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This list showcases the top California based VP’ operating in the Security space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Venkataraman Anand
Vice President Of Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Larry Link
SVP, Worldwide Sales of Palo Alto Networks
Executive Advisor at Blue Hexagon Inc. President and CEO at Cequence Security.
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About Blue Hexagon, Cequence, Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Kumar Ramachandran
SVP, Product and GTM of Palo Alto Networks
Prior to founding CloudGenix, Kumar was Director of Product Management at Cisco, leading products for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses. Prior to Cisco, Kumar held software and network engineering roles, developing solutions for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Rajiv Batra
VP Engineering of Palo Alto Networks
Rajiv Batra has extensive experience managing engineering teams through times of strong growth. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Peribit, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2005. While at Peribit, Rajiv assembled a strong engineering team developing best-in-class application acceleration platforms. Rajiv also co-founded VitalSigns Software and served as Vice President of Engineering at Bay Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Marc Benoit
Vice President Technical Business Development of Palo Alto Networks
Marc Benoit is currently the Vice President of Technical Business Development at Palo Alto Networks. Mr. Benoit leverages his broad technical experience to analyze emerging technology trends and their impact on Palo Alto Networks strategic vision. He also drives advanced solutions with key technology partners. During his tenure at Palo Alto Networks, Mr. Benoit has delivered advanced prototypes and led cross-functional teams to transform them into marketable products.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Nick Campagna
Vice President Of Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Pradeep Singh
Vice President of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Michael Jacobsen
VP Product Management of Palo Alto Networks
Mike Jacobsen is the VP Product Management at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Xu Zou
Vice President of IoT Security of Palo Alto Networks
Xu Zou is the Vice President of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Erin Cannelli Cresta
VP Digital, and Demand Gen of Palo Alto Networks
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Jake Storm
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Jake Storm is the vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Ryan Isono
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Ryan Isono is the Vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Levi Gundert
Vice President of Intelligence and Risk of Recorded Future
As Vice President of Intelligence & Strategy at Recorded Future, Levi Gundert leads the continuous effort to measurably decrease operational risk for customers. Previous industry roles include VP of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Fidelity Investments, Technical Leader at Cisco Talos, Principal Analyst at Team Cymru, and U.S. Secret Service Agent within the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF). Gundert is a prolific speaker, blogger, and columnist, writing articles for Dark Reading, InformationWeek, and SC Magazine.
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About Recorded Future: Recorded Future is the world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security.
Robert Potter
Vice President, Signals and Ground System Technology of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
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About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions provides mission critical engineering, IT services, and war fighter solutions.
Anita Pandey
VP Marketing of Cybera
Anita Pandey is the VP of Marketing for Cybera. She has over 20 years of experience as a marketing leader in networking, unified communications, wireless and cloud security. Before joining Cybera, she was the VP of marketing and business development for AirTight Networks, expanding their brand presence and boosting their footprint through their first channel program. Prior to that, Pandey was a marketing leader at Ruckus Wireless through a very high growth period, culminating in their IPO. A longtime networking veteran, she has also held a variety of marketing and business development positions at Cisco. She launched some of their most profitable channel & demand generation programs and developed several impactful partnerships, accelerating their wireless market share and diversifying their vertical industry presence. Pandey holds a master’s degree in business from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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About Cybera: Cybera is a provider of networking and security services for distributed enterprises.
Shaf Begen
VP Channel Sales of Cybera
Shaf Begen is the Vice President of Channel Sales for Cybera. He brings over 20 years of leadership and experience working with operators/carriers, channel partners and has delivered results across sales, pre-sales, marketing, and professional services. He has published articles and original content and he continually improves sales effectiveness, enablement, and on-boarding. Formerly with MobileIron, Begen created a robust channel with global carriers which subsequently led to a MobileIron IPO. He has also held positions at NEC, SAP, Oracle, Capgemini, and Exablox. Begen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University.
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About Cybera: Cybera is a provider of networking and security services for distributed enterprises.
Steve Chazin
Vice President Of Products of Alarm.com
Steve is a Chief Product and Marketing Officer. He is equally adept at product strategy and tactics and has an excellent on-stage presence. He is a rare individual who has synthesized a stellar background in engineering, sales, marketing and management to become a true product leader.
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Robert Locke
SVP Corporate Development of Johnson Controls
Robert is a senior executive with track record of creating significant value for Fortune 100 companies, venture-backed startups and growth companies. Known for attracting and retaining top performing teams with a values-driven management style. Highly respected by employees, board members and investors for intellectual honesty, direct feedback and a relentless focus on achieving results for the organization. Specialties:Recruiting & team building, sales / growth, strategy development, M&A, enterprise software, innovation, retail, analyst relations, venture & private equity financing
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About Johnson Controls: Johnson Controls operates in building efficiency, automotive experience, and power solutions businesses worldwide.
Joshua Bernstein
VP of Technology of Dell EMC
Joshua Bernstein recently joined EMC as the new VP of Technology for the Emerging Technologies Division. Prior to EMC, Joshua ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple for 4 1/2 years. As a member of the small team, Joshua and his colleagues successfully took Siri from launch to sixty thousand servers, deploying in seventeen locations worldwide. Prior to working at Apple, Joshua was the senior software engineer at Penguin Computing specializing in design and implementation of large scale distributed systems management software. In addition, he has worked on many high profile NASA missions, including the design for the image processing pipeline of the HiRISE Camera currently on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Joshua is a large contributor to the Open Source community, contributing to multiple projects including Mesos, HDFS, HBASE, Zookeeper, Samba, OpenMPI, Torque, and the Linux Infiniband Stack. Joshua studied computer engineering at the University of Arizona.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Randy Bias
VP Technology, Emerging Technologies Division of Dell EMC
Randy Bias is the VP of technology of [EMC](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emc), a company that manufactures information management and storage software systems. He was previously a director at OpenStack. Before that, Bias was the VP of technology strategy at GoGrid.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
John Prausa
Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Mission Solutions of SRI International
John Prausa became chief operating officer (COO) of SRI International in 2015, responsible for all activities in support of research and development operations including Contracting and Procurement; Human Resources; Security Operations; and Facilities, Property and Logistics. Prausa is also Vice President of Mission Solutions, which delivers technology and services in support U.S. government deployed systems. The division comprises two programs: Instrumentation and Simulation (I&S) and Intelligence and Information Systems (I2S). The I&S Program provides a full spectrum of support to clients in the military test and training and homeland defense communities, including technology R&D, system prototyping, instrumentation production, training exercise field support, and depot maintenance. I2S supports Army, Joint, and Coalition Operations software for electronic warfare (EW) and target sensing systems (TSS), including infrastructure and personnel for ground and air survivability systems. The program also enhances multi-spectral EW system capabilities through automated development, testing and distribution software tools. Prausa previously led SRI’s Engineering and Systems Group, at the time the largest R&D group at SRI, with staff distributed at fifteen regional offices and numerous operating locations. In that role, he directed 800 staff members conducting R&D, deployment and support of technologies and systems in ionospheric and space research, radar and remote sensing, signal processing and algorithm development, signals and electronic intelligence, test and training systems, wireless communications, robotics and autonomous systems, imaging technology and systems, force protection and situation awareness, and product development. Prausa has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and has done graduate course work in systems analysis at Stanford University.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
William Mark
President, Information and Computing Sciences; Vice President, SRI International of SRI International
William Mark leads SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which creates new technology in information security, system design, speech and natural language, vision and perception, planning and reasoning, and formal methods. The group’s leading-edge research is complemented with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. Projects include Internet interaction, intrusion detection software, physical and virtual information spaces, and technology for dynamic enterprise management. Prior to joining SRI in 1998, Mark headed the System Technology Group at National Semiconductor. The group focused on system-level design and implementation of the silicon-based systems of the future, including hardware/software co-design, integrated DSP solutions, and reconfigurable computing technology. Mark was formerly director of Information and Computing Sciences for the Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratories. Before joining Lockheed, he was a co-founder of Savoir, a company developing software tools for flexible manufacturing. He was a designer of the Flexis product, for which he holds a software patent. Previously, he held positions at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the General Motors Research Laboratories. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT. His personal research interests include system design and smart spaces.
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Luther Lau
Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer of SRI International
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Michael Page
Vice President, Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer of SRI International
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Peter Berg
VP of Business Development and Strategy of Very Good Security
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Michael Cortez
Vice President of YL Ventures
Michael Cortez is the Vice President at YL Ventures, is a member of the investment team, focusing much of his time on business development for current portfolio companies. In addition to BD and other value-add activities, Michael is heavily involved in investment due diligence, industry research, and the continued expansion of the firm’s U.S. platform.
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About YL Ventures: YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
Sumit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Management of Shape Security
Sumit Agarwal is a Co-Founder of Shape Security, Inc. and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and later advised on cyber policy. He led mobile product management for Google. He is a former US Air Force Reserve Officer. Sumit Agarwal also co-founded Quova.
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About Shape Security: Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications.
Ben Seri
Vice President of Research of Armis Security
Ben Seri is the Head of Research at Armis, responsible for vulnerability research and reverse engineering. His main interest is exploring the uncharted territories of a variety of wireless protocols to detect unknown anomalies. Prior to Armis, Seri spent almost a decade in the IDF Intelligence as a Researcher and Security Engineer. In his free time, Seri enjoys composing and playing as many instruments as the wireless protocols he’s researching.
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About Armis Security: Armis Security offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network.
Frances Le
Vice President of Engineering of Dropbox DocSend
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About Dropbox DocSend: Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease.
Shailaja Shankar
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security of McAfee
Shailaja K. Shankar is the Senior Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise Core, EPP, EDR & Data Center Security at McAfee.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Ashutosh Kulkarni
EVP and CPO Enterprise of McAfee
Ashutosh (Ash) Kulkarni is executive vice president and chief product officer of the enterprise business group at McAfee. He is responsible for product strategy and execution and for delivering leading-edge cybersecurity offerings that protect McAfee customers from threats to their applications, networks, data, devices, and other critical assets. Kulkarni is a passionate advocate of customer-centric design and of the use of data and analytics to create compelling offerings that thrill customers. Most recently, he was the senior vice president and general manager of the web security and web performance businesses at Akamai Technologies. During his tenure at Akamai, he led the teams that delivered the leading web application firewall, bot management, and DDoS mitigation solutions in the industry.
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About McAfee: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Vincent Weafer
Vice President of Engineering, McAfee Labs of McAfee
Vincent Weafer is the Senior Vice President & Cyber Engineering at Capital One.
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About Capital One, McAfee, TriagingX: McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on malware, network security threats, and web vulnerabilities.
Jeff Margolies
SVP, Strategy & Strategic Partnership of FireEye
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Barbara Massa
Executive Vice President & Chief of Business Operations of FireEye
Barbara is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and oversees the global human resource organization at FireEye. Before FireEye, Barbara was Vice President of Global Talent and Diversity at McAfee. She brings over 22 years of experience in high tech from roles at EMC, Documentum, and Cadence Design Systems. Barbara has led teams that delivered record numbers attracting and hiring top talent in high growth organizations. She is a recognized thought leader on global talent strategy and expansion. During her tenure at McAfee, Barbara helped found the first Women in Security affinity group. Barbara is also the recipient of YWCA’s Silicon Valley TWIN award for outstanding executive leadership.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Jason Martin
EVP, Research & Engineering of FireEye
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About FireEye, Permiso Security: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Bill Robbins
EVP, Worldwide Sales of FireEye
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Peter Bailey
Executive Vice President of FireEye
Executive Vice President at FireEye, Inc.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Alexa King
EVP, General Counsel and Secretary of FireEye
Heading up the FireEye legal team, Alexa is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. Before FireEye, Alexa was Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Aruba Networks, Inc., a provider of enterprise wireless networks. Her early career included working at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Fenwick & West. Additionally, Alexa served as founding director of Pathbrite, Inc. (formerly known as RippleSend, Inc.) from 2008 to 2009 and as advisor from 2009 to 2011. Alexa graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Eastern European Studies and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif.
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Sergio Letelier
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel – Corporate, Securities and M&A of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sergio is Vice President of the HPE Office of the General Counsel’s Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Ventures group. In this capacity, Sergio and his team are responsible for global M&A, Corporate Compliance and Governance matters, and support to HPE’s worldwide Tax Department around corporate restructurings. Sergio has held this position since May 2013. Prior to this, he led the International Operations team of HP’s Corporate Securities and M&A legal section, ensuring oversight and management of M&A transactions in EMEA, governance matters across HP’s subsidiary structure and support to HP Tax. Sergio joined HP France’s legal department in 2002 as corporate lawyer. He subsequently joined HP’s Corporate, Securities and M&A EMEA section in 2004 and worked on a variety of M&A transactions, integrations, restructurings and governance matters before assuming the role of Corporate, Securities and M&A International Operations Director in 2008. Sergio started his career as a tax lawyer in Paris, France and founded an advisory firm specializing in tax advice to small and medium-sized businesses. He earned a Master’s and a Postgraduate degree in Law from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, a Master of Laws from the University of Cologne in Germany, and a Postgraduate degree in taxes and international financial strategy from HEC Paris. Sergio is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. He is happily married to his wife Laure and has two children, Alice and Martin.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ie University: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Eng Lim Goh
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Goh completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Hedley Potts
Vice President, Strategic Customer Engagement of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hedley Potts is the Vice President leading Strategic Customer Engagement at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is charged with leading a pan-HPE effort to drive the executive dialogue and mutual value creation between HPE, its clients and partners, and ensure that HPE’s vast offerings are strongly positioned in the market. Prior to this position, he worked for two years in HP’s Office of the CEO, leading the transformation of the Strategic Customer Engagement program. He has worked closely with a number of startups and incubators, introducing HPE’s clients to the broader ecosystem and innovation engine found in Silicon Valley. Hedley joined HP in 2008 as part of their Strategic Business Development. He focused on expanding HP’s business in EMEA and created a multi-billion dollar pipeline, which has delivered some of HP’s largest client partnerships. Previously, Hedley served as Lead Technology Consultant for NM Financial Management, spearheading a number of technology and business workstreams throughout the acquisition of NM by Friends Provident. Prior to that, Hedley worked at Lloyds Bank for 16 years, holding a number of technology leadership roles including Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer. During this time, Hedley led the implementation of the bank’s first cloud service and worked to strengthen ties between the business and IT leaders. Hedley studied Geology at Portsmouth University before transitioning into Financial Services.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Satish Iyer
Vice President, Products & Strategy, Hybrid Cloud of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jeff Kyle
Vice President, Mission Critical Solutions of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Daryl Ganas
Vice President, Global Information Technology of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Daryl Ganas is Vice President for Enterprise Group Information Technology for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role he is responsible for all IT customer engagement and solutions for the Enterprise Group.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Erik Vogel
Global Vice President, Customer Experience of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, University of Utah: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Randy Meyer
Vice President and General Manager, Mission Critical Systems of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jesse Chavez
Vice President, WW Channels Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jesse Chavez is vice president of Worldwide Partner Programs and Operations with the charter to develop and enhance the Partner Ready program and aligning all partner programs under the Partner Ready umbrella. Jesse is responsible for overall channel strategy and driving the operational framework for key channel initiatives. Jesse is also responsible to drive growth in the channel by partnering closely with GEO channel leaders, the business units, and channel marketing. Jesse comes to HPE with more than 25 years of experience in sales and management, new market and channel development, and strategic planning. Prior to joining HP, Jesse was vice president of Worldwide Systems Channel at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for overseeing the Oracle/Sun channel integration. Before the Oracle/Sun merger, Jesse held various sales and executive positions during his tenure at Sun Microsystems. Jesse was vice president of Global Partner Sales, where he executed the Partner strategy for a $7.2B Sun channel and vice president of the Global Systems Integrator organization, where he drove the worldwide strategy, created go-to-market solutions, and strengthened strategic alliances. Jesse has also held various sales positions, from regional and district management roles to a sales representative in the field. Jesse holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Laurel Krieger
Vice President, Strategy and Operations, Chief of Staff for the CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Donna Grothjan
Vice President of WW Distribution, Enterprise Group of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Kirk Bresniker
Hewlett Packard Labs Chief Architect and VP of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Kirk Bresniker is Chief Architect of Hewlett Packard Labs and an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow and Vice President. He joined Labs in 2014 to drive The Machine Research and Advanced Development program, leading teams across Labs and across HPE business units with the goal of demonstating and evangelizing the benefits of Memory-Driven Computing. His current focus is accelerating the transfer of technologies from The Machine research program in order to drive differentiating value into existing product categories as well as disruptive new offeings. Prior to joining Labs, Kirk was Vice President and Chief Technologist in the HP Servers Global Business Unit representing 25 years of innovation leadership. Joining HP as a PA-RISC system hardware engineer in 1989, he has always been a part of the Business Critical Systems team. In 1993, he was the design lead for the first HP entry-level multi-processor system which broke new ground in terms of low-cost, high performance design. Following that, he was the design lead for the entire D-class PA-RISC product family, one of the highest volume BCS product families ever introduced. Starting in 1997, Kirk began a decade-long research and development effort to develop novel new modular system architectures which would eventually become a new category of integrated hardware and software offerings known as Blade Servers. This early work was eventually refined and blended with the contributions of the combined HP-Compaq merger lead to become HP BladeSystem c-Class, the undisputed leader in Blade Server platforms. In 1999, he was the key architect for all PA-RISC and Itanium entry and mid-range servers and oversaw a complete re-vamp of the product line and prepared for the PA-RISC to Itanium transition. From 2000 onwards, Kirk oversaw the transformation of the HP-UX UNIX and fault tolerant NonStop to blades to extend BladeSystem to the misison critical market, culminating in the Superdome X mission critical X86 blade platform, the highest performing HPE Mission Critical ProLiant system ever created. It was also during this period that he lead the earliest investigations into what would become The Machine Research program. Kirk current holds 28 US and 10 foreign patents in areas of modular platforms and blade systems, integrated circuits, and power and environmental control. He graduated in 1989 Cum Laude from Santa Clara University with a BSEE and was also a member of the Humanities Honors program.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Chuck Lukaszewski
Vice President, Wireless Strategy & Standards of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Dave Stevens
EVP Strategy of Forcepoint
Dave Stevens has been an investor, entrepreneur, and operating executive in the technology industry for more than 25 years. Dave was a co-founder of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2008. In that role, he developed the foundational vision and market entry strategy for the company’s transformative technology. Dave also served as a Venture Partner at Foundation Capital where he was responsible for investments in the communications, computing, storage and wireless sectors. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development for Brocade, where he led the company’s technology strategy, key business initiatives, M&A and investment portfolio as it focused on the evolving data center infrastructure within enterprises, cloud service providers and federal markets.Dave holds a BS, Electrical Engineering and a MS, Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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About Forcepoint, OnlineSoccerAcademy.com: Forcepoint empowers organizations to concentrate on what’s most important to them while automating routine security tasks.
Linh Huynh
VP, Business Development of SecureKey Technologies
VP, Business Development at SecureKey Technologies.
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About SecureKey Technologies: SecureKey is the identity and authentication service provider that gives consumers secure and convenient access to critical online services.
Didier Serra
EVP, Sales and Marketing of SecureKey Technologies
Didier Serra, EVP Sales & Marketing, leads all of SecureKey’s market-facing activities including sales, channel partnerships, technology partnerships, marketing, and program delivery. He brings SecureKey two decades of experience in contactless, near field communication (NFC), and secure microprocessors together with broad engineering, operational, sales and marketing experience in international markets.
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About SecureKey Technologies: SecureKey is the identity and authentication service provider that gives consumers secure and convenient access to critical online services.
Todd Vender
VP Engineering & Operations of Menlo Security
Todd Vender is VP of engineering at Menlo Security, responsible for both product development and operations. Todd brings more than 20 years of experience leading, innovating, and driving both cloud and on premise product development across multiple areas including web portals, data integration, content management, search, and collaboration. Prior to Menlo Security, Todd was vice president of engineering at Oracle where he was responsible for the WebCenter and Portal platform suites consisting of several industry-leading products including Oracle WebCenter, Weblogic Portal and Oracle Portal.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Lennart van den Ende
VP Sales Engineering of Menlo Security
Lennart van den Ende, VP of Worldwide Sales Engineering is a cyber security veteran with extensive security technology and sales engineering experience, who builds and leads high performing global sales engineering teams. Lennart joins Menlo Security from FireEye, where he built the worldwide SE organization leading to FireEye’s IPO and led the sales engineering transition of IronPort into the Cisco Security portfolio. Lennart is a graduate of UC Berkeley and emigrated to the US from the Netherlands.
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About Menlo Security: Menlo Security is a cyber security company that protects organizations from malware.
Michael Cichon
VP Digital & Content Marketing of Agari
Michael Cichon is a Silicon Valley-based marketing exec with specialties in brand strategy, digital marketing, content marketing and product marketing. He currently serves as CMO for 1Kosmos. Previously he has served as VP of Digital and Content Marketing at Agari and at ThreatMetrix and has held director-level roles with responsibilities for demand generation, sales enablement, event management, press relations and branding at companies including VMWare, KANA Software (Verint), Arena Solutions, Ketera (Deem), Aspect Development (I2) and Oracle. Combined he has over 20 years of experience helping b2b technology companies in various aspects of go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. Mike is a graduate of Purdue University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math / Computer Science.
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About 1Kosmos – BlockID, Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sheryl Hawk
VP of Customer Success of Agari
Sheryl Hawk is Agari’s VP of Customer Success and is responsible for driving a customer centric strategy and initiatives across the company, Sheryl’s organization is responsible for managing renewal and upsell revenue for Agari as well as all customer health, adoption activities, and advocacy initiatives. She has over 25 years of experience in leading teams responsible for the customer journey both pre and post sales. Most recently, Sheryl led Customer Success at WhiteHat Security where she transformed the Customer Success team, bringing all post sales customer facing functions under the customer success umbrella. Prior to her role at WhiteHat, Sheryl spent 4 years as SVP Customer Success at Conversica, an AI sales enablement company where she built and grew the customer success function. Prior to Conversica she held VP Sales and Success roles at various ecommerce technology companies. Sheryl has a degree in Marketing from CSU Fresno, enjoys mentoring CSMs and trying new recipes.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Sabina Knotter-Finney
VP of Business Operations of Agari
Sabina Knotter-Finney is VP of Business Operations at Agari, where she is responsible for leading sales operations and building the system infrastructure for all business units. Prior to Agari, Knotter-Finney worked in business operations at MongoDB and in product management at Oracle.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Seth Knox
Vice President of Marketing of Agari
Seth helps customers around the world to understand new, internet scale, data driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyber attacks. He keeps tabs on the emails threat landscape and shares that with the industry analysts, press and IT Security professionals.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Norma Lane
CHRO , Executive Vice President, People & Places, of Infoblox
Norma Lane is the CHRO, Executive Vice President, People & Places at Infoblox.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Craig Sanderson
Vice President of Infoblox
Craig Sanderson is the Senior Director of Product Management for Infoblox security solutions. Craig has been in the security industry for 19 years in a number of roles including Technical Consultant, Solution Architect, Product Manager and Business Development manager. Having worked on a range of security technologies, Craig is now focused on developing solutions that prevent the abuse of DNS and enabling customers to leverage their network infrastructure to better secure their data, assets and people.
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About Infoblox: Infoblox develops network identity solutions enabling businesses to automate network control functions to reduce costs and boost security.
Felix Sterling
SVP of General Counsel & Global Legal Team of Trend Micro
As the leader of Trend Micro’s global legal department, Felix leads a team with legal oversight responsibility for corporate governance, compliance, product development, channels, sales, human resources, business operations, and all other legal matters for Trend Micro and its global subsidiaries. Felix also leads Trend Micro’s Global Policy Council, serves as the North America Site Executive, and drives various cross-functional initiatives to optimize business processes and support the SaaS business model.Prior to joining Trend Micro, Felix was a vice president and AGC at VeriSign. He had previously been a member of the Yahoo! legal team, after starting his legal career in the litigation and technology transaction groups of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a premier technology law firm. Before law school, he studied cognitive science and human factors engineering in graduate school and worked in the Flight Human Factors Division at the NASA-Ames Research Center. Felix holds a juris doctor degree from the University of California at Davis, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the King Hall Advocate and the Western U.S. A.B.A. moot court champion. He also holds a bachelor’s degree (with honors) from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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About Trend Micro: Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader with enterprise and SMB security solutions for cloud, XDR, endpoint, email, and networks.
Cliff Liang
VP, Research of Trend Micro
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About Trend Micro: Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader with enterprise and SMB security solutions for cloud, XDR, endpoint, email, and networks.
Richard Ku
Sr. Vice President Commercial IoT Security Business and Market Development of Trend Micro
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About Trend Micro: Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader with enterprise and SMB security solutions for cloud, XDR, endpoint, email, and networks.
Mitchel Chang
Senior Vice President of Trend Micro
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About Trend Micro: Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity leader with enterprise and SMB security solutions for cloud, XDR, endpoint, email, and networks.
Syed Zaheer
Vice President Operations of Cavium
Syed A. Zaheer has served as our Vice President of Operations since 2001. Prior to joining us, from 2000 to August 2001, Mr. Zaheer served as Director of Product and Test Engineering for the Internetworking Products Division of Integrated Device Technology, an integrated circuit supplier, where he brought several high volume processor and PHY products to production. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Product Engineering manager for Centuar Technology, a subsidiary of IDT. He received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and an MSEE degree from Arizona State University.
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About Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Sylvain Gil
Co-founder & VP Product Strategy of Exabeam
Sylvain brings 20 years of experience in building, deploying and supporting information security products for large and medium enterprises. Previously, Sylvain held senior-level roles at Imperva where he led product management and product marketing for application security, as well as Imperva’s worldwide customer support and professional services organization. Sylvain also led North American technical support and services for Solsoft (acquired by LogLogic). Sylvain has a software engineering degree from the Leonard de Vinci school of Melun, France.
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About Exabeam: Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Anastasia Pavlova
Vice President, Growth and Demand Generation of OneLogin
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About OneLogin: OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Gary McCloud
Vice President of Business Development of OpenVPN
Gary McCloud is Vice President of Business Development at OpenVPN Inc.
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About OpenVPN, OpenVPN: OpenVPN Technologies provides premier VPN security software and web-scale VPN service based on open source innovation.
John Donnelly
Vice President Of Worldwide Sales of CloudKnox Security
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About CloudKnox Security: CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities.
Rajarshi Gupta
VP and Head of AI of Avast
Rajarshi Gupta is the Head of AI at Avast Software, one of the largest consumer security companies in the world. He has a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and has built a unique expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and networking. Prior to joining Avast, Rajarshi worked for many years at Qualcomm Research, where he created ‘Snapdragon Smart Protect’, the first ever product to achieve On-Device Machine Learning for Security. Rajarshi has authored over 200 issued U.S. Patents, and is featured on the Wikipedia page for most prolific inventors in history.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Rajarshi Gupta
VP and Head of AI of Avast
Rajarshi Gupta is the Head of AI at Avast Software, one of the largest consumer security companies in the world. He has a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and has built a unique expertise at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and networking. Prior to joining Avast, Rajarshi worked for many years at Qualcomm Research, where he created ‘Snapdragon Smart Protect’, the first ever product to achieve On-Device Machine Learning for Security. Rajarshi has authored over 200 issued U.S. Patents, and is featured on the Wikipedia page for most prolific inventors in history.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Alpa Jain
Vice President, API Center of Excellence of Experian
Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support. Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America. Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Angela Granger
Vice President of Experian
Angela Granger is Vice President of Experian With over 20 years of experience in analytics, Angela Granger leads a team responsible for the design and delivery of advanced analytical solutions which accelerate the profitable growth and market position of Experian clients. Since joining Experian in 1993, Granger has leveraged the latest statistical techniques in predictive modelling, data intelligence and business intelligence to maximise clients’ return on investment. She plays an instrumental role in analytics research and development, having participated in the design and commercial introduction of several advanced analytics products and services aimed at helping clients predict customer behaviour and effectively manage a wide range of decisions related to repayment of debt, account utilisation, default and fraud prevention. Prior to her current role at Experian, she was with HSBC where she was responsible for bankcard portfolio inbound call cross-sell strategies and acquisitions. Granger is named as an inventor on a US patent, Credit Portfolio Benchmarking, which defines a system and method for analysing massive amounts of current and historical trade data across financial institutions to allow peer group performance comparisons.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ansa Sekharan
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Success Officer of Informatica
Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president and Chief Customer Success Officer, leads Informatica’s Global Customer Support and Informatica University, where he is responsible for establishing Informatica as a trusted partner for customers worldwide by ensuring their success with Informatica’s products. Additionally, Ansa leads Informatica’s Education Services division, with a focus on role-based training programs to ensure the organization gets the most out of investment in Informatica products. Ansa was an early employee at Informatica starting in 1996. During his tenure, Informatica has received prestigious industry awards recognizing its support services, including being ranked number one in customer loyalty in the data integration enterprise software sector for 11 years in a row. Prior to joining Informatica, Ansa was a veteran of Sybase, where he held numerous customer services roles. He graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Technology, India.
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About Active Endpoints, Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Kathryn Kane
Vice President, Brand, Creative and Digital Media of Informatica
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Doug Barnett
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Informatica
Doug Barnett is the EVP & CFO at Sabre Corporation.
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About Informatica, Sabre Corporation: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Bill Burns
Chief Trust Officer and VP, Cloud Business Transformation Strategy of Informatica
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About Informatica, RSA Conference: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Graeme Thompson
SVP & Chief Information Officer of Informatica
Graeme Thompson is the SVP & Chief Information Officer at Informatica.
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About Informatica: Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Sreenivas Gukal
Co-founder & VP Engineering of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
Christopher Hernandez
Sector VP NG Next of Northrop Grumman
Sector VP NG Next at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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About Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman is a global security company providing solutions for sectors such as aerospace, electronics and technical services.
Mark Beebe
Vice President, Global Customer Success of Abnormal Security
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About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Ken Liao
Vice President of Marketing of Abnormal Security
Ken Liao is the VP of Marketing, bringing in over 13 years of information security experience. Ken spent nearly eight years leading product marketing efforts at Proofpoint, followed by executive roles at Malwarebytes and JASK.
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About Abnormal Security, Sevco Security: Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Asaf Shen
VP Products of Sansa Security
Mr. Shen joined Discretix in 2005 and has accumulated extensive engineering and marketing experience in security related IP products. Previously, he served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing for the company’s IP product portfolio. Prior to that he served as Discretix’ VLSI team manager and IP projects manager. Before joining Discretix, Mr. Shen was a VLSI team manager at Tioga Technologies, a spinoff of its parent company, Orckit Communications. Mr. Shen holds a BSc (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University.
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About Sansa Security, Tioga Technologies: Sansa Security is the only comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) security platform securing everything from chipsets to the cloud.
Michael Yang
Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary of Proofpoint
Michael Yang is responsible for Proofpoint’s worldwide legal affairs including licensing, intellectual property protection, compliance and corporate governance. Mr. Yang brings to Proofpoint more than 15 years of international business and legal experience at both public and privately-held companies. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Mr. Yang developed and led the corporate legal function and later the products and technology group as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of VMware, Inc., as that company grew from $200 million to over $2 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Yang has also held executive and senior management roles as an attorney for Medialive International and Openwave (as well as its predecessor, Software.com, where he contributed to that company’s successful IPO and subsequent merger with Phone.com). He began his practice as an intellectual property attorney in the Los Angeles offices of Baker Hostetler. He holds an A.B. in government from Cornell University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Kevin Epstein
SVP & GM, Premium Security Services Group of Proofpoint
Kevin Epstein is a Silicon Valley marketing executive with a Stanford MBA, a degree in high-energy nuclear physics, several technology patents in his name, founding experience at three successful small-business retail ventures, and more than fifteen subsequent years of experience in guerrilla marketing tactics at companies including Netscape, RealNetworks, Inktomi, VMware, and Scalent Systems. He has spoken at seminars addressing top executives from the Fortune 500, has been a popular guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering, and has received various awards for his impact on sales and lead generation. Kevin also serves as an outside adviser to various venture-backed and individual entrepreneurial start-up companies. Prior such associations include CDnow (now an Amazon.com brand), Devicescape (funded by Kleiner Perkins, venture backers of Netscape), Skyrider, and YouSendIt. Kevin also moderates the VMwareAlumni.org and SVBrownAlums.org communities.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Elad Horn
Vice President, Product Management of Proofpoint
Elad has 20 years of experience managing products and leading teams, and is currently VP of product management for Proofpoint’s CASB and Unified DLP. Before joining Proofpoint, he was enSilo’s VP of products. Prior to enSilo, Elad was a Principal Product Manager at EMC, responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap and requirements of several products. Before that, Elad managed Imperva’s leading enterprise security product. Elad has also held engineering roles and led software teams at Intel and Marvell. Elad holds an MBA in finance from IDC Herzliya, Israel, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In his spare time, you’ll find Elad competing in Ironman triathlons.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Bhagwat Swaroop
EVP and GM, Email Security of Proofpoint
om the Delhi Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School.
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About One Identity, Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Michael Covington
VP of Product of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Roberta Gamble
Partner and VP of Frost & Sullivan
Roberta Gamble has over 17 years expertise consulting Global 1000 companies on market entry and expansion strategy, brand and demand, geographical expansion strategies and new market entry. She oversees a team of analysts and consultants with expertise across the energy and environment value chain, including oil & gas, power generation, power grids, energy storage, buildings, and water infrastructure. Her own research and expertise has focused on: •Thee convergence of IT and OT across oil & gas and power •Digital transformation of power grid and manufacturing •Smarter cities Roberta has headlined numerous key industry events and has been quoted and interviewed in national publications including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and NPR. She is a Partner and Vice President at Frost & Sullivan, and Global Business Unit Leader for the Energy and Environment team, which has over 100 analysts and consultants worldwide covering global energy, environment and infrastructure markets.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Alpa Shah
Global VP, ICT Research of Frost & Sullivan
Alpa Shah has been managing research and consulting projects at Frost & Sullivan for over six years. She oversees the development process of several market service teams – including areas such as Conferencing, Contact Center/CRM & Communications Infrastructure – to ensure timely delivery of high-quality materials. As a manager of these teams, Ms. Shah is also responsible for ensuring the success of projects undertaken. Ms. Shah is also involved in annual and quarterly business planning, from which goals and strategies are designed for the growth of all three teams. Throughout the years, Ms. Shah has been involved in various consulting projects involving unified messaging, conferencing, premises wiring, speech recognition and contact center products. These projects have been strategic in nature as the primary focus was to help clients successfully meet their business goals. Prior to joining Frost and Sullivan, Ms. Shah worked for Smith Barney for 5 years in its accounting division handling incentive compensation plans. In this position she was responsible for the capital accumulation and deferred compensation plans of top management and account executives. Thereafter, she worked as an account executive at Edward Jones. In these positions, Ms. Shah learned much about the operations of a financial company, financial instruments, and sales techniques. Ms. Shah received an MBA in Marketing from Hofstra University and a BS in Accounting from New York University.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Chris Park
Co-founder & VP, Engineering of Material Security
Chris Park currently works as the Co-founder and VP of Engineering for Material Security. He previously worked at Dropbox as the Engineering Manager.
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About Material Security: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization’s users and data.
Tom Klein
General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Persistent Systems
Tom Klein is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He joined Persistent in 2014 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in technology law including an extensive focus on start-up and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions as well as domestic and international intellectual property transactions. Tom is based in the company’s North American headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. Tom is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago School of Law. Most recently Tom was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and before that spent 20 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., the last 13 as a partner. Since 2001 Tom has been an adjunct professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension from 2008-2010, an adjunct lecturer in securities regulation at Stanford Law School, and a visiting professor in the Master of Laws program at UC Davis Law School, teaching securities regulation. Tom has authored over 30 publications on legal topics, has lectured widely in his areas of legal expertise, and has served as moderator for numerous panels on legal and business topics in Silicon Valley.
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About Persistent Systems, Santa Clara University School of Law: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Piotr Gajos
Vice President of Brand Expression & Design of Persistent Systems
Piotr Gajos is the Vice President of Brand Expression and Design at Persistent Systems.
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About Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Stephen Hilton
Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Robert Glass
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Tami Munns
SVP, Corporate Services-Staffing of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Paula Streit
Senior Vice President, Corporate Services – Protiviti of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Evelyn Crane-Oliver
Senior Vice President – Secretary and General Counsel of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
Christopher Hoffmann
Senior Vice President & Global Privacy Officer of Robert Half International
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About Robert Half International: Robert Half is a professional services company and is the world’s first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm.
