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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Patrick Hogan

Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Cyber Fraud Task Force, U.S. Secret Service

Patrick Hogan is the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service's Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force. He manages a squad of special agents and task force officers involved in the investigation of cybercrimes occurring within the Chicago area. He has been involved in cyber investigations for the last six years while in the Chicago Field Office. Prior to being in the Chicago Field Office, Hogan was involved in the coordination of national and transnational cybercrime investigations at the headquarters level. His Secret Service career has also given him the opportunity to protect former-Vice President Dick Cheney and to be detailed to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security.

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Vinod Brahmapuram

CISO, State of Washington

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Khaja Ahmed

SVP, Head Global Product and Application Security, SAP

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Trey Blalock

CISO, Coinstar (Bellevue Washington)

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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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Kevin Morrison

Managing Director, CISO, Alaska Air

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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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Siva Balu

VP & CIO, YMCA of the USA

Siva Balu is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at YMCA OF THE USA. In this role, he is working to rethink the work of Y-USA’s information technology strategy to meet the changing needs of Y-USA and YMCAs throughout the country. YMCA of the USA is the national resource office for the nation's YMCAs. The Y is the leading nonprofit in 10,000 communities across the nation delivering positive change through 2,700 YMCAs focusing on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Siva is the creator of the new Y Cloud digital platform to deliver digital, virtual and mobile products to members across the nation. Y Cloud is the world's first digital platform built for non-profits by non-profit. As the CIO, Siva works with the key stakeholders across the nation’s YMCAs in achieving the strategic vision. He leads the creation and execution of the technology strategy through collaboration and thought leadership including digital transformation, data strategy, cloud strategy, information security, project management, mobile apps, social media, CRM, data warehouses & business intelligence, IT infrastructure & operations to support the YMCA movement. Prior to his current role, Siva has 20 years of healthcare technology experience in leadership roles for Blue Cross Blue Shield, the nation's largest health insurer, which provides healthcare to over 107 million members—1 in 3 Americans. He most recently led the Enterprise Information Technology team at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. He has created several highly scalable innovative solutions that cater to the needs of members and patients throughout the country in all communities. He provided leadership in creating innovative solutions and adopting new technologies for national and international users. Siva earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Bharathiar University in India, a master’s in business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and executive master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT in Innovation, Strategy and Artificial Intelligence.

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Jamie Manriquez

VP, CISO Santa Cruz Bank

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John F McClure

Global CISO, Laureate Education, Inc.

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

Cyber Technology Officer, 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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Arwa Alhamad

Cyber Security Enablement Director, Saudi Telecom Company

Alhamad is a Cybersecurity Enablment Director at Saudi Telecom Company. She has 14 years of experience in the field of cybersecurity, specializing in governance, risk, and compliance. Her experience spans across local and global organizations in various industries. In addition to that, she is an active cybersecurity advocate, speaker, and member of several non-profit and volunteering groups.

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Riyad Jazmawi

Head of Information Security and IT Governance, Investbank, Jordan

Jazmawi is head of information securty and IT governance at Investment Bank, Jordan. He is experienced in cybersecurity, business continuity management, and IT governance.

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Narayanan Krishnan

Chief Technology Officer, Falconeye Cybersecurity

Krishnan is chief innovation and security officer at ISA Consultancy Services (AUS) Pty Ltd He is an innovator with 16 patents and two service marks to his name. He has more than 26 years of experience in the cyber security industry.

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Gorka Sadowski

Former Gartner analyst and Chief Strategy Officer, Exabeam

Gorka is Chief Strategy Officer at Exabeam. In his role, he assists the executive team and functional leaders across the company with developing, communicating, executing and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives. Gorka has spent the last 30 years in security with experience spanning leadership roles across product management, sales, marketing and operations. Most recently, Gorka was senior director and security and risk management analyst at Gartner driving coverage for SIEM, SOC, and managed detection and response (MDR), while also leading research for IT leaders on emerging topics. Prior to Gartner, Gorka led business development at Splunk where he established and built the Splunk security ecosystem. Prior to Splunk, he established presence for LogLogic in Southern Europe, ran security activities for Unisys in France and launched the first partner-led intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) in the industry as lead for NetScreen’s Emerging Technology efforts. A certified CISSP, Gorka received a computer science degree from Universite de Pau in France before moving to the U.S. as a Ph.D. candidate in network security at the University of Miami.

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Aram Eblighatian

Senior Technical Product Manager, BigFix

Eblighatian is senior technical product manager at BigFix. He has more than 20 years of experience in information technology with a broad focus on security. Throughout his 15+ year tenure with BigFix, he has held various leadership roles across customer advocacy, development, and product management.

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Andrew Tsonchev

Director of Technology, Darktrace

Andrew Tsonchev is a technical specialist in cyber security and threat analysis, advising Darktrace's strategic Fortune 500 customers on advanced threat detection, machine learning and automated response. Before joining Darktrace, Tsonchev worked as a Security Researcher at Cisco Systems, analyzing vast data sets to uncover new trends and developments in the threat landscape. His findings have been widely reported in leading media outlets, including PC World, CRN, SecurityWeek, TripWire, and the New York Times.

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Neil Thacker

CISO, EMEA, Netskope

Neil Thacker holds over 20 years' experience in the Information Security industry with previous roles at Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Camelot Group. He is Advisory Board member for the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) EMEA and an advisor to the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Thacker is CISSP, CIPP/E and CEH certified and is a recognised speaker and writer on cybersecurity, data protection and privacy-related topics.

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