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Dan Kunkel

Dan has a 26 years of sales experience solving enterprise customer problems pertaining to security. His expertise revolves around cyber-security, malware and advanced threats.

Chris Olive IT Security Strategist Vormetric

Chris Olive is a seasoned, impassioned and intuitive cybersecurity professional with over 25 years in the field of IT Security. Chris has extensive experience and domain expertise in application security, penetration testing and ethical hacking, identity management and data security working domestically through major consultancies for the Fortune 500 as well as internationally. Chris is currently a Senior Sales Engineer for Vormetric, a Thales company — the world-wide leader in data security, hardware and software encryption.

Sean O’Connor Director of Sales – East Darktrace

Sean O’Connor has over 10 years of experience in the enterprise software industry across a number of roles, both commercial and technical.  From startups to Fortune 50 companies, he has led teams responsible for key strategic accounts and has consistently driven business growth at every stop.  As one of the first members of Darktrace US, he offers a unique perspective on the security industry and its approaches to cyber defense.  Sean holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

Kelly Housman Senior Sales Engineer Intel Security

Kelly Housman is a Senior Sales Engineer with Intel Security.  Kelly has worked in the security industry over 20 years. He has focused on infrastructure security covering all aspects from securing applications to securing endpoints, perimeter security, cloud security and more. Kelly has experience working with various companies from small to large in size and influence. He is currently focused on helping large enterprise companies improve their security postures. Kelly is located in heart of the Midwest just outside of Chicago. In his downtime he enjoys technology, kayaking, motorcycling, golfing, boating and model railroading.

Dan Holden

Dan Holden is the Chief Technology Strategist at Arbor Networks where he focuses on future product direction and security threat intelligence integration. Previously he was Director of ASERT, Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response Team, where he led one of the most well respected security research organizations in the industry. ASERT oversees the ATLAS global security intelligence database, and are responsible for threat landscape monitoring and Internet security research including the reverse engineering of malicious code. He also managed the development and delivery of security content and countermeasures for Arbor’s industry leading DDoS technologies via the ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) threat detection technology. Prior to Arbor, Dan was director of HP TippingPoint’s DVLabs and a founding member of IBM/ISS X-Force. While at HP TippingPoint, Dan grew the DVLab’s organization into a mature security research and development team delivering security content, intelligence portals, and reputation technology as well as overseeing both the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program. Dan also helped build and define X-Force over the course of 12 years in various capacities ranging from development to product management. Dan has been in the security industry for over two decades specializing in vulnerability analysis, security research, and technology incubation. Dan is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences and has been quoted and featured in many top publications, radio and television.

Robert E. LaMear IV, Chief Executive Officer, has over 25 years of experience in cloud hosting, secure storage, compute and complex network architectures.  

Rob was formerly a financial auditor and holds technology certifications from IBM, Cisco and Microsoft.  As the CEO of Fpweb.net, Rob built over 2,000 custom networks across healthcare, financial, pharma, bio and energy industries. 

Cybersecurity services played a key role in keeping global Fortune 1000 customers’ services highly available. Some of the more sensitive environments included: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fidelity Investments, Boeing, NASA, Intel, Coca-Cola, and US Army.

He launched US Cyber Vault to stop the outflow of Intellectual Property (IP) leaving our borders each day.  IP is the currency of the global stage raising or lowering nation states faster than any other course. 

Rob is a dynamic speaker with expertise in secure Cloud technologies speaking at Microsoft and Cloud events on 5 of the 7 continents over the past 10 years.

Rob serves the Cloud Cyber Security community in the following organizations:

• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) – Member
• Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA) – Member
• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) – Member
• National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) – Member

Brent Hansen Director of Sales Engineering Vormetric