat actors.

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Jean Marie Pechette

Shareholder, Polsinelli

Jean Marie Pechette is a creative yet practical thinker who partners with clients and fully engages in assisting them to achieve their matter-specific goals by first understanding their overall business strategies. She has over 20 years of experience in information technology, privacy and intellectual property law, with a focus on health care and life sciences industries, including serving as a division general counsel for a Fortune 50 company. She brings to clients a unique perspective to help them navigate novel and complex technology-related problems. Pechette has represented public and privately held companies in various industries such as information technology and health care.

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Régis Phalivanh

Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Régis is a Cloud Security Solutions Architect. Prior to joining Cisco, he held different positions in IT consulting, architecture design and professional services. During his early career, he realised all the potential of cloud computing, especially in security. Since then, and for over seven years now, he has been driving cloud security adoption with his customers. He holds degrees in Networks and IT project management.

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Eric Schou

AVP, Security Product Marketing, Splunk

Eric Schou is a product marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He has managed all aspects of global solutions and product marketing strategies as a technical evangelist, message builder, and leader of solution and product marketing teams.

Eric currently puts his deep security experience to work as AVP of Security Product Marketing at Splunk, where he is responsible for messaging, strategy, and go to market efforts. Prior to Splunk, Eric was responsible for product, solutions, partner and services marketing as Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and before that, was Director of Product Marketing at HPE, the software security division of HP. He also held previous positions at both McAfee and Symantec.

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James Young

Global Security Strategist, Splunk

With over 20 years experience, James has always taken every opportunity to learn more about, and in turn improve how security can be done. In his current role at Splunk as a Global Security Strategist, he has the fortune of speaking with a broad range of different people, and advising organizations around developing and maturing their cyber security operations capabilities. This work also often involves collaboration across a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and improve the joint solutions Splunk and their security ecosystem partners bring to market to help solve a range of cyber security challenges.

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Gaurav Gupta

Head-Tech Regulatory and Audit Management, United Overseas Bank

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Hemanshu Parekh

Director - Financial Crimes Compliance, Standard Chartered Bank

Hemanshu has over 10 years of experience in areas of compliance, AML and finance Audit, he has worked in several banks including Bank of America, standard chartered bank and ANZ bank.

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Keith Swanson

Regional Director, Asia Pacific / Japan, Fraud, Financial Crime & Security Intelligence, SAS Institute

Keith Swanson is the Director of Fraud, Financial Crimes and Security Intelligence for SAS Asia Pacific/Japan. Keith has worked with customers or directly for organisations across North America and Asia in industries including Financial Services, Government, and Communications, with many of these with global or regional remit. Keith and his team work extensively with customers in developing strategies and applying solutions to combat financial crime, fraud, waste and abuse, and security initiatives, including public security, intelligence and cyber. Keith’s work with customers, SAS colleagues, and partners has helped grow the SAS APAC/J fraud and security business by over 13x in the last 5 years. Keith has presented to a variety of industry bodies and organisations including Executive Briefings, Bankers Associations, Industry conferences and leading consultancies.

Prior to joining SAS in late 2010, Keith held a number of senior positions with a longstanding SAS customer in the financial services sector in the USA. He also spent time in management, business process and analytics consulting with leading organisations including IBM Global Business Services where he worked with clients to identify and deliver business value in financial and customer intelligence, advanced customer insight, business analytics strategy and advanced analytics and optimisation across a variety of industries. Key to his experience is understanding how individual and group behavioural insights can be used to address a variety of business opportunities and challenges, being able to discuss and translate across IT, business and project groups.

Keith Swanson has focused on applying analytics in business through a variety of roles since earning his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, and commenced studies for his Master of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to further studies in Information Security, Keith has previously earned Project Management Institute (PMP) and Life Management Institute (FLMI) accreditations and has sat on Forrester’s Database Marketing Council.

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Daniel Clayton

VP of Global Support and Services, Bitdefender

Daniel Clayton has been responsible for building and delivering global operations for the National Security Agency (NSA), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Rackspace and Bitdefender over a 30-year career.

As VP of Global Support and Services, he is responsible for Bitdefender’s global operations in support of customers, including the strategy, service delivery and oversight of Services and Support Operations, including the Security Operations Center, Customer Success Operations and associated engineering functions.

In his previous role as leader for all Information Security operations at Rackspace, he was a key member of the executive team that aligned strategy, technology and execution across the Rackspace global enterprise, which served 300,000+ customers in over 120 countries. He was responsible for service delivery of the Global enterprise-wide security operation, security operations strategy, and associated support services and oversaw the Rackspace Cross-Platform Operations organization, which encompassed Rackspace Managed Security Operations and Rackspace Application Services.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Daniel spent more than two decades with UK and US government intelligence and security services, where he developed and managed intelligence and security operations programs in multiple international locations, to include SOCs within the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

As the Operations Center Intelligence Officer and Branch Chief with the U.K. Government, Daniel designed, implemented, coordinated and supervised the collection, analysis, and dissemination of nationally significant information across a network of three internationally deployed SOCs for a staff of 130 analysts and reporters.

Daniel is an experienced Operations leader, who has operated effectively in many roles on both sides of the Atlantic and having built and led 7 Operations Centers globally, including 2 commercial Security Operation Centers but has extensive Information Security and Cyber experience. Additionally, having built and launched two separate Managed Security Services organizations, he can also call upon significant Product and Marketing experience.

Daniel has a MS in Leadership and Management and BA in Intelligence Management from City and Guilds (Royal Charter) in London, as well as a BA in Russian from the University of Westminster.

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Matthias Maier

Product Marketing Director, 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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Tom Llewelyn

Technical Architect, Sysdig

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Darragh O'Flannagn

Partner Solutions Architect ISV EMEA, AWS

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Nuno Almeida

Consulting Engineer, BitSight

Nuno has been working at BitSight helping organizations tackling their Security and Risk Challenges as a Consulting Engineer.

Previously he’s had a number of different roles as a Pre- Sales Engineer in Telecom, Project Manager, IT Management Network and Systems Engineer.

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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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