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Cindy Valladares

Product Marketing Director, Onapsis

Cindy Valladares is a cybersecurity professional, currently leading the product marketing team Onapsis. Ms. Valladares has been a speaker at various security, risk and privacy conferences in North America, Europe and Latin America, is a regular contributor to the Onapsis blog, shares her perspective on Twitter @cindyv, and would love to connect on LinkedIn. She holds an international MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and a BBA in Marketing and International Business.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Erich Kron

Security Awareness Advocate, KnowBe4

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years' experience in the medical, aerospace manufacturing and defense fields. He is the former security manager for the 2nd Regional Cyber Center-Western Hemisphere and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, MCITP and ITIL v3 certifications, among others. He has managed the technical integration and functional testing of multi-million-dollar enterprise level technology projects within the Department of Defense, as well as large military security programs. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training and educational opportunities to succeed in the InfoSec industry.

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John Downey

Vice President, Sales, Acronis SCS

John Downey is the Vice President of Sales for Acronis SCS. John has 15 years of experience selling enterprise information security and data protection software to the US Public Sector. He has deep expertise in mapping product capabilities to key US federal government policies, creating enterprise license agreements for systems integrators, and developing sales and channel strategies to maximize customer attainment and satisfaction. John received his bachelor degree from Towson University. He resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.

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Haris Shafiq

Director of Product, Virtru

Haris has been with Virtru since 2017, initially joining to create and lead enterprise deployment strategy, then transitioning into a leadership role on the Product eam. He is responsible for overseeing Virtru's File Protection portfolio. Prior to Virtru, Haris was building products at Opower, a successful Washington D.C.green-tech startup. His passion for uncovering problems and creating solutions for people has been a primary motivator throughout his career.

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Shakeel Khan

Business Manager, APJ, Zscaler

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Anoop Das

Enterprise Manager, Middle East and India, Mimecast

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Vishak Raman

Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC

Vishak Raman currently serves as Director, Security Business, Cisco India & SAARC. He brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Information Security Services space with stints in product management, sales, marketing and business development. Prior to joining Cisco , Raman was the Sr. Regional Director - India & SAARC at FireEye. Raman also served as the Global Head of Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Managed Security Services (MSS) business at Tata communications. Prior to joining Tata Communications, he was the Sr. Regional Director for Fortinet (India/SAARC region) and is credited with having built Fortinet's Unified Threat Management success story in India/SAARC. Raman was also instrumental in setting up the first-of-its-kind Global Technical Assistance Center at Bangalore for providing support to Fortinet's customers worldwide. Prior to Fortinet, he worked at WatchGuard, Sify and HCL Technologies.

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Cris Ewell

CISO, UW Medicine

Ewell, PhD, is CISO at University of Washington Medicine. Previously, he was CISO of Seattle Children's Hospital. Before that, he served as the director of information security operations at the University of Washington, chief security officer for PEMCO Corp. and chief technology officer for Breakwater Security.

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Tim Horton

VP, Global Merchant Security and Compliance Solutions, First Data

Tim Horton currently serves as Vice President of Global Security and Fraud Product Management at First Data. This organization represents the integrated technologies that provide merchants globally a multi-level defense to manage cyber security threats. In this leadership role, Horton is responsible for managing First Data's Cyber Security and Compliance development initiatives for SMB and National Merchants to equip them with the right tools to protect their sensitive data and maintain PCI DSS Compliance. In addition, Horton represents First Data on the PCI DSS Board of Advisors. Horton joined First Data in 1995, and has since held a variety of leadership roles. Prior to his current position, he served in Corporate Strategy working on large company initiatives with third-parties.

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David Houlding

Principal Healthcare Program Manager, Microsoft

David Houlding currently serves as the Principal Healthcare Lead on the Microsoft Azure Industry Experiences Team. He currently serves as Chair of the HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, a group of ~100 leaders from across healthcare worldwide, collaborating to advance blockchain in healthcare. Houlding also currently serves as an advisor to both the British Blockchain Association and Lifeboat Foundation. He has led the successful creation and deployment of a wide range of solutions to help reduce the cost of healthcare, improve patient outcomes, experiences, and engagement. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2018 Houlding served for over 10 years at Intel Health & Life Sciences where he was the Director of Healthcare Privacy & Security, responsible for enabling healthcare organizations worldwide to achieve compliance with regulations and data protection laws, and implement effective privacy and security programs. In his current role at Microsoft, Houlding works with key partners and industry influencers to enable healthcare organizations make use of cloud computing and related technologies to reduce healthcare costs, and enable new transformative healthcare use cases to improve patient outcomes, leveraging strategic technologies such as such as AI / ML, blockchain, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), and others. Houlding has a proven track record for innovation with 5 patents granted by the USPTO.

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Mounil Patel

Strategic Technology Consultant, Mimecast

Patel previously was Global Practice Director managing pre-sales and services for EMC's Telco, Media and Entertainment division for archiving and backup products. Mounil also held IT management positions at Iron Mountain, Endeca Technologies and Phase Forward Incorporated. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.

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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Mike Dodson

Sr. Director Global Solution Engineering, Venafi

Dodson is a Silicon Valley veteran with 25 years of experience. He has founded five companies which have collectively created hundreds of jobs, hundreds of millions in annual revenue and have had positive impacts on the world. His work has helped to bring better security and privacy to enterprise software, consumer products, embedded systems, medical devices and mobile computing. Dodson is currently leading the Global Sales Engineering team at Venafi where his team designs solutions to secure and protect keys and certificates for the largest corporations and governments in the world.

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Trace Fooshee

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Trace Fooshee is a senior analyst in Aite Group's Fraud & AML practice, covering fraud and data security issues. He started his professional career in Singapore, where he focused on delivering process automation solutions for banking and securities clients by way of workflow and document management-based transformations. After moving back to the United States, Fooshee broadened the scope of his focus to include consulting with clients on customer relationship management practices and client loyalty for Ernst & Young. Prior to joining Aite Group, he was head of fraud strategy for SunTrust Bank, where he was responsible for developing, managing, and articulating strategic investments and transformation initiatives that sought to improve the balance between loss prevention, client experience, and operational expense. Additionally, Fooshee partnered with stakeholders in various business units to govern and oversee the bank's fraud program. His experience in fraud management started in 2007 when he began working with the bank's fraud management unit to transform it from a federated operating model to a consolidated enterprise shared service. By 2010 he joined the bank's fraud unit full time to lead the development and deployment of a fraud analytics team. In 2014 he joined Deloitte's advisory group, where he provided strategic advisory consulting services for financial institutions globally, then returned to SunTrust in 2017 as head of fraud strategy. A former member of the Bank Policy Institute's BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee, Fooshee has also been active with the American Bankers Association and National Cyber Forensic Training Alliance Foundation.

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Ilker Taskaya

Principle Solutions Engineer, Delphix

Ilker Taskaya currently serves as Principle Solutions Engineer for Delphix. Having begun his career 25 years ago as a database analyst in the financial services sector, he has specialized in financial services and healthcare industry data security solutions and holds a number of patents in the data security field. Prior to 2006 Taskaya consulted in data warehousing for clients in financial services, insurance, and health care.

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