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Ron Ross

Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Ross specializes in information security, systems security engineering and risk management. He leads NIST's Federal Information Security Management Act Implementation Project, which includes the development of key security standards and guidelines for the federal government and critical information infrastructure. Ross also leads the Joint Task Force, an interagency partnership with the Department of Defense, Office of the Director National Intelligence, the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Committee on National Security Systems, with responsibility for developing the Unified Information Security Framework for the federal government and its contractors. In addition to his responsibilities at NIST, Ross supports the U.S. State Department in the international outreach program for information security and critical infrastructure protection. Ross has lectured at many universities across the country and has received numerous private sector cybersecurity awards.

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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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Dr Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing Director, PwC; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing/Director at PwC, LEGC, & KPMG; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook is a recognized author, trainer and expert witness in cybercrime investigations, working with ForgePoint Capital and consulting to Fortune 500 clients across the US, UK and Japan.

Dr. Shook brings more than 30 years of experience in IT/risk management and cybersecurity investigations, including serving in Cryptology with the USAF, and in leadership roles at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He sits on the boards of several companies and is often called to testify on US state and federal administrative matters, and in criminal, class action, and IRS, SEC, EPA, and ITC cases.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to over a dozen patents and in conferences for technical standards definitions on security, communications, and operations continuity. He is a frequent presence in financial industry summits and periodicals concerning computer disaster recovery and application security practices. Dr. Shook holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Phd. in Organization and Management, Communications Technology from Capella University. https://forgepointcap.com/team/shane-shook/

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Hank Schless

Sr. Manager of Security Solutions and host of the Endpoint Enigma podcast, Lookout

After working for fintech and database technology companies, Hank has found a home in cybersecurity. Before Lookout, he was the 20th employee at a cloud infrastructure security startup and helped the company grow to over 160 employees. At Lookout, he is a Senior Manager on the Security Solutions team, enabling internal teams and informing the market about the growing need to secure mobile devices as part of their larger security strategy.

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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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Lisa Lorenzin

Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler

Lisa Lorenzin is Director of Transformation Strategy at Zscaler, specializing in secure access to private applications. She has worked in a variety of Internet-related roles since 1994, with over twenty years of focus on network and information security, and has contributed to open standards for endpoint integrity and network security from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Lorenzin is currently concentrating on software-defined perimeter / zero-trust architecture and seamless user experience across cloud and mobile environments.

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Jorn Velaers

Vice President IT Infrastructure and Support Services, American Tower

Jorn Velaers brings nearly two decades of IT experience to American Tower, serving as Vice President IT Infrastructure and Support services. Velaers leads worldwide IT infrastructure and support services including physical and cloud data centers, network, storage, database administration, application administration, first-level service desk support, second- and third-tier application support. Velaers acts as the primary IT interface and liaison to corporate and regional IT leadership teams and is responsible for infrastructure strategy and vision, executing a multi-year services road map and budget. Prior to American Tower, Velaers held various roles of increasing responsibility at ARAMARK and was honored with the ARAMARK CIO Award For Excellence. He is fluent in four languages and holds a number of technology licenses and certifications.

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Scott Kern

Vice President, Customer & Technical Solutions HID Global, Identity and Access Management Solutions

Scott has over twenty years of experience implementing PKI-enabled solutions that provide identity and authentication capabilities to meet a wide variety of compliance-driven initiatives. He has worked closely with Fortune 100 and other companies and industry partners to gain the benefits of managed PKI as a Service by reducing complexity and cost while improving security and performance.

Prior to his current role with HID Global, Scott was Vice President of Solutions with HydrantID, a managed PKI service provider which was acquired by HID in 2019. His role included the design and launch of secure vault-based Offline Root Key Generation services which are used by industry leaders in multiple verticals, and the Dedicated Issuing CA product that is a widely used Microsoft CA replacement service.

Scott previously held the position of Lead Architect for Identity at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he led the design and development of the Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) Gateway cloud service. The service platform is used by CVS, Express Scripts and other major pharmacies to sign and validate millions of PKI-based transactions daily. Prior joining Verizon, Scott held similar positions at SAIC, Arcot Systems, BeTrusted and Digital Signature Trust (purchased by IdenTrust in 2002).

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Simon Taylor

Channel Manager, nCipher Security

Simon Taylor has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, the last 15 years of which managing distribution and channel. During this time he has gained great insight and understating of what customers need to be secure and what partners need in order to be successful. Taylor has worked in multiple countries from the UK to Australia, Nordics and Baltics to Africa, and is now based in the Middle East. With this he has developed an understanding of local cultures, business practices and customer requirements.

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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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Patrick Kelly

Vice President, Product Management, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Patrick Kelly is Vice President of Product Management within Cyber and Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard. In this position, Patrick oversees payment solutions that large banks and merchants use for dispute resolution and collaboration. He has been a speaker at the Merchant Risk Council, Kount 360 tour and Mastercard's Cyber Security Summits. Patrick holds a bachelor's of science from Fairfield University and an MBA from Pace University.

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Dave Senci

Director, Product Development, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Dave Senci is Director of Product Development & Innovation within Cyber and Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard. Dave started his career at Mastercard in 2010, spending the first five years in Operations and Technology focusing on Data Quality, Data Governance and Data Innovation. In Dave's current role, he is responsible for leading a team of global sales engineers, international customer success managers and focusing on business development and innovation for NuData Security, a Mastercard company.

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Russell Rice

VP, Product Strategy, Ordr

Russell Rice brings 25 years of experience in the network security industry and is current VP Product Strategy at Ordr. Russell has held senior leadership roles in product management, technical marketing, and engineering in startups and established companies spanning Cisco, Skyport Systems, Global Internet, and Dow Jones. At Cisco, Russell was the executive business leader for network access control (NAC), policy (including the Identity Service Engine / ISE), and remote access products. Russell is an accomplished speaker and his teams were responsible for the Cisco SAFE network security guidelines. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

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André Machado

Channel Manager, LATAM, nCipher Security

Formado em Análise de Sistemas pela PUC-Rio, André possui experiência de mais de 20 anos no mercado de segurança da informação com soluções especializadas em criptografia e assinatura digital. Como Consultor Sênior de uma das maiores Autoridades Certificadoras do país por mais de 10 anos, atuou como gerente de projetos e líder técnico na criação de estruturas de PKI públicas de larga escala, como AC Petrobras e OAB Nacional (ambas sob a hierarquia da ICP-Brasil), além de inúmeras estruturas de PKI privadas para algumas das maiores empresas do país. Atuou ainda como instrutor de treinamentos de certificação digital para diversos órgão da administração pública federal, como Ministérios da Defesa, Educação e Saúde, CNJ, STF, STJ, além de diversos TRTs, de Norte a Sul do país, participando ativamente dos primeiros projetos de peticionamento eletrônico no Brasil. Nos últimos anos tem ampliado sua atuação por toda a América Latina, promovendo tecnologias avançadas de proteção de dados e gerenciamento de chaves criptográficas em larga escala para os mais variados setores. Agora como Gerente de Canais para a América Latina da nCipher, tem a missão de expandir parcerias estratégicas em toda a região e desenvolver novas soluções para o uso de criptografia, de maneira simples e eficiente, alinhadas com as tendências tecnológicas do mercado

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Jeff Horne

CSO, Ordr

Jeff Horne is currently the CSO at Ordr where he is responsible for security direction both within Ordr products and internal security. Prior to Ordr Jeff was the VP of Information Security for Optiv where he was responsible for all Security Operations, Governance Risk and Compliance, Endpoint, Internal Incident Response, Physical Security, and Employee Security Awareness groups. Before Optiv Jeff was the Senior Director of Information Security for SpaceX where he was responsible for the overall security strategy of SpaceX and managing the Information Security, Compliance (ITAR), Security Operations, and Physical Security groups. Previous to SpaceX Jeff was the Vice President of R&D and Chief Architect for Accuvant LABS where he managed teams of researchers and consultants specializing in reverse engineering, malicious code, incident response, breach analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Prior to Accuvant Jeff was the Director of Threat Research at Webroot Software where he led several teams of malware researchers, reverse engineers, and a development organization specializing in creating anti-malware functionality and detection signatures for all Webroot products. Jeff began his career as a Vulnerability Researcher at Internet Security Systems where he was responsible for vulnerability discovery, exploit creation, IDS evasion research, and behavioral detection of malware. Jeff is well known for his insight in interviews for numerous news channels and publications, speaking roles at various security conferences, as well as authoring several vulnerability disclosures and patents.

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Kelvin Cusack

Product Manager, nCipher Security

Kelvin Cusack is a Product Manager working for nCipher Security Ltd. Having been at nCipher for 12 years, through a number of technical, customer facing roles, Cusack has hands on experience with how nShield fits into the world of IOT. Working on the product roadmap to bring new products to market. Cusack has experience in the world of IOT, PKI and information security.

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Mark Penny

Principal PKI Consultant, EMEA, nCipher Security

Mark Penny is a Principal PKI Consultant working for the Professional Services team in EMEA at nCipher Security Ltd. With nearly 20 years of experience in the information security arena, he assists customers in designing, building and deploying PKI solutions for a variety of purposes using nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for cryptographic key management, storage and protection. He has wide ranging consulting experience with customers in a variety of sectors including banking, health, service provision, utilities, high-tech manufacturing, IT and academia.

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Brad Beutlich

Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales, Entrust

Brad Beutlich, Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales at Entrust, is an information security professional who has worked with numerous US based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point, to data security. The last 13 years he has worked for nCipher Security providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions and IoT device manufacturing. Brad holds a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Bradley University, and is an award-winning writer and speaker on numerous security topics. His passion as a historian is on brass-era (pre 1913) automobiles, of which he owns a 120-year-old car that runs on steam. As an avid skier, he hits the slopes on the weekends when possible. Brad resides with his wife and three children in Southern California.

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