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Tim Buntel

VP of Application Security Products, Threat Stack

Buntel is VP of Application Security Products at Threat Stack. Prior to this role, he has built globally recognized software businesses for 20 years at startups, midsized companies in transition, and the largest global brands, including Atlassian, Adobe, Microsoft, and XebiaLabs with an emphasis on developer tools and platforms; helping developers build better software. He is also a founding mentor and Board member at Smarter in the City, a non-profit high-tech accelerator with a mission to diversify Boston's startup sector by providing support and resources for local minority-run ventures.

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Brian Dailey

CTO & Co-founder, Stratasan

Dailey is the CTO and co-founder at Stratasan and leads their product efforts. He has worked in healthcare technology for almost 20 years.

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Marshall Toburen

GRC Strategist, RSA

Marshall Toburen is a GRC Strategist with RSA Archer specializing in Enterprise, Operational, and Third Party Risk Management. He has 30 years of experience in financial services including roles as Enterprise Risk Manager, Operational Risk manager, Information Security Officer, Chief Audit Executive, and Assistant Controller. His credentials include: M.A. in Economics, Univ of Missouri; B.A.s in Economics & Political Science, Baker Univ; & holds CIA, CISA, & CBA certifications (non-practicing).

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Franklyn Jones

Chief Marketing Officer, Cequence

Franklyn Jones currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Cequence. He has been involved in innovative cyber security startups for more than a decade. Prior to joining Cequence, Franklyn held CMO positions at Bromium, Spikes Security, and Cyphort (acquired by Juniper Networks). Franklyn was also with Palo Alto Networks for 5 years starting in 2007, helping the company create a leadership position in the next-gen firewall market.

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Kelly White

CEO and Founder (CISSP), RiskRecon

Kelly has nearly 20 years of experience in assessing and defending complex enterprises. Prior to dedicating his full attention to RiskRecon in 2015, White held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. White was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young. White is an active supporter of the security community, a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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John Trest

Chief Learning Officer, Inspired eLearning

Trest is responsible for leading the development of Inspired eLearning's award-winning library of content, from the solid instructional design to the high-quality multimedia production. He has been a member of Inspired's team since 2009 and has more than 19 years of experience in creating and delivering eLearning courses for a broad variety of industries and subjects. He's passionate about creating quality eLearning content that is both engaging and impactful.

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Sam Small

Chief Security Officer, ZeroFOX

Dr. Sam Small serves as the Chief Security Officer of ZeroFOX, helping its customers implement world-class social-media protection programs and supporting ZeroFOX to continuously advance its role as the innovation leader of social-media and collaborative-technology security solutions. After earning his doctorate in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Sam was a lecturer, led an academic security research lab, and launched two security-industry startups, including Fast Orientation where he most recently served as CEO and continues to maintain a non-operational role as Chairman. In addition to his technical and entrepreneurial pursuits, Dr. Small has provided expert technology and security assessments of dozens of organizations and vendor products and conducted due diligence assessments for more than a dozen software-industry investments, mergers, and acquisitions. He has also served as an expert witness in several high-profile security, software, and network-related lawsuits. His work and research have been covered in publications including Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, CNET, ZDNet, and slashdot.

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Giovanni Vigna

Co-founder and CTO, Lastline

Vigna has been researching and developing security technology for more than 20 years, working on malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and intrusion detection. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara and is the director of the Computer Security Group at UCSB. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences, and workshops, a book on intrusion correlation, and (as an editor) a book on mobile code security. Vigna has been the program chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (in 2010 and 2011). He is known for organizing and running an annual inter-university Capture The Flag (iCTF) hacking contest that involves dozens of institutions and hundreds of students around the world. Vigna also leads the Shellphish Hacking Team, the longest-running team playing at DefCon's CTF.

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Thomas Bain

Senior Vice President, Marketing, RiskRecon

Tom Bain is Senior Vice President of Marketing for RiskRecon. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company and has 15+ years of experience with leading IT Security organizations.  Previous to RiskRecon, Mr. Bain was Vice President, Marketing with Morphisec. He has served in previous roles at innovative cybersecurity companies including Chief Marketing Officer with Centripetal Networks and Vice President, Global Marketing for CounterTack/GoSecure. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and holds a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. Mr. Bain sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.

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Wade Baker

Partner & Co-Founder, Cyentia Institute

In addition to his role with the Cyentia Institute, Wade is a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching in the MBA and Master of IT programs. He's also proud to serve on the Advisory Boards of the RSA Conference and FAIR Institute. Wade loves learning from cybersecurity data and sharing those lessons to help others learn as well - whether that's in the classroom, boardroom, or anywhere in between. Prior to founding Cyentia, Wade was the VP of Strategy and Analytics at ThreatConnect and before that had the great fortune of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report team for a number of years.

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Tom Bienkowski

Director, Product Marketing, NETSCOUT

Tom Bienkowski has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time, he worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at NETSCOUT, he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on NETSCOUT's industry leading DDoS Protection solution.

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Giovanni Vigna

Co-founder and CTO, Lastline

Vigna has been researching and developing security technology for more than 20 years, working on malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and intrusion detection. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara and is the director of the Computer Security Group at UCSB. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences, and workshops, a book on intrusion correlation, and (as an editor) a book on mobile code security. Vigna has been the program chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (in 2010 and 2011). He is known for organizing and running an annual inter-university Capture The Flag (iCTF) hacking contest that involves dozens of institutions and hundreds of students around the world. Vigna also leads the Shellphish Hacking Team, the longest-running team playing at DefCon's CTF.

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Nikfar Khaleeli

Vice President of Product, Blue Cedar

Nikfar brings a wealth of experience to Blue Cedar, having worked in mobility and security at both early stage and mature technology companies. At Blue Cedar, Nikfar is responsible for product management and product marketing. Nikfar previously worked at Good Technology (acquired by BlackBerry) where he was responsible for product marketing of the Good Dynamics (now BlackBerry Dynamics) Platform. Nikfar also worked at ProtectWise (acquired by Verizon), McAfee, Vontu (acquired by Symantec), and Wind River Systems.

Nikfar began his career as a Software Engineer. He received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and a BA in Physics from the College of Wooster.

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Dorothy Boyer

Director, Competitive & Market Intelligence, Venafi

Boyer is the Director, Competitive & Market Intelligence at Venafi. She is responsible for developing all of the competitive, market & sector analysis for the company. She has more than 20 years IT Security experience holding leadership roles at companies such as Tripwire and British Telecom. More recently, Boyer completed a deep dive analysis of the finance sector at Venafi.

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Broderick Perelli-Harris

Sr. Director, Technical Security Sales, EMEA at Venafi

Perelli-Harris is the Sr. Director, Technical Security Sales, EMEA at Venafi. He has extensive experience and a solid track record of results in preparing and leading high-quality and competitive software and service bids to Fortune 1000 companies. Perelli-Harris has developed strong services strategies to align with internal business goals and customer expectations to the services Venafi delivers. He also has deep and productive engagement with sales and marketing, ensuring a high-performing professional services team.

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Tony Howlett

CISO, SecureLink

Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP, GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. He is currently the CISO of SecureLink, a vendor privilege access management company based in Austin.

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Justin Strackany

Chief Customer Officer, SecureLink

Strackany is the Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access. He has been with SecureLink since it was founded in 2003 and has served in many customer-focused capacities, including sales engineering, implementation, customer success, account management, and onboarding new clients. Over the years he has developed deep partnerships with some of the largest, most complex enterprise organizations and technology vendors across the country and internationally in industries such as healthcare, gaming, legal, finance, and retail.

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Gonzalo de la Hoz Arespacochaga

Identity & Access Management Segment Leader, Europe, IBM

Gonzalo de la Hoz has been leading IBM's Identity and Access Management software business in Europe for the past 6 years. He has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, starting his career with technical consulting and pre-sales engineering, followed by different sales positions. More recently he has held several technical and sales management positions for IBM in Southern Europe.

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Vaughan Harper

Consulting Security Specialist - IBM Security Systems

Vaughan Harper is an IBM Security Architect with over 25 years' experience in the IT industry, the last 15 years in IT Security. He is currently the European technical lead for IBM's IAM products, and has spent most of the last ten years supporting the IBM Security products in Europe and in the UK. Prior to that he consulted, implemented and supported IBM's cryptographic and network security products. Before that he held various software development and system design jobs in the UK and the US. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

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John DiLullo

CEO, Lastline

DiLullo has nearly 30 years of demonstrated success in enterprise security, networking, cloud, and AI, plus go-to-market expertise spanning sales, marketing, customer success, technical support, and operations. His career includes extensive time domestically and abroad with market leaders such as Cisco Systems, Avaya, SonicWall, and Aruba Networks serving customers large and small through traditional and emerging channels. Prior to joining Lastline, DiLullo was the EVP for F5 Network's $2B+ Worldwide Sales and Customer Operations. He is an avid technologist, an author, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and an accomplished public speaker.

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