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Steve Ward

Manager - Strategic Business Consulting, CSI Advisory Services

Steve has over 28 years’ experience in Information Technology, with executive roles including Strategic Banking Technology Consultant, SVP/Chief Information Officer, SVP/Chief Operation Officer and Senior Technology Officer, as well as Information Security Officer, IT Systems Manager, Data Processing Manager and Systems Administration. He has served the last 14 years in the heavily regulated financial services industry, covering executive leadership in back-office operations, technology, security, compliance, business continuity, mergers, major system migrations and infrastructure transformation.

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Brad LaPorte

Gartner Veteran | GTM Advisor to Startups, Private Equity & Venture Funds | Board Advisor

One of the most influential voices in cybersecurity and is credited with inventing the term ASM at Gartner. Brad is a former Top-rated Gartner analyst for cybersecurity and threat intelligence, veteran US Cyber Intelligence, Dell, IBM, Kasada evangelist and product leader

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Brad LaPorte

Gartner Veteran | GTM Advisor to Startups, Private Equity & Venture Funds | Board Advisor

One of the most influential voices in cybersecurity and is credited with inventing the term ASM at Gartner. Brad is a former Top-rated Gartner analyst for cybersecurity and threat intelligence, veteran US Cyber Intelligence, Dell, IBM, Kasada evangelist and product leader

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Brad LaPorte

Gartner Veteran | GTM Advisor to Startups, Private Equity & Venture Funds | Board Advisor

One of the most influential voices in cybersecurity and is credited with inventing the term ASM at Gartner. Brad is a former Top-rated Gartner analyst for cybersecurity and threat intelligence, veteran US Cyber Intelligence, Dell, IBM, Kasada evangelist and product leader

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Nguyen Vo

Senior Manager of Financial Services at Ekata, a Mastercard Company

Nguyen Vo is a Senior Manager of Financial Services at Ekata, a Mastercard Company, where He works closely with companies in financial services to create better onboarding experiences for their customers, while also reducing fraud. Nguyen is passionate about increasing access to financial services through the use of digital identity verification. He has been with Ekata since 2019, and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Washington.

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Steve Wilson

Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security

Steve is currently the Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security. Today his team is responsible for Engineering, Product Management and Product Design for all products.

Steve has over 25 years of experience developing and marketing products at multi-billion-dollar technology companies such as Citrix, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Prior to Contrast, Steve was the Vice President of Product Management for Citrix Cloud where he led the transformation of Citrix products from traditional on-prem to SaaS. At Oracle, he led core engineering for a billion-dollar product line of systems management software. During his time at Sun Microsystems, Steve was an early member of the team that developed the Java computer programming system, the most widely used set of software development tools in history.

Steve is the author of “Java Platform Performance: Strategies and Tactics” and “The Father/Daughter Guide to Cryptocurrency Mining.” He is a popular speaker on future of work and artificial intelligence topics and has recently presented at The Churchill Club, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, DLA Piper Global Technology Summit, IDG Agenda, SAP TechEd and WSJ Tech D.Live. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and a second-degree black belt from the American Taekwondo Association.

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Anubhav Arora

VP, Security Engineering, Cradlepoint

Anubhav recently joined Cradlepoint to lead the development of security products and services in the Wireless WAN product line. Anubhav holds PhD and MS degrees from University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India in Electrical Engineering. Anubhav has more than two decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity industries in various technical leadership roles at Fidelis Cybersecurity, Lucent Technologies and Tellabs. Before joining Cradlepoint he was the CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity that is known for its industry leading network, endpoint and cloud detection and response products. He led the R&D product, system architecture design, and threat research groups as well as the broader technology strategy for the company. He was the inventor of Fidelis’ patented network traffic metadata collection and analysis product.

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Anubhav Arora

VP, Security Engineering, Cradlepoint

Anubhav recently joined Cradlepoint to lead the development of security products and services in the Wireless WAN product line. Anubhav holds PhD and MS degrees from University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India in Electrical Engineering. Anubhav has more than two decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity industries in various technical leadership roles at Fidelis Cybersecurity, Lucent Technologies and Tellabs. Before joining Cradlepoint he was the CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity that is known for its industry leading network, endpoint and cloud detection and response products. He led the R&D product, system architecture design, and threat research groups as well as the broader technology strategy for the company. He was the inventor of Fidelis’ patented network traffic metadata collection and analysis product.

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Sudarsan Kannan

Director of Product Management, Uptycs

Sudarsan Kannan is passionate about building and evangelizing cloud native security solutions for multi-cloud environments. He has held several key leadership roles at RSA Security & Symantec spanning across Engineering, Product Management & Program Management. He is a well-known security industry thought leader collaborating with NIST’s National CyberSecurity Center for Excellence (NcCOE) and an accomplished industry speaker. Sudarsan holds BS in electrical and computer engineering and an MBA with honors from Babson College.

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Andre Rall

Director of Cloud Security, Uptycs

Andre is a long-time cloud-computing and security aficionado, specifically focusing on the threat actor’s vantage point. Prior to Uptycs, Andre spent five years at AWS, and in his most recent role had dual responsibilities: 1) Oversaw a global team responsible for ATO detection & mitigation within AWS Fraud Prevention, 2) oversaw a global team responsible for the business intelligence strategy for all of AWS Fraud Prevention. Prior to AWS Andre spent seven years at Rackspace, with his final role being Director of AWS Technical Support & Operations which provided DevOps services for customers.

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Chris Hawley

Director of Identity and Access Management, Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office, Unisys

Chris Hawley is the Director of Identity and Access Management in the Corporate Security and Infrastructure Office at Unisys. Chris joined Unisys in 2002 and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of the Unisys certificate infrastructure (PKI), Identity and Access Management and provisioning, and Multi-Factor Authentication solutions.

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Matthew Ulery

Chief Product Officer, SecureAuth

Matthew Ulery is the chief product officer at SecureAuth. With more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise security, compliance and critical infrastructure software, Ulery leads the company’s overall product strategy and management. He works closely with the product, engineering and research teams to drive innovation in the SecureAuth Identity Platform. Prior to SecureAuth, Ulery was global vice president of product management at Micro Focus, responsible for the company’s IAM and Security Operations Solutions. Prior to Micro Focus, Ulery held senior product management and engineering roles at Symantec, NetIQ, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, and Telvent. He started his career at Lockheed as a systems engineer working on Space Station Freedom, before focusing on enterprise software. During Ulery’s extensive career, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of security solutions including access management, IGA, privileged access management, security operations and Active Directory management. Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently resides in Houston with his wife and children.

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Zane Sanderson

BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect

Zane is a BigFix Technical Advisor / Guru and Certified Architect. He cut his teeth in IT doing Application Packaging and Software Distribution before focusing on Systems Management. Zane is part of BigFix's Innovation team, specialising in Containerization, and Mobile Device Management.

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Gagan Sugandh

Senior PreSales Engineer,Tenable

Gagan for the last 17 years has played multiple Information Security roles including building and running Security Operations Centre both in the managed mode as well as Captive and Remote SOC mode. Over the last few years Gagan has changed gears into Architecting solutions around RSA , IBM and Splunk based solutions as PreSales engineer for the respective OEMs. In his latest role as Senior PreSales Engineer for the Exposure Management Company Tenable, Gagan is helping customers to build a security eco-system that includes Vulnerability Management as one of its core foundation.

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Larry Weber

Vice President of Product Marketing

Larry Weber is a Vice President of Product Marketing at Veracode. He is responsible for leading the overall product & industry marketing, market insights, and developer relations teams.

Larry has multiple years of experience in cloud strategy, user experience and analytics. Prior to joining Veracode, he built and led the marketing team for the AWS Databases category and was responsible for thought leadership, awareness, adoption, engagement, and advocacy for AWS’s 15+ purpose-built managed database services.

Larry received a Masters of Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from a UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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Chris Wysopal

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Wysopal is Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He oversees technology strategy and information security. Prior to co-founding Veracode in 2006, Chris was vice president of research and development at security consultancy @stake, which was acquired by Symantec.

In the 1990’s, Chris was one of the original vulnerability researchers at The L0pht, a hacker think tank, where he was one of the first to publicize the risks of insecure software. He has testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software.

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Murthy Mathiprakasam

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Rubrik

Murthy Mathiprakasam is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for Rubrik's data security and cyber resilience solutions. Murthy has over two decades of experience working with emerging high-growth software technologies, including roles at Mercury Interactive/HP, Google, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Informatica, and Splunk. Murthy holds an MS in management science from Stanford University and double BS degrees in management science and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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