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Speaker Panel Topics

Moderator/Co-Chairman

Mark Thompson - Thompson+Billings, LLC

Discussion 1: The Attack It feels like we're under siege. With new scourges of ransom-ware and sophisticated phishing schemes tricking even the most security-aware, are hackers becoming more sophisticated? Or, has the exponential growth of the attack surface made up of mobile devices, containers and Internet of Everything made it virtually impossible to defend us?

In this provocative discussion, we'll hear the thoughts of some of the industry's leading entrepreneurs and expert technologists on how the attack is changing, what security looks like in the era of mobility, the challenge of securing the Internet of Things and finally a perspective on where the security industry has been and where it’s going.

Speakers:

Patrick Westerhaus -- VP, Enterprise Information Security at Wells Fargo Kirsten Bay -- President and CEO at Cyber adapt Steve Orrin -- Chief Technologist, Intel Federal at Intel Corporation Ben Johnson -- Co-Founder and CTO at Obsidian Security

Discussion 2: The New Edge The edge is where the fun is. In security, it’s the innovators edge where new technologies are being built and brought to market. Some of this occurs through scrappy startups and some through household-name companies. In this discussion, we're going to explore the rise of blockchain for finance and security, applications of artificial intelligence and why it’s one of the true innovations in securing systems today, the next-next thing in data analytics and finally insights on the topic of innovation itself.

Speakers:

Michael Gronager -- CEO at Chainalysis Ryan Permeh -- Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Cylance Simon Crosby -- CTO and Co-founder at Bromium Mike Finn – Cyber Strategist, Deloitte

Discussion 3: The Mandarins and Consigliores' The security ecosystem is large. Not all security industry leaders are found in tech companies. One of the crucial drivers of the security industry is the ecosystem made up of investors, technologists, integrators, and financiers. All play a key role in the success of the industry and have a keen sense of history and a gut-feel for the art of the possible. Join this discussion to hear how new companies are seeded and grown, how new technologies are vetted and integrated into solutions and how and when they areharvested.

Speakers:

Mark Hatfield -- Founder and General Partner at Ten Eleven Ventures Tiffanny Gates -- President & CEO at Novetta Russell Workman -- Partner, Head of Defense Technologies at AGC Partners

Closing Speaker:

Gordon Hannah -- Gordon Hannah, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

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Speaker Biographies

Moderator/Co-Chairman

Mark Thompson - Thompson+Billings, LLC

Mark Thompson is a visionary technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in managing and driving growth in Fortune 500 companies, R&D organizations and some of the nation's leading emerging technology firms. He has developed and executed global go-to-market strategies for applied R&D,

cyber security, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and data analytics companies and has closed multi-million-dollar deals and over $1 billion in contracts (in six years).

Thompson has held executive roles in some of the industry's most dynamic technology and growth companies including Cylance (cyber security and AI), High Performance Technologies, Inc. (high performance computing and data analytics), Niku Corporation, ICF Kaiser International (industrial process technologies) and others. He has extensive experience in government defense and national security sectors and commercial markets including technology, energy and utilities, transportation, and industrial sectors.

Thompson has MBA with honors from the University of Chicago and has testified numerous occasions on Capitol Hill and government commissions on subjects including technology, innovation and international trade.

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Panel 1 Speaker: The Attack

VP, Enterprise Information Security at Wells Fargo

Patrick Westerhaus has sixteen years of combined financial & operational risk consulting, industry, and law enforcement experience. Prior to joining the FBI, his work included auditing publicly traded companies, business case analysis, business continuity planning, and internal fraud investigations for Fortune 100 companies.

As a Special Agent with the FBI, Patrick led investigations into corporate & government fraud, public corruption, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber fraud and theft which have directly led to major criminal prosecutions, national security threat mitigation strategies, and the implementation of specific government reform measures. He has extensive criminal trial experience and has testified on numerous occasions.

As a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Headquarters Cyber Division, Patrick developed an investigative approach to reveal a new Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) technique utilized by actors to steal corporate and market information. Patrick also coordinated with industry the design and development of an analytical platform to monitor and investigate criminal activity in the Bitcoin Blockchain and network. The platform led to the development of the whole of government Virtual Currency Team (VCT) within the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF).

Patrick currently leads the Cyber Crime Intelligence Unit (CCIU) and is a Vice President within Enterprise Information Security (EIS) at Wells Fargo. Through newly established processes and technology, Patrick’s team works across the enterprise to collect, consolidate, analyze, and provide tactical cyber intelligence to key enterprise stakeholders in an effort to reduce cyber, fraud, and money laundering risk.

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Kirsten Bay, President & CEO, Cyber adAPT

Kirsten Bay is redefining what it means to be a fearless leader in the technology industry, let alone an accomplished, bilingual, female executive, transforming the cyber security

space. As President & CEO of Cyber adAPT, she leverages more than 25 years of experience, leading her team with risk intelligence, information management, and policy expertise across a variety of sectors.

Throughout her career, Bay has been appointed to a congressional committee developing cyber policies, initiatives and recommendations for the intelligence community, developed recommendations in partnership with the Center for North American Studies (CNAS) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) for The White House energy policy, collaborated on information studies for MIT-Harvard and several federal agencies, gone before a parliamentary subcommittee on recreating trust in the global economy, presented national security and critical infrastructure concepts at conferences such as Black Hat, Secured Americas, Enterprise Architecture Institute, SC World Congress, & The Eurim Information Management Committee, and has spoken on applied economics and its relationship to both cyber and national security around the world.

Bay is a self-proclaimed ‘serial student’. Her current membership in the Alliance of Chief Executives feeds that perpetual drive to learn and share insight with peers, an inspirational trait she models for her Cyber adAPT team. In previous Executive roles for ISC8, Attensity Group, and iSIGHT Partners, Bay led the companies through corporate restructuring, risk & corporate intelligence product launches, and company turnarounds, respectively.

She holds a BA in English and German from the University of Oregon.

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Steve Orrin, Chief Technologist, Intel Federal at Intel Corporation

Steve Orrin is Chief Technologist for Intel Corp’s Federal Division and is responsible for Cyber Security and Cloud Strategy, Federal Solution Architectures and Engagements. Steve has held architectural leadership positions at Intel where he has led strategy and projects on Identity, Anti-malware, HTML5 Security, Cloud and Virtualization Security, and is the creator of Trusted Compute Pools Secure Cloud Architecture and

co-author of NIST’s IR-7904 “Trusted Geo-Location in the Cloud”.

Steve was previously CSO for Sarvega, CTO of Sanctum, CTO and co-founder of LockStar, and CTO at SynData Technologies. Steve is a recognized expert and frequent lecturer on enterprise security and was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and, in 2016, received Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award. He is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and a Guest Researcher at the NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). Steve is a member of INSA, ISACA, OASIS, IACR, and is the Vice-Chair of the NSITC/IDESG Security Committee.

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Ben Johnson, CTO and Co-Founder Obsidian Security

Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company’s chief security strategist. As the company’s original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon

Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist and later worked as a cyber engineer in an advanced intrusion operations division for the intelligence community and DoD.

Ben has extensive experience building complex systems for environments where speed and reliability are paramount. His background also includes a great deal of technical "agility," having worked on advanced operational teams supporting U.S. national security missions, writing complex calculation engines for the financial sector, and building technology companies from the ground up.

Johnson earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. Ben also taught “Entrepreneurship in Technology” as part of the Master’s Program in Computer Science at the University of Chicago in 2016 and 2017.

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Panel 2 Speaker: The New Edge

Michael Gronager, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Chainalysis

Michael Gronager is CEO and co-founder of Chainalysis Inc., the world’s leading source of intelligence on digital assets. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO and co-founder of Kraken, one of the unicorns in the Bitcoin space and today the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange. Before being bit by the crypto bug in 2011 Michael was running international research

infrastructure projects, his latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world-wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC as well as the Blockchain and virtual currencies Working Group preparing the 5th European Anti Money Laundry Directive.

Panel 2 Speaker: The New Edge

Ryan Permeh -- Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Cylance

Mr. Ryan Permeh is the Co-founder of Cylance Inc. and serves as its Chief Scientist. Mr. Permeh leads the research and threat intelligence teams digging into the hacker mindset to uncover emerging attack and defense methods. Prior to co-founding Cylance, Mr. Permeh served as the Chief Scientist at McAfee. He worked with

the Office of the Chief Technology Officer to envision how to protect against the threats of today and tomorrow. In addition, he led innovation efforts through advanced technology exchange with Intel. Along with Stuart McClure, Mr. Permeh built TRACE, McAfee's elite security research team. He has been in security for over 20 years and has served as Chief Scientist at McAfee and a founding software engineer at eEye Digital Security. He has published many papers and presentations at a variety of security conferences, as well as being granted 5 patents in the areas of information security.

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Simon Crosby, CTO and Co-founder at Bromium

Simon Crosby is the co–founder and CTO of Bromium. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of XenSource prior to its acquisition by Citrix. He then served as the CTO of the Virtualization and Management Division at Citrix. Previously, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel, where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He was also the founder

of CPlane, a network-optimization software vendor. Prior to CPlane, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.

Panel 2 Speaker: The New Edge

Mike Finn, Cyber Strategist at Deloitte

Mr. Mike Finn is a Cyber Strategist in Deloitte’s Federal Cybersecurity organization providing cyber defense strategy and expertise across multiple cyber defense projects for the United States Air Force Space Command (AFPSC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). Additionally, Mr. Finn supports ongoing cyber efforts with University of Colorado – Colorado Spring (UCCS).

Mike has over 30 years of experience in information technology, software development, and cyber operations. He served 25 years in the United States Air Force and culminated his career as Chief Information Officer and Director of Cyberspace Forces for all Air Force organizations in the Pacific region. Mike is leveraging his experience and knowledge of Cyber Operations to deliver exceptional results to Deloitte’s Air Force clients and grow the cyber practice with other Air Force and DoD clients.

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Panel 3 Speaker: The Mandarins and Consigliores'

Mark Hatfield, Founder and General Partner at Ten Eleven Ventures

Mark has led investments in early stage technology companies in a variety of roles since 2003 and has developed a keen passion for security, driven by the size and significance of the problem.

Most recently Mark was a partner at Fairhaven Capital where he led investments in Cylance, CounterTack, Celtra, and Trust Digital (acquired by McAfee). He also served as a board member of Co3 Systems and Digital Guardian.

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Tiffanny Gates, President & CEO at Novetta

Tiffanny Gates is responsible for establishing and guiding Novetta’s corporate strategy as well as overall performance.

Prior to Novetta, Tiffanny was the Vice President for Cyber Strategies at Raytheon, Blackbird Technologies. She was responsible for the program performance and development of custom hardware and

specialized software development solutions in the Cyber/Cloud-based Advanced Technologies business areas with a specific focus on computer network operations.

Prior to joining Blackbird, Ms. Gates was the Sr. Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for Mission, Cyber & Technology Solutions (MCTS) Group, a $1 Billion business unit at ManTech International (MTI). In this role, she served as head of Business Development for the fastest growing business sector at ManTech. Ms. Gates came to ManTech International with the successful merger and integration of her company, Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) in August 2008. She served as the President and CEO of ETG for more than five years with a successful track record of growth, recognition in the computer forensics and analysis community and successful coordination of global operations. Ms. Gates holds a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.

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Panel 3: The Mandarins and Consigliores'

Russell Workman -- Partner, Head of Defense Technologies at AGC Partners

Russ is a Partner in the investment banking group at AGC Partners focused on IT security and defense technologies. Before joining AGC, Russ began his investment banking career in the technology banking group at Jefferies & Co. and

has advised on more than 50 completed strategic advisory and capital raising assignments. Before banking, Russ was a US Air Force officer managing the acquisition of intelligence and information warfare systems for the Intelligence Community, and performed cyber vulnerability assessments of Air Force electronic systems. Russ earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business, an M.S. in Operations Research from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Operations Research from the US Air Force Academy.

Closing Speaker

Gordon Hannah, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Mr. Hannah is the Executive responsible for the strategy, direction, execution and delivery of Cyber Risk Services and Solutions for the Defense and National Security Sector and is the Risk and Financial Advisory Lead Entity Partner for Deloitte Central Maryland. He has over 28 years of Federal, Defense, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, Civilian, and Health Care experience and over 15 years of managing

Enterprise Cyber Risk Services initiatives. Mr. Hannah leads the Deloitte Cyber Analytics and Reconnaissance market offering along with Deloitte’s alliance with Cray, Inc. He is also a Nuclear Submarine Officer in the US Navy Reserves.