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Robert Villanueva

Executive Vice President, Q6 Cyber and Founder of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division of the US Secret Service

Villanueva spent 25 years in the U.S. Secret Service, where he specialized in transnational cybercrimes, access device fraud, network intrusions and identity theft data breaches affecting the private sector. He served in both investigative and undercover capacities around the world. Villanueva founded the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Intelligence Section and headed the Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force. He has conducted extensive research into computer botnets and malware development attributed to foreign actors, and has led numerous projects in partnership with Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and private companies. Presently, Villanueva advises the boards of directors at Florida International University, the Florida International Security Association, Florida International Bankers Association and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators. He currently serves as executive vice president of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Division at cybersecurity firm Q6 Cyber.

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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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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, Cradelpoint

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, Cradelpoint

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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Soh Kiat Hiong

Head of Sales Engineering, Rubrik Asia

Soh is the Head of Sales Engineering for Rubrik Asia region, helping data forward organisations to transform their data management platforms for cyber resiliency. Soh has more than 20 years of data protection management & data storage experience in the IT industry and has been involved in many large enterprise scale data protection and cyber resiliency projects across different industries.

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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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Robert Farnod

Security Specialist Advisor, Splunk

Rob Farnod, Splunk Security Specialist Security is a CISO/SOC strategy advisor for EMEA, supporting the maturity journey of hundreds of SOCs. Rob has nine years experience in Financial Service Cyber Security roles, and was previously a customer of Splunk!

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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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