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Ayelet Biger-Levin

VP Product Marketing, BioCatch

Ayelet is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology and information security industry, with a diverse background in products, R&D, marketing, sales and professional services. At BioCatch, she is focused on helping financial institutions provide seamless and secure digital activities to their customers, by leveraging the power of behavioral biometrics. Prior to joining BioCatch, Ayelet has spent over 10 years at RSA Security in various roles, including Product Management, Product Marketing and Professional Services leadership in both the Fraud and Identity solution areas. Ayelet also held various roles at IBM, focused on innovation. Ayelet has a MSc. in Information Systems Engineering, with a Thesis in Complex Event Processing and is a CISSP with multiple patents in the infosec and fraud detection spaces.

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Gemma Staite

Lead Threat Analyst, BioCatch

Gemma is a Lead Threat Analyst at BioCatch where she works closely with customers to maximise the value they get from their technology investments. Gemma has spent 17 years working in fraud and financial crime roles within the UK banking sector. Prior to joining BioCatch, she led a Fraud Analytics team specialising in Data Analytics for online banking fraud prevention and managed a number of fraud tools, including BioCatch.

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Ayelet Biger-Levin

VP Product Marketing, BioCatch

Ayelet is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology and information security industry, with a diverse background in products, R&D, marketing, sales and professional services. At BioCatch, she is focused on helping financial institutions provide seamless and secure digital activities to their customers, by leveraging the power of behavioral biometrics. Prior to joining BioCatch, Ayelet has spent over 10 years at RSA Security in various roles, including Product Management, Product Marketing and Professional Services leadership in both the Fraud and Identity solution areas. Ayelet also held various roles at IBM, focused on innovation. Ayelet has a MSc. in Information Systems Engineering, with a Thesis in Complex Event Processing and is a CISSP with multiple patents in the infosec and fraud detection spaces.

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Gemma Staite

Lead Threat Analyst, BioCatch

Gemma is a Lead Threat Analyst at BioCatch where she works closely with customers to maximise the value they get from their technology investments. Gemma has spent 17 years working in fraud and financial crime roles within the UK banking sector. Prior to joining BioCatch, she led a Fraud Analytics team specialising in Data Analytics for online banking fraud prevention and managed a number of fraud tools, including BioCatch.

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Larry Venter

VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering, Shape Security

Larry Venter is VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering at Shape Security (now part of F5). Larry has run sales engineering and customer success teams for companies like PayPal, Microsoft, and eBay and has led the development and deployment of anti-fraud solutions in some of the world's fastest-growing fraud companies. His cross-industry experience, accrued whilst working across the full spectrum of company size, uniquely positions him to understand the mechanics behind fraudulent (synthetic and human) activities and speak to the benefit of frictionlessly legitimising users to drive better business results.

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Hank Schless

Sr. Manager of Security Solutions and host of the Endpoint Enigma podcast, Lookout

After working for fintech and database technology companies, Hank has found a home in cybersecurity. Before Lookout, he was the 20th employee at a cloud infrastructure security startup and helped the company grow to over 160 employees. At Lookout, he is a Senior Manager on the Security Solutions team, enabling internal teams and informing the market about the growing need to secure mobile devices as part of their larger security strategy.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

Todd Carroll joined the CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. Mr. Carroll retired from the FBI in December 2018 after spending over 20 years with the FBI, serving in the Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and a Master of Science in Cyber Security from University of Maryland, University College in 2012. He also graduated from Carnegie Mellon University CISO Academy in 2017.

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Todd Carroll

Chief Information Security Officer/VP of Cyber Operations, CybelAngel

Todd Carroll joined the CybelAngel in January 2019 as part of their expansion into U.S. markets. Mr. Carroll retired from the FBI in December 2018 after spending over 20 years with the FBI, serving in the Cyber/Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Operations programs.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and a Master of Science in Cyber Security from University of Maryland, University College in 2012. He also graduated from Carnegie Mellon University CISO Academy in 2017.

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Chris Fredde

Board Member, Votiro

Chris Fedde is a Board Member at Votiro, a cybersecurity company that sanitizes files of malware and other embedded threats while maintaining full file usability and functionality. Previously, Chris Fedde served as the CEO of Bandura Cyber, Inc, leading the company through its early growth in cyber threat intelligence while raising two institutional capital raises. Prior to Bandura, Mr. Fedde founded and led Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc, which was acquired in 2016.

Prior to Hexis he was president and Chief Executive Officer of SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection. SafeNet was sold to Gemalto in 2014. Mr. Fedde currently serves on the boards of Votiro Cybersecurity, Netcraftsmen, and other technology firms and non-profits, as well as advisory boards of tech companies. Mr. Fedde holds several technology patents.

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Frank Johnson

SVP at SecureLore Solutions

Frank Johnson previously served as a City Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Frank was charged with leading and supporting all digital transformation programs and efforts to modernize the City's IT capabilities, scale the local IT ecosystem and drive awareness/tech investment to the city.

As a former "ransomware battle-tested" CIO, he is now focused on helping others in all aspects of cybersecurity by providing cyber thought leadership and best practices as an Ambassador of the Cybersecurity Collaborative and SVP at SecuLore Solutions.

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Larry Venter

VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering, Shape Security

Larry Venter is VP Global Customer Success & Solution Engineering at Shape Security (now part of F5). Larry has run sales engineering and customer success teams for companies like PayPal, Microsoft, and eBay and has led the development and deployment of anti-fraud solutions in some of the world's fastest-growing fraud companies. His cross-industry experience, accrued whilst working across the full spectrum of company size, uniquely positions him to understand the mechanics behind fraudulent (synthetic and human) activities and speak to the benefit of frictionlessly legitimising users to drive better business results.

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Stephane Estevez

EMEA Product Marketing Director, IT Markets, Splunk

IT Operation Evangelist, Stéphane Estevez has over 20 years of product marketing experience in IT, across companies ranging from large multinationals to internet start-ups. Before joining Splunk, he was Backup & Disaster Recovery Product Marketing Manager at Quantum. Prior to this, he was EMEA Product Marketing Manager at NTT, a leading IT services and hosting company. In this role, he was responsible for launching and managing NTT Virtualization and Cloud offerings. Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Marketing and an MBA from ESG, one of the largest business schools in Paris.

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Paul McKay

Senior Analyst, Forrester

Paul is a senior analyst on the security and risk team. He works with organizations to help them shape and deliver their cybersecurity strategies to support the delivery of their core business vision. Paul's research coverage includes cybersecurity risk ratings solutions, Europe-specific regulation for cybersecurity, CISO and security leadership research, and the European vendor market landscape focused on managed security service providers and consultancies.

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Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Principal Solutions Architect, Veracode

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber is a Solution Architect at Veracode and a security specialist with over 15 years working IT security. In his various roles he has been responsible for application development, penetration testing and web application security. Julian contributes to several security related articles, and provides his expert opinion at specialist events and trade fairs.

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Dr Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing Director, PwC; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook

Fmr. Managing/Director at PwC, LEGC, & KPMG; Venture Consultant, ForgePoint Capital

Dr. Shane Shook is a recognized author, trainer and expert witness in cybercrime investigations, working with ForgePoint Capital and consulting to Fortune 500 clients across the US, UK and Japan.

Dr. Shook brings more than 30 years of experience in IT/risk management and cybersecurity investigations, including serving in Cryptology with the USAF, and in leadership roles at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He sits on the boards of several companies and is often called to testify on US state and federal administrative matters, and in criminal, class action, and IRS, SEC, EPA, and ITC cases.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to over a dozen patents and in conferences for technical standards definitions on security, communications, and operations continuity. He is a frequent presence in financial industry summits and periodicals concerning computer disaster recovery and application security practices. Dr. Shook holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Phd. in Organization and Management, Communications Technology from Capella University. https://forgepointcap.com/team/shane-shook/

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Ashutosh Jain

CISO, Axis Bank

Ashutosh Jain currently serves as CISO with Axis Bank. He provides strategic direction and delivers cyber security, information risk and security governance at Axis Bank, including eight international branches. His earlier career has spanned across: Barclays Bank, where he headed multiple roles for technology risk, information risk for India and emerging markets, a cluster of 14 countries across Asia and Africa; Nomura India, where he headed the technology governance, global IT security operations, global IT security engineering and Asia technology risk teams for the global investment bank, based out of India; AXA Business Services, where he managed enterprise risk as CISO; Bank of America, where he established the technology audit function for South Asia, and was responsible for bank audits in the South Asia and Far East Region; PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was responsible for operations and systems risk management services for various engagements in business process controls, application reviews and IS security.

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Ravinder Pal Singh

Chief Information & Innovation Officer, Tata Singapore Airlines (Air Vistara)

Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an award winning technologist and has fathered various IT organisations and created their future technology avatars. Ravi is global speaker and international seasoned traveller with an extensive global experience ranging from strategy to execution in 5 continents. He is also a holder, in his personal capacity, of several technologies patents, advance practitioner of yoga and can fly aircraft. In recent past he has been associated with a leader in technology and big 4 management consulting firm to help their Fortune 500 customers and government institutions in transformation. In his last tenure at a leading Aviation Engineering Services firm Ravi realised 4 digit % increment in digitisation amidst constraint of cash and culture to achieve non-linear business growth (34x) across multiple continents. Now as Chief of Information and Innovation he is helping Tata-SIA (Vistara) to consolidate, identify, acquire, evaluate and incubate right technology for its business. He will also induce innovation and thoughtfulness as core to Vistara's culture thus by creating communities and co-creation to realize ideas as true business differentiators.

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Jeff Greene

Director, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, NIST

Greene is the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NCCoE is a collaborative hub where industry, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to identify pressing cybersecurity issues and to develop practical cybersecurity solutions to address them. Prior to joining NIST, Jeff was the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy at Symantec, and served as an appointed member of NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board from 2015 to 2020. He was also a special government employee at NIST supporting the President's 2016 Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Before Symantec Jeff worked on both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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