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Joseph Carson

Chief Security Scientist, Thycotic

Joseph Carson has more than 25 years' experience in enterprise security; He has authored Privileged Account Management for Dummies and Cybersecurity for Dummies, is a cyber security professional and an ethical hacker. Carson is a cyber security advisor to several governments as well as critical infrastructure, financial and transportation companies. Carson is a seasoned speaker and has presented at conferences globally.

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Paul Williams

Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Paul Williams is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta. Paul has honed his security expertise over 20+ years with engineering and architecture roles at Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, F5, and SkyHigh/McAfee. When he's not knee deep in security discussions, you might find Paul tinkering with old cars and boats.

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Joanna Schoneveld

Senior Manager, Fraud Programs, Interac Association/Acxsys Corp.

Schoneveld is responsible for the day-to-day operational management of fraud programs and services at Interac, where she has been analyzing fraud trends and leading the development and delivery of fraud programs for more than 11 years. Before joining Interac, Schoneveld worked at CIBC and Sears Canada Bank, where she analyzed and investigated fraud. Her focus at Interac is to empower consumers and businesses to make informed risk decisions by offering innovative and flexible fraud solutions.

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Gord Jamieson

Senior Director of Canada Risk Services, Visa

Gord Jamieson is a Senior Business Leader at Visa and serves as the head of Canada Risk. His goal is to differentiate Visa from competition, reduce risks of regulatory impact and support core growth by engaging Canadian clients to minimize payment system risks. Having been with Visa for 17 years, he has always been in the Risk function. Prior to joining Visa, Jamieson served as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 20 years. In that capacity, he has investigated organized crime involvement in forged credit card manufacturing and distribution. Jamieson has held positions 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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Connie Theien

SVP, Industry Relations, Federal Reserve Financial Services

Connie Theien serves as the senior vice president of industry relations and leads efforts to engage payments stakeholders in advancing strategies for improving the U.S. payment system and in collaborating to encourage implementation and adoption of faster payments in the United States.

Theien leads stakeholder engagement by supporting various industry and Federal Reserve work groups and initiatives. She also leads the engagement strategy for the Fed Payments Improvement Community, a group that includes thousands of stakeholders from across the payments ecosystem, to improve the end-to-end speed, efficiency and security of payments in the country.

As part of the Federal Reserve's payments improvement leadership team, she established and managed the Faster and Secure Payments Task Forces, a coalition of 500+ stakeholders that worked from 2015-2018 to lay important groundwork for advancing payments speed and security.

In her tenure at the Federal Reserve, Theien established national marketing in 2004 and industry relations in 2013. Prior to coming to the Fed, she led marketing and public relations efforts for nonprofit, retail and academic organizations. Theien holds a B.A. in speech communication from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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Diego Szteinhendler

N.A. SVP of Business Development for Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

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Simon Taylor

Channel Manager, nCipher Security

Simon Taylor has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, the last 15 years of which managing distribution and channel. During this time he has gained great insight and understating of what customers need to be secure and what partners need in order to be successful. Taylor has worked in multiple countries from the UK to Australia, Nordics and Baltics to Africa, and is now based in the Middle East. With this he has developed an understanding of local cultures, business practices and customer requirements.

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Tonia Dudley

Security Solutions Advisor, Cofense

Tonia Dudley joined Cofense in 2018 as Director, Security Solution Advisor. In this role, she focuses on phishing defense advocacy while demonstrating how Cofense solutions help organizations across the globe minimize the impact of attacks while reducing the cost of operations. Dudley evangelizes Cofense's approach to phishing defense and incident response to new and existing customers, prospects and the information technology market through speaking engagements, publishing platforms and media opportunities. Dudley also advises Cofense product teams on specific customer and market-driven needs to help streamline product roadmaps and create Cofense's inaugural international customer advisory board. Dudley represents Cofense on the Board of Directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance.

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Aaron Higbee

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Cofense

Aaron is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cofense (formerly PhishMe), Inc. directing all aspects of development and research that drives the feature set of this market leading solution. The Cofense method for awareness training was incubated from consulting services provided by Intrepidus Group, a company that Aaron Co-Founded with Rohyt Belani in 2007.

Aaron remains on the board of directors for Intrepidus Group to ensure it focuses on forging new service lines and attracting motivated researchers and consultants.

Before Cofense and Intrepidus Group, Aaron served as Principal Consultant for McAfee's Foundstone division where he was a lead instructor and known for his ability to mentor and develop junior consultants into expert penetration testers. Prior to his seven years of consulting experience, Aaron worked for large Internet Service Providers handling security and abuse incidents, subpoena compliance, and datacenter security.

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Karl Lankford

Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, BeyondTrust

Karl Lankford has been Director of Solutions Engineering, EMEA for BeyondTrust for the last four years. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies during the last 10 years across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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André Machado

Channel Manager, LATAM, nCipher Security

Formado em Análise de Sistemas pela PUC-Rio, André possui experiência de mais de 20 anos no mercado de segurança da informação com soluções especializadas em criptografia e assinatura digital. Como Consultor Sênior de uma das maiores Autoridades Certificadoras do país por mais de 10 anos, atuou como gerente de projetos e líder técnico na criação de estruturas de PKI públicas de larga escala, como AC Petrobras e OAB Nacional (ambas sob a hierarquia da ICP-Brasil), além de inúmeras estruturas de PKI privadas para algumas das maiores empresas do país. Atuou ainda como instrutor de treinamentos de certificação digital para diversos órgão da administração pública federal, como Ministérios da Defesa, Educação e Saúde, CNJ, STF, STJ, além de diversos TRTs, de Norte a Sul do país, participando ativamente dos primeiros projetos de peticionamento eletrônico no Brasil. Nos últimos anos tem ampliado sua atuação por toda a América Latina, promovendo tecnologias avançadas de proteção de dados e gerenciamento de chaves criptográficas em larga escala para os mais variados setores. Agora como Gerente de Canais para a América Latina da nCipher, tem a missão de expandir parcerias estratégicas em toda a região e desenvolver novas soluções para o uso de criptografia, de maneira simples e eficiente, alinhadas com as tendências tecnológicas do mercado

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Nigel Hawthorn

EMEA Cloud & Privacy Spokesperson, McAfee

From working with an Apple distributor in 1980, Nigel has over 30 years experience of computers, security, networking and mobility. He has a strong technical background, with roles in pre-sales and post-sales support and product management before technology marketing. His international knowledge started in 1987 and he has presented at security, privacy, e-commerce and networking conferences in over 50 countries.

He has written the book "GDPR: An action Guide for IT" and speaks and writes regularly on data protection regulations and user privacy. He has also contributed to a number of computing books on network protocols and security, written many articles and lived in California for a number of years before relocating back to the UK as he was missing the rain!

His experience has mirrored many of the most innovative areas of computing; Apple & IBM PCs in the 1980s, storage & networking in the 1990s, Internet performance & web security in the 2000s and mobility & cloud enablement in the 2010s.

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John Downey

Vice President, Sales, Acronis SCS

John Downey is the Vice President of Sales for Acronis SCS. John has 15 years of experience selling enterprise information security and data protection software to the US Public Sector. He has deep expertise in mapping product capabilities to key US federal government policies, creating enterprise license agreements for systems integrators, and developing sales and channel strategies to maximize customer attainment and satisfaction. John received his bachelor degree from Towson University. He resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.

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Kristin Judge

CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

Kristin Judge currently serves as CEO of the Cybercrime Support Network (cybercrimesupport.org). To address the needs of cybercrime victims, she founded this nonprofit to work with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to help consumers and small businesses affected by cybercrime. With their United Way partners, CSN has been awarded over $3M in DOJ federal grants to serve victims and is building the US "Cyber 911" to serve millions of cybercrime and online fraud victims. In 2008. she was elected to serve as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and supported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in growing cybersecurity outreach to state and local government officials. After elected office, she worked at the Center for Internet Security, focusing on connecting state and local governments to federal services and technology needed to improve cyber security. As Director of Government Affairs at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Judge worked with Google, FTC, FBI, SBA, DHS, NIST, congressional leaders and other key stakeholders across the country to educate consumers and businesses how to protect sensitive data.

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Bill Serva

Vice President, IT

Bill Serva has been working in IT for over 20 years across several different industries including foodservice distribution, grocery, and not for profit companies. For the last 10 years, he has worked for Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona and is currently the Vice President of Information Technology. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Arizona and a MBA from the University of Phoenix.

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David Bayer

VP, Program Management and Product Marketing, ValiMail

David Bayer is a seasoned enterprise software leader, currently responsible for product strategy and marketing at Valimail. Most recently before joining Valimail David established and led the Text Analytics business unit at ABBYY to develop a new AI-based platform solution for Contract and Lease Management. When not designing innovative solutions David can be found roaming bookshops and museums as he pursues his interest in Central European graphic design and typographic history.

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Chris Cravens

Technology Executive, Advisor

Chris Cravens is a technology executive who has built, scaled, and transformed global teams for some of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley. Currently on Sabbatical, Chris is investing in family, health, and wellness while considering what's next.

Through Chris' career, he's had the opportunity to build and scale teams in some of the fastest growing companies in the Valley, including building multiple technology and operations teams at Uber as the company was doubling quarterly, heading IT at Zynga through the explosion of Farmville and the rise of social gaming, and leading transformation at Splunk as they scaled from $800M to over $2B in revenue.

Chris is a practitioner of Servant Leadership and OKRs management, seeking always to bring greater understanding of purpose and a clear vision of success. Mentorship, coaching, and personal development give Chris' great joy and he enjoys working with emerging leaders.

When not building, advising, or investing in companies, Chris enjoys time with his family, cooking, and playing music.

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Brad Beutlich

Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales, nCipher Security

Brad Beutlich, Vice President of Western and LATAM Sales at nCipher Security (an Entrust Datacard company), is an information security professional who has worked with numerous US based companies over the past 20 years, providing security solutions ranging from end-point, to data security. The last 13 years he has worked for nCipher Security providing security solutions that protect customer data, financial transactions and IoT device manufacturing. Brad holds a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Bradley University, and is an award-winning writer and speaker on numerous security topics. His passion as a historian is on brass-era (pre 1913) automobiles, of which he owns a 120-year-old car that runs on steam. As an avid skier, he hits the slopes on the weekends when possible. Brad resides with his wife and three children in Southern California.

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