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This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Network Security space. If you think a President 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.
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.
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.
Ryan M. Gillis
Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy & Global Policy of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan M. Gillis is the Vice President, Cybersecurity Strategy & Global Policy 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.
Ari Hiroshi
President of Palo Alto Networks
Ari Hiroshi is the 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.
Ryan Olson
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan Olson is the director of Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team; responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Olson served as Senior Manager in Verisign’s iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. He is a contributing author to the book,”Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures,” and primary author of “Cyber Security Essentials.” He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Ryan Olson
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Palo Alto Networks
Ryan Olson is the director of Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team; responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Olson served as Senior Manager in Verisign’s iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. He is a contributing author to the book,”Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures,” and primary author of “Cyber Security Essentials.” He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Jared Phipps
Vice President Worldwide Sales Engineering of SentinelOne
Jared has been involved in cybersecurity professionally since 2001, and is passionate not only about technology, but also with effective use of technology to solve real problems. Jared is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineering at SentinelOne, where he gets to use his passion for technology and experience in cybersecurity daily as he advises various prospects and clients through security projects. He spent the prior 6 years leading the sales engineering, processional services and incident response teams at Fidelis Cybersecurity. Prior to joining Fidelis he worked for MITRE supporting NSA Cryptographic Modernization Programs for the United States Air Force. Jared is a veteran of the United States Air Force where he worked in cyber defense and offensive cyber operations.
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About SentinelOne: SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
Ritesh Idnani
President of Tech Mahindra
Ritesh Idnani As the CEO and Vice Chairman of ISGN, Ritesh Idnani leads the effort to scale the business through organic and inorganic growth. He is passionate about ISGN’s vision to become a transformational partner to lenders and servicers through innovative, end-to-end mortgage solutions that leverage both mortgage technology platforms and mortgage outsourcing services. He believes this comprehensive product offering along with our deep mortgage process experience uniquely positions ISGN for growth in the marketplace. Ritesh has more than 17 years experience in the Business Process Outsourcing and IT Services sectors with the last 13 years assisting global corporations to source strategies, implement governance models and grow revenues. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Infosys BPO, an Infosys Limited company and India’s second largest IT services and consulting firm. During his tenure, he successfully scaled the BPO business from USD $40M in 2005 to approximately USD $500M in 2011 with industry leading margins. Between 1999 and 2005, Ritesh took the Infosys financial services technology business from USD $30M to USD $500M. During his career, Ritesh has also held management positions at both Citibank and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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About Tech Mahindra, Uniphore: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
Chad Walters
Vice President of Engineering of Praetorian
Chad brings his enthusiasm and experience for creating, growing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams. He has held prior leadership roles at IBM, Lombardi Software, Amazon, and Marsh.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Ryan Macia
Vice President, Finance of Praetorian
Finance professional with expertise developing scalable, data-driven financial operating models and reporting to support executive level planning and decision-making.
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About Praetorian: Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the world safer and more secure.
Terry Ledger
Owner & President of Managed IT Services Boston
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Jeannie Cho
Vice President, Finance of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Kevin Donovan
Vice President of Sales Americas of BioCatch
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About BioCatch: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
John Burger
Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Infrastructure of ReliaQuest
John Burge is the chief information security officer at ReliaQuest.
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About ReliaQuest: ReliaQuest provides a SaaS security platform designed to minimize data loss and business disruptions.
Arif Kareem
President/CEO of ExtraHop
Arif Kareem has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at ExtraHop Networks, Inc. since July 26, 2016 and December 15, 2016 respectively. Mr. Kareem served as President of Fluke Networks. During his tenure, he realigned and expanded the Fluke Networks’s product portfolio to provide greater visibility across networks and cloud applications, improve the end-user experience and increase business value. He also oversaw the acquisition and integration of Air Magnet and ClearSight Networks. He joined RadiSys Corporation in July 1997 as Vice President of Telecom Business Unit and served as its Vice President and General Manager of Telecommunications Division since October 1997 and Senior Vice President since October 2000. Since February 2002, Mr. Kareem served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Corporate Marketing at RadiSys Corporation. From 1980 to 1997 Mr. Kareem held various engineering and marketing management positions at Tektronix, Inc. before serving as General Manager of Tektronix’s Telecom Product Line and subsequently General Manager of the Communications Test Business Unit. Mr. Kareem holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.
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About ExtraHop: ExtraHop helps organizations to stop advanced threats with security that can’t be undermined, outsmarted, or compromised.
Amir Khan
President , CEO & Founder of Alkira
Amir Khan brings decades of experience in the networking industry and has a proven track record of forming teams to deliver products in both the Enterprise & Service Provider space. Prior to vIPtela, Amir was senior director of product management at Juniper Networks with P&L responsibility for Juniper’s Enterprise routing portfolio comprised of MX & M series. At Juniper, Amir led Juniper’s foray into the Enterprise routing space with focus on Data-Center, Campus and Wide Area. Under Amir’s leadership, Juniper grew its Enterprise business to multiple 100s of millions of dollars in 3 years. Prior to Juniper, Amir was at Cisco and led their IOS routing software, Desktop switching and NG wiring closet strategy. Amir has also held multiple leadership positions in product management and marketing at Procket (core routing), Nortel (Accelar & Passport) and Bay Networks. Amir has a MS degree in Computer Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an avid squash player and has completed a Triathlon.
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About Alkira: Alkira offers a hybrid/multi-cloud network with network services, visibility, and governance.
Jay Bavisi
President & Co-Founder of EC – Council
Jay Bavisi is the award-winning founder and President of the EC-Council Group, a global leader in cybersecurity consultancy, training, education, publishing, events, and certification. EC-Council was formed following the 9/11 incident and addresses issues of cybersecurity and cyber terrorism which is at the forefront of security of nations at large. EC-Council is the owner and developer of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), Certified Blockchain Professional (C|BP) and Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) (Master) programs. He is a multi disciplinary cyber security expert that has helped executives of global institutions like the International Telecommunications Union, United Nations, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, Dow Jones, Lloyd’s, Merrill Lynch, Microsoti Shell, HSBC, Hewleti Packard, IBM, Standard Chartered, American Express, MCIS –Zurich, KPMG, Deloitie Consulting, EY, Trend Micro, IDC, Royal Australian Air Force, China Mobile and AT&T think through their cyber security strategy.
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About EC – Council: EC-Council Offers Online Education
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.
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.
Steve Grobman
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of McAfee
Steve Grobman is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer 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.
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.
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.
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.
Sandra Joyce
Senior Vice President, Head of FireEye Mandiant Intelligence 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.
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.
Kara Long
VicePresident, Worldwide Sales, Planning, and Programs of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Throughout her 20+-year career, Kara Long has worked in several capacities toward one goal – connecting customers with the right opportunities for their growth. Starting with a firmly-held belief that solving customer problems is the singular key to good business, Kara’s outside-in approach couples with her proven business acumen to drive results for HPE and its customers. As Senior Director of Service Provider Growth Markets within HPE Servers, Kara leads a cross-functional team of engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, channel and services professionals with a simple mandate: deliver the right product at the right cost at the right time, every time. Kara and her team turn meaningful customer conversations into delivered infrastructure solutions that help clients win today and grow tomorrow. Previously, Kara led HPE’s Core Enterprise Server marketing group, managing all outbound marketing efforts for the world’s best-selling server platform. Prior to that, Kara served as an M&A Executive for Dell’s Software Security and Cloud Compute businesses and as Co-Lead of Services Strategy and Consumer Marketing, where she was recognized with the Vice President’s “Most Valuable Player” Award for her stewardship of Dell’s multi-billion dollar Services business.
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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.
George Hope
Vice President, WW Distribution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As the Vice President of Global Channels, George is responsible for building a loyal, motivated and self-sufficient ecosystems of partners to increase Simplivity’s market reach. George joined Simplivity from EMC, where he spent the last 17 years in a number of Sales and Channel Management roles. Most recently, he was the Sr. Director of Global Channels for EMC’s Isilon Division. Prior to that, he led the US Field Channel team for all product lines. George holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Simplivity: 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.
Phillip Cutrone
Vice President & General Manager, Worldwide OEM, Hybrid IT, Data Center Infrastructure Group of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Phil Cutrone is the Vice President and General Manager for the Worldwide OEM business within HPE Hybrid IT.
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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.
Saadat Malik
Vice President, IoT and Intelligent Edge Services 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.
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.
Jim O’Grady
Vice President HPEFS Global Asset Management 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.
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.
Chris Ogburn
Vice President, Global Marketing 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.
Irv Rothman
President & CEO 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.
Chuck Lukaszewski
Vice President, Wireless Strategy & Standards 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.
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.
Syed Ali
CEO, President, & Founder of Cavium
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an M.S.E from the University of Michigan.
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About Alif Semiconductor, Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure 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.
Anil Jain
Founding Member & Corporate Vice-President, IC Engineering of Cavium
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About Cavium: Cavium Networks develops and markets semiconductor processors for intelligent and secure networks.
Dan DeCloss
Founder, President and CEO of PlexTrac
Dan is the Founder and CEO of PlexTrac and has over 14 years of experience in Cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies including serving as Principal Consultant for Veracode. Aside from founding and running a security startup, Dan’s background and expertise is in application security and penetration testing, involving hacking networks, websites, and mobile applications for clients. He has also served as a Principal Security Engineer for the Mayo Clinic and a Sr. Security Advisor for Anthem – a Fortune 40 health insurance firm. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications. Dan has a passion for helping everyone understand cybersecurity at a practical level, ensuring that there is a good understanding of how to reduce their overall risk.
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About PlexTrac: PlexTrac is a cybersecurity platform for security teams of any size.
Nicole Zheng
Founder and President of Minim
Nicole Zheng is the Co- founder and CMO of Minim (OTCQB: MINM), the creator of innovative internet access products under the globally-recognized Motorola brand. While at Minim, she has been recognized by Entrepreneur as a Top Female Founder in the United States (2020). Prior to Minim, Nicole held the position of Chief Marketing Officer at cloud software companies Antidote Technologies and OnSIP (ACQ: Intrado). She has served as a board member of Alliance of Channel Women, a nonprofit on a mission to advance careers for women in the communications technology sector through education, community, and advocacy. Nicole holds a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering and B.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as business certifications from The Wharton School. She currently resides in Southampton, NY.
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About Minim, Zoom Telephonics (now Minim): Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Evan Blair
Co-Founder & Global Vice President of ZeroFOX
Evan Blair is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer at ZeroFOX. Prior to that, Evan was a member of the Accuvant Leadership Team where he led the multi-million dollar Partner Solutions practice. At the time of his departure, Accuvant was the 2nd largest privately held cyber security solutions provider, had recognized over $1 billion in revenue since inception, and had capabilities with over 175 global partners. In 2008, Evan joined Foster at Baltimore-based cyber start-up Ciphent, where he was responsible for executing the marketing and sales strategy for the organization. Charged with the ultimate goals of increasing sales, profitability, and revenue, Evan’s department supported the company’s three-year revenue growth rate of nearly 1000%. Previously, Evan held financial and business development roles at Application Security Inc. He began his career as a financial analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort in Manhattan, NY and holds a BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Sergio Caltagirone
Vice President, Threat Intelligence of Dragos
Sergio Caltagirone hunts evil. He spends days hunting hackers and evenings hunting human traffickers. During nine years with the US Department of Defense as a senior threat intelligence analyst and technical director, he hunted the most sophisticated cyber threats in the world. During over three years as Director of Threat Intelligence at Microsoft, he developed and implemented their threat intelligence program protecting billions of customers worldwide. Now as Director of Threat Intelligence and Analytics at Dragos, Sergio safeguards civilization through the protection of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. He created the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis proudly helping thousands of others bring more pain to adversaries by strengthening hunters and intelligence analysts. He also proudly serves as the Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO), leading a world-class all-volunteer team hunting human traffickers and finding their victims through data science and analytics working towards saving tens of millions of lives.
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About Dragos, Global Emancipation Network, Threat Intelligence Academy: Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company that detects and responds to threats in industrial controls systems.
Nat Natraj
Co-founder & President of Acalvio Technologies
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About Acalvio Technologies, AccuKnox: Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage, and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter.
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.
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.
Jock Breitwieser
Vice President, Global MarCom and Brand of Arcserve
Jock Breitwieser is Vice President of Global Marketing Communications (MarCom) & Brand at Arcserve. Previously, Jock was senior director MarCom and PR at StorageCraft, a company that provides award-winning backup, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions. Before that, Jock was director of corporate communications at TriNet, a strategic partner to small businesses for HR, benefits, payroll, employment law compliance, and risk reduction. Prior, he was head of global PR at Dell SonicWALL, where he directed strategy and execution for the company’s entire global PR, customer reference program, social media, speakers bureau and product reviews. At Dell, he managed a global, multi-million-dollar PR budget, 17 PR teams, and multiple contractors. He restructured and consolidated the global communications program, replaced all global agencies; developed positioning, messaging architecture, and communication strategy; drives awareness, SEO, and social media. With 20+ years of international communications expertise in agencies and in-house, Jock Breitwieser is an expert in MarCom and Public Relations, Analyst Relations, Social Media and Social Selling, Crisis Communications Corporate Communications, Messaging and Positioning. Since 2013, Jock has been very involved in social selling, digital media, and social media marketing. He helps individuals and businesses recognize and leverage the power of social media for business. In 2017, he was named one of the Top 100 social selling influencers. He holds an M.A. in contemporary history, law, and political sciences from the University of Bochum, Germany, and studied in Tours/France with a scholarship of the European Union. In his spare time, Jock enjoys international travel and competes in Triathlons.
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About Arcserve: Arcserve is a provider of data protection and recovery software that provides organizations with the assurance.
May Mitchell
Senior Vice President Marketing of iboss
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About iboss: iboss is a cloud security company that provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, and as a complete SaaS offering.
Newell Crane
Founder & Vice President of Emergynt
Newell Crane (Founder/Vice President) is a business-building veteran with a 40-year record of success in guiding businesses through the growth lifecycle. He is co-inventor of dry ice blasting technology in conjunction with Neil Armstrong and aerospace engineer David Moore, creator of the Cold Jet Company—a current worldwide leader in dry ice solutions, production technology, and industrial and environmental improvement operations—and founder of Del Crane Medical—medical equipment supplier and electronic medical record provider for the nursing home industry. Dr. Crane is a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and Pepperdine University graduate with a BS in Science, an MBA and PhD in Pharmacy Economics.
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About : Emergynt’s Instinct Engin allows companies to see around the corner by predicting tomorrow’s digital risks.
David Moreno
Vice President of Product Development of S2 Security Corporation
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About S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Kelly Ahuja
President & CEO of Versa Networks
Kelly Ahuja is President & CEO of Versa Networks. Kelly is a seasoned industry veteran with 25 years of experience in networking and telecommunications. He also advises several companies, entrepreneurs and serves on the board of directors for several startups. He spent 18 years at Cisco building and leading multiple businesses, most recently as SVP of Service Provider Business, Products & Solutions and several other roles leading large businesses prior to that. In his career Kelly has partnered with Service Providers globally to design, deploy and operate large scale Frame Relay, ATM, IP and Mobile (3G,4G,Wifi) networks. Earlier in his career, he worked for Service Providers designing, building and operating large scale networks. Today, he is in the midst of the largest transformation in the industry with Software Defined Networking (SDN). He is leading Versa, a leader in software defined networking and security, enabling digital transformation with a highly reliable, automated and cost-effective corporate network. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary
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About Versa Networks: Versa is the SASE leader
Jeff Hussey
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Tempered
Jeff Hussey serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Tempered Networks.
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About Tempered: Tempered reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation.
Darren J. Milliken
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ForeScout Technologies
Darren J. Milliken Senior Vice President and General Counsel With over 20 years of legal, business and compliance experience, Darren leads global legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining ForeScout, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Accuray Inc. Before Accuray, he held several senior level legal roles at Sanmina-SCI, Voyan Technology, and the law firm of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
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About ForeScout Technologies: ForeScout Technologies provides enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of devices.
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk
President, CEO, and Co-Founder of SPARQ
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk is a President, CEO, and CO-Founder of SPARQ. He is also the President & CEO | Founder at Decision Point Global and serves as a Board Of Directors at Syngin Technology. Mr. Wojszczyk was the SVP & Chief Innovation Officer at MERALCO (First Pacific Company in Hong Kong). Dr. Bartosz graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with an MS an Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Power Systems.
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About SPARQ: SPARQ is a computer security service company specializing in building and integrating hardware systems and providing managed services.
Hitesh Sheth
President and CEO of Vectra
Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of Vectra. Previously, he held the position of chief operating officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from Juniper Networks, where he was EVP/GM of its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, he held a number of senior management positions in the switching organization at Cisco Systems, including running its metro Ethernet business. Before Cisco, he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. He started his career as a Unix programmer at The Santa Cruz Operation. Hitesh holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Vectra: Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Megan Heinze
President of IDEMIA
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About IDEMIA: IDEMIA offers identity and security solutions for an increasingly digital and connected world.
Michael Goldberg
Vice President Corporate Marketing of InterGuard Software
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About InterGuard Software: InterGuard is a full-featured employee monitoring software; offering recording, alerts, reports, app/program blocking and web filtering.
Andreas Baumhof
Vice President Quantum Technologies of QuintessenceLabs
Andreas Baumhof is an internationally renowned cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. As the technology lead for ThreatMetrix, Baumhof delivers the data science innovations behind the company’s pioneering anonymized global shared intelligence model. He is responsible for threat intelligence and malware research, as well as delivering innovations, such as clear-box machine learning, which keep ThreatMetrix solutions on the cutting edge. Baumhof was Co-Founder and CEO of TrustDefender before its acquisition by ThreatMetrix in 2012. He was also Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Microdasys Inc. where he developed the first SSL proxy and has patents in Europe and the U.S.
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About QuintessenceLabs: QuintessenceLabs provides data security technology, products, and solutions to protect sensitive digital data.
Edgard Capdevielle
President & CEO of Nozomi Networks
Edgard brings an extensive background in successfully managing and expanding markets for both start-ups and established technology companies to his role as CEO. Previously he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Imperva, where he led teams that made the company’s web and data security products leaders in their space. Prior to that he was a key executive at storage companies Data Domain and EMC. Focused on developing Nozomi Networks’ global business, Edgard’s tremendous passion, energy, vision and drive-to-win is being brought to bear on guiding Nozomi Networks to its next stage of development. Edgard has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About Nozomi Networks: Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity and operational visibility solutions for industrial control systems.
Brandt Mackey
Vice President, Field Engineering of AttackIQ
Brandt Mackey serves as VP of field engineering at AttackIQ.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
William Welch
President and Chief Operating Officer of Duo Security
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About Duo Security, Logikcull: Duo Security provides security software products and services.
Hugh Njemanze
President and Board Member of Anomali
Hugh Njemanze is Founder and CEO of ThreatStream. He was chief technology officer and vice president of Worldwide Research and Development for the HP Enterprise Security Products group. In this role, Njemanze served as the chief technologist, responsible for overseeing product strategy, development and support. Njemanze previously cofounded and served as chief technology officer and executive vice president of research and development for ArcSight, an HP company. Prior to ArcSight, Njemanze was chief technology officer of Verity Inc., a provider of knowledge retrieval software products. Njemanze is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Purdue University.
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About Anomali, HP Enterprise Services: Anomali is the leader in intelligence-driven extended detection (XDR) and response cybersecurity solutions.
Vice President & Global Head – Enterprise Business, Technology Partnerships & Marketing of ColorTokens
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About ColorTokens: ColorTokens simplifies, accelerates and automates micro-segmentation and zero trust security for all enterprise environments.
Pedro Paixao
General Manager and Vice President Latin America of Fortinet
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About Fortinet: Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products.
Jonathan Nguyen-Duy
Vice President, Global Field CISO Team of Fortinet
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About Fortinet, Fortinet: Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products.
Amir Mizhar
Founder, President & Chief Software Architect of Safe-T
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About Safe-T: Safe-T enables digital business (on-prem & in the cloud) by allowing access to applications, services & networks only after assessing trust.
Kingsley Idehen
Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software
Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software, a privately held company he started in 1992. Born in Manchester, England in 1965, Idehen was raised in both Great Britain and Nigeria. In the mid 1990s, he relocated to the USA, and OpenLink now has headquarters in both the US and UK. Under Kingsley’s leadership, OpenLink has been on the vanguard of data access, integration, and management, shipping a number of industry acclaimed products including: * OpenLink Virtuoso — a Universal Server for heterogeneous data virtualization, integration, and management, Virtuoso is the database behind DBpedia, the Linked Open Data cache, Sindice, and may other Linked Open Data Cloud oriented Data Spaces * OpenLink Universal Data Access Drivers — a suite of high-performance ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE-DB drivers for all major DBMS engines * OpenLink Data Spaces — a powerful platform for Personal Data Spaces (enterprise and InterWeb scales) * URIBurner — a publicly available service for generating 5-Star Linked Open Data from existing data sources (including HTML pages and various “Web 2.0” & Social Media APIs) *
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About OpenLink Software, W3C: Provides a modern platform for exploiting power of AI, Semantic Web, Cognitive Data Virtualization, and Multi-Model Data Management
Jim Jaeger
President & Chief Cyber Strategist of Arete Advisors
Jim Jaeger is the President and Cyber Strategist at Arete Advisors. In his role as Chief Cyber Services Strategist for General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Systems, Jim Jaeger is responsible for developing and evolving the company’s cyber services strategy while synchronizing it with product strategy. Jim previously managed the Network Defense and Forensics business unit, including the Digital Forensics Lab. He has led cyber forensics investigations into some of the largest network breaches impacting our industry. Jim Jaeger has also held a leadership role for a wide range of cyber programs including General Dynamics’ support for the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Computer Forensic Lab and the DefenseCyber Crime Institute. Previously, he created General Dynamics’ information assurance and critical infrastructure protection group, which has developed a wide variety of Information Assurance tools, ranging from the Air Force’s intrusion detection infrastructure to the only network based multi-level security (MLS) system accredited by the National Security Agency at Protection Level 4 without waivers. He is a former Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and his military service includes stints as the Director of Intelligence (J2) for the U.S. Atlantic Command, Assistant Deputy Director of Operations at the National Security Agency, and Commander of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. In these capacities, Jim Jaeger was responsible for the collection and reporting of intelligence to Theater Commanders and the National Command Authority. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Air Force Academy and his Master’s degree in Management & Supervision from Central Michigan University. He also completed the Executive Development Program at the Whitmore Graduate School of Business of the University of New Hampshire.
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About Arete Advisors, Fidelis Cybersecurity: Arete Advisors is a cybersecurity company providing an accelerated incident response for detecting and responding to cyber-attacks.
Melissa Lintinger
Senior Vice President, Production Finance of Comcast NBCUniversal
Melissa Lintinger is a dynamic, collaborative finance and operations leader with a history of successfully guiding organizations through periods of growth and transition. She has the ability to bring out the best in teams, combining exemplary interpersonal skills with a relentless drive for continuous improvement and change management based on sound strategic analysis. Melissa is currently the SVP of Production Finance for NBCUniversal’s TV Studios where she champions technology initiatives to align the production finance processes within NBCU with the rapidly transforming industry. Prior to joining NBCU, Melissa held various leadership positions in media including Vice President of Production Finance at Viacom/BET Networks, leading teams in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, CFO of Bombo Sports & Entertainment, a production company with offices in the US and UK, and head of Production Finance at Oxygen Media during its start up phase. Melissa earned a BS in Marketing and International Business with an Art History minor, and an MBA in Finance, from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Melissa lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, daughter and French bulldog. A recent emigrant from downtown Manhattan, she is acclimating to the clear and open skies of her hillside home. She is a member of Women in Cable Television (WICT), the New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) and Advancing Women Executives (AWE).
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About Chief, Comcast NBCUniversal: A media and entertainment company.
Marcello Coltro
Senior Vice President Marketing, Digital & Creative of Comcast NBCUniversal
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About Comcast NBCUniversal, Comcast NBCUniversal: A media and entertainment company.
Deborah Turness
President, NBC News International of Comcast NBCUniversal
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About Comcast NBCUniversal: A media and entertainment company.
Raffie Beroukhim
Senior Vice President, Chief Experience Officer of NEC Corporation
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About NEC Corporation: NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
Cindy Gagliano
President of MKACyber
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About MKACyber: A rapidly expanding Managed Security Operations Services Provider with elite SOC expertise.
James F. Brear
President & CEO of Veriflow
James Brear has proven experience driving high-growth startups to successful outcomes. Prior to joining Swimlane, James was Chief Executive Officer of Veriflow which was sold to VMWare in August 2019. Veriflow was launched in 2016 and quickly gained recognition as pioneers of Intent-Based Networking. Accolades include being named Gartner’s Cool Vendor, RSA Innovation Sandbox finalist, SC magazine Innovation award, Frost & Sullivan’s Top 10 to watch, Information Week’s vendors to watch and winner of Barclays innovation challenge. Previously, James was the Chief Executive Officer at Procera (NASDAQ:PKT) until its successful acquisition by Francisco Partners in August 2015. At Procera, James grew annual revenues in excess of 1100% in less than six years. He completed a public offering in 2012. Under James’s leadership, Procera was added to the S&P 600 and the Russell 2000—two of the world’s most widely followed stock market indices. James built Procera into a global leader in its industry as a six consecutive year winner of Deloitte’s Fast 500 award and Light Readings Public Company of the year finalist in 2012. Brear was also selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year regional semi-finalist in 2013. Prior to Procera, James was at Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel) and Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell). In addition, he spent five years with Cisco Systems with responsibility for delivering more than $900M in annual revenue. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Swimlane, Veriflow: Veriflow’s mission is to apply continuous verification to networks, preventing outages and vulnerabilities that lead to astronomical losses.
Ahmed Khurshid
Co-founder and Vice President of Veriflow
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About Veriflow: Veriflow’s mission is to apply continuous verification to networks, preventing outages and vulnerabilities that lead to astronomical losses.
Sean Yarborough
Vice President – Service Assurance of Spirent Communications
Sean is a Sr. Director at Spirent. As part of his role, Sean advises leading service providers around the world on best practices for activating, monitoring, and troubleshooting business, wireless, and residential services. Sean has over 20 years of strategy, product management, and product marketing experience in the telecommunications market. Sean has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.
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About Spirent Communications: Spirent Communications is a telecommunications company offering lab test solutions to evaluate the performance of the latest technologies.
Sameer Dixit
Vice President, Security Consulting of Spirent Communications
Sameer Dixit is a leader in cyber security with over 15 years of experience in penetration testing and security research. At Spirent, Sameer is leading the ethical hacking and security research team called Spirent Security Labs. Prior to Spirent, Sameer has worked for leading security companies such as Trustwave-SpiderLabs and Cenzic Inc. where he led the penetration testing, vulnerability scanning and managed security testing services team. Sameer has contributed research for OWASP, been quoted in various industry-leading security and business publications such as Security Week, Business Insider, ZDnet, SC Magazine, and more. Additionally, he has spoken at various Cyber Security Threat Summits, Universities, conducted webinars, and actively blogs on emerging Web & Mobile security trends.
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About Spirent Communications: Spirent Communications is a telecommunications company offering lab test solutions to evaluate the performance of the latest technologies.
Jackie Comp
Vice President, Sales of Nok Nok Labs
Jackie Comp currently works as Vice President dor Sales and Business Development at Nok Nok Labs. She previously worked at Symantec as Sr. Director Sales, Strategic Operations.
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About Nok Nok Labs: Nok Nok Labs is a security platform that provides online authentication solutions for organizations.
Jonathan Ferrell
Vice President Global Sales of PerimeterX
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About PerimeterX: PerimeterX offers a web security service, protecting web sites from modern security threats.
Anthony Dumont
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ordr of Ordr
Anthony Dumont is the senior vice president of worldwide sales at Ordr.
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About Constella Intelligence, Ordr: Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine for the hyper-connected enterprise.
Gregory F. Poch
Vice President of Sales of Sepio
Gregory F. Poch serves as the Vice President of Sales at Sepio Systems.
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About Sepio: Sepio helps enterprises managed hardware related risks using physical layer information.
Charles Curran
Co-founder & President of Armored Things
A leading venture investor / recruiter / partner with founders in game-changing data storage (and related) startups including LeftHand Networks (acq HP, $360m), Qumulo, and SolidFire. Also an investor in Jumptap, a tier-1 mobile marketing company. Have helped companies grow hundreds of millions of revenue, and grow by hundreds of employees. Invest nationally. 5-time assistant coach in youth baseball.
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About Armored Things, SolidFire: Armored Things delivers deep insights from powerful space analytics
Logan Brown
President & CEO of Exodus Intelligence
Logan is responsible for handling the business side of things at Exodus. While his background in film production may not have prepared him for his computer security career, he quickly got up to speed in 2008 and has since published and presented original research on reverse engineering, fuzzing, and vulnerability discovery. Although most of his time is spent with managerial tasks, Logan takes every opportunity to aid the team in developing cutting-edge exploitation techniques and research.
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About Exodus Intelligence, San Jac Saloon: Exodus Intelligence provides actionable security information through a vulnerability intelligence data feed.
Rick Holland
Vice President, Strategy of Digital Shadows
Rick has more than 15 years’ experience working in information security. Before joining Digital Shadows, he was a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, providing strategic guidance on security architecture, operations, and data privacy. Rick also served as an intelligence analyst in the US Army. He is currently the co-chair of the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit and holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Texas, Dallas. Rick regularly speaks at leading security conferences across the globe and has been interviewed by industry and business media including BBC News, CNN, Dark Reading, Motherboard, NPR, The Register and Wall Street Journal.
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About Digital Shadows, Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
Raj Motwane
Vice President, Global Services & Support of Tufin
Raj Motwane leads Tufin’s services, support, and customer success organizations. Raj is an accomplished technology business leader, with over 15 years of in-depth experience, as well as a track record of building and growing professional services, pre-sales, customer support, and business consulting teams; with P&L responsibilities within both Fortune 150 and start-up organizations. Raj received his Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University and MBA from Babson College.
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About Tufin: Tufin is an information technology company pioneering a policy-centric approach to security and IT operations.
Dana Wheeler
Founder, CEO, Director, and President of Plymouth Rock Technologies
Dana Wheeler is the Founder, CEO, Director, and President of Plymouth Rock Technologies. Previously General Manager of HXI (formerly Terabeam-HXI) millimeter-wave operation since July 2002. Prior to Terabeam, served as Chief Operating Officer for Harmonix Corporation. Over 30 years of experience in the millimeter wave industry. Dana has held senior management positions at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co. (now BAE Systems), M/A-COM and Millitech Corp. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
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About Plymouth Rock Technologies: Plymouth Rock Technologies is a publicly trading company that develops security screening technology solutions.
Joseph Abban
President and founding partner of VERSA Integrated Solutions
Joseph Abban is one of the founders of VERSA Integrated Solutions Inc. and the President. He works closely with VERSA’s CEO and executive team to collectively provide strategic oversight and industry leading best practices. He and the CEO are responsible for the vision and leadership of the organization. He is directly responsible for capital formation, financial health of VERSA and overseeing contract and customer engagements. He has over 20 years of Design and Architecture experience in the network and Telecommunication space allowing the company to grow in this arena. He provides leadership for the continued development of the company’s innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment. The primary responsibilities for him encompass a wide variety of strategic planning around governance, policy, resource allocation and business development. Prior to starting VERSA, Joseph served as a Senior Network Engineer at Apptis, Inc., where he was responsible for designing and implementing the IP telephony solution for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new White Oak campus which included 15 buildings and 11,000+ users. Joseph has also served as a Senior Enterprise Engineer for Avnet, Inc. where as a pre-sales engineer engaged in multiple customer solutions that have evolved today as a main stay in the Unified Communications industry. He has built enterprise-wide, standards-based network architecture for IP telephony drivers and created the building blocks for clients’ QoS/infrastructure, IP telephony strategies, Voice/unified messaging systems and system deployment guidelines. These experiences have helped him formulate his capability to analyze, assess and implement important decisions and develop innovative design and deployment strategies for VERSA’s customers. Joseph attended Howard University in Washington DC and studied electrical engineering. He has held multiple Cisco certifications including: Cisco Certified Designed Professional (CCDP), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Voice Specialist (CCVP) and Cisco Support Profession.
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About VERSA Integrated Solutions: VERSA Integrated Solutions is an American IT consulting company.
Holly Rollo
Senior Vice President & Worldwide Chief Marketing Officer of RSA Security
Seasoned executive leader with over 30 years in business transformation and growth in B2B technology. Proven results for organizations facing major market disruptions, turnarounds, transformations or pre/post-equity events. Expertise in cybersecurity, SaaS, martech, hybrid-cloud, enterprise applications and infrastructure. Core strengths in strategic planning, transformational leadership, scaling for growth, business operations and organizational change management. Former CMO & SVP at RSA Security, Fortinet and SumTotal Systems with other marketing leadership roles at FireEye, SuccessFactors, Cisco, SAP, Veritas, IBM/Tivoli and Young & Rubicam. Ms. Rollo speaks regularly on cybersecurity, digital transformation and transformational leadership and contributes to publications such as Harvard Business Review and Forbes. In addition, she serves as a board member for MYOB and Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business; and as an advisor for UJET and Pondurance.
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About FireEye, Fortinet, RSA Security, SuccessFactors, SumTotal Systems: RSA Security is a provider of security solutions for business acceleration and security activities.
