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Nigel Hawthorn

EMEA Cloud & Privacy Spokesperson, McAfee

From working with an Apple distributor in 1980, Nigel has over 30 years experience of computers, security, networking and mobility. He has a strong technical background, with roles in pre-sales and post-sales support and product management before technology marketing. His international knowledge started in 1987 and he has presented at security, privacy, e-commerce and networking conferences in over 50 countries.

He has written the book "GDPR: An action Guide for IT" and speaks and writes regularly on data protection regulations and user privacy. He has also contributed to a number of computing books on network protocols and security, written many articles and lived in California for a number of years before relocating back to the UK as he was missing the rain!

His experience has mirrored many of the most innovative areas of computing; Apple & IBM PCs in the 1980s, storage & networking in the 1990s, Internet performance & web security in the 2000s and mobility & cloud enablement in the 2010s.

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Matthias Maier

Product Marketing Director, Splunk

Matthias Maier is Product Marketing Director at Splunk, as well as a technical evangelist in EMEA, responsible for communicating Splunk's go-to market strategy in the region. He works closely with customers to help them understand how machine data reveals new insights across application delivery, business analytics, IT operations, Internet of Things, and security and compliance. He holds the certification of the Certified Ethical Hacker, the CISSP as well as the Certified Information Security Manager.

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Chase Hinson

CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP, Consulting Manager, OneTrust

Chase Hinson (CIPP/E, CIPM, GRCP) serves as a consultant for OneTrust GRC - a purpose-built software designed to operationalize integrated risk management. He advises companies throughout their risk management implementations to establish processes to support operations and align with their enterprise objectives, including adopting industry best practices and adhering to requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG and more). Hinson works with clients to realize the extent of their risk exposure, helping clients to map their digital infrastructure, assess risks, combat threats, monitor ongoing performance, and document evidence throughout the risk lifecycle.

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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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Ross Asquith

Sr. Product Manager, Netskope

Ross Asquith is a senior member of Netskope's Product Marketing team. Having previously worked in Netskope's sales engineering team, Asquith is technically fluent with all aspects of the Netskope platform, and now focuses on helping enterprises with the transformation of their security architectures for today's mobile and cloud-first world.

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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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J. Peter Bruzzese

J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer, ClipTraining

J. Peter Bruzzese, Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of ClipTraining, is a cyber security advisor, 8x awarded Microsoft MVP (for Exchange/Office 365). J. Peter is a global security advisor and technical speaker, an internationally published author and journalist.

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Jonathan Andresen

Senior Director, Marketing & Products, Asia Pacific & Japan, Bitglass

Jonathan Andresen is Senior Director, Marketing & Products Asia-Pacific at Bitglass. Mr. Andresen joined Bitglass in April 2020 and has been working in the enterprise IT and telecommunications sector since 1996, relocating to Asia in 2003. Prior to joining Bitglass, Mr. Andresen held various product, marketing, and strategy management positions in Asia-Pacific at McAfee, MobileIron, Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec) and Nortel Networks. Mr. Andresen's career includes earlier positions with Teleglobe, MetroPhotonics and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Andresen holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Canada's Carleton University and an undergraduate degree from Queen's University.

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Martyn Crew

Director of Solutions Marketing, Gigamon

Crew is Director, Industry Solutions at Gigamon. He brings a 30 year background in all aspects of enterprise IT to his role at Gigamon where he focuses on a number of initiatives and products including Gigamon's Application Visibility and Intelligence solutions.

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Sam Curry

Chief Security Officer, Cybereason

Sam Curry currently servers Chief Security Officer for Cybereason. Previously, he served as Chief Technology and Security Officer at Arbor Networks, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of Arbor's technology, security and innovation roadmap. Prior to that role, he spent more than seven years at RSA (the Security Division of EMC) in a variety of senior management positions, including Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Technologist and Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing. Curry has also held senior roles at Microstrategy, Computer Associates, and McAfee.

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Jeff Williams

Co-Founder and CTO, Contrast

Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. He's very active in the DevSecOps community, recently authored the DZone DevSecOps cheat sheet, and speaks frequently on the topic at conferences like Velocity, DevSecCon, JenkinsWorld, AppSecEU, and more. Prior to Contrast, Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by EY. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 9 years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

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Bruce Macdonald

Sr. IAM Project Architect, Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.

With 20+ years of experience in the identity and access management field, Bruce is focused on both enterprise identity and privileged access management technologies. Having worked as a senior pre-sales engineer and project architect, his strength is in providing overall strategic direction and execution of corporate identity management programs on a variety of platforms.

A results oriented individual, Bruce enjoys solving new creative and technology challenges. His value is in being able to understand complex technologies and provide strategic design direction, project recommendations and thought leadership to customers and senior executives.

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Ran Shahor, Brigadier General (Ret.)

CEO & Founder, HolistiCyber

Ran Shahor is a Brigadier General (Ret.) who founded the leading edge Cyber Security program of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence branch and is considered one of the worlds top Cyber Security experts . After 27 years of military service, Shahor took upon himself multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector. Prior to co-founding HolistiCyber, he was the founder and the Co-CEO of Focal energy as well as Managing Partner of Star Ventures, a $1 billion global venture capital group. He started his career in the elite IDF special forces unit "Sayeret Matkal" which he also commanded.

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Connie Theien

SVP, Industry Relations, Federal Reserve Financial Services

Connie Theien serves as the senior vice president of industry relations and leads efforts to engage payments stakeholders in advancing strategies for improving the U.S. payment system and in collaborating to encourage implementation and adoption of faster payments in the United States.

Theien leads stakeholder engagement by supporting various industry and Federal Reserve work groups and initiatives. She also leads the engagement strategy for the Fed Payments Improvement Community, a group that includes thousands of stakeholders from across the payments ecosystem, to improve the end-to-end speed, efficiency and security of payments in the country.

As part of the Federal Reserve's payments improvement leadership team, she established and managed the Faster and Secure Payments Task Forces, a coalition of 500+ stakeholders that worked from 2015-2018 to lay important groundwork for advancing payments speed and security.

In her tenure at the Federal Reserve, Theien established national marketing in 2004 and industry relations in 2013. Prior to coming to the Fed, she led marketing and public relations efforts for nonprofit, retail and academic organizations. Theien holds a B.A. in speech communication from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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Chris Hertz

CRO, DivvyCloud

Chris is the Chief Revenue Officer of DivvyCloud where he combines his technical background and cloud technology expertise with his love of sales and marketing.

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Anthony Johnson

Managing Partner, DelveRisk

Anthony has served as the Global CISO and Managing Director for multiple Fortune 100 companies, where he led some of the largest, most complex cybersecurity programs in the world. In addition to advising emerging and startup companies, Anthony is currently a Managing Partner at Delve Risk, where he leads a practice focused on driving technology and risk management transformation.

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Julie Conroy

Research Director, Aite Group

Conroy is research director for Aite Group's Fraud & AML practice and covers fraud, data security, anti-money laundering, and compliance issues. Conroy brings to Aite Group more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies.

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Stephen Scharf

Managing Director & Global Chief Security Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

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Jeff Schwartz

Vice President of North America Engineering, Checkpoint

Jeff Schwartz, CISSP, is vice president of North America engineering at Check Point. Schwartz manages all aspects of technical operations and resources for the company in the region, including a team of over 200 engineers across multidisciplinary fields. Throughout his 20-year career in cybersecurity, he has consulted, designed or overseen the implementation of large network security deployments within every major vertical throughout both the Fortune 500 and major government agencies.

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