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Erik Gaston

VP Global Executive Engagement, Tanium

Erik Gaston oversees all Global Executive Engagement in the Global Sales organization at Tanium. A CIO / CTO by trade, he has spent most of his career as a C-level executive leading enterprise technology organizations in the space of modernization, full stack observability and digital / cloud transformation across a host of industries including Financial Services, Global Trade/ Supply Chain, and e-Commerce. Erik joined Tanium in November of 2021 initially as the CIO for Financial Services, a position he still holds, and was soon after asked to lead the Global Executive Engagement Team. Erik partners with our global customers and prospect organizations to drive platform visibility, enterprise maturity and security solutions at scale...he is a passionate learner, coach and business partner for Tanium customers. Erik is bi-lingual German English, is a member of the NJ Society for Information Management (NJSIM) and is also on the Advisory Board at New Jersey Institute of Technology and is a guest lecturer at the University.

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Tim Morris

Chief Security Advisor, Tanium

Tim Morris is a thought leader and advisor in IT and Cyber security. After 21 years at Wells Fargo where he led Cyber threat engineering and research teams within information and Cyber security for the bank – Tim became one of the first to deploy and manage Tanium at a large scale on 500K endpoints. Now he drives innovation and supports organizations on their journey to knowing, managing and securing their critical systems an information with Tanium.

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Falguni Sonawala

Global Security Compliance & Risk Manager, Snowflake

Falguni is a cybersecurity and compliance leader at Snowflake with over 7 years of experience. As one of the early members of the Security team, she has established multiple compliance programs at Snowflake such as access governance, secure development lifecycle, risk management and security awareness training.

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Cameron Tekiyeh

Global Security Analytics Manager, Snowflake

Cameron is a data driven Cyber Security professional with over 5 years of experience. During his time at Snowflake, Cameron sought to utilize the product as much as possible to help scale security programs and allow teams to operate autonomously. Security Analytics’ mission is to provide actionable insights into risks, enable faster / informed decisions, and provide information for response to opportunities, threats and even security incidents.

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J.R Wikes

Cybersecurity Principal Architect, Mandiant

With over two decades of Cybersecurity experience, J.R. Wikes serves as a trusted advisor to Mandiant’s Customers globally. Leveraging his deep understanding of today’s advanced cyber-attacks, he advises Customers on effective security controls and processes to detect and respond to these threats - and improve their overall risk posture. Prior to joining Mandiant in 2013, J.R. served in a cybersecurity practitioner role for 2 Fortune 100 companies and as a Principal Consultant at several leading Security Practices including @Stake, Symantec and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Chris Lumnah

Solution Architect, Rubrik

Chris Lumnah is an Advisory Solutions Architect with 20 years of database experience. He has spent 15 plus years as a production DBA managing large scale SQL Server environments as well as being a consultant. The last 4 years has been spent with Rubrik helping customers protect their SQL Server, SAP HANA and MySQL environments. He has written many Powershell scripts to help automate DBA related tasks over that 20 years of experience and is a firm believer in automation. In addition to his role at Rubrik, he is also an active member of the Microsoft Data Platform Continuity Virtual Group. He helps mentor high school students in computer science classes in his home state of Rhode Island. When not working, he is spending time with his dog and fiancé, traveling, and watching Red Sox games.

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Chris Wolff

Database Solution Architect, Rubrik

Chris Wolff is SQL Server Solutions Architect helping customers understand how Rubrik can help them with database backups and security.  Before Rubrik Chris was a DBA for nearly 20 years, working for companies in spaces like online accounting, energy, payment transfers, and pay TV.

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Walter Manati

Leader, Systems Engineering - APJ , CISCO

Walter has spent close to a decade in the cybersecurity domain in Australia, helping customers in Finance, Resource, Banking and IT Sectors keep their business secure. Before his time at Cisco , Walter has worked in the capacity of a cybersecurity consultant for a number of the Big 4 audit firms.

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Jeff Yeo

Leader, Solutions Engineering - APJ, CISCO

Jeff is a regional technical leader, responsible for evangelizing solutions around Cloud, Security and Zero Trust. He has sound experience in the Asia Pacific region with over 14 years working with customers within APJC, at both a technical level as well as with the C-suite. Previous to this role, Jeff served as a regional product manager at Aruba, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, driving technology and operational excellence for the Security, Cloud and Software portfolio. His past tenure also covered enterprise mobility management, virtualization, Security and Networking.

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Neha Monga

Area Business Group Leader - Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Risk & Compliance - APAC, Microsoft

Neha leads the Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Risk and Compliance Business for APAC at Microsoft. In this role, she is responsible for Strategy, Planning, Sales & Marketing Operations for this portfolio. With a multifaceted career spanning over 2 decades, Neha is passionate about helping customers and partners leverage technology to drive business outcomes that aid their success and growth. She is a vocal advocate for diversity of talent in cybersecurity across age, background, gender expression, preferences and abilities, and devotes her time towards skilling initiatives for women and the underserved communities.

Monga holds Post Graduate Degrees in Cyber Law, Mass Communication, People Leadership and technical certifications like CISSP, MCSE, MCSA.

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Boopathi P

Director, PwC South East Asia Consulting (SEAC) Practice

Boopathi is a Director with PwC South East Asia Consulting (SEAC) practice and have over 13 years of experience in Cybersecurity. He leads the Cloud, Application and Data Security domain and has performed a variety of consulting and implementation services to clients in financial institutions, public sector and other industries.

Over the years, he has led cloud security programme, formulated security strategies and frameworks, delivered data security and protection solutions, performed risk and compliance assessments and provided security trainings to senior client stakeholders. He has comprehensive understanding of regulatory requirements as he collaborates with clients across the region.

Boopathi holds Bachelor of Computing degree from National University of Singapore and is also certified in CISSP.

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Chris Logan

SVP and Chief Security Officer, Censinet

Chris Logan has more than 25 years in IT operations and strategy. Previously he was Director Global Healthcare Industry at VMware, where he helped healthcare clients achieve their strategic outcomes by implementing the company’s industry solutions. Prior to VMware, Chris was the Chief Information Security Officer for Care New England Health System located in Providence, RI, where his role was providing security and technology leadership and enabling positive business outcomes for the organization and its partners. He has also worked in security leadership roles at Lifespan Corporation, Century Bank, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he served in the United States Marine Corps.

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Timothy Snow

Architect – CyberSecurity, Asia Pacific, CISCO

Mr. Timothy Snow has over 25 years of experience in infrastructure and information security systems design. His goal is to help his customers remain vigilant in today’s insecure world. A 16-year veteran of Cisco, Tim has been providing detailed architectural service consulting to Enterprise, Service Provider and Government customers in infrastructure security and threat response. Mr. Snow is a member of Cisco’s Technical Advisory Board for field product development, the APJC Centre of Excellence team lead and a Cisco Hall of Fame Inductee. Prior to the current role, he has had various roles in software development and TAC. A distinguished speaker with a passion for technology, Tim has spoken at hundreds of events during his time at Cisco, delivering keynote sessions and deep dive technical breakouts, demonstrations and attack simulations. Tim is the go to expert for his customers, partners and sales teams in the area of CyberSecurity. Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree in IT and a Master’s degree in Computer Science amongst multiple industry certifications including maintaining his CCIE designation for over 18 years. He enjoys creating IoT home automation systems, retro arcade games, cooking, and is a lifelong beginner at golf.

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Pat Correia

Cisco Secure Endpoint Marketing Manager

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Eric Howard

Cisco Global Technical Marketing Engineer

Eric Howard is a Technical Leader for Cisco’s Threat Intelligence, Detection and Response product team. He leads a team of Technical Marketing Engineers that are focused on endpoint technologies that blend protection, detection, and response capabilities – helping customers prevent, respond to, and recover from breaches. Prior to joining Cisco Eric worked at Sourcefire as a Senior Security Engineer, focused on IDS/IPS and malware prevention.

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William Largent

Talos Global Senior Threat Researcher

William Largent is a threat researcher for Cisco Talos, with over 20 years of experience in information security having previously worked for the Cisco IPS Signature team where he researched vulnerabilities and wrote signatures for Cisco security products. Previous to the Cisco IPS Signature team William worked for Cisco Remote Managed Services - providing vendor agnostic managed security services. William has three awesome kids and the world’s most patient wife.

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Tanya Wilkins

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Tanya Wilkins is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Palo Alto Networks and leads marketing for Unit 42 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting (MTH). She has over 10 years of experience in marketing and business development and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Wade Ellery

Field Chief Technology Officer, Radiant Logic

Wade has extensive experience in enterprise IT direct and channel software, and services, sales and management. He has in-depth knowledge and experience in enterprise IAM, IGA, risk and compliance and IT security challenges.

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