Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Pacific NW US 2021

Nathanael Iversen

Chief Evangelist, Illumio

Iversen is Illumio’s Chief Evangelist. He helps prospects and customers understand micro-segmentation in all its forms and how Illumio can solve problems for organizations of all sizes. In previous roles with the company, he was responsible for training Illumio’s sales, systems engineering, and customer success teams, after holding a variety of operational roles.

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Kevin Morrison

Managing Director, CISO, Alaska Air

Since May 2020, Morrison has been the CISO and managing director of enterprise information security at Alaska Air Group in Seattle, Washington, which owns Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. He was previously the CISO at Coinstar, PulteGroup and Jones Day. Morrison has nearly 22 years of experience in IT, with over 16 of them in information security and cybersecurity, and he has built and led teams focused on incident management, operations, DLP, mobility, forensics, compliance, policy, privacy, and business continuity in innovative and highly regulated environments across public and private industries.

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Khaja Ahmed

SVP, Head Global Product and Application Security, SAP

Ahmed is currently an angel investor, a sought-after adviser to security startups and a mentor for security professionals from the engineer and architect level to CISOs and CEOs. He recently retired from his role as senior vice president of product and application security at SAP. Prior to that role, he led security efforts at Google (GCP), Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft. In a career spanning three decades, Ahmed has worked on security for chips and firmware, operating systems and applications and the largest and most advanced IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.

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Vinod Brahmapuram

CISO, State of Washington

Brahmapuram was appointed state CISO in October 2019. He oversees WaTech’s state Office of Cybersecurity and is responsible for establishing and leading the strategic direction of cybersecurity for state government, as well as advising the governor and legislators on key cyber issues. He has more than 20 years of IT experience. Before joining WaTech, he served as the deputy CISO for the state of South Carolina and held several security roles for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, including serving as the agency’s CISO in 2015 and 2016.

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Trey Blalock

CISO, Coinstar

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Michael Bray

CISO, Vancouver Clinic

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Keith Tresh

CISO, State of Idaho

Keith Tresh is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Idaho, Information Technology Services. Keith is a retired Military and State of California cybersecurity professional. He has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and over 27 years of experience in information technology. A retired Army colonel, Mr. Tresh was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 6, 2016 as the commander of the California cybersecurity integration center (Cal-CSIC) within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he served until November of 2018. Prior to his appointment as the commander of Cal-CSIC he was the chief information officer at the California High – Speed Rail Authority. Keith is a veteran C-level IT management professional and an educator with a passion for information assurance and awareness. From 2014 to 2016 Keith was assigned as the chief information security officer (CISO) for the County of Orange, California. In 2011, Governor Brown appointed him to serve as California’s chief information security officer and director of the Office of Information Security (OIS) at the California Technology Agency. Prior to this appointment, Keith was the CIO/J6 for the California National Guard. Keith Tresh served in the Army and the California National Guard (CNG) for more than 33 years including a combat tour in Iraq from 2005-2006. He holds a Master of Science degree in national security and strategic studies from the United States Army War College and a Master of Science in computer information systems from the University of Phoenix. Mr. Tresh lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife Coco and has 4 children – Justine, 33, Austin, 27, Hunter, 23 and Kristina 20.

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Mary Ann Furno

Offering Manager, Broadcom

Mary Ann Furno leads portfolio level strategy and works to evolve the Broadcom mainframe security portfolio to meet evolving market needs and customer requirements. Mary Ann has worked in the enterprise software industry for nearly 20 years in engineering and product management and brings a business voice to a technical topic.

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Sujay Solomon

Manager of DevOps Product Management, Broadcom

Sujay Solomon is the Manager of DevOps Product Management for Broadcom’s Mainframe Division. He is a recognized industry evangelist of open source and DevOps on the mainframe and an award-winning speaker at popular IT conferences like SHARE, IDUG, DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES), and IBM Think. Sujay was a co-creator of the mainframe devops tool, CA Brightside, which won the DevOps.com 2018 “Most Innovative DevOps Solution of the Year” and the popular Zowe open source project.

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Jamie Manriquez

CISO and VP, Santa Cruz Bank

Manriquez is an experienced leader who has defined strategic goals, mergers and acquisitions and delivered enterprisewide digital transformational programs to achieve objectives. He has over 25 years of experience in architecting and securing networks, systems integrations and delivery systems, including eBanking, eChannels, bill payment systems, mobile banking, mobile capture, remote deposit capture, P2P and B2B payment systems, A2A and ACH systems, wires systems, EMV, tokenization, Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

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John F McClure

CISO, Sinclair Broadcast Group

Proud military veteran (Army Aviation), separated from the military to enter in the technology field. I have worked for more than 20-years in the critical infrastructure and information security arena. Supported the federal government and Intelligence Community for over 20 years before transitioning to the commercial sector. Outside of work, enjoy reading and international travel.

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Renata C Spinks

Deputy CIO, USMC

Ms. Renata Spinks currently serves as the Acting Senior Information Security Officer and Cyber Technology Officer (CTO) for the U.S. Marine Corps. In this role, Ms. Spinks leads an extensive portfolio focused on information technology, policy, investments, cyber operations (defensive and offensive) as well as organizational leadership for the Marine Corps Network and Information Enterprise.

She is no stranger to using technology to revolutionize institutions, moving them forward innovatively and has earned her reputation as the “game-changer.” She is an influencer by nature who leads through humility, empowerment, risk assessment, and data-driven decision making.

Since 2018, she has led the USMC mobile and remote workforce operations design and architecture buildout with cybersecurity as a foundational guide. She works to enable cyber and intel focused compute and store, collaboration, access control and identity management, data encryption and governance. She leads defensive cyber operations for the hybrid cloud environment and champions setting the conditions to adopt and implement principles of zero trust. She supports leading the USMC risk management framework modernization efforts and creates opportunities for emerging technology needed for connected and degraded/disconnected environments. She creates unprecedented use of processes, tools, techniques and protocols while driving enablers for proactive network resiliency and decision making. Ms. Spinks demonstrates her passion for talent management through partnerships with industry, colleges, institutions, federal agencies and the National Security Agency (NSA) Human Resource Directorate. She holds a BS in Information Systems, a MS in Technology Management and several certifications, recommendations and awards. She is the 2020 Stars and Stripes Becoming Everything You Are (BEYA) SES of the Year and an avid community service STEMINIST. She is a native of Louisiana, loves New Orleans Saints football, cooking and as a recognized CIAA Elite Student-Athlete, still loves to play basketball.

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Avi Rembaum

Vice President of Security Solutions, Check Point Software Technologies

Avi Rembaum currently serves as Vice President of Security Solutions for Check Point. In this role, he is responsible for the company's solution center, incident response team, strategic alliance program and security architecture function. Previously, Rembaum was responsible for the company's business relationships with the Tier-1 Telcos in North America. Rembaum first began working in the information and network security industry in 1997, when he joined RADGUARD's marketing team. He also held product management positions at RedCreek and SonicWALL and practice manager roles at RedCreek and Getronics, now CompuCom.

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