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Don Leatham

Sr Manager Business Development, Splunk inc.

Don Leatham is a 15-year veteran of the security software market. Having held senior roles in security product management, OEM technologies, and strategic technology alliances, Don provides a unique perspective and understanding of how security technologies, products, and market relationships come together to form today's complex InfoSec environment.

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Hugh Pyle

Director, Solutions Management, ReversingLabs

Hugh Pyle is Director of Solutions Architecture at ReversingLabs, with a focus on integrations and developer tools for threat intelligence and object analysis. His career includes software engineering, product management and consulting roles in security and privacy, enterprise data management, and collaboration software with IBM, Microsoft, Ab Initio and several startups.

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Ted Crooks

Principal, Crooks Analytics

Fraud-management systems expert with 28 years experience inventing, building and applying artificial intelligence systems to banking services.

Inventor of eleven patents.

Ten years of consulting in Crooks Analytics, Inc. on payment fraud-management systems, banking technology, acquisitions, and development for IBM, MasterCard, VocaLink, Early Warning, multiple financial systems providers and financial institutions.

Vice President Global Fraud Solutions, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Introduced multiple new products and lines of business. Substantial expansion of Falcon and fraud business unit.

As co-Founder, Burning Glass Technologies, created natural-language-processing system (patented) that understands text resumes and matches them to employment openings. Handled initial hiring of U.S. TSA airport security agents.

Executive Director of Scientific Staff, HNC Software Inc., and Executive Director of Product Management for HNC (acquired by FICO).

Founding product manager of Falcon, the world's first, successful, neural-network fraud-detection system and still the leader in the global card industry. Initiated HNC telecom division, automotive business and other new lines of business. (Today, Falcon is a product of FICO, Fair Isaac Corporation.)

Owner of Helix Technology software development company developing fire control systems for nuclear power plant, control sys-tems for invasive medical devices, robotic control system (patented), thermodynamic analysis systems for power plants, bank logis-tics systems, taxi dispatching systems.

Author of three internationally published books on computing. Best known: Using Oracle from Macmillian Que.

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Or Navri

Research Scientist, RSA

Industrial engineer specialized in statistical modeling and machine learning.

Graduated B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. from the department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. B.Sc. mainly focused on information systems, M.Sc major focus on statistics and data science.

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Patrick Knight

Senior Director of Cyber Strategy & Product Management, Veriato

Patrick Knight is the senior director of cyber strategy and product management at Veriato, an innovator in actionable user behavior analytics and a global leader in insider threat protection, where he helps organizations protect critical data from threats by trusted insiders. For over 17 years, his cyber security career has helped enterprises protect against online threats through the development of anti-malware, network intrusion detection, computer and network forensics and encryption technologies. He is a writer and speaker on topics of cyber security in multiple forums including Virus Bulletin. He served in the U.S. Intelligence Community and the United States Army for 12 years in the fields of Signals Intelligence Analysis and Cryptanalysis and as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian Linguist. He can be reached on Twitter at @PatrickKnight70 and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/PatrickKnight70.

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Joseph Burton

Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP

At the law firm Duane Morris, Burton focuses on information security and cyberfraud issues as well as civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation, with an emphasis on cybercrime and cybersecurity. Burton is a former assistant U.S. attorney who handled several pioneering high technology investigations and prosecutions, including the first prosecution in the nation for criminal copyright infringement of computer code.

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Mike Daugherty

President and CEO, LabMD

Daugherty is founder, president and CEO of LabMD, a cancer-detection laboratory based in Atlanta. He also is author of the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway," and is a senior writer for CyberDefense Magazine. Daugherty has testified before the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audiences, providing education about what to expect when the federal government investigates businesses. He regularly blogs at MichaelJDaugherty.com and sits on the board of Snoopwall, a privacy company based in Nashua, N.H.

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Mathew J. Schwartz

Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe

Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.

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Miguel Pinto

Senior Product Manager, BitSight

Miguel is the Senior Product Manager at BitSight for the company's Analytics products. He has spent the last 20 years creating software products for enterprise and consumer markets at companies like Siemens, Vodafone, and Anubis Networks.

At BitSight, Miguel is responsible for Analytics propositions. He has an MBA from Maastricht University Business School and a degree in Computer Science from Porto University.

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Ryan Hendricks

Training Manager, Carbon Black

Ryan Hendricks, Training Manager for Carbon Black, 14 years of information security and intelligence experience. His first venture in the field started while working intelligence operations for the U.S. Navy and then continued in the government and private sector as an educator, facilitator, and advisor on a multitude of information technology and cybersecurity principals.

Ryan holds many certifications covering hardware, networking, operating systems, and information security. He worked as a trainer for the U.S. Department of Defense educating hundreds of soldiers, civilians, and contractors on everything from military communication systems to the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certifications in addition to creating and maintaining several virtual labs, physical labs, and education platforms.

Ryan currently supports all product training operations at Carbon Black to include creating content, updating materials, piloting and expanding the certification programs, mentoring the training team, and educating anyone who is willing to learn. A supporter of information security who believes an educated staff and end users is critical to a company's strong security posture.

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Avner Gideoni

Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security

Avner Gideoni currently serves Chief Technology Officer of Trusteer, IBM Security's anti-fraud division. Prior to IBM's acquisition of Trusteer Gideoni formed and led Trusteer Security Research and Development team, consisting of world's top-notch researchers, analysts, and security developers. This team fights with financial fraud gangs worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. He and the team make sure all Trusteer products are detecting new fraud schemes as they emerge, and its customers are safe.

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Dominic Namnath

Chief Information Officer, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Namnath is the CIO, Security Officer, and HIPAA Compliance Officer for Tri-Counties Regional Center (TCRC). Tri-Counties is a $300 million private non-profit organization, contracted to the California Department of Development Services (DDS) to support and provide services for 13,000+ people with developmental disabilities in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. TCRC is one of 21 Regional in California supporting over 270,000 people with developmental disabilities. Prior to TCRC, he spent 12 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), working in account management, infrastructure, systems integrations, process automation, and support services for Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Levi Strauss, The Gap, Inc., and Delco Systems (GM).

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Jeffrey Dant

Global Lead, Fraud Fusion Center, Citi

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group. Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

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Sudeep Venkatesh

Chief Product Officer, Egress

Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert on data protection, bringing two decades of industry and technology experience in this area. His expertise spans the protection of data in both structured and unstructured data ecosystems, with an emphasis on solving real-world business problems through encryption, authentication and key management. He has an in-depth understanding of regulatory compliance standards, including the EU GDPR, PCI and NYDFS, etc. Sudeep has worked on numerous data security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the US, the UK and globally.

At Egress, Sudeep works as Chief Product Officer with responsibility for product strategy, product management and the delivery of pre and post-sales technical services to customers. Prior to this, he was the Global Head of Pre-sales for the Data Security division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), leading a global team of Sales Engineers. Sudeep joined HPE through its acquisition of Voltage Security, where he was part of the executive team.

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Kenneth Citarella

Senior Managing Director of Investigations, Guidepost

Kenneth C. Citarella currently serves as a senior managing director for the Investigations and Cyber Forensics practice. He joined Guidepost Solutions in 2010 as a project manager to investigate fraudulent claims for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in its administration of the $20 billion BP compensation fund. In that capacity, Citarella supervised 300 professionals, including more than 200 field investigators. He also manages several of the integrity monitorship projects Guidepost Solutions performs for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Using a team of attorneys, forensic accountants and investigators, Guidepost Solutions monitors all aspects of major public works construction projects to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. Prior to joining Guidepost Solutions, Citarella worked with a commercial litigation law firm and the Corporate Investigations Division of Prudential. Citarella had a distinguished 28-year career as a white-collar and computer crime prosecutor in the Westchester County, New York District Attorney's Office, which he concluded as Deputy Chief of the Investigations Division. He prosecuted investment frauds, larcenies, embezzlements, anti-trust violations, public corruption, forgeries and many other economic crimes.

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Rodrigo Figueroa

Head of Fraud Risk Management Oversight, PayPal

Rodrigo Figueroa currently serves as a Senior Director at PayPal, charged with heading the Fraud Risk Management initiative. He has more than 18 years of experience in Risk Management and 23 years in Financial Services. Figueroa joined PayPal recently to implement a second line of defense and oversight program for fraud risk management. Previously Rodrigo was the Global Head of Fraud Oversight for Citibank Consumer Banking.

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Dora Gomez

Director, New York Chapter, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and InfraGard NY Metro

Dora Gomez is a Director on the Boards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI). She is additionally the current Northeast Chapter President for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of their International Board of Directors. She actively manages and plans the chapter meetings and conferences for these organizations and is part of the steering committee for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and spent most of her career in the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Most recently she was a Divisional Director of Internal Controls at Wolters Kluwer.

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Julie Conroy

Research Director, Aite Group

As Research Director of Aite Group's Retail Banking & Payments team, Julie covers fraud and authentication issues. She has more than a decade of product management experience working with banks, payment processors, and risk management companies, including a number of years leading the product team at Early Warning Services. Julie is fluent in Spanish, holds an M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. from the Michigan State University Honors College.

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Marc Trepanier

Principal Fraud Consultant, ACI Worldwide

Marc is a seasoned fraud prevention and risk management professional, with a broad skill-set in the financial services industry covering all aspects of fraud and risk management including prevention and detection, enterprise fraud risk assessments, payment card fraud, EMV chip deployments, fraud analytics, neural scoring engines, strategy, and policy. Marc supports customers across the Americas, bringing his expertise in payment fraud, identity theft, first and third-party abuse, skimming, counterfeiting, interception, wire, online and mobile fraud. Over the course of his 20-year career in fraud Marc has worked within both retail banking and solution provider environments, and it is his knowledge of both worlds that helps ACI clients to fight fraud effectively.

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Ondrej Krehel

Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, LIFARS LLC

Krehel is the Digital Forensic Lead, CEO & Founder of LIFARS LLC, an international cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, and the Captain at Cyber Team Six, an elite incident response team. He's the former CISO of Identity Theft 911, the nation's premier identity theft recovery and data breach management service. He previously conducted forensics investigations and cyber security consulting at Stroz Friedberg. With two decades of experience, he conducted a wide range of investigations including data breached through computer intrusions, theft of intellectual property, massive deletions, defragmentation, file carvings, anti-money laundering, financial fraud, mathematical modeling and computer hacking. Krehel's experience also includes working as the IT Security Technical Project Leader for the Loews Corporation, Fortune 100 in NYC, and as a computer analyst for the Slovakian government-owned utility company.

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Ajay Cherian

Security Intelligence & Threat Protection Segment Leader - Asia Pacific

Cherian is responsible for Security Intelligence and Threat Protection Segment for IBM Security in Asia Pacific. This includes Security Operations Center Solution and Technology Sales, Channel Sales, Business Development, Client Acquisition & Retention, Key Account Relationships, Organisational Leadership, Technology Transformation Leadership.

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Tsvi Korren

VP of Product Strategy, Aqua Security

Tsvi Korren, CISSP, has been an IT security professional for over 25 years. In previous positions at DEC and CA Inc., he consulted with various industry verticals on the process and organizational aspects of security. As the VP of Product Strategy at Aqua, he is tasked with delivering commercial and open source solutions that make Cloud Native workloads the most secure, compliant and resilient application delivery platform.

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