2019 London Cybersecurity Summit

Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Stephen Owen

CISO, Bourne Leisure Group

On loan from Daemon Solutions, Stephen Owen has recently joined the Bourne Leisure Group as interim Group Security Director for Bourne Leisure Group and was formerly Data Protection Officer for Camelot Group, the operators of the UK National Lottery where he was well known for his detailed and pragmatic advice. He is a highly experienced information security practitioner and certified cloud architect with multiple digital transformation projects under his belt. Capping his data privacy and security expertise, Owen was also recognised by the industry and awarded a Fellow of Information Privacy from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in 2016.

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John Walker

Visiting Prof., Nottingham Trent University; Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), University of Kent and Fmr Royal Air Force Security and Counter Intelligence

John Walker is a specialist providing consultancy to Middle East based organisations, government, and military clients. 22 years in Royal Air Force Security/Investigations and Counter Intelligence operations within a SCIF/Comint/Sigint environments, working alongside GCHQ, CESG, UK and US Agencies, ITSO and Systems Security Manager for CIA Accredited Systems, Visiting Professor School of Science/Technology - Nottingham Trent University [NTU], Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) - University of Kent, Mentor to Tallinn University (Estonia) Masters Students Cyber Research, Practicing and Registered Expert Witness, Certified Forensics Investigator Practitioner [CFIP], Editorial Member at MedCrave Research for Forensics & Criminology, ENISA CEI Listed Expert, Editorial Member of the Cyber Security Research Institute [CRSI], Digital Forensics/Cyber Security Listed Trainer in Dubai for Certified courses, Fellow of Royal Society for the Arts [FRSA], and a Belkasoft (Digital Forensics) Partner.

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Mark Singer

Claims Focus Group Leader - London Market & Wholesale Cyber & Tech, Beazley Group

Mark Singer currently serves as Claims Focus Group Leader for the Cyber & Executive division of Beazley. He primarily handles insurance coverage issues arising out of cybersecurity, technology errors & omissions, data privacy, intellectual property, media and advertising liabilities. As a UK qualified lawyer, and before joining Beazley, he was a Senior Associate in the commercial litigation team at a large City law firm where he handled a wide range of complex contractual disputes.

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James Lloyd

Privacy Investigations & Disputes Lawyer, PwC

James Lloyd is a lawyer in PwC's Contentious Data Privacy team. He help clients faced with disputes over data privacy, whether as the result of a regulatory investigation, a dispute with a third party, or in connection with a cyber breach. He has led the response to investigations by various regulatory bodies and parliamentary select committees and have extensive experience bringing and defending associated civil litigation against private parties and public bodies. Lloyd has particular expertise helping clients who are subject to regulatory action by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, whether as a result of enforcement, or as the consequence of a notification following a cyber breach.

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Polly Ralph

Barrister and Solicitor, UK Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services, PwC

Polly Ralph currently serves as a Director and member of the leadership team in PwC's Data Protection Strategy, Law and Compliance Services practice. She started her career in data protection/privacy in 2004, as an Investigations Lead at the New Zealand Privacy Commission. Since then, she has worked as a Privacy lawyer at the New Zealand Police National Headquarters, Senior Privacy Counsel at the BBC, and Group DPO at Domestic & General (a UK-headquartered insurance company). Since joining PwC UK in January 2016, Ralph has led large-scale GDPR projects and advised on ePrivacy, marketing, outsourcing, technology and international transfer issues. She has deep experience leading GDPR training sessions, including for PwC's international network of firms.

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Alain Sanchez

Office of the CISO, Senior Evangelist, Fortinet

Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the Network and Telecommunications domain. In December 2018, he joined Fortinet CISO office from Huawei Global Consulting Department where he was in charge of the Digital Transformation Practice, advising the board of Companies like Virgin Media, Telcel, INWI, Vodafone UK, China Mobile as these Service Providers targeted the enterprise segment with B2B Cloud and Security offerings. Sanchez previously held executive positions in Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, BT-Global Services and Nortel.

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Philip McInerney

Detective Inspector SCO7, Organised Crime Command, Cyber Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police

Detective Inspector Philip McInerney currently serves on the MPS Cyber Crime Unit, within Serious & Organised Crime (SCO7). Recently he has led a number of operations that have successfully targeted organised cyber criminals involved in high-level criminality, operating across the UK and internationally, including Op Bankime (dismantlement of OCG concerned in estimated £20 million+ of banking fraud during 2017), and Op Merlock (prolific cyber criminal operating across the UK banking sector, with several million pounds worth of fraud disrupted. Having initially been posted to uniform in East London, he served within the Major Crime Unit of borough CID, where McInerney became a Detective Constable. In 2003 he was selected to join SO12 Special Branch, working in a number of Counter Terrorism operations and roles (covert intelligence and operations) until January 2006. He was then selected to join the MPS Anti-Corruption Command (ACC), where he worked in covert intelligence development targeting corrupt police officers, and organised criminals who seek to corrupt officers. Between 2008 - 2013 McInerney served in a variety of roles in Westminster CID, as a Det Sgt in the Major Crime Unit and Serious Violence Team, targeting high-level fraud, violence & organised crime, and latterly as an Acting Detective Insp targeting organised crime within Soho and the West End. From Dec 2014 - Dec 2017 he served as Detective Inspector to the London Crime Squad (SCO8), leading a covert proactive unit targeting the highest levels of organised crime across London and the UK; formulating and utilising partnership with large corporations in the private sector affected by organised crime.

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Mark Tibbs

Cyber Intelligence Director, MDR Cyber

Mark is the Director of the Cyber Intelligence team at MDR Cyber. The team provide cyber intelligence and investigations services, helping organisations and individuals to understand threats and mitigate losses.

Mark has worked in the field of cyber investigations and intelligence for nearly a decade before joining Mishcon, working within British law enforcement and a cyber threat intelligence start-up. He brings with him experience of leading teams in the production of high-quality intelligence services for international government and corporate customers.

With a passionate interest in cybercrime and intelligence, Mark holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime investigation from University College Dublin.

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Teju Shyamsundar

Technical Manager, Product, Okta

Teju Shyamsundar currently serves as a Technical Marketing Manager with the Product Group at Okta. Prior to Okta, she worked at Microsoft and implemented enterprise mobility technologies across a large set of enterprise customers in various industries. Shyamsundar now works on integrating the Okta solution with our customers, partners, and applications, and enabling our team to be successful with securely connecting Microsoft technologies.

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Dominic Hibberd

Cyber Security Manager, Darktrace

Dominic Hibberd is a Cyber Security Manager at Darktrace, the world's leading AI company for cyber defense. From his technical background, Hibberd expertly advises companies from a variety of industries on the use of artificial intelligence for cyber defense, including financial services, retail and education.

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Martin Overton

Ethical Hacker, Forensics & Malware SME

Martin Overton joined SunAlliance (now Royal Sun Alliance or RSA Insurance Group) in 1988 as a Security Specialist and ran their Hacking and Internet Security teams and he was responsible for their anti-malware strategy and remediation. In 2002 he joined IBM, working for the Managed Security Services Delivery commercial team in EMEA as a malware/anti-malware specialist. There, he was part of the Global Virus Emergency Team and the World-Wide Threat Team. During this period Overton also carried out penetration, web application, physical security and social engineering testing for many clients; so he is also considered an "Ethical Hacker" aka "A White-Hat Hacker". Soon after, he joined AIG as a Cyber Risk Technical Specialist. He served as a Subject Matter Expert on Cyber risks and solutions, acting as a technical resource for AIG underwriters, brokers and clients; turning technical risks into business language. Overton now runs his own cyber security consultancy helping clients to identify and remediate security issues, advising on best practice, regularly speaking at events, lecturing at universities, delivering training, blogging, testing and carrying out security research and so on.

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Sarb Sembhi

CTO/CSO, Virtually Informed

Sarb Sembhi currently serves as the CTO & CISO at Virtually Informed. He is also the founder of Security2Live Initiative, which aims to raise Digital Safety Skills of all individuals (not just those who are lucky to receive the bare minimum in their enterprise employer). Previously, he was CTO & CISO for the Noord Group. His contributions to the industry include the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Defence and Security Committee and its Cybersecurity working group, an Advisor to the Internet of Things Security Foundation, Smart Buildings working group. Other contributions include: Past President of the ISACA London Chapter, Chair of ISACA International GRA Region 3 Sub-Committee, Chair of ISACA International GRA Committee, ISSA UK Advisory Group member, InfoSecurity Magazine Editorial Group member.

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David Stubley

CEO, 7 Elements

Founder of 7 Elements, David Stubley brings over 17 years of experience within the technical security market, where he has held senior level positions within global blue-chip organisations. In this capacity, he was involved in the procurement of external security consultancy and testing resources. This valuable experience inspired Stubley to build a company that he himself would have wanted to work with during this time. A security testing and consultancy company that was responsive, technically astute and delivered tailored security testing as per organisation needs rather than off-the-shelf solutions.

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