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Richard Bortnick

Cyber Liability and Insurance Attorney, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, Red Bank, NJ

Bortnick litigates and counsels clients on cyber and technology risks, exposures and best practices; directors' and officers' liability; professional liability; insurance coverage; and commercial litigation matters. He also drafts professional liability insurance policies of varying types, including cyber, privacy and technology forms, and is Publisher of the cyber industry blog, Cyberinquirer.com. He serves as a member of the Executive Corporate Board of The Franklin Institute science museum and is Co-Chair of the Computer & Technology Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Bortnick is a regular contributor and columnist for Advisen and was named by Advisen as their Cyber Risk Network 2015 Person of the Year.

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Warren Cooney

Assistant Vice President of Claims, AXIS Insurance

With more than 20 years of Financial Services and Insurance Industry experience, Warren Cooney is currently responsible for the Claims group at AXIS Insurance. Prior to joining AXIS in 2012, he served as a Complex Claims Director at AIG. Cooney has also spent time in Brussels, focused on insurance regulation, in the Financial Services Group of US law firm Steptoe & Johnson. Having started his Insurance career at a Commercial Insurance Brokerage, Cooney then worked in the Specialty Claims Group of Chubb and later in the Compliance Department of RBC Insurance. Additionally, he has spent time as a Senior Policy Advisor at Advocis, the financial advisors association of Canada, and in the Corporate Policy & Public Affairs Branch of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario.

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Tracy Kitten

Director of Global Events Content and Executive Editor, BankInfoSecurity & CUInfoSecurity

A veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience, Kitten has covered the financial sector for the last 13 years. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2010, where she now serves as director of global events content and executive editor of BankInfoSecurity and CUInfoSecurity, she covered the financial self-service industry as the senior editor of ATMmarketplace, part of Networld Media. Kitten has been a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences, and was the keynote at ATMIA's U.S. and Canadian conferences in 2009. She has been quoted by CNN.com, ABC News, Bankrate.com and MSN Money.

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Greg Markell

President and CEO, Ridge Canada Cyber Solutions Inc.

Greg Markell is a leading insurance expert on the topic of cyber and privacy liability. He has advised public, private, and non-profit organizations regarding their risk transfer of organizational exposure to cyber-related losses. His career in insurance began with underwriting for a large national insurer, starting in property and casualty before quickly moving into executive and professional risk, with a focus on director's and officer's (D&O) insurance. He then moved on to join a national brokerage, focusing on specialty insurance products for financial services companies, including D&O and cyber liability. Markell left this firm as a partner in 2014 and joined a top 10 global broker, where he was a resource for his colleagues for D&O and the practice leader for cyber and privacy liability.

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Ruby Rai

Cyber Underwriting Specialist, Financial Lines, AIG

Ruby Rai currently leads the complex Cyber and Technology risk portfolio for AIG Canada. She actively participates in public forums to promote AIG's expertise in cyber insurance and guides the team to stay ahead of the evolving cyber risk market. Rai's more than 11 years of insurance experience includes being a financial lines broker and spearheading a national cyber practice at a tier 1 brokerage in Canada. In her previous role as a broker, she advised clients in assessing their cyber risks and finding the right solutions for cyber risk transfer.

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Gord Jamieson

Senior Director of Canada Risk Services, Visa

Jamieson joined Visa Canada in March of 2001 where he now heads Visa Canada Risk Services and North America Acquirer Risk Services. Jamieson is responsible for delivering value-added services to improve client profitability and growth, engaging clients to influence security and fraud outcomes, demonstrating risk management leadership, reporting fraud performance by fraud type against benchmark standards and objectives, and managing compliance risk programs. Prior to joining Visa, Jamieson served as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 20 years where he investigating organized crime involvement in forged credit card manufacturing and distribution. The Canadian courts recognize Jamieson as an expert in this field of investigation. In addition, he has served as both the president and vice-president of the Central Canada Chapter of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI) and presently is a member of the IAFCI Board of Advisors.

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Art Coviello

former CEO, RSA Security; Venture Partner, Rally Ventures

Coviello has more than 30 years of strategic, operating and financial management experience in high-technology companies and is one of the most recognized figures within the cyber-security industry. He joined RSA Security, Inc. in 1995 and became CEO of the Company in 2000. During his tenure, he was the driving force in the rapid growth of the company from $25 million in annual revenue to over $1 billion. Following the acquisition of RSA by EMC in 2006, Coviello continued to lead the company as Executive Chairman and President until he retired from the full-time role in early 2015. Coviello has played a leading role in several national cyber-security initiatives including as a founding board member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, and has served as an advisor to key government agencies as well as public-private initiatives. He is also an organizer of the Digital Equilibrium Project, which works to bring differing views together in pursuit of a digital constitution to support a safer world for individuals, organizations and nations.

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Imran Ahmad

Partner - Toronto Office, Miller Thomson LLP

Ahmad works closely with clients to develop and implement practical pre- and post-breach mitigation strategies. He advises risk assessments, compliance, due diligence, risk allocation, security and data breach incident preparedness, as well as engages with regulators and law enforcement, providing representation in case of litigation. Ahmad sits on the Canadian Advanced Technologies Alliance's Cyber Security Council and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's Privacy and Access to Information Law Section. Recently, he was appointed to the National Cyber Security Leadership Council on Youth and Education. Prior to his call to the bar, Ahmad was a political adviser to retired Lieutenant-General and Senator Roméo A. Dallaire, and clerked for Justice Edmond P. Blanchard at the Federal Court of Canada and Competition Tribunal in Ottawa.

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Sunil Chand

Director of Cybersecurity, Grant Thornton, Toronto

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Tom Field

Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG

Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its diverse cadre of senior-level editors and reporters. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning Summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.

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Randy Sabett

Vice Chair, Privacy & Data Protection Practice Group, Cooley LLP

A former NSA crypto-engineer, Sabett brings to Cooley LLP his extensive experience in data security, privacy, licensing and IP. Sabett has managed numerous data breach responses involving major retailers, financial and healthcare organizations, and on-line service providers. He served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in privacy and data security in the 2007-2014 editions of Chambers USA. Sabett is a member of the board for the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute and the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA. He also is a frequent lecturer and author, and has appeared on or been quoted by a variety of national media sources.

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Joe Mitchell

Senior Manager - Sales Engineering, BitSight

Joe Mitchell has over 15 years of security, support, QA, and technical sales experience.

He is currently Senior Manager - Sales Engineering at BitSight Technologies running the global sales engineering team.

Previous to BitSight he was with Q1 Labs the maker of the leading SIEM - QRadar, which was acquired by IBM in 2011.

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Richard Comish

CTO, Nehemiah Security

Richard Comish is Chief Technology Officer at Nehemiah Security. In addition, he serves as Architect with overall technical responsibility for product development.

Before coming to Nehemiah, Richard was the CTO of Curation Corporation. He was responsible for developing the algorithms that processed, selected and enriched content for clients in demanding markets such as Financial Services and Insurance. Richard has been a CTO at companies large and small, including a large European Investment Bank, a London-based stock broker and a consultant to markets such as remote support, European Healthcare and e-Learning.

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Ayelet Avni

IBM Trusteer End Point Protection, Rapport & Mobile Offering Manager

Ayelet has more than 15 years in the industry in a variety of roles from research and development to business. In her role as End Point Protection Offering Manager at IBM, Ayelet is leading the IBM Trusteer Rapport and Mobile product offering, industry leading solutions for fighting cybercrime and advanced threats. Prior to joining IBM, Ayelet held various management roles at leading companies including RSA which gives her a wide view on the market, customer needs and the fraud landscape.

Ayelet holds a master degree in system engineering and engineering degree in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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Paul Griswold

Program Director, Strategy & Product Management, Threat Protection & X-Force

Paul Griswold is passionate about building software products that solve complex real-world problems. In the earlier part of his career, this involved writing code and architecting products. More recently, his focus has shifted from the nuts and bolts of software development to building software product business lines through roles in product management and product marketing. Paul especially enjoys interacting with customers and partners, determining how cool new technologies can be applied to solve business problems, and working with teams to bring state-of-the-art solutions to market.

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Maxim Shifrin

Trusteer Technical Product Manager for Pinpoint Solutions

Maxim Shifrin, IBM Trusteer Technical Product Manager for Pinpoint Solutions, Maxim has more than 10 years in the industry in a multiple positions from software development to business. In his role as a Product Manager at IBM Trusteer, Maxim is part of the Pinpoint products offering team, an industry leading solutions for fighting cybercrime and advanced threats. Prior to joining IBM, Maxim held various roles at leading industry Nice Actimize company, which gives him a wide view on the market, customer needs and the fraud landscape. Maxim holds an BA degree in Computer Science and MBA from Bar Ilan University in Israel.

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John Wilson

Field CTO, Agari

Wilson has been combating email-based fraud since 2006, when he developed an authentication-based anti-phishing solution as CTO of Brandmail Solutions. He continues his mission to rid the world of email fraud as Agari's Field CTO. Wilson was responsible for the world's first successful rollout of the DMARC standard at a major bank, with more than 8,000 domains protected. Leveraging DMARC and private-channel email data, Wilson assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with the B54 Citadel botnet takedown by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and by acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court. Wilson holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

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Asaf Cidon

Vice President, Content Security Services, Barracuda Networks

Asaf Cidon is the Vice President, Content Security Services at Barracuda Networks, where he co-leads the development of Barracuda Sentinel, the first product that provides comprehensive protection from spear phishing and communication fraud. Asaf completed his PhD at Stanford University, where his research focused on cloud storage and reliability, and was adopted by companies such as Facebook, Tibco, and NetApp. He previously founded and was the CEO of Sookasa, which was acquired by Barracuda Networks in 2016. He also worked as software engineer at Google. He is the recipient of SC Media's 2017 Rising Star Award and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

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Thomas Fischer

Global Security Advocate

With more than 20 years of experience, Thomas has a unique view on enterprise security with experience across multiple domains from policy and risk management, secure development and enterprise incident response and forensics. Thomas has held roles varying from a security architect for a large fortune 500 company to consultant for both industry vendors and consulting organizations. Thomas currently plays a lead role as the principal researcher for threat analysis and malicious activity at Digital Guardian (when he is not organizing and preparing the next Security B-Sides London event).

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Jacob Olcott

Senior Leadership, BitSight Technologies

Olcott is part of the senior leadership team at BitSight Technologies and has a long history in helping to shape both the practice and legislation of cyber security. He previously managed the cybersecurity consulting practice at Good Harbor Security Risk Management. Prior to Good Harbor, he served as legal advisor to the Senate Commerce Committee, where he acted as Chairman John D. Rockefeller's lead negotiator on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. Olcott also served as counsel to the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. He completed his education at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia School of Law. He currently teaches a class on cybersecurity policy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

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Robert Villanueva

Executive Vice President, Q6 Cyber and Founder of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division of the US Secret Service

Villanueva spent 25 years in the U.S. Secret Service, where he specialized in transnational cybercrimes, access device fraud, network intrusions and identity theft data breaches affecting the private sector. He served in both investigative and undercover capacities around the world. Villanueva founded the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Intelligence Section and headed the Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force. He has conducted extensive research into computer botnets and malware development attributed to foreign actors, and has led numerous projects in partnership with Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and private companies. Presently, Villanueva advises the boards of directors at Florida International University, the Florida International Security Association, Florida International Bankers Association and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. He currently serves as executive vice president of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division at cybersecurity firm Q6 Cyber.

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Robert Villanueva

Executive Vice President, Q6 Cyber and Founder of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division of the US Secret Service

Villanueva spent 25 years in the U.S. Secret Service, where he specialized in transnational cybercrimes, access device fraud, network intrusions and identity theft data breaches affecting the private sector. He served in both investigative and undercover capacities around the world. Villanueva founded the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Intelligence Section and headed the Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force. He has conducted extensive research into computer botnets and malware development attributed to foreign actors, and has led numerous projects in partnership with Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and private companies. Presently, Villanueva advises the boards of directors at Florida International University, the Florida International Security Association, Florida International Bankers Association and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. He currently serves as executive vice president of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division at cybersecurity firm Q6 Cyber.

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