GLBA

Jeff Multz

Director - North America Midmarket Sales, Dell SecureWorks

Jeff Multz is the Director of North America Midmarket Sales for Dell SecureWorks (SecureWorks was acquired by Dell Inc. in February 2011). Jeff has been an integral member of SecureWorks since 2003. He and his team help organizations of all sizes reduce their business and IT security risks and augment their IT team where needed.

As a former programmer for financial institutions, Jeff has a pulse on the financial industry, understanding the challenges that banks and credit unions face regularly. He often addresses organizations on IT security through educational presentations and articles in the media. To add to his credentials, Jeff is a graduate of Mercer University and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science. He is also a nationally certified financial supplier through CUES.

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George Tubin

Director of Marketing, Transmit Security

Tubin is Director of Marketing at Transmit Security and a recognized expert in digital banking and payments security and cyber-fraud prevention. He was previously Vice President of Marketing at Socure and Senior Research Director with the leading financial services research firm CEB TowerGroup (acquired by Gartner, Inc.) where he delivered thought leadership and insights to leading financial services institutions, technology providers, and consultancies on business strategies, technologies, and market trends in retail, Internet and mobile banking, and fraud management.

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Kostas Georgakopoulos

Global CTO & CISO, Mondelez International

Kostas Georgakopoulos is VP & Head of Information Security at the Bank of China, USA and responsible for developing and implementing security standards, procedures and guidelines in order to effectively protect the Bank's information and systems and address compliance with FFIEC & PCI security standards. Previously, Kostas was the VP of Information Security Governance at Deutsche Bank, New York, where he managed the information security governance program and provided senior management with a clear and concise view of IT risks.

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Mel Shakir

CTO, NitroSecurity

Mel Shakir serves the office of the CTO at NitroSecurity where he brings over 15 years of experience in software development & management, information security and database technologies. He is responsible for developing and implementing NitroSecurity's overall technology vision and roadmap, including next generation application and database security management solutions. Previously, Mel architected and developed advanced database security solutions as CTO of Rippletech, which was acquired by NitroSecurity in 2008.

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John Earl

CTO and Vice President, The PowerTech Group

John Earl is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, as well as a co-founder, of The PowerTech Group, a Seattle area software company that specializes in System i (AS/400) security. He has over 25 years experience with IBM midrange systems and security, has published numerous articles and columns for industry magazines, and serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Security for the IBM System i user group COMMON. A highly regarded speaker on OS/400 security, Earl has presented hundreds of System i security sessions at industry conferences and user groups all over the world. He is a three time winner of COMMON's Speaker Excellence award, and has also served on the board of directors of COMMON U.S.

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Chris Peterson

Founder/CTO, LogRhythm

Chris Petersen brings a unique and diverse background in information security, audit, product development, and product management to his role as Chief Technology/Founder of LogRhythm. As a Senior Consultant with Price Waterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), he provided information assurance services to Fortune 500 clients and developed the Price Waterhouse Enterprise Security Architecture System. At Ernst & Young, Chris led an engineering group in developing one of the first managed security services and eSecurityOnline.com, a leading information assurance portal. Chris was also among the first twenty employees at Counterpane Internet Security, where he made significant contributions to the technical and business aspects of Counterpane's pioneering managed security monitoring service. Prior to founding LogRhythm, Chris was responsible for product marketing at Enterasys Networks, helping to drive the Dragon Intrusion Detection System to a market leading position. Chris has spoken at numerous conferences, been quoted in numerous publications and was a faculty member with the Institute for Applied Network Security.

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Kevin Gillis

VP - Product Management, Ipswitch

Gillis joined Ipswitch in 2003 and brings over 16 years of product management experience in software technology companies. Gillis is responsible for setting worldwide product strategy and overseeing the development of the secure file transfer product lines. Prior to joining Ipswitch, Gillis held senior product management positions at both public and venture funded software companies including IBM, Lotus, The Learning Company, Trellix and Into Networks. Gillis has a B.S. degree in Industrial Systems Engineering, with Honors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Kevin is a member of HIMSS, PCI Security Vendor Alliance and PCI Security Standards Council. He co-authored the Ipswitch File Transfer Compliance Series.

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Greg Shields

IT consultant

Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP in Terminal Services, is an independent author, speaker, and IT consultant based in Denver, Colorado. With nearly 15 years of experience in information technology, Greg has developed extensive experience in systems administration, engineering, and architecture specializing in Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware technologies. Greg is a Contributing Editor for both Redmond Magazine, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, and Virtualization Review Magazine authoring three regular columns along with numerous feature articles, webcasts, and white papers. He is also Resident Editor for Realtime Publishers' Windows Server Community. Greg is a highly sought-after instructor and speaker, teaching system and network troubleshooting curriculum for TechMentor Events, a twice-annual IT conference, and producing computer-based training curriculum for CBT Nuggets on numerous topics. Greg is a triple Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) with security specialization.

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Geoff Hogan

SVP - Business Development & Product Management/Marketing, Imprivata

Geoff Hogan has 20 years of extensive business development, marketing, sales and general management experience in the storage, data management, and software infrastructure market segments with both large organizations and start-ups.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Geoff was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Alliances at Princeton Softech, where he was instrumental in defining and executing the company's strategic database archiving business strategy.

Prior to Princeton Softech, Geoff has held senior level positions with HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Quantum Corp, and Digital Equipment Corp.

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Bob Flinton

VP Product Marketing, netForensics

Mr. Flinton has over 15 years experience in IT and information security marketing. Prior to netForensics, Bob held product management and marketing positions at Sterling Software, Symantec, Cybertrust and most recently at Novell, in that company's Identity and Security Management business unit.

Bob has a Bachelor of Science degree from West Virginia University, and earned his MBA at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.

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Paul Reymann

CEO, The Reymann Group

Reymann is one of the nation's leading financial institution regulatory experts and co-author of Section 501 of the GLBA security rule. He guided Technology Risk management activities at the Department of Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) in Washington D.C., where he authored several key regulatory directives on emerging risk management issues, including the industry's first regulatory directive on "Transactional Internet Banking."

Reymann is recognized in the prestigious 2006 Heritage Registry of WHO's WHO. He is also the author of numerous articles and papers on technology risk, transactional web sites, customer information, network security and other technology and safety and soundness topics.

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Warren Kruse

Vice President of Data Forensics and Analytics, Encore Legal Solutions

Warren has extensive experience in computer forensic cases involving some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world and has conducted forensic analyses globally in support of numerous cases, from civil disputes to criminal prosecutions at the federal level. He is the coauthor of “Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials,” an Addison Wesley textbook, and is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of computer forensics, incident response and cybercrime.

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Matthew Speare

Executive Vice President & Enterprise CIO, Regions Bank

Speare joined Regions in 2013 and serves as the head of governance and integration. Regions is a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with $117 billion in assets, operating approximately 1,700 banking offices in 16 states. In this role, Speare has responsibility for information security; check, ATM/debit, and credit card fraud operations; and systems integration for consumer, business and commercial banking groups. Prior to assuming his current role in 2013, Speare was the chief technology officer for M&T Bank, an $82 billion financial institution based out of Buffalo, N.Y.

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Rebecca Herold

CEO, The Privacy Professor

Rebecca Herold is President of SIMBUS LLC, a cloud-based privacy and security firm and also CEO of The Privacy Professor, a consultancy. She is also author of 19 books on information security and privacy.

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Susan Orr

President, Susan Orr Consulting

Susan Orr is a leading financial services expert with vast regulatory, risk management, and security best practice knowledge and expertise. During her 14 year tenure as a bank examiner, Susan held lead positions including Regional IT Examination Specialist, Special Assistant to the Regional Director, Special Assistant to the Director of DSC, and Special Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the FDIC. Susan was also a lead instructor for the FDICâ

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