Speaker Directory
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    Christopher Frenz
    AVP, Information Security, Interfaith Medical Center

    Christopher Frenz is the AVP of Information Security for Interfaith Medical Center, where he worked to develop the hospital’s information security program and infrastructure. Under his leadership, the hospital has been one of the first in the country to embrace a zero trust model for network security. Christopher has also played a role in pus...

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    Stephen Frethem
    Senior Director of Sales Enablement, Varonis

    Stephen has worked in the IT Industry since 2000 and in the security industry for the previous eight. Based out of the Twin Cities, Stephen has spent time at some of the largest organizations including Target, US Bank, Honeywell, and United Health Group. In his current role at Varonis, Stephen works with organizations around the US helping or...

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    Jack Freund, PhD
    Head of Technology Risk, Acrisure
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    Jack Freund, PhD, Moderator
    Head of Technology Risk, Acrisure
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    Andrew Frey
    Financial Analyst (Forensics), United States Secret Service - San Francisco Field Office

    Andrew is a Forensic Financial Analyst with the U.S. Secret Service’s San Francisco Field Office. Andrew is currently assigned to San Francisco’s Digital Assets team, where he investigates crimes involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Andrew’s background includes large scale criminal investigations involving a wide range of cyber-...

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    Becky Fricker
    Head of Security Assurance and Operations, DAT Freight & Analytics

    Becky Fricker is the Director of Information Security at DAT Freight & Analytics, where she plays a pivotal role in protecting the company’s digital infrastructure. She oversees Security Operations and Product Security, including areas such as Endpoint Protection and Response, Continuous Threat Exposure Management, Incident Response, and Netw...

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    RJ Friedman, Moderator
    CISO, Coinroutes

    RJ Friedman is currently the CISO of 6 organizations, including Coinroutes Inc. and A2Z Sync. He has also founded 3 MSSPs and SOCs, leading 24/7/365 security organizations in the fight against cyber scum.

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    Randall Frietzsche
    CISO, Denver Health

    Randall’s career started as a Law Enforcement Officer. With the technical aptitude, he moved into technology, starting as an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0. Over the next 22 or so years, he evolved to become the Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer for Denver Health and Hospital Authority. He also teaches cybersecurity courses for Harvard an...

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    Ryan Frillman
    CISO, Equifax Workforce Solutions

    Ryan Frillman is the CISO for Equifax Workforce Solutions, leading security teams across the organization. Previously, he was at Netskope, driving security transformation and cloud strategy, the CISO at Spire Inc., and has experience with the U.S. Department of Defense working for MITRE.

    Ryan teaches graduate cybersecurity management c...

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    Ryan Frillman, Moderator
    CISO, Equifax Workforce Solutions

    Ryan Frillman is the CISO for Equifax Workforce Solutions, leading security teams across the organization. Previously, he was at Netskope, driving security transformation and cloud strategy, the CISO at Spire Inc., and has experience with the U.S. Department of Defense working for MITRE.

    Ryan teaches graduate cybersecurity management c...

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    Danielle L Fritzler, CBCP
    Global Business Continuity Program Manager, Vanguard

    As part of Vanguard's corporate business continuity management team, Danielle has responsibility for the International business continuity program. Her areas of focus include workspace resilience, workforce resilience, supplier/business partner resilience, technology resilience, crisis management, and communication. She is a member of SecureW...

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    Field Representative from Local FBI Office
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    Intel Analyst from the FBI
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    Stan Fromhold
    Senior Security Solutions Architect, Securonix
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    Theresa Frommel
    Security Analyst, Office of Administration, IT Services Division, State of Missouri

    Theresa Frommel is a network security analyst for the Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division for the State of Missouri. She is responsible for incident response and coordinating end user awareness for the SOC within the Office of Cyber Security. She has a background in access controls, policy development and end us...

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    Col. Candice E. Frost
    JIOC Commander, United States Cyber Command

    Candice E. Frost is the Joint Intelligence Operations Center Commander at the United States Cyber Command. As the commander, Colonel Frost leads over 200 employees from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency, and Department of Defense, to provide and produce intelligence required to direct, operate, and secure Departm...

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    Gaël Frouin
    Director, IT Security, CISO, AAA Northeast

    Experienced Information Security Officer with a demonstrated history of working in various industries (higher education, healthcare, large industries, etc.). Skilled in risk management, privacy regulations, identity and access management, and security operations. Strong interpersonal skills and will to find the most adequate compromise betwee...

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    Rob Fry
    Sr Architect, StackRox

    Rob Fry is an accomplished architect, inventor and public speaker with 20 years of experience. In his current role, he is part of the executive engineering team and oversees architecture and security detection strategy. Previously at Netflix, he patented a security orchestration platform and specialized in cloud security and automation. In hi...

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    Lucas Fryer
    Sr. Solutions Engineer, Splunk, a Cisco company

    Lucas Fryer is a Senior Security Solutions Architect at Splunk, where he works with organizations to strengthen their security and data strategies using modern analytics and cloud technologies. With a background in technology and data systems and a degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Lucas specializes in helping teams transform com...

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    Yasser Fuentes
    Principal Solutions Architect (Cloud Security SME), Bitdefender

    Yasser is a Principal Solutions Architect (Cloud Security SME) for Bitdefender and Security Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in Information Security. Along his career he has worked for Healthcare Providers, ISPs, MSPs and SOCs, among many other verticals and throughout multiple Information Security Domains. On his previous role a...

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    Atheana Fulgencio
    OpenDNS/Cisco
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    Kelly Fuller
    Founder & CEO, Cybersecurity Risk Management Consulting

    Fuller has broad-based experience as an information security and technology risk management executive, IT audit practice director, and management consultant spanning a variety of industries ranging from banking and insurance to healthcare, energy, and government. Her extensive work in technology risk management, regulatory compliance, IT gove...

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    Pierre-Olivier Fur, CISSP
    Cybersecurity Manager, Radware

    Pierre is a Cybersecurity Manager for Radware, where he brings 20 years of experience in the Information Security space. He holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and is a CISSP. Wearing various hats over the years as programmer, open source security expert, cryptography evangelist, network security architect, and CISO. Pierre is currently...

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    Valda E. Furtado
    Associate Director, Business Continuity & Resilience, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

    Valda Furtado is a global business resilience and risk management leader at Vertex Pharmaceuticals where she focuses on strengthening supply chain resilience, business continuity, and enterprise risk management across complex global operations. Her work centers on helping organizations anticipate disruption, respond to crises, and maintain op...

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    Troy Gabel
    AVP, North America, Forcepoint
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    Sudesh Gadewar
    Security Engineer, Ellie Mae

    Sudesh Gadewar is Sr Staff Security Engineer at EllieMae. Sudesh holds 10+ years of experience in security where passion is in offense and defense of security. Sudesh holds various Security Certifications which he use as attestations to his skillset. His core area of expertise is in product and application security, where he build SSLDC lifec...

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    JT Gaietto
    Executive Director, Cybersecurity Services, Richey May & Co., LLP

    JT has over 18 years of experience providing enterprise information security and risk management services to a variety of organizations, with a particular emphasis on the financial services industry. He has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2003, and holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Information ...

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    Roberto Galdamez
    CISO, Kovack Financial Network

    Roberto Galdamez is a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and cybersecurity program builder known for transforming security operations in regulated and high-impact environments. He currently leads enterprise security strategy within financial services and has previously supported large-scale cybersecurity initiatives at the Miami Dolphi...

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    Donna Gallaher
    President & CEO, New Oceans Enterprises
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    Tim Gallo
    Head of Global Threat Intelligence, Google Cloud

    Tim Gallo is the Head of Global Threat Intelligence at Google Cloud, he specializes in Cyber Threat Intelligence and Risk everything from Intelligence Operations and Cyber Threat Profile development to risk based analytic approaches to Security Operations. He Joined Google Cloud through the acquisition of Mandiant by Google in 2022, he had sp...

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    Mark Galpin
    Head of Solutions Architecture, Tidelift

    As a developer, architect and product manager, Mark Galpin has a passion for making the release process better.

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    Scott Galt
    Partner, Armstrong Teasdale

    As a member of the firm’s International practice group and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), Scott helps clients navigate overseas data protection waters in the wake of the Schrems decision, the advent of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the ongoing Privacy Shield negotiations. Scott assists cl...

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    Jennifer Galvin
    Principal Partner Sales Engineer, Contrast Security

    Jennifer Galvin is a Principal Channel Sales Engineer at Contrast Security, where she provides technical leadership supporting Contrast Channel Partners to help secure their customer's applications from the inside out. She has helped architect and build many critical application services you may use today. If you've viewed NASDAQ's video wall...

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    Julius "Jay" Gamble
    Former Region 4 Director, CISA; Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland Global Campus

    Jay Gamble is a Senior Consultant with Vibrint Corporation and a recognized cybersecurity leader with more than two decades of experience securing the nation’s critical infrastructure.

    Before joining Vibrint, Gamble served as Regional Director for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (C...

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    Shua Gamradt
    Sr. Director, Rugged DevOps & Enterprise DevOps Ambassador, Alight Solutions

    Joshua "Shua" Gamradt is set on influencing culture change and introducing security by investing in others through the development and delivery of gamified security, engineering customer centric security solutions, focusing on risk, and utilizing continuous feedback and data to drive decisions. Shua began this journey of shifting empathy left...

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    Sharat Ganesh
    Head of Product Marketing, WitnessAI

    Sharat Ganesh is the Head of Product Marketing at WitnessAI, a Series A cybersecurity startup working at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity in the San Francisco Bay Area, US. His cybersecurity career straddles leadership roles in engineering, product management and product marketing at Mandiant, Tanium, Lacework, and Google. Beyond his ...

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    Sanjit Ganguli
    VP, CTO-in-Residence, Zscaler

    Sanjit Ganguli is VP, CTO-in-Residence at Zscaler, specializing in zero trust strategy, network transformation and digital experience monitoring engagements. For more than 20 years, he has worked in a variety of roles, including as a Gartner analyst and Deputy CTO at Riverbed. Sanjit was among the original analysts that coined and defined the...

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    Kishore Gangwani
    Principal Engineer, Application Security, CarGurus

    Kishore has 20-plus years' experience in software architecture and application security and is currently a Principal Engineer, Application Security, at CarGurus  He has presented at Identiverse.

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    Patrick Gannon
    Public Information Officer, N.C. State Board of Elections

    Patrick Gannon is the public information director at the State Board of Elections. He has served in this role since since October 2016, just before the presidential election. His responsibilities include managing the State Board website, drafting press releases and social media content, responding to public records requests, and answering que...

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    Jason Garbis
    Co-Chair for the Cloud Security Alliance

    Jason Garbis, CISSP, is a leader of the Software-Defined Perimeter working group at the Cloud Security Alliance. He’s Vice President of Products for Cryptzone, responsible for product strategy and product management. He has over 25 years of experience at technology vendors, including roles in engineering, professional services, and product ma...

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    Carlos Garcia
    Enterprise Architect, Office of CIO, Optum

    Carlos has specialized in Identity and Access Management systems for the past 20 years. His experience has been in the architecture and implementation of large enterprise and consumer IAM systems. Most of his career has been spent designing and running the large scale IAM systems for UnitedHealth Group. His experience and leadership led him t...

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    Michelle Garcia
    BISO, Carnival Cruise Line

    Michelle Garcia is the Business Information Security Officer for Carnival Corporation, where she helps keep Carnival Cruise Line sailing smoothly through an ocean of cyber threats. With more than 20 years in IT security—and over 30 years of cruise industry know‑how—Michelle blends deep technical expertise with a true insider’s understanding o...

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    Greg Garcia
    Executive Director, Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group

    Greg served as former (and nation's first) Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, appointed by President Bush in 2006. He also led the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, and served in Congress and senior industry executive roles in technology and security.

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    Michelle Garcia, Moderator
    BISO, Carnival Cruise Line

    Michelle Garcia is the Business Information Security Officer for Carnival Corporation, where she helps keep Carnival Cruise Line sailing smoothly through an ocean of cyber threats. With more than 20 years in IT security—and over 30 years of cruise industry know‑how—Michelle blends deep technical expertise with a true insider’s understanding o...

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    Minhal Gardezi
    Solutions Architect, Aqua Security

    Minhal Gardezi is a seasoned Solutions Architect at Aqua Security, where he has been making significant contributions for the past three years. With a robust background in computer science, Minhal earned his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. His role at Aqua Security involves designing and implementing...

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    John Gardiner
    COO & CFO

    Winning in the software industry doesn’t come from faking it or even making it. Instead, it takes being great at it, because being exceptional results in a sustainable competitive advantage. Having been a part of great companies that have been honored with awards from Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies, Deloitte Fast 500, Top 50 Best Places ...

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    Matthew Gardiner
    Principal Security Strategist, Mimecast

    Matthew Gardiner is a Director of Security at Mimecast and is currently focused on email & web security, phishing, awareness training, malware, and cloud security. With more than 15 years focused in security, Matthew’s expertise in various roles includes threat detection & response, network monitoring, SIEM, endpoint threat detection, threat ...

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    Dr. Chuck Gardner
    Director, Heartland Cyber Range, EnterpriseKC

    Dr. Gardner is the Director of the Heartland Cyber Range at EnterpriseKC. Chuck develops a curriculum that provides an immersive cybersecurity learning experience, equipping learners with real-world defense skills and research capabilities. He plays a key role in identifying and nurturing high-potential cyber talent across the region.

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