Speaker Directory
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    Phil Curran, Moderator
    CISO & CPO, Cooper University Health Care

    Phil Curran has more than 25 years of experience in information security and privacy in the military, government and private sectors. As the Chief Information Assurance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer at Cooper University Health Care in Camden NJ, he is responsible for managing governance and regulatory compliance, risk assessment and manag...

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    Sam Curry
    VP & CISO in Residence, Zscaler

    Sam Curry, VP & CISO in Residence, Sam Curry is a 30-year veteran of the cybersecurity industry. He began his career in signals and cryptanalysis and was the first employee at Signal 9 Solutions, a small start-up that invented the personal firewall, executed the first commercial implementation of Blowfish, and devised early stealthy (symmetri...

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    Ian Curtis
    Director of SecOps GTM, Zscaler
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    Steve Curtis
    Chief Cyber Business Officer, CYGNVS

    Steve is a global cybersecurity executive helping organizations prevent, prepare for, and respond to a cyberattack. Over 20 years in cybersecurity, Steve has worked with the leaders in cybersecurity including Palo Alto Networks, Accenture, and PwC. He has served hundreds of organizations around the world, envisioned, and launched multiple new...

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    William Curtiss, Moderator
    Global Head of IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity, Owens Corning Glass Reinforcements
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    James Cusson
    Security Compliance Team Lead, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Health and Human Services
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    Brian Cyprian
    Special Agent for the Cyber Intrusion Squad, FBI Charlotte Division

    Brian N. Cyprian has been the supervisor for the FBI’s Charlotte Cyber Task Force since March 2016. He worked at FBI Headquarters managing national security computer intrusion investigations prior to arriving in Charlotte. Brian has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems and an MBA in Commerce from Texas A&M University.

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    Jennifer Czaplewski
    Director in the Information Security Team, Target

    Jennifer Czaplewski is a Director in the Information Security team at Target. She leads Product Analytics, Security Ninjas, Cyber Risk Management, and Product Security Engineering functions. Jennifer has been with Target for 12 years and in Information Security for 8 years. Prior to her time at Target, she led efforts in Corporate IT at Pfize...

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    Reese D'Herckens
    Sr. Director of Systems Engineering, ExtraHop

    Reese D'Herckens is the Senior Director of Systems Engineering at ExtraHop, an IT security and analytics company. Reese is a long-time member of the ExtraHop team and leads the Systems Engineering team for the Americas, drawing on his 26 years of experience in IT. Reese has worked at large enterprise companies, such as The New York Stock Exch...

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    Lina Dabit, Inspector
    RCMP Officer in Charge, Cybercrime Investigative Team Toronto

    Lina Dabit joined the RCMP in 1994 and started her career in British Columbia where she spent 13 years posted to detachments up and down eastern Vancouver Island. She was lucky for the opportunity to work a variety of duties ranging from uniform patrol, drug section, major crime, intelligence, border integrity, and running a police boat while...

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    Lina Dabit, Moderator
    RCMP Officer in Charge, Cybercrime Investigative Team Toronto

    Lina Dabit joined the RCMP in 1994 and started her career in British Columbia where she spent 13 years posted to detachments up and down eastern Vancouver Island. She was lucky for the opportunity to work a variety of duties ranging from uniform patrol, drug section, major crime, intelligence, border integrity, and running a police boat while...

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    Joe Dabrowski
    Director, Strategy & GTM, Rubrik

    Joe leads America's Sales Strategy at Rubrik, working with enterprise customers and federal agencies on leveraging the Rubrik Data Security platform to drive cyber resiliency. Joe is an accomplished technology executive with 20 years’ experience. Previously, he served in sales and leadership positions at NetApp, Splunk, and EMC. Joe resides ...

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    Cassandra Dacus, Moderator
    Atlanta Chapter President, Cyversity
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    Michael DaGrossa, Moderator
    VP, Information Security, Genesis HealthCare

    A mission and customer focused Senior Information Technology Risk Management professional with a strong concentration in Computer Security Initiatives, Governance, Risk Management and Forensics. Extensive experience in creating security and risk programs for companies of various industries, sizes, and complexities. Hands-on pen testing, app...

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    Adnan Dakhwe
    Head of Security & Compliance, Vera
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    Kim Dale, CISSP, CISA
    IT Audit Specialist , Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

    Kim Z. Dale is an IT Audit Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Her previous work experience includes Northwestern University, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), US Steel, and Management Science Associates. Additionally, she is a freelance writer, speaker, and playwright. Ms. Dale earned a master’s degree in informat...

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    Michael Dalgleish
    Director, Sales Engineering, LogRhythm

    Michael Dalgleish is a Director of Sales Engineering at LogRhythm, where he has built a team of security professionals who are growing strategic relationships with the partner community. Michael is an industry veteran, spending the last 15 years deeply entrenched in the network and security world. When not on the road evangelizing security in...

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    Keith Daly
    Senior Principal Engineer, ForgeRock

    Keith Daly is currently a Senior Principal Sales Engineer for ForgeRock.

    Over the past 20 years, Keith has been on all sides of the Identity Management space in numerous industries, with roles ranging from systems architect within leading corporations, to developer and team lead at systems integrators, to technical sales and engineerin...

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    Rob Dalzell
    Identity and Access Management – Risks, Issues, Controls and Governance, AT&T

    Rob is a cybersecurity professional with over 35 years of IT experience. He recently joined AT&T where he works in Identity Management. He previously was at Bank of America where he held multiple roles in Global Information Security. He is an active member of the Charlotte Cybersecurity community.

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    Rob Dalzell, Moderator
    Identity and Access Management – Risks, Issues, Controls and Governance, AT&T

    Rob Dalzell is a cybersecurity professional with over 30 years of Information Technology and Cybersecurity experience. He has thrived in the following cybersecurity based arenas: BISO, Third Party Defense, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management, Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure, email encryption, and general security awa...

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    Cynthia Damian
    CISO, Valon

    Cynthia Damian is the Chief Information Security Officer at Valon Technologies, an up and coming fintech company innovating the financial and homeowner industry through technology. Cynthia has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and risk management holding security leadership and practitioner roles across small to large scale, global...

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    Rhia Dancel
    Technical Manager, Information Security, NSF International

    As Technical Manager, Information Security, at NSF, Rhia Dancel supports clients with risk management within the information security landscape to achieve effective security objectives and goals. Dancel is an Lead CCA, ISO/IEC 27001, 20000-1 and 9001 Lead Auditor for NSF and is the Technical Lead for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...

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    Fredrick Dande, PhD
    Sr. Manager, IT Platform Services, Circle

    Dr. Fredrick Dande is a senior IT platform manager and doctoral scholar with more than 15 years of leadership experience deeply rooted in highly regulated financial services environments spanning modern fintech, global tax, wealth management, and banking. Currently serving as the Sr. Manager of IT Platform Services at Circle Internet Financia...

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    Rich Dandliker
    Chief Strategist, Veza

    Rich is Chief Strategist at Veza, where his responsibilities span high-level messaging and positioning, competitive market analysis, product strategy, go-to-market strategy, and evangelism. Prior to Veza, Rich led product management across the entire portfolio at Okta for over 4 years through their IPO, with overall responsibility for product...

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    Kristopher Dane
    Director of Digital Design, Thornton Tomasetti

    Kristopher is the Director of Digital Design based out of the Seattle office of Thornton Tomasetti, an international structural engineering firm. Kris has 11 years of experience managing teams, administering technology, and developing custom tools to support the design of over 5 million square feet of structures around the world. In collabora...

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    Adel Danesh
    CISO, Analytics 4 Life

    Adel Danesh has over 20 years of experience in IT and information security. Over the course of his professional career, he has been holding information security leadership roles in various organizations and spearheaded mission critical security and infrastructure projects. In his current job, Adel is a CISO at Analytics For Life, a medical re...

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    Justin Daniels
    Attorney, Baker Donelson

    Justin Daniels is a thought leader in cybersecurity who believes cybersecurity must be treated by the c-suite as a strategic enterprise business risk. He provides strategic advice to companies to help them understand cyber risk and create a comprehensive approach to address it. Justin is general counsel to one of the largest enterprise data c...

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    Jodi Daniels
    Founder & CEO & Privacy Consultant, Red Clover Advisors, LLC

    Jodi Daniels, founder of Red Clover Advisors, is a Certified Informational Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) with more than 20 years of experience helping a range of businesses from solopreneurs to multi-national companies. Red Clover Advisors has helped hundreds of companies create privacy programs, achieve GDPR compliance, and establish a secu...

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    Bethan Daniels
    West Zone Regional Manager, Cyber Practice, Marsh

    Bethan Daniels is a West Zone Regional Manager, managing Seattle and Salt Lake Offices, based in Seattle, WA. Bethan’s current responsibilities include managing team members, driving the national strategy and advising clients on placing primary and excess Cyber, Technology, Media and Errors and Omissions insurance.

    Previously she spe...

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    Ricoh Danielson
    Enterprise CISO, Corro Health

    Ricoh Danielson is a decorated U.S. Army Combat Veteran, CISO, ransomware negotiator, and digital forensics expert who has spent his career on the front lines of cybersecurity. Ricoh pivoted to cybersecurity, earned his law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and built a career responding to some of the most complex cyber incidents in...

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    Tim Danks
    VP, Risk Management & Partner Relations, Huawei Technologies (USA)

    As VP Risk Management & Partner Relations Mr. Danks is responsible for understanding and managing business risks in the context of cybersecurity and privacy across Huawei USA businesses and toward external stakeholders. Further, he is responsible for developing and enhancing partner relationships towards key external stakeholders across acade...

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    Stella Danso, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE
    Cybersecurity & Privacy Executive | Associate C-CISO | Boardroom Certified QTE

    Stella is a distinguished risk management executive with a proven track record of transforming global organizations to drive meaningful risk reduction, optimize operational costs, and enable sustainable growth in an increasingly data-driven world. With deep expertise in aligning business strategy with technology, security, and privacy, she en...

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    Greg Dányi
    CTO, P0 Security

    Gergely (aka Greg) Dányi is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at P0 Security, where he leads the development of the first unified identity governance and privileged access management platform purpose-built for the cloud. Gergely’s work at P0 centers on eliminating privilege sprawl and enabling just-in-time, policy-driven controls th...

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    Mark Dargin
    Director, Security & Architecture, Qualfon

    Mark Dargin is the Director of Security Architecture at Qualfon Inc., an organization with over 16,000 employees across North America, South America, and Asia. Mark has over 19 years of experience designing, managing, and securing complex WAN and LAN infrastructures. He is a member of the Michigan Cybersecurity Civilian Corps, FBI citizen’s a...

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    Davin Darnt
    CISO, Americas, Louis Vuitton

    With a dynamic career spanning 20 years, including seven years at prestigious luxury retail company, Louis Vuitton. Davin Darnt currently excels as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Americas region. His journey in the company has been marked by significant leadership roles, including Head of IT Operations and Head of Tech...

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    Piyali Das
    Founder & Principal of Kinfolk LLC; Former FinServ Executive

    Piyali Das is a highly-accomplished cyber risk leader with two decades of experience driving enterprise-wide technology and cyber risk initiatives. Certified with CRISC, CCSK, CCAK, and PMP, she aligns risk management with strategic business objectives. Her expertise covers information security risk and compliance frameworks, cloud security, ...

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    Prabir Datta
    VP, Seceon

    Prabir Datta is a strategic business and cybersecurity leader at Seceon with global operational expertise in Cybersecurity and IT Networking. Over his career, he has helped organizations bridge complex business and technology challenges spanning successful startups, global enterprises, service providers, and private equity firms. His mantra i...

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    Santosh Datta Bompally
    Cloud Security Engineering Team Lead, Humana

    Santosh Bompally is a dedicated cybersecurity professional with a degree in Computer Science and a Master’s in Cybersecurity. He holds several certifications, including CISSP and CCSP, and currently leads cloud security engineering initiatives at Humana, focusing on security controls for multi-cloud environments. Before joining Humana, Santos...

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    Meenaxi Dave
    Information Security Instructor/Consultant, Gwinnett Technical College

    Meenaxi Dave is an experienced Information Security educator with proven success developing, delivering and evaluating IT security training programs. She holds her Masters in Computer Science from the University of Memphis and a Diploma in Cybersecurity from GTC. She also holds professional certifications in CISSP, CEH, COMPTIA Security+, Net...

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    Scott David
    Director of Technology, Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, University of Washington

    Scott L. David, J.D., LL.M., is the Director of Policy at the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC) at the University of Washington. Scott is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Digital Economy and Society, and the WEF Initiative on Ethics of AI and Machine Learning. Previously, Scott worked as...

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    Alex Davidov
    Sr. Solutions Engineer, Oasis

    Alex Davidov is a Senior Sales Engineer at Oasis where he helps customers with a new era of Non Human Identity management. He has over 15 years’ of experience with Cyber Security including Application Security Posture Management at Apiiro, Privilege Access Management at Cyberark and Web Application Security at Akamai.

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    Rob Davidson
    CISO, Pacific Blue Cross & PBC Solutions

    Rob Davidson brings many years of experience to his role as Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Blue Cross and Pacific Blue Cross Solutions. His career started with Dell Canada and has progressed though several senior strategic and leadership positions at industry-defining organizations such as Microsoft and Hootsuite. Prior to his ...

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    John Davies
    Sr. Presales Systems Engineer, Arctic Wolf
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    Sergeant Michael Davis
    Cyber Investigator at the Houston Police Department, Criminal Intelligence Division and Fusion Center Unit

    Sgt. Davis is assigned to the Houston Police Department Criminal Intelligence Division – Fusion Center Unit a total of 10 ½ years both as an officer and supervisor. He has worked Financial Crimes, Human Trafficking, Counter-Terror, Violent Crimes, and Cyber cases. He is currently the Cyber/Analysis and Open Source Unit supervisor for the Ho...

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    Chuck Davis
    Adjunct Professor of Computer Foresnics and Ethical Hacking, University of Denver

    Chuck Davis teaches ethical hacking and computer forensics graduate courses in the University of Denver's computer science program. Mr. Davis holds the CISSP-ISSAP, he has co-authored two books, has 8 patents, 3 patents-pending and 9 invention disclosures. Mr. Davis is frequently interviewed by various media on the subject of cybersecurity. ...

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    Ryan Davis
    Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales, Acronis

    Ryan brings over a decade of storage and data management experience to Acronis leading a commercial enterprise sales organization. Acronis’ enterprise sales team is focused on helping organizations improve their business continuity plans and reduce cyber exposure in historically difficult computing areas such as the edge, endpoints, industria...

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    Erica Davis
    SVP, Head of Specialty Products E&O, Zurich

    Erica Davis is Senior Vice President of Specialty Errors & Omissions at Zurich. She has national oversight of the Professional Liability, Security & Privacy and Employed Lawyers lines of business with a specialization and industry thought leadership position in network security and privacy risk transfer solutions.

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    Tim Davis
    Head of Solutions Consulting, DoControl