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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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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Chip Mason

Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management, Broadcom

Chip Mason has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Chip leads strategy and product definition for Mainframe Security products in CA Broadcom. In this capacity, Chip works to guide integration and product development toward delivering valuable Security solutions, as well as acting as a subject matter expert assisting customers to ensure security and compliance. Chip has experience across many areas of Enterprise IT, including Security Management, Software Development, Service Management, and Event Management. Chip is certified in Scaled Agile Framework and ITIL.

Chip resides in Raleigh, NC where he enjoys his family and photography.

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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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Paul Dant

Vice President of Product Management, Digital.ai

Paul is Vice President of Product Management for Digital.ai's security solutions. As a security researcher who has performed offensive security testing of facilities ranging from nuclear energy plants to hospitals, Paul has spent his career helping organizations better understand and address the inherent challenges around making software secure.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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Jon Ehret

VP of Strategy & Risk, RiskRecon

Jon brings 20+ years of experience in technology and risk, including extensive experience building, maturing, and running third-party risk programs in both the finance and healthcare industries. Before joining RiskRecon, Jon built and lead the third-party risk program for BlueCross BlueShield of WNY and also served as President and Co-founder of the Third-Party Risk Association, an international professional association of third party risk practitioners and vendors.

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Darrin Kimes

Senior Special Agent, US Secret Service

Darrin Kimes is a Special Agent/Technical Staff Assistant with the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. Most of his 21 years have been dedicated to digital forensics and cyber investigations. Kimes currently serves as the Digital Forensics Lab Director for the CECTF. There he manages the day-to-day work of the lab while also assisting the CECTF in cybercrime investigations. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-President Jimmy Carter in some of the more challenging locations around the world to include Darfur, Sudan; the Gaza Strip; Ramallah, West Bank; and Pyong Yang, North Korea.

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Sadia Mirza

Attorney, Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy Practice Group, Troutman Sanders

Sadia Mirza is part of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice group at Troutman Sanders, and is also part of the Financial Services Litigation practice group. She provides strategic privacy compliance counseling, and defends, counsels and represents companies on matters relating to data privacy, data use, and incident response and investigation, with an eye towards helping clients avoid litigation. Additionally, she has experience with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), as well as various other laws concerning privacy and cybersecurity. Mirza's in-house background allows her to understand the issues and concerns clients have and guide them toward resolution in a clear and efficient way. She has worked with clients from a variety of industries, including financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and data and analytics providers. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mirza worked for JPMorgan Chase and Washington Mutual Bank. Her ongoing interest in the financial services industry led her to pursue an LL.M. in banking and finance after graduating from law school.

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Rob Roj

Senior Solutions Architect, Shape Security

Rob Roj, Senior Solutions Architect at Shape Security, has over 20 years of early stage start up experience with over 7 years within the Cybersecurity and Identity space. He has been with Shape when there were only three customers and has consulted with F500 companies

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George Nastasi

Associate Partner, Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting, IBM

George leads the IBM Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting practice in Canada. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in security operations working with partners and clients across North America and Europe. As a lead practitioner and subject matter expert, George works directly with organizations in a wide range of industry segments implementing technologies, including SIEM and SOAR, processes, organizational structure, and governance to manage cybersecurity threats and mitigate risk with quantifiable measures. Currently, George is collaborating with global teams to re-align threat management approach specifically for Cloud operations.

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Ben Smith

Principal, Sales Engineering and Field CTO, RSA

Smith is field chief technology officer (Field CTO - US East) with RSA, a Dell Technologies business. With 25 years of experience in the information security, networking and telecommunications industries, he regularly consults on RSA's strategic vision around architecture and technical roadmaps for the company's security and risk management solutions. His prior employers include UUNET, CSC and the US Government, along with several technology-oriented startups. He holds the CISSP and CRISC certifications, and has presented on RSA's behalf, both domestically and internationally, at cybersecurity events sponsored by Gartner, FS-ISAC, IANS, CERT/SEI, ISSA, (ISC)2, ISACA, RMA, BSides, InfraGard, HTCIA, ICI and other organizations.

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Karl Lankford

Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford has been Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA for BeyondTrust for the last four years. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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Brittany O'Shea

Global Product Strategist, Veracode

Brittany is a Global Product Strategist at Veracode. She is passionate about helping developers and security professionals navigate emerging threats, regulations and security trends to help organizations and their applications thrive in today's complex digital world. Before joining Veracode, she worked in various roles at RSA and IBM Security globally with the mission to support customers raise their security posture.

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Sol Cates

Principal Technologist, Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Cates is the Principal Technologist in the CTO Office at Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing. Cates is focused on bringing new innovations to market focused on the "underlying problems" of the industry and providing security solutions to the security professional to help them be successful in today's challenging environment which they often have very little control over. As a former CISO and CIO, Cates has a unique perspective on how technology, people, process and governance impact how successful security teams can solve real-world problems. With more than 20 years of experience rooted in the intelligence community and enterprise organizations, he is sought after to speak publicly on a wide range of technology, regulatory and strategy topics.

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Ben Nahorney

Threat Intelligence Analyst, Cisco

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Imran Ahmad is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a specialization in technology, cybersecurity and privacy law. As part of his cybersecurity practice, he works closely with clients to develop and implement practical strategies related to cyber threats and data breaches. He advises on legal risk assessments, compliance, due diligence and risk allocation advice, security, and data breach incident preparedness and response. In addition, Ahmad acts as "breach counsel" in the event of a cybersecurity incident, such as a data or privacy breach. He also provides representation in the event of an investigation, an enforcement action or a litigation. He is the author of Canada's first legal incident preparation and response handbook titled Cybersecurity in Canada: A Guide to Best Practices, Planning, and Management (LexisNexis, August 2017). He advises on licensing, outsourcing and service-provider arrangements, as well as on other commercial matters with respect to carrying on business over the internet, the cloud and the digital environment. In his privacy law practice, he advises clients on compliance with all Canadian federal and provincial privacy and data management laws. He has a particular focus on cross-border data transfer issues and enterprise-wide governance programs related to privacy and information governance

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Robin Gould-Soil

Former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer, HSBC

Robin Gould-Soil is the former Head of Conduct and Chief Privacy Officer for HSBC Canada. She is a recognized authority on privacy, conduct, data ethics, risk and compliance management with extensive experience consulting on policy and operational guidance to a wide variety of stakeholders group. While at HSBC she was responsible for leading HSBC's Conduct and Privacy function with a focus on delivering fair outcomes to customers without disrupting the integrity of financial markets. Prior to joining HSBC, Robin was the Director of Privacy and Access and Chief Privacy Officer at UHN, as well as the lead for the building Connecting GTA's Privacy and Security program for Ontario's Shared Electronic Health Record. Under her leadership, Connecting GTA received the Privacy Innovation Award presented by the international Association of Privacy Professionals. Gould-Soil also had the privilege to work for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada through a government Executive Interchange Program where she was responsible for opening of the first Toronto Office, leading the privacy investigations unit and being a key spokesperson.

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Ruth Promislow

Partner, Commercial Litigation, Fraud and Cybersecurity Practice, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Ruth Promislow practices commercial litigation with a strong focus on commercial crime, including cybersecurity, Ponzi schemes, investment fraud, employee fraud and anti-money laundering. She has extensive experience with recovery issues relating to commercial crime, including receiverships, tracing, freezing and recovering proceeds of crime. Promislow oversees and conducts internal investigations for clients, working with internal and external auditors and works with clients to develop and implement comprehensive and effective action plans following a cybersecurity or other fraudulent attack, and also advises on steps to prevent against such attacks.

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