Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: EMEA 2021

Gwyndaf Davies

BigFix Technical Adviser Lead for EMEA, HCL Software

Davies leads a team of HCL BigFix technical advisers across EMEA, helping organizations from all types of industries to manage and secure all types of servers and endpoints.

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Ibrahim Gathungu

Head, Information Cyber Security Policy Regulation, Standard Chartered Bank

Gathungu leads information and cybersecurity policy alignment to regulatory requirements across the 60 countries within Standard Chartered Bank Group. He has 13 years of experience in technology and cybersecurity, mostly in consulting firms delivering transformation projects in various industries and sectors. He previously worked in risk advisory at a Big Four consulting firm, where he provided security advisory services to companies in the EU, U.K. and Africa.

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Kevin Murphy

Senior Manager of Enterprise Security, T-Mobile

Kevin was the VP of Cybersecurity Operations and Governance at IOActive.com, a retired US Air Force intelligence officer, and the former Director of Windows Security Architecture at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience in threat intelligence and information security. Kevin holds the CISM, CISSP, and CGEIT security certifications.

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Ian Thornton-Trump

CISO, Cyjax Limited

Thornton-Trump has 25 years of experience in IT and IT security. He served with the CF Military Intelligence Branch and the CF Military Police Reserves. He worked as a criminal intelligence analyst for the RCMP; a cybersecurity analyst/consultant for multinational insurance, banking and regional healthcare companies; and a project manager, specializing in cybersecurity, for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Thornton-Trump is part of the global faculty of CompTIA.

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Troels Oerting

Chairman of the Board, Bull Wall & former Head of Global Centre of Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum

Oerting is presently the first head and Chair of the Global Centre for Cybersecurity established by World Economic Forum in 2018 to mitigate the global challenges to security, privacy and integrity imposed by the Digital Transformation. He has been working in cyber/security ‘first line’ for the past 38 years and has held a number of significant posts both nationally and internationally.

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Philipp Amann

Head of Strategy European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Europol

Philipp is the Head of Strategy of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Prior to joining the EC3, he held management positions with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the International Criminal Court.

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Mariana Pereira

Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace

Mariana Pereira is the Director of Email Security Products at Darktrace, with a primary focus on the capabilities of AI cyber defences against email-borne attacks. Mariana works closely with the development, analyst, and marketing teams to advise technical and non-technical audiences on how best to augment cyber resilience within the email domain, and how to implement AI technology as a means of defence. She speaks regularly at international events, with a specialism in presenting on sophisticated, AI-powered email attacks. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, and speaks several languages including French, Italian and Portuguese.

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Richard Cassidy

Senior Director, Security Strategy, Exabeam

Richard Cassidy has been consulting to businesses on cyber security strategies and programs for more than 19 years, working across highly regulated industries including finance, insurance, retail, manufacturing, government and military. During his career, Richard has been heavily engaged in the design and implementation of solutions, helping organisations in evolving security, compliance, risk management, data assurance, automation, orchestration & response practices. Richard’s security operations experience includes managing CERT, breach response teams, threat intelligence & hunting teams, as well as teaching customers a practical understanding of how their data and assets are targeted by cyber-criminal groups, driving effective security practices and mitigation strategies. Combining hands on experience of the technologies and services that have evolved over the past two decades, with a detailed perspective on end user security risks, Richard focuses on delivering thought leadership tracks that help decision makers define practical security, compliance and data assurance strategies. He is well versed in showing organisations how to better navigate a highly complex and automated threat landscape, in tandem with achieving (and maintaining) regulatory, compliance and data assurance mandates that business leaders face in today’s technology landscape. Throughout his career, Richard has participated in a number of speaker sessions at events including BlackHat 2017 and most recently at IP Expo 2018. During his time at Alert Logic Richard narrated a partner track for IP Expo as well as talk tracks on topics including the cyber kill chain, threat intelligence, applied threat intelligence, and the role of the SOC.”

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Sam Humphries

Head of Security Strategy, EMEA, Exabeam

Samantha has been happily entrenched in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. During this time she has helped hundreds of organizations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, defined strategy for pioneering security products and technologies, and is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world. In her current regeneration, Sam is part of the security strategy team at Exabeam, where she has responsibility for anything that has “cloud” in the name. She authors articles and blogs for various security publications, has a strong passion for mentoring, and often volunteers at community events, including BSides, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON).

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Krishna Narayanaswamy

Chief Technology Officer, Netskope

As founder and CTO at Netskope, Krishna leads the company's data science and user behavior research. A highly regarded and awarded researcher in security, behavioral anomaly detection, and deep packet inspection, he has authored more than 20 patents. Prior to Netskope, Krishna held numerous leadership positions, including founding Top Layer Networks and serving as a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks.

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Patrick Grillo

Senior Director, Security Strategy, Fortinet

As Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Patrick is responsible for creating and evangelizing key messages about Fortinet's network security solutions. Through his in-depth understanding of the complexities of network security, Patrick is able to cut through the half-truths and myths surrounding the subject to provide clear and concise information to Fortinet's customers and partners.

Prior to joining Fortinet, over the course of the past 30 years he has worked for a number of small to medium size organizations as well as larger companies such as Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Hughes Network Systems and Comtech Mobile Data Communications in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, holding a range of senior level international sales and marketing roles. Patrick received his technical training while serving in the US Navy.

Patrick is based at Fortinet's International headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.

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Glen Hymers

Head of Data Privacy and Compliance, Cabinet Office (UK) & former Global CISO, Save the Children International

Hymers has been at Save the Children International since November 2019. He served in the RAF Police from 1998 to 2012 and was responsible for carrying out counterespionage and counterterrorism duties. In the private sector, he has worked at Fujitsu Defense and National Security, Sopra Steria and The Prince’s Trust.

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Quentyn Taylor

Director, Information Security, Canon EMEA

Taylor is Director of Information Security at Canon Europe, Middle East and Africa. Using the power of stories and his own experience of testing products to destruction; Quentyn has embraced building business relationships across the world whilst driving Canon's strategy and educating business customers to minimise their security risk. Before joining Canon, Quentyn has worked in a variety of industries such as Internet service providers as well as startup businesses.

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Clive Finlay

Chief Technology Officer, APJ & EMEA, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom

Finlay is the chief technology officer and head of Symantec network & information security solution engineering for the EMEA & APJ regions at Broadcom. In this role, Finlay is responsible for being the technology advocate for EMEA and APJ strategic customers and partners, and leads Symantec Enterprise Division's Network & Information Security Solution Engineering group for these regions.

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Jackie Koven

Solutions Architect, Chainalysis

Jackie Burns Koven is a Solutions Architect at Chainalysis where she works with law enforcement, financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and cybersecurity companies. Prior to joining Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University where she was a Research Fellow for Technology & Public Policy.

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