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Praveen Kumar

Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer at ZEE Innovation & Technology Centre

Cdr Praveen Kumar is a veteran with over 2 decades of rich experience in leadership roles in Information Technology and Cyber Security. Praveen’s passion and talent lie in building secure systems. Over the years, he has steered various Information Technology & InfoSec projects from conception to delivery and ensured balance between security and convenience to achieve customer satisfaction.

Currently, he is the Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer at ZEE Innovation & Technology Centre - a part of ZEE 4.0 digital transformation. In his current role, he is responsible for enterprise-wide information security, privacy, compliance, and business continuity management.

Praveen has demonstrated expertise in building and leading large teams, handling technology risk, security, privacy and governance programs. He is known for leveraging his technical skills, operational background, and strong business acumen to align risk management with executive vision. Praveen is an evangelist for security across corporate functions, with strong abilities to garner support at executive and board level.

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Deepak Prasad

Customer Engineer, Security Specialist at Google Cloud

Prasad is a customer engineer, security specialist at Google Cloud. He has over 20 years of multicultural and diversified experience in cloud computing, information security, IAM, practice development, pre-sales, solution architecting and cloud security solutions.

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Craig Aukett

Head of CyberArk Consulting Services

Craig has had roles in many areas of IT where security has always played a key part. Originally starting out as a web developer, Craig has since worked in application development and support, e-commerce, systems engineering and in recent years held roles in the consultancy space working with many advisory firms where audits, regulation and compliance have been at the forefront of the conversation. During his time with CyberArk, Craig has worked with many global and enterprise customers in heavily regulated sectors such as finance and insurance and will share his experiences and lessons learned during the webinar.

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Josh Kirkwood

Head of Strategic Alliances, Cyberark

Josh Kirkwood is a 15-year veteran of the IT Operations space having worked in infrastructure architecture and operations roles until he found the 'interesting' side of the industry and joined security. Josh currently leads the team of solutions engineers aligned to CyberArk's Advisory & GSI Partners, helping them build identity security strategies that help deliver positive outcomes to their customers.

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Vishal Patel

Security Solutions Architect, CyberArk

Vishal has been a security professional for over 15 years with a primary focus on Identity Access Management and Privileged Access Security for a Fortune 500 financial company. He shares his experiences defending from internal and external threat actors using industry leading solutions and home-grown ingenuity. His exposure across multiple enterprise verticals has given him a unique perspective when applying security within existing business processes. During this web panel, Vishal will share his practical experience helping U.S. based customers pass IT security audits and improve their compliance posture.

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Richard Bussiere

Technical Director- Asia Pacific, Tenable

Richard is a seasoned technical architect with over 20 years of experience in ICT security, computer networking and engineering. He frequently assists organizations including financial services organizations, governments and managed security service providers in adopting a regimen of pro-active vulnerability management to help them reduce their vulnerability footprint. He has a strong background in Research and Development, including both software and hardware engineering. Prior to coming to Tenable, he was Arbor Networks' Solution Architect for Asia Pacific.

In his current position with Tenable he is responsible for evangelizing the criticality of vulnerability assessment, vulnerability management and thorough security monitoring as part of Tenable’s enhanced security posture.

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James Fong

Risk and Security Solutions – Asia, ServiceNow

James leads the ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management and Security Operations business across Asia driving the integrated risk and security management agenda through innovation and solution-based technical advisory. As a Solution Leader, he provides leadership and coaching abilities for the team to attain set goals and targeted development to drive net new logos and drive incremental business across identified market segments and industries. This requires strong management capability across a wide geography and regional markets spanning different timezones, language, culture and risk management maturity. He also engages senior levels of organisations (Directors & C-suite levels) as well as front-line technologists to drive technology adoption and reference sites for ServiceNow across the governance, risk and compliance space. He brings with him a wealth of experience having been instrumental in implementing comprehensive governance, risk management, compliance & assurance frameworks for top corporations throughout the region for close to 20 years. He has worked with Boards of Directors in addressing corporate-wide issues relating to governance, risk and compliance and advised them on linking risk management and business objectives. James is also experienced in devising and establishing future risk, compliance and continuity strategies; and in particular, conducting risk-based management and operational auditing for publicly listed companies. He has also been involved in the implementation of Business Continuity Management systems and is familiar with global standards and best practice in this area. Prior to ServiceNow, he was driving the business of GRC solutioning for a leading global GRC & Security company, was the Southeast Asia Risk & Compliance Solution Lead for Protiviti Singapore, Executive Director of Consulting Services for a regional leading risk and audit management consulting and software firm, a Management Consultant / Auditor with a Big 4 consulting firm, and was a Project Manager with a multi-national group driving business and process improvement initiatives. He is also a prominent and regular speaker at local and international thought leadership forums and conferences on risk management, governance, assurance and internal controls.

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Maron Bieri

ISV Lead South East Asia (SEA), Google Cloud

Maron has been with Google Cloud for almost six years. Over the years, he covered Media & Entertainment companies across EMEA and APAC as a Sales Lead and in his current role, he advises ISVs on GTM, Co-Sell and partner opportunities across APAC.

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Andrew Ren

Principle Solutions Architect, PingCAP

Andrew Ren is an experienced data specialist, solutions architect and cloud technical consultant. His enthusiasm is to help customers from SMB, DNB to enterprise achieve their business outcomes by evolving their technology strategies. As a principal solutions architect in PingCAP, he engages with executives, directors and developers to translate their business needs into technical and operational plans and build the next generation technology engine.

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Emil Sulistya

Senior Partner Solution Architect, Aiven

Emil is a Senior Partner Solution Architect with a expertise in micro-services and event driven architecture with passion for exploring new technology in the market to improve his skills while helping customers optimise their IT landscape.

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Mark Thong

Strategic Accounts Director, APAC, Aiven

Mark is the first Aiven hire in APAC, focusing on strategic accounts and partners in the South East Asia region. Digital transformation and democracy through cloud technologies are topics close to his heart.

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Raj Dasgupta

Director of Fraud Strategy - North America, BioCatch

Raj is Director of Fraud Strategy, North America at BioCatch with over 15 years of Financial Services industry experience in the U.S. having worked for HSBC, Yodlee, Intuit, ID Analytics and TransUnion prior to joining BioCatch. Throughout his career, he has been at the cusp of business and technology advising his customers on how technology solutions can be operationalized to solve real-life business problems. He is very passionate about the world of identity and fraud and has deep SME in Fraud Risk, Device risk, Credit Risk, Machine Learning based predictive modeling and Customer Authentication in an omni-channel environment. At BioCatch, he frequently talks to customers, listening to their fraud problems and how the right use of technology can enable them to offer a great user experience while reducing manual review effort and keeping fraudsters at bay.

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Denny Prvu

Director of Identity & Access Management: Enterprise Security, RBC

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world in public and private sector as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for over 20 years. Experience by working on standards and active contributions in areas including authentication, compliance, and numerous NIST frameworks has been key to successfully solving consumer and workforce identity challenges. Enjoying the areas of identity we all see that include authentication, access and life cycle management to the ones we don't see that include PAM, IOT, and the governance surrounding them has allowed Denny to develop a well-rounded collection of skills as speaker, and author. Always willing to grab tea and talk about anything identity.

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Shawn Kok

Solution Engineer, APAC, TeleSign

With over 10 years of combined experience in digital Identity, solution architecture, and fraud prevention. Shawn is currently the Solution Engineer (APAC) in Telesign.

Past experience includes digital identity and fraud prevention pre-sales at LexisNexis Emailage, fraud data analytic & leading payment solutions implementation at Apple.

He is passionate about risk assessment, protecting, and preventing online fraud through digital identity. He is currently based out of Singapore.

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Abhijit Kulkarni

Vice President APAC, TeleSign

A Business Strategist with 19 + years of experience in Communications, SaaS and BFSI sector. Abhijit currently heads up the Asia Pacific operations at TeleSign - a market leader in Digital Identity and Programable communications. Prior to TeleSign, he has been in Leadership roles at Vodafone, BICS, Idea Cellular and Tata Communications.

He strongly believes that offering an enriched customer experience and adopting an effective fraud management strategy are equally important for a business to be successful in the Digital economy.

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Gonda Lamberink

VP of Critical Manufacturing Security Solutions, Fortress Information Security

Gonda is an experienced cybersecurity leader in OT/IoT security. As VP of Critical Manufacturing Security Solutions with Fortress Information Security, Gonda works on securing critical infrastructure supply chain communication, automation and processor technologies in Telecom/ICT, Industrial Automation, Commercial Facilities, Pharma, Healthcare and Transportation sectors. Gonda drives go-to-market strategy and execution, sales, marketing and product management to provide asset owners and their vendor manufacturers, system integrators and service providers, with cybersecurity solutions and capabilities to enhance their supply chain security risk management. From assets to vendors, Fortress enables vendors to be in the driver seat and validate information shared with asset owners.

Prior to joining Fortress Information Security, Gonda worked for almost 9 years at UL and was responsible for developing IoT security solutions and business focused on smart home, smart building, industry 4.0 and connected vehicle market segments. In earlier years at UL, Gonda worked on securing digital payments based on EMV chip technology and for e- and m-commerce. Prior to UL, Gonda worked as a strategy consultant with PwC Transaction Services in Amsterdam and as an economist with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Gonda is a lawyer and an economist by training.

Security is only as strong as its weakest link and supply chain security has quickly evolved as a critical manufacturing top priority to address. Fortress Information Security is at the forefront of cyber-supply chain risk management (C-SCRM).

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Tony Turner

VP of R&D, Fortress Information Security

Tony leads the Fortress Labs R&D team and designs many of the technical software supply chain solutions at Fortress Information Security. He has helped hundreds of companies with strategic and tactical approaches to solving their information and application security challenges. Most recently, Tony has been focused on the topic of software transparency and software bill of materials (SBOM), supporting many industry efforts such as the Idaho National Labs run SBOM PoC, active in NTIA and CISA working groups for SBOM and supporting a variety of other industry efforts focused on product security.

Having founded the Security B-Sides Orlando security conference in 2012, he is a mainstay of the Central Florida information security community. Tony is passionate about emerging technologies such as blockchain, zero knowledge proofs and confidential computing and is the project lead for the WASC/OWASP Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria (WAFEC) and the OWASP chapter leader and founder in Orlando, FL for over 10 years.

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Lucas Salter

General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific & Japan

Lucas is the General Manager of the Data Protection Solutions business and a member of the Executive Leadership team at Dell Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan. Lucas leads a team of data protection specialists who enable companies to modernise and automate their data protection platforms and overcome data protection barriers.

With a passion for managing risk, Lucas’ team enables organisations to solve multi-cloud, data growth and cyber-security challenges, allowing them to focus on meeting their business objectives. Working closely with customers across multiple sectors, his team helps organisations accelerate digital transformation by focusing on the value and resilience of their data, and enabling them to scale for current and future demands.

Lucas joined Dell Technologies (formerly EMC) in 2015. Prior to Dell Technologies, he held senior positions at NextDC and Symantec. He has over 20 years of experience specialising in solving business problems with technology in the areas of security, risk and data protection.

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Venkat Thoutam

Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital and a Regional Security Lead -APJC

Venkat currently serves as Business Unit Security Officer (BUSO) – Dell Digital, responsible to Identify, prioritize and drive security programs to benefit the business area and help in the management of security & resiliency. He is also a Regional Security Lead for APJC region, In this role he supports external and internal Dell customers and act as a single point of contact for all the Security & Resiliency requirements in the region.

Venkat has been in the industry more than 27 years, during last 2 decades he has been focused on building application & data security practices providing consulting, strategy, architecture & design services aligning with business goals to enhance the security posture of the organizations across multiple industry sectors.

Prior to Dell, he worked as an Application & Data Security Practice Lead and Senior Delivery Lead for Security & Risk Consulting Services at Accenture. Also as a Global Delivery Head of Enterprise Security Services at Wipro Technologies.

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Alex Tilley

Head of CTU for APJ, Secureworks

With well over 20 years of experience in computer security and cyber-crime, Alex Tilley is a highly awarded cyber-crime researcher. Alex was on the forefront of research and countermeasures when phishing and malware first began to attack banking platforms and their customers.

With that background, Alex became the Australian Federal Police’s senior cyber-crime technical analyst where he combined his technical background with an analytical approach to the “who” and “why” of the cyber-crime fight. This work resulted is many successful investigations in the cyber-crime and child protection space.

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Saikrishna Chavali

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, where he is helping Secure Service Edge (SSE) products cross the chasm to mainstream enterprise buyers. Sai has expertise in growing and building cloud security products to protect data, applications and users across CASB, Insider Threat Management and Application Security. Prior to his time at Proofpoint, Sai held product management positions at Veracode, where his products helped to reduce software vulnerabilities in web applications used by Fortune 100 enterprise companies and consumers all over the world. 

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Brian Gleeson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Brian Gleeson is charged with bringing to market Proofpoint’s People-centric Security Service Edge solutions. He comes to Proofpoint from Check Point, where he focused on a wide portfolio of product offerings, including network, mobile, endpoint, IoT, and cloud security. Since 2013, he published more than 50 though-leadership papers and blogs on topics ranging from cyber threat research, security best practices, and threat prevention.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Ian Glazer

Senior Vice President, Identity Product Management, Salesforce

Ian Glazer is the Senior Vice President for Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Prior to that, he was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at Gartner, where he oversaw the entire team’s research. He is the co-founder IDPro, the professional organization for digital identity management, and works to deliver more services and value to the IDPro membership, raise funds for the organization, and help identity management professionals learn from one another. During his career in the identity industry, he has co-authored a patent on federated user provisioning, co-authored and contributed to user provisioning specifications, is a noted blogger, speaker, and photographer of his socks.

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Josh Jaffe

VP, Security, Dell

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Tari Schreider

Strategic Advisor - Cybersecurity Practice, Aite-Novarica Group

Tari Schreider, C|CISO, CRISC, ITILf, and MCRP, is a Strategic Advisor at Aite-Novarica specializing in cybersecurity, information assurance, security program architecture, and maturity improvement. He lives in metropolitan Atlanta and brings more than 40 years of security, privacy, and recovery management to Aite-Novarica. Tari is an author of top-rated cybersecurity architecture and law books and is a master instructor of chief information security officer (CISO) certification courses. He is a co-author of a U.S. patent titled Method for Analyzing Risk. He has designed security operations centers, created the first Information Sharing and Analysis Center in collaboration with the Information Technology Association of America (IT-ISCA), and created complex cybersecurity programs in many industries and international locations. Tari is a member of the Writers Board for CISO MAG. Before joining Aite-Novarica, Tari was a distinguished technologist and Chief Security Architect for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vice President of Global Operations for Internet Security Systems, Director of Security and Disaster Recovery Services for Sprint E-Solutions, and the Managing Partner of Contingency Planning Research.

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Nick Shevelyov

CSO, Silicon Valley Bank

Nick Shevelyov is a specialist in cybersecurity, information technology, data privacy, and risk management with experience in multiple industries—from an engineering to executive and board advisory level. He has served as Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer at Silicon Valley Bank for the last 15 years, now working in an Advisory capacity. A guest speaker at a variety of industry events, Nick has an undergraduate degree in economics, an executive MBA, and CISSP, CIPP, and CISM industry certifications.

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