Kevin Sheu leads marketing at Bitglass. He brings 20 years of go-to-market experience, where he has demonstrated a passion for product innovations and how they are adopted by customers. He previously led growth initiatives at Vectra AI, Okta, FireEye and Barracuda Networks. And his perspectives are grounded in foundational work as a strategy and technology consultant; where he worked with G2000 companies, private equity firms and government clients.

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Daniel Clayton is responsible for the design, development, oversight and service-delivery of the Global Managed Services operation, including the Bitdefender SOC, engineering and customer support services.

In his previous role at Rackspace, Daniel handled global service delivery of the enterprise-wide security operations, including strategy and associated support services (3 global SOCs, compliance, engineering, and customer experience).

Prior to Rackspace, Daniel spent more than two decades with UK and U.S. government intelligence and security services, where he developed and managed intelligence and security operations programs including SOCs within the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

Daniel has an MS degree in Leadership and Management and two BA degrees.

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David Hunt is the CTO of Prelude. David specializes in building teams which bridge cybersecurity with best-practice technology. Before coming to Prelude, David spent two years at MITRE Corporation in a dual-role as head developer and project lead for the CALDERA adversary emulation framework. David designed CALDERA v2 from the ground up and instrumented a plan which made it the industry leader in open-source breach and simulation. Prior to this work, David spent 15 years in offensive security and management roles, ranging organizations like Rockwell Collins, John Deere, Kenna Security and FireEye. While at FireEye, David personally oversaw the storage and access of Mandiant’s threat intelligence data, as the leader of the (then secretive) Nucleus team. Over the years, David has also worked as a contractor for several U.S. intelligence agencies, working domestically and internationally, as a principal security specialist.

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Bob Ertl is responsible for product marketing at Accellion. With over 20 years of product management / product marketing experience, he specializes in delivering software innovations that transform the effectiveness of business teams. Prior to Accellion, he concentrated on business intelligence and data warehousing at Oracle, Hyperion, Brio and several start-ups, as both a consultant and product vendor, across a variety of vertical industries.

Bob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Laureen Smith joined Accellion in 2017 and is responsible for the Company’s channel sales and strategic partnerships. She brings many years of experience in enterprise software sales and marketing, and strategic partnership development with expertise in Enterprise File Sync and Sharing, Collaboration, and Content Management. Prior to Accellion, Laureen was Vice President of North America & Asia Pacific at Workshare, where she was responsible for expanding the Company’s business in the legal vertical. Prior to Workshare, Laureen was instrumental in growing the business development and sales efforts at Planitax, a SaaS solution provider enabling corporate tax departments to efficiently and effectively manage their data. Read Laureen’s profile in Women in Business Q&A to learn more about her experiences at Accellion and her perspectives on women in executive leadership.

Laureen holds a bachelor degree in Environmental Studies from University of California, Berkeley.

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Results-oriented security executive that has led the security efforts at Consilio over the past 6 years as it has grown from a small U.S.-based company into a global legal technology consultancy. During my tenure, I led the effort to develop, implement, and monitor a rigorous global Information Security Management System to ensure compliance with ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2, Type 2 controls. Working in conjunction with the General Counsel and CTO, I currently direct all IT efforts to comply with global, national, and state privacy regulations and frameworks such as GDPR, Privacy Shield, HIPAA, and various U.S. and German state-level privacy regulations. In a 3-year period, as the company more than quintupled in total revenue, I was responsible for growing the Information Security team from 3 to 10 full-time employees, while managing overall personnel costs and maintaining operational effectiveness by staffing positions in lower cost locations throughout the company. As part of a comprehensive company-wide metrics initiative, we identified measurable trends in user activity in various departments pertaining to enterprise-wide Data Loss Prevention program that enabled the identification and prevention of sensitive internal corporate data leaving the company.

I have extensive experience briefing both the senior executive team and board of directors on issues pertaining to Information Security and Cyber Risk Management. Currently, I assist the CTO in global strategic planning, to include technology risk assessments for potential merger/acquisition targets. I lead the company’s cross-functional Data Breach Incident Response team and regularly work with leaders of all operational groups to ensure that any security incidents are reported and mitigated in a timely manner.

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Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, national security and intelligence. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at The Center for Digital Government, Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne, and is the chief technology analyst for Fox News and Fox Business. Morgan’s landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. Previously Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program and was the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention. In addition to 18 years in state and local law enforcement as a highly decorated state trooper and detective, Morgan has developed solutions in defense, justice and intelligence for the largest technology companies in the world including Cisco, SAIC, Unisys and Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs.

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Robert Zamani is a Senior Director of Pre-sales Engineering at Malwarebytes. He is the resident subject matter expert in solutions engineering, working alongside customers and industry leaders to mitigate cyber risk. Robert has more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, endpoint, and perimeter security. In addition, he has tenured at McAfee, Symantec, Juniper Networks, Optiv, and SentinelOne. Through research and continuous study, he has kept abreast of both traditional and nascent endpoint security solutions.

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One of the industry’s finest, Chris Morales, oversees the company’s security vision and strategy as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Security Strategy. He’s well known and respected in security circles as an innovative leader and technical expert. Throughout his career, he has advised and designed incident response and threat management programs for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Chris most recently led advisory services and security analytics at Vectra AI. He has also held roles in cybersecurity engineering, consulting, sales and research at companies including HyTrust, NSS Labs, 451 Research, Accuvant, McAfee and IBM.

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Jason Rivera has over 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of security operations and technology. He was a former Intelligence Officer/Captain in the U.S. Army, had assignments with the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and served in combat tours overseas. He has experience in the private sector and built threat intelligence and cybersecurity programs for large Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies. He received his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, M.A. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, and his B.A. in Political Science & Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Lonnie Benavides is an accomplished cybersecurity leader with more than 20 years industry experience, and is currently the Head of Infrastructure and Application Security at OneLogin. Lonnie began his career as a communications encryption specialist in the U.S. Air Force and went on to conclude his military service as a Technical Lead of the first red team in the Air National Guard. As an advanced penetration tester, Lonnie supported companies such as Washington Mutual and JP Morgan Chase, and eventually went on to launch the Boeing red team. Lonnie was responsible for leading global cybersecurity services and operations at DocuSign and McKesson, fostering his expertise in enterprise cyberthreat detection and response. Lonnie is a recognized speaker within the Phoenix education community, numerous industry conferences, and has also contributed to publications and radio shows such as TechRepublic and NPR.

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Todd Berger is responsible for the AMERs Solution Engineering Team at BlackBerry.  Joining BlackBerry in 2015, as part of the Good Technology acquisition where Todd managed the global Solution Engineering Team for 11 years, contributed to the transformation of BlackBerry to a software focused cybersecurity company.

Todd has over 18 years of enterprise IT and security consulting experience ranging from application development, security and collaboration to endpoint management.  He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from University of Connecticut with advance computer science studies at Boston University.

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With more years working in the Security, Risk, Privacy and Resiliency professions than she cares to say, Helen Patton advocates using information risk, security and privacy to enable the mission of organizations and to support society at large.  Helen is an Advisory CISO at Duo Security (now CISCO), where she shares security strategies with the security community. Previously she was the CISO at The Ohio State University where she was awarded the ISE North American Academic/Public Sector Executive of the Year, and an Executive Director at JPMorganChase.  Helen actively encourages collaboration across and within industries, to enable better information security and privacy practices.  She believes in improving diversity and inclusion in the workforce, and mentors people interested in pursuing careers in security, privacy and risk management.    Helen has a Master’s degree in Public Policy and has earned Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified In Risk and Systems Control certifications from ISACA.  She serves on the State of Ohio Cybersecurity Advisory Board and is a  founding board member of the National Technology Security Coalition.

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