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Nick Hunter Technical Marketing Manager Venafi With over a 15 years of experience in a wide range of roles within the cyber security space, Nick Hunter has been responsible for the implementation, design, and education of cyber security strategies, products, and services that mitigate the risks of the ever-evolving range of cyber threats. At Venafi he is responsible for strategic technical marketing that focuses on next generation trust protection.

Ben Harrow Manager Federal Sales iboss Cybersecurity Bio to Come Shortly 

Brett Wilson Vice President of Sales enSilo

Brett is a security industry veteran. Prior to enSilo, Brett was GM of Cyren’s Cloud Security BU and led Cyren’s transformation into a provider of applied cyber intelligence solutions for enterprises. Previously, Brett held VP positions Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Product Strategy at Trustwave and Breach Security. Brett built strategic alliances and ran portfolio strategy projects at Symantec. Before joining the security industry, Brett served as a technology policy lobbyist and strategy consultant.  Brett holds a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

James Woolsey Former Director CIA James Woolsey is a Venture Partner with Lux Capital Management. He also Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Woolsey currently chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group, chairs the Advisory Board of the Opportunities Development Group, and he is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues. Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. From July 2002 to March 2008 Mr. Woolsey was a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton, and then a Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California until January 2011. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation. During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President to serve on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986, as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST). As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970. Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several. He served on the National Commission on Energy Policy. Served as Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. Previously he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. Mr. Woolsey has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; and Yurie Systems, Inc. In 2009, he was the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and in 2010-11 he was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal). Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of energy, foreign affairs, defense, and intelligence. – See more at: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/r-james-woolsey/#sthash.4PkVMbn4.dpuf

Günter Ollman Chief Security Officer Vectra Networks Günter Ollmann is chief security officer at Vectra. He has nearly 30 years of experience in information security in an array of cyber security consultancy and research roles. Before joining Vectra, Günter was CTO of Domain Services at NCC Group, where he drove strategy behind the company’s generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) program. He was also CTO at security consulting firm IOActive, CTO and vice president of research at Damballa, and chief security strategist at IBM. Günter is a widely respected authority on security issues and technologies and has researched, written and published hundreds of technical papers and bylined articles. Originally, Günter had wanted to be an architect but he lost interest after designing retaining walls during a three-month internship. After that, he qualified as a meteorologist but was lured to the dark side of forecasting Internet threats and cyber attacks. His amazing ability to see dead people stoked an interest in history and first-millennium archaeology. Günter holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics and a Master of Sciences degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Auckland.  

Dan Lanir Vice President of Professional Services and Support OPSWAT Dan Lanir joined OPSWAT as Director of Professional Services and Support in early 2012. Dan is responsible for developing and growing the company’s global-class technical support and professional services business. Prior to joining OPSWAT, Dan worked at Oracle for 19 years, where he held leadership positions in both services and support with responsibilities that included running complex multi-location software deployment projects, directing global support desks, and managing domestic and international customer relationships. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Engineering.

Paul Bowen Principal Security Technologist Arbor Networks

Paul Bowen is a security practitioner with over 20 years industry experience. Paul started out at Estee Lauder gaining a decade of experience as a manger of global security. He then moved from being a security consumer to a security vendor.

Paul spent almost a decade at Arcsight before and during the HP acquisition, transitioning to a conference speaker for HP as a Strategic Evangelist from the Office of Advanced Technology before spending a year with Mandiant, then another year with Fortinet before arriving at Arbor Networks. Paul is currently Principal Security Technologist with a focus on Advanced Threat detection and mitigation with Arbor’s new Spectrum Platform.

Rezaul Hasan Senior Security System Engineer Venafi Rezaul Hasan is a security evangelist who is passionate about educating organizations and raising awareness around security best practices. For 15+ years, Rezaul has served as a Security Architect and a Sr. Security Systems Engineer, responsible for designing and baking security into a wide spectrum of telecommunications products and networks. He has deep industry experience in all domains of security. Rezaul currently works as a Senior Solutions Engineer guiding the largest enterprises in the world in better securing and protecting themselves, especially in the realm of digital keys & certificates.

Jim Walter Cylance

Jim Walter is a senior member of Cylance’s SPEAR team.  He focuses on next-level attacks, actors, and campaigns as well as ‘underground’ markets and associated criminal activity.  He specializes in long-term campaign and actor trending/analysis with a sharp focus on the organized crime aspects of the modern threat landscape.  Jim is a regular speaker at cybersecurity events and has authored numerous articles/whitepapers/blogs specific to advanced/low-level threats..  Jim joined Cylance following 17 years at McAfee/Intel Security running their Advanced Threat Research and Threat Intelligence teams and content streams.

Rich Thompson Director Sales Engineering Cylance

Richard Thompson is the Director of Sales Engineering at Cylance. He has 25+ years of experience in security. This includes 21 years leading security efforts at the regional and national level in the retail industry, and 5 years leading Sales Engineering and Professional Services efforts in the enterprise software industry. He has experience in forensics, incident response, electronic discovery, information risk management and governance. He joined Cylance in October 2014 in order to help Cylance in the vision of protecting every endpoint under the sun.