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Dr. Madan M. Oberoi (IPS)

Joint Commissioner (Special Cell), Delhi Police and Ex-Director - Cyber Innovation & Outreach, IGCI, Interpol

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Bithal Bhardwaj

Chief Information Security Officer and Principal Risk Advisor, GE Africa & GE South Asia

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Guru Bhat

GM technology & Head of Engineering, PayPal

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Avinash Prasad

VP & Business Head, Managed Security Services, Tata Communications

Prasad brings more than 13 years of security and risk management experience to Tata Communications where he heads the global practice and business area of managed security service. He has a multi-functional focus on customer management, practice and solution development, business development, innovation and partnership. Prior to this, Prasad has led the creation and building of security practices in the areas of managed security services and advanced security services in Wipro, followed by a role leading the information and cyber risk management practice for Infosys. Prasad has had hands-on experience in building integrated security solutions across infrastructure, application and process (GRC) stacks. He has extensive experience with working with leading security technology players while driving alliances & hosted security services for Wipro ESS. Prasad holds a B. Tech from IIT, Delhi and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

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Sunil Sharma

Sr. Director Sales, Sophos (India & SAARC)

Sunil Sharma joined Sophos in 2015 as vice president, sales, for India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives. He is responsible for the company's regional sales and channel organization. Sophos acquired India's prominent network security company Cyberoam, where Sunil was responsible for the entire sales and operations for these regions since 2011. With a rich and extensive experience of 25 years in the IT industry, in the field of Computers, Storage & Security; Sunil has worked with diverse industry verticals and segments - SI's, VAR's, ISP's, Resellers, Dealers, Retail, OEM, Enterprise, SME, SMB and SOHO. He has worked with worked with companies like McAfee, EMC Data Storage, Iris Computers in his previous assignments. He has got two Channel Chief Awards in 2015 and 2016 from SME Channels and NCN Magazine respectively. Sunil has a master's in business management with specialization in marketing and B.TECH in electronics & communications from the Delhi University. Mr. Sharma has been an eminent speaker in various forums, seminars & conferences on IT Security Events, Defense Expositions and IT and had been conducting informative sessions on Motivation and Team Building within internal teams and community.

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Brijesh Miglani

Sr. Presales Consultant, Forcepoint

Brijesh Miglani, Sr. Presales Consultant at Forcepoint has over 12 years of Enterprise Security solutioning and consulting experience across industry verticals like IT/ITES, manufacturing, banking and Government etc. Brijesh is also a trusted advisor to some of the very large enterprise customers of Forcepoint in India. Brijesh specializes in understanding customer concerns over the risks and security and providing solutions that would address their challenges.

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Steven D'sa

Director, Consulting - South East Asia, Mandiant Consulting, FireEye

Steven focuses on Incident Response, Strategic Transformations and Proactive Assessment services and provides insight to customers handling emergency incidents, transformation and continual improvement of security posture within enterprises.

Steven has 17 years of experience in leadership and functional roles providing a wide range of Enterprise Security and Technology consulting services to clients in APJ geography. He is a seasoned security operations practitioner with a keen interest in information security threat vectors and understands how they operate. As an advisor in enterprise security engagements, Steven has helped transform information security strategies and controls, as well as structure preparatory response mechanisms for incidents where controls may have been breached and sensitive information compromised.

Prior to joining FireEye, Steven was the Principal Security Architect for Symantec Consulting in ASEAN, Korea & India. In his role he has advised security management at several large Symantec customers on information security and risk management strategies, and led teams of consultants delivering professional services related to the Information Security spectrum.

Steven led and managed teams transforming enterprise security, running MSSP Operations, Security Advisory Research, engineering enterprise products in his previous roles at Symantec.

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Rakesh Kharwal

Country Leader - IBM Security Software, India/South Asia, IBMEnterprise Business, (India)

As Country Leader for IBM security software Business, Rakesh's key responsibilities include being instrumental in improving the cyber security posture of Government organizations & corporates, to help automate & secure their business processes - by designing hardware & networking solutions, eBusiness process consulting, custom software development & related services to improve their productivity and customer focus.

With an experience of close to two & half decades, Rakesh's IT security stint started with Microsoft Corporation as Security Lead, followed by McAfee as The Govt & Enterprise Bsuiness Leader. He has played a key role in starting India's first "CISO Forum" to drive security awareness across the various sectors. He has run successful campaigns to build security awareness among IT Professionals and developers on secure code writing; including cyber education for children in partnership with Government bodies.

As a trusted advisor, he passionately continues to engage with corporates, PSU's in the critical infrastructure space & key Government agencies responsible for driving cyber security in India. He actively participates at cyber security forums and events, sharing his experience and learning in the IT security space.

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Patrick Carey

Director of Product Marketing, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

Patrick leads Product Marketing for Synopsys' portfolio of application security services and products, including Coverity static analysis and Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys in December 2017) software composition analysis. His prior roles span development, product management and marketing leadership positions in Citrix and Accenture, as well as a number of start-ups.

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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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Paul Dulany

Vice President, Data Science, CA Technologies

Paul Dulany has been in the advanced analytics and data science areas for 18 years. He joined CA Technologies in 2013, and led the development of the analytical modeling infrastructure, as well as and the first model produced by the CA data science team, and has been leading the team since late 2015.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, he was at the SAS Institute for over eight years, where he was on the team that developed the first models for the SAS Enterprise Fraud Management solution, led the development of the first debit card models and developed many new techniques. Prior to SAS, Paul was at HNC and Fair Isaac for more than five years, as a scientist and later as the manager of the Fraud Predictor modeling team, developing a number of Falcon payment card models as well as working in other areas. Paul hold patents from his time at CA Technologies, HNC and SAS, and has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

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James Rendell

Vice President, Product Management, CA Technologies

James Rendell heads Payment Security Strategy and Product Management for CA Technologies. James is a recognized security and fraud expert covering topics such as mobility, cryptography, e-commerce, and network and infrastructure security.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, James led the EMEA Security consulting practice at IBM Global Technology Services and the e-Crime Prevention consulting practice at Deloitte, based in London. In 2008, while at IBM, James was elected as an affiliate member of the IBM Academy of Technology in recognition of his work in the field of IT security.

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Mark McGovern

VP Product Management, CA

Mark McGovern is a respected security expert and VP, Product Management for CA Technologies. Mark joined CA in April 2016 when they acquired Mobile System 7, a leading user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) company that Mark led as CEO and founder. Previously Mark was VP of Technology at In-Q-Tel where he led security investments for the U.S. Intelligence Community and was Director of Technology for Cigital Inc. where he led Cigital's Software Security Group supporting a Fortune 100 clientele. Earlier in his career, Mark worked as an engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency building covert and clandestine communication systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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Shirley Inscoe

Senior Analyst, Aite Group

Shirley Inscoe is a senior analyst with Aite Group, covering fraud, data security, and consumer compliance issues. She brings to Aite Group 30 years of banking experience in enterprise fraud and payments issues. Inscoe has served as the chair of the BITS Fraud Reduction Steering Committee and the co-chair of Early Warning Services' Advisory Committee, and has been a member of ABA's Deposit Account Fraud and Payment Systems Committees.

Prior to joining Aite Group, Inscoe was the director of financial services solutions at Memento Inc., where she was responsible for guiding the company's overall strategy and supporting product development, marketing, and sales related to payments risk mitigation. During her tenure with Memento, she worked to expand the firm's product offerings beyond employee fraud to cover check, ACH, and wire fraud. Before that, Inscoe was senior vice president and director of payments strategy with Wachovia Bank, where she previously served as senior vice president and strategic support manager of enterprise loss management. She also served as corporate compliance manager with First Union Corporation.

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David Vergara

Director Product Marketing, VASCO Data Security

David Vergara is Director of Security Product Marketing at VASCO and has over 10 years of experience in the software security space. Prior to VASCO, he was VP Marketing for Accertify (An American Express Company) leading go-to-market strategy for their online fraud detection solution and he was Sr. Director Product Marketing at IBM with Product Marketing responsibility for the advanced and predictive analytics portfolio.

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Brian Engle

Founder and CEO, Riskceptional Strategies

Brian Engle is the Founder and CEO of Riskceptional Strategies, a consulting partner focused on enabling the development of successful strategies for implementing, operating, and evolving risk-based cybersecurity programs. In addition to consulting independently, Engle is also currently teamed up with CyberDefenses, a Texas-based cybersecurity service provider to lead Fractional CISO services to their dynamic and growing client base with strategic advisory services, information security program assessment, and cybersecurity program maturity evolution. Prior to founding Riskceptional, he was the Executive Director of the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), the nonprofit organization established to support the retail and commercial services industries as the Information Sharing and Analysis Center for the retail industry, providing leadership of the organization from its inception to a sustained successful organization enabling cybersecurity threat sharing for a growing membership of global retail and consumer products/goods/services companies. His earlier experience includes serving as CISO and Cybersecurity Coordinator for the State of Texas, CISO for Texas Health and Human Services Commission, CISO for Temple-Inland, Manager of Information Security Assurance for Guaranty Bank, and Senior Information Security Analyst for Silicon Laboratories. Brian has been a professional within Information Security and Information Technology for over 25 years, and serves as a past president and Lifetime Board of Directors member of the ISSA Capitol of Texas Chapter.

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Parrish Gunnels

CISO, Kibo Commerce

Parrish Gunnels currently serves as the CISO for Kibo Commerce, a Vista Equity Partners company. Prior to this position, He was a Global IT Information Security Officer and Infrastructure Manager at Celanese Corporation, a $6.4B global technology and specialty materials company that engineers and manufactures a wide variety of products essential to everyday living. Parrish also held a role as a CISO / Sr. Director of Information Security for Invitation Homes, a Blackstone company.

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Brian Wrozek

Managing Executive Director, Office of the CISO, Optiv

Brian Wrozek is a managing executive director, executive advisory in the Office of the CISO at Optiv. In this role, he works closely with security executives to provide C-Suite advisory services to define cyber strategy, roadmaps and solutions to meet clients' security objectives. Wrozek is the former chief security officer (CSO) for Alliance Data where he had enterprise responsibility for information security and physical security. Prior to Alliance Data, he was the IT security and privacy director at Texas Instruments where he managed all facets of electronic data and system security worldwide.

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Matthew Maglieri

CISO, Ruby, parent company of Ashley Madison

Matthew Maglieri is the Chief Information Security Officer at Ruby, the parent company to several leading online dating brands including AshleyMadison.com. He is responsible for leading the architecture, development, and ongoing operation of Ruby's enterprise security program. Prior to joining Ruby, he served in a leading role developing Mandiant's Canadian practice and delivering a diverse range of strategic and technical consulting services including offensive red team operations, security operations center enhancement, and strategic transformation engagements.

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Richard Murray

Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Dallas Cyber Task Force

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Richard Murray manages the FBI Dallas Cyber Task Force (CTF). The FBI Dallas CTF is responsible for investigating criminal and National Security computer intrusions in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area and North Texas. SSA Murray has been an FBI Special Agent for 19 years and in his current position since August 2016. SSA Murray has more than a decade of experience working in the FBI's Cyber program in field offices and FBIHQ.

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Ronald Raether

Partner, Troutman Sanders

Ron Raether leads the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice and is a partner in the Financial Services Litigation practice group at Troutman Sanders. Ron is known as the interpreter between businesses and information technology, and has assisted companies in navigating federal and state privacy laws for over twenty years. Raether's understanding of technology led him to be involved in legal issues that cross normal law firm boundaries, including experience with data security, data privacy, patent, antitrust, and licensing and contracts. This experience allows Raether to bring a fresh and creative perspective to data compliance issues with the knowledge and historical perspective of an industry veteran.

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