Speaker Directory
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    Andrew Leeth
    Sr. Director, Security Assurance, Salesforce
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    Mike LeFever
    Member, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's National Security Advisory Council; EVP of National Security, Concentric Advisors; Executive Chairman, Illuminate; Former Commander and Senior Military Representative, Office of the U.S. Defense; Representative to Pakistan, U.S. Embassy, Islamabad

    Vice Admiral (Ret.) Mike LeFever, USN, currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for Concentric. Concentric is a risk management consultancy that specializes in delivering strategic security and intelligence services. In addition, he is a member of the network of national security experts for “The Cipher Brief,” a digital based conversatio...

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    Walter Lefmann
    Director of Security, CTC Trading Group LLC (Retired)

    Walter Lefmann is recently retired from Director of Security at CTC Trading Group LLC, a capital markets trading firm. That role has included Information Security, Physical Security and Life Safety, Privacy, and BCP/DR.
    He has been practicing cybersecurity with varying focus for his entire professional career. The balance has shifted ba...

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    Alan LeFort
    CEO & Co-Founder, StrongestLayer

    Alan LeFort is CEO and co-founder of StrongestLayer, an AI-native email security company. With 25 years in cybersecurity leadership at Proofpoint, McAfee, and Intel, he focuses on the intersection of AI and email security architecture. He writes regularly for CSO Online and TechRadar on why pattern-based detection has become an architectural ...

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    Taylor Lehmann
    CISO, athenahealth

    Taylor Lehmann is the VP and Chief Information Security Officer at athenahealth, a healthcare information technology organization with headquarters in Watertown, MA and operations around the world. Taylor has been in information security and risk management for over 15 years. He was most recently the CISO at Wellforce, an eastern MA-based, Tu...

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    Col. Cedric Leighton
    CNN Military Analyst; U.S. Air Force (Ret.); Founder & President, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC

    Cedric Leighton is a CNN Military Analyst and a retired United States Air Force Colonel. On CNN, he has provided incisive commentaries on the Israel-Hamas War, the War in Ukraine, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and numerous other conflicts around the world. His analysis has been seen by millions of viewers around the world and provided...

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    Ryan Leirvik
    Cybersecurity Author

    CEO of Neuvik and author of the book “Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk”. Past adventures include growing a cyber research and development company, serving as Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Cyber for the U.S. Department of Defense, and sparking a fondness for technology problem-solving at IBM.

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    Adam Leisring
    Chief Risk Officer & CISO, Paycor

    Adam is the Chief Information Security Officer for Paycor, one of the largest independently held Human Capital Management companies in America. He oversees Information Security for Paycor’s 1,400 associates, as well as Paycor’s 30,000 clients of their award-winning SaaS product. In past positions, he has served in leadership roles including T...

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    Michael Leland
    VP, Field CTO, Island

    Michael joined Island in October 2024 as Field CTO, bringing over 30 years of data networking, operations, and cybersecurity domain expertise.

    He formerly served as Head of Technical Marketing and Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist at SentinelOne where he was responsible for messaging and strategic development of their XDR product roadmap ...

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    Bart Lenaerts
    Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Threat Intel, Infoblox

    Bart Lenaerts is a Senior Threat Intelligence Product Marketing Manager with Infoblox. Bart is a 20+ year veteran in Network Systems & Security with a focus in Digital Risk Management and Automated Investigations.

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    Colleen Lennox
    Founder & CEO, Cyber Job Central
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    Colleen Lennox, Moderator
    Founder & CEO, Cyber Job Central
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    Steven Lentz
    Head of Security, Mojio

    Steven is the Head of Security, CISSP, CIPP/US. He has presented for SC Magazine and in Las Vegas regarding Cybersecuirty and Security Awareness.

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    Louis Lerman, Moderator
    VP & CISO, Pediatrix Medical Group
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    Phil Lerner
    Professor, St. John's University, Distinguished Engineer, United Healthcare Group / Optum

    Phil Lerner has been a professor at St. John’s University for the past 10 years. He is the first Distinguished Engineer at United Healthcare Group. He has 26 years of progressive cyber, network and systems security experience in vast enterprises as a customer side senior technology leader. Phil provides consultative guidance and programmatic ...

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    June Leung
    Director, IAM, IGM Financial

    Intuitive, result-driven Cybersecurity Leader with notable success directing a broad range of enterprise Cybersecurity initiatives with over 15 years of experience in the financial cybersecurity vertical. Defining Cybersecurity strategy and roadmap, implementing cloud security, managing an annual budget of over $4 million. Effective managemen...

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    Yaron Levi
    CISO, Dolby Laboratories

    Yaron Levi is the CISO for Dolby Laboratories. Prior to joining Blue KC, he was CISO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City; a Director of Information Security for Cerner Corporation; an Information Security Business Partner for Intuit; an Information Security Architect and Product Manager for eBay; and a Director of Cloud Security for ...

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    Yaron Levi, Instructor
    CISO, Dolby Laboratories

    Yaron Levi is the CISO for Dolby Laboratories. Prior to joining Blue KC, he was CISO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City; a Director of Information Security for Cerner Corporation; an Information Security Business Partner for Intuit; an Information Security Architect and Product Manager for eBay; and a Director of Cloud Security for ...

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    Yaron Levi, Moderator
    CISO, Dolby Laboratories

    Yaron Levi is the CISO for Dolby Laboratories. Prior to joining Blue KC, he was CISO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City; a Director of Information Security for Cerner Corporation; an Information Security Business Partner for Intuit; an Information Security Architect and Product Manager for eBay; and a Director of Cloud Security for ...

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    Ben Levin
    President, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Delaware Valley Chapter

    With over 35 years' experience in healthcare administration, IT, and security, Benjamin Levin has held executive roles, overseen complex operations, implemented regulatory programs, and delivered advanced tech solutions for nationwide health systems. Semi-retired, Mr. Levin advises venture capital and emerging healthcare tech companies on

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    Alan Levine
    Cyber Security Advisor, Wombat Security Technologies

    Alan Levine is the former CISO for two Fortune 500 companies, Alcoa and Arconic, with 20 years experience leading global cyber security programs. He has a BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, an MA from City College of New York, and is ABD from Carnegie Mellon University. Alan is currently an independent cyber security advisor, bas...

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    Brian Levine
    Cybersecurity Leader and Executive Director of FormerGov; Former Cybercrime Prosecutor and National Coordinator for Cybercrime Prosecutors Across U.S.
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    Ben Levitan
    CEO, Cedalion Partners

    Ben Levitan serves as CEO of Cedalion Partners, a Management Advisory firm to Investors, Boards, and CEOs. Ben serves as Board Director of OGSystems, a GEOINT solutions company, and Bricata, a cybersecurity company. Ben has more than 25 years of leadership experience, having served as CEO or COO of five companies—in venture, growth equity, an...

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    Gil Levonai
    CMO, imper.ai

    Gil Levonai is a cybersecurity and technology executive with deep experience in enterprise security and high-growth cyber companies. He has held leadership roles at imper.ai, Hunters, and Zerto, helping bring innovative security technologies to market and translating complex cyber capabilities into real-world impact for organizations. He brin...

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    Florence Levy
    Senior Vice President, Cyber / E&O Practice

    Florence focuses on creating cyber and E&O risk management programs for companies in a wide array of industries. She works with clients to understand their business goals, then assesses and develops programs or alternative risk transfer solutions that match their risk management objectives. Her expertise lies in identifying exposures, program...

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    Lenny Levy, Judge
    Managing Director, Healthcare Cybersecurity, RSM US LLP

    Mr. Levy brings years of experience helping organizations address cybersecurity challenges. Prior to making the transition to Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for healthcare organizations, he consulted on cybersecurity topics for organizations around the world based in the United States and Singapore. Now Mr. Levy leads RSM’s North A...

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    Daniel Lewis
    Special Agent, FBI
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    Zachary Lewis
    Director of Insider Risk Management, EchoMark

    With more than 20 years in the cybersecurity industry as a security engineer, consultant, and principal sales engineer, Zachary Lewis is now the Director of Insider Risk Management at EchoMark, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company pioneering a new standard in information protection. His experience spans a range of technologies from firewall...

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    Dave Lewis
    Global Advisory CISO, Cisco
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    Zachary Lewis
    CIO & CISO, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

    Zach is a seasoned IT executive with a distinguished career spanning strategic IT management, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, and budget oversight. As the AVP IT and CISO for a private higher education institution, Zach has orchestrated transformative initiatives that have fortified the institution's cybersecurity landscape while driving stra...

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    Zachary Lewis, Moderator
    CIO & CISO, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

    Zach is a seasoned IT executive with a distinguished career spanning strategic IT management, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, and budget oversight. As the AVP IT and CISO for a private higher education institution, Zach has orchestrated transformative initiatives that have fortified the institution's cybersecurity landscape while driving stra...

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    Frank Leyva
    Systems Engineer, Radware

    Frank Leyva is a Systems Engineer with Radware, a market leader in cybersecurity with a focus on Network and Application level availability, and security. Prior to that, he was a subject matter expert in network security defense with a leading anti-malware company, performing advanced threat analysis, deep packet inspection, and creating hack...

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    Hong-Lok Li
    Chief Technology Officer, Alma Mater Society of UBC, Vancouver

    Hong-Lok Li is the Chief Technology Officer at the Alma Mater Society of UBC Vancouver (representing 60,000+ UBC students). He has a strong technical background and 20+ years of experience in large organizations in a multi-platform, integrated computing environment. Hong is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) who earned his Master of Science (MSc.) i...

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    Marina Liang
    Sr. Security Engineer, Automox

    Marina is a Security Engineer on the Automox SecOps team where she is passionate about all things security. Previously, she worked as a Threat Researcher, focusing on detections and prevention rules for commodity threats and common living off the land attacks (LOLbins). Before that, Marina served as a Sr. Threat Analyst on a managed SOC, tria...

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    Lena Licata
    VP, Cybersecurity, Blackstone
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    Lena Licata, Moderator
    VP, Cybersecurity, Blackstone
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    William Lidster, Moderator
    CISO, AAA Washington

    William serves as the leader of AAA Washington’s information security and compliance efforts. He is responsible to establish a responsive, dynamic, and flexible cybersecurity program to meet continually changing information security, regulatory, and compliance needs in the organization.  William has been with AAA Washington since August of 20...

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    William Lidster, PhD
    CISO, AAA Washington

    William serves as the leader of AAA Washington’s information security and compliance efforts. He is responsible to establish a responsive, dynamic, and flexible cybersecurity program to meet continually changing information security, regulatory, and compliance needs in the organization.  William has been with AAA Washington since August of 20...

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    Daniel M. Likarish
    Director CIAS, Regis University

    Daniel M Likarish is professor Regis University CC&IS and Director of the CIAS. His research interests are in personalized experiential learning. He supports Colorado Cyber Patriot and Cyber Girls. Dan is the academic advocate for ISSA and ISACA. He is on the CISE Board and regional coordinator for the RMCCDC.

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    Zachary Limacher
    Sr. Manager and PAM Practice Lead, Sila Solutions Group

    Zachary Limacher is a cybersecurity leader, business architect, and strategist with 19 years of experience in architecting and implementing enterprise cybersecurity solutions. He has worked in both consulting and corporate roles. Prior to joining Sila, Zach led Access Management at Charles Schwab & Co. Zach is the Privileged Access Management...

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    Dimitri Limanovski
    Security Operations, BlackRock

    Dimitri Limanovski is a member of Security Operations at BlackRock and currently leads the Cyber Offence program. His responsibilities include malware analysis, adversary emulation, incident response, and googling things he doesn't know.

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    Kwan Lin
    Principal Data Scientist, Rapid7

    Kwan is the Principal Data Scientist on the Rapid7 Labs Research and Advocacy team. He routinely monitors and analyzes large-scale honeypot and Internet-scan data using statistical and machine learning methods. Recently, Kwan helped Rapid7 launch Project Doppler, a platform tool that enables customers to assess their public internet exposure....

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    Jeremy Linden
    Director, Product Management, Qadium
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    Brian Linder
    Emerging Threats Cybersecurity Evangelist, Office of the CTO, Check Point Software Technologies

    Brian Linder is an Emerging Threats Expert and Evangelist in Check Point’s Office of the CTO, specializing in the Modern Secured Workforce. Brian has appeared multiple times on CNBC, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR Radio, and hosts Check Point’s CoffeeTalk Podcast and Weaponizers Underground, and has teamed on keynote CyberTalks at Check Point’s ...

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    Michelle Linders Wagner
    VP, Head of Internal Audit, Docusign

    Michelle Linders Wagner, a seasoned risk management executive, brings 25+ years of experience in enhancing compliance and risk posture for Fortune 500 firms. With cyber, compliance, and audit expertise, she builds high performing teams, swiftly identifying fit for purpose solutions that align with business strategy. While she is currently lov...

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    David Lindner
    CISO, Contrast Security

    David Lindner is an experienced application security professional with over 20 years in cybersecurity. In addition to serving as the chief information security officer, David leads the Contrast Labs team that is focused on analyzing threat intelligence to help enterprise clients develop more proactive approaches to their application security ...

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    Joanna Lindquist
    Vice President, WiCyS Chicago Affiliate
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    Al Lindseth
    Principal, CI5O Advisory Services LLC

    Highly effective and successful senior executive with 25 years in the energy industry. Experience and knowledge spans different markets, products, business models and disciplines.
    Proven track record of:
    • Driving resolution of the top challenges facing different groups, companies or individuals, whether as a member of its manage...