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Thom Langford, Security Advocate, SentinelOne
Thom is an industry-engaged and sought-after information security subject matter expert and speaker. As Security Advocate for SentinelOne, he further explores his passion for communicating and educating on information security topics globally through storytelling, humour and plain language.
Thom can be found online at both thomlangford.com and on Twitter.
Adenike Cosgrove, Cybersecurity Strategist for International Markets, Proofpoint
Adenike is the Cybersecurity Strategist for international markets at Proofpoint, where she drives product marketing strategy across European and Asia Pacific markets. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management, data privacy, and compliance.
Justin Shaw-Gray, Sales Director for the UKI region, Synack
Justin is Sales Director for the UKI region for Synack, Inc. In 2018, Justin was awarded SC Media’s Runner Up for Best Cybersecurity Sales Leader. Previously, he held senior roles at Netscope, Zscaler, and Riverbed. Justin is originally from Zimbabwe, where he was Founder and Human Rights Activist for the Restoration of Human Rights Zimbabwe.
Tony Pepper, CEO, Egress
Co-founder of Egress Software Technologies, Tony currently serves as CEO, overseeing all business growth and innovation aspects. Before Egress, Tony held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies.
Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, ESET
Jake is a Cybersecurity Specialist for ESET, helping companies and employees understand cybersecurity and risk. He spent 14 years with Dorset Police Digital Forensics Unit and went on to work with them as their cybersecurity consultant, giving tailored advice to the public and businesses.
Gareth Tranter, Head of Customer Success, Exonar
Gareth is Head of Customer Success at Exonar – where he works closely with companies to both uncover and protect their data. Gareth has nearly two decades of cybersecurity experience, including four years at Aruba within several roles and as a Networking and Security Specialist for BT. Outside work, Gareth volunteers with CITA, providing free IT consultancy to small and mid-sized charities.
Steven Wilson, CEO, Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA)
Steven joined the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) in January 2020 after four years as the Head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol in The Netherlands. He previously served 30 years as a senior detective in Scotland, where he performed a range of national responsibility roles.
Gaynor Rich CISM, Global Director, Cyber Security Strategy & Transformation
Gaynor’s expertise lies in cybersecurity, data protection, payment security, business resilience, and risk management. She takes a holistic approach to solving complex issues with people and technology. She sees cybersecurity as a business enabler and champions future-fit cybersecurity capability.
Stuart Frost BEM, Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management
Stuart is a highly certified GRC professional with extensive experience delivering risk-based security programmes across large organisations. He has won numerous industry awards and is known for his thought leadership and ability to deliver business objectives successfully and securely.
Deborah Haworth, CISO, Penguin Random House
With over 20 years at the sharp end of information security Deborah has a gift for telling it how it is. Regularly seen in the accolades’ lists, she is renowned for her motivational leadership.
Annick O'Brien, Data Privacy Analytics, Compliance and Privacy Counsel
Annick O’Brien, lawyer, cyber risk officer, compliance officer and ex-radio host, has a strong track record in privacy and compliance programme engagement, change management, and training & awareness projects. With a special focus on information security, she works to integrate risk mitigation and management in parallel to business strategy.
Peter Wood, Lead Consultant, Naturally Cyber
Peter is an engineer and IT and cyber security professional. He is a BCS Fellow, CITP, CISSP and a member of CIISec, ISACA and Mensa. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Sussex.
David Emm, Principal Security Researcher, Kaspersky
David joined Kaspersky in 2004 as a member of the company’s Global Research and Analysis Team. Previously, he worked in various roles, including Senior Technology Consultant at Dr Solomon’s Software and Systems Engineer and Product Manager at McAfee.
Dr Shane Shook, Chief Security Advisor, Secrutiny and Venture Consultant, Forgepoint Capital
Shane has more than 30 years of information technology and risk management experience. This includes expert witness testimony, information security, information management, and breach investigation forensics, serving global Fortune 500 customers as a trusted advisor.
Tim Ward, CEO, ThinkCyber
Tim is CEO and Co-Founder of ThinkCyber and has worked in IT and security for more than 20 years, with organisations including Logica, PA Consulting. He was previously Global Head of Information Services for the cyber division of BAE Systems (Detica).
Robin Vann, Chief Solutions Officer, Reliance acsn
With over 25 years of experience in cloud, security and managed services, working in Government, blue-chip MSSP environments and global vendors, Rob is a successful strategic security leader. He has solved cybersecurity challenges for customers globally across a broad spectrum of organisations, including large corporates, telcos, and government installations.
Chris Pace, Technology Advocate, ImmersiveLabs
Chris Pace serves as Technology Advocate for Immersive Labs, working to engage organizations with the power of human cyber readiness. Prior to beginning his career in information security, Pace trained as a broadcast journalist. He has additional experience working in IT departments in both the public and private sectors.
Scott Walker, Enterprise and CSE Manager, Varonis
Scott helps organisations protect their sensitive information from threats, automate time-consuming tasks, and extract valuable insights from their data. He has several years’ experience with data security and IT infrastructure management through retail, financial investment, and software service sectors.
Scott gained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in ‘Computer Science’ from the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a M.Sc. in ‘Computer Aided Engineering’ from Edinburgh Napier University.
Pippa Seed, Life Coach and Mental Health First Aid Trainer, Mental Health Training
Pippa has a passion for helping people maintain good mental health, increasing understanding of mental ill health, supporting people effectively, helping people find fulfilment, and removing obstacles and unhelpful beliefs.
Helen Gazzi, Performance and Leadership Coach, Helen Gazzi Coaching
Helen is a Performance and Leadership Coach specialising in improving individuals’ and teams’ emotional intelligence, interpersonal relationships, leadership skills, and resilience.
Richard Lalchan, Founder, Clarity Coach
Richard used to train companies to promote themselves online, but realised getting people addicted to content didn’t sit well with him. He got a ‘dumbphone’ and froze his social channels. Now a life and business coach, he helps people take control of technology and live with authenticity and clarity.
Jules Amos, Director Global Security, ETMEA Amgen
Jules is a culturally adaptive and resilient security director, experienced in complex, hyper-growth, blue-chip organisations. He spent 20 years in the military prior to his commercial career; spanning Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria, EMEA & APAC responsibilities with Shire Pharmaceuticals (FTSE1 100); and an incredible three-year ride with Dyson. Jules is currently the EMEA Security Director with Amgen (a $25Bn global Pharma).
Sam Oliver, Product Marketing Manager, CybSafe
Sam helps support and grow the CybSafe community by connecting the various CybSafe teams and working with them to deliver a market-leading product and experience to their clients. As Product Marketing Manager, he spends lots of his time getting to know new and potential customers. In doing so, he also identifies market trends and the evolution of the security awareness space, using them to understand where CybSafe can help.
Before joining CybSafe, Sam was part of the new business team at Mimecast, where he was responsible for acquisition of new clients and overseeing the deployment and configuration of their chosen services. A linguistics and language expert, Sam has also worked across Central and South America as an English teacher, and has a passion for all things technology and cyber security.
Justin Leary, Chief Operations Officer, Darkbeam
Justin oversees global operations and the development of Darkbeam’s cyber risk solutions. After leaving an intelligence role within the police service, Justin has consulted worldwide to improve organisations’ threat intelligence capabilities.
Mitchell Clarke, Principal Incident Response Consultant, Mandiant
Mitchell is a Principal Incident Response Consultant for Mandiant United Kingdom and Ireland. He specialises in providing enterprise-scale response operations for clients facing sophisticated network intrusions by determined attackers.
Mitchell is well practiced in leading both large and complex response operations for multinational organisations as well as tightly-focused response operations for highly specialised organisations protecting critical intellectual property or sensitive information.
He has led organisations across multiple industries in responding to breaches by adversaries ranging from well-resourced and stealthy nation-state sponsored espionage threat groups to highly-motivated cybercriminals seeking to extort or ransom victim organisations.
Ali Neil, Director International Security, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Ali Neil leads Verizon’s security business across Europe, Middle East & Africa and the Asia Pacific region. His remit is to help enterprises understand their cyber-risk profile and then mitigate with the appropriate integrated service solutions, based on a broad portfolio from threat intelligence, forensic investigation, cyber detection and response, IAM, and GRC amongst the areas of focus. Ali has previously worked running the cloud practice, advanced communications, and outsourcing before focusing on information security.
Stephen Boyer, CTO and Founder, BitSight
Stephen co-founded BitSight in 2011 and serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding BitSight, Stephen was President and Co-Founder of Saperix, a company acquired by FireMon in 2011. While at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Stephen was a member of the Cyber Systems & Technology Group where he led R&D programmes solving large-scale national cybersecurity problems. Before MIT, he worked at Caldera Systems, an early Linux startup. Stephen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a Master’s of Science in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Peter Margaris, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Skybox Security
Peter is responsible for the company’s overall solution messaging, positioning, field enablement and go-to-market strategy. With a diverse background and over 25 years, Margaris has held business leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, F5 Networks, Motorola, Nokia and various start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Peter has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.
Max Heinemeyer, Director of Threat Hunting, Darktrace
Max is a cybersecurity expert with over a decade of experience in the field, specialising in penetration testing, red-teaming, SIEM and SOC consulting, and hunting APT groups. At Darktrace, Max oversees global threat hunting efforts.
Tarquin Folliss OBE, Vice Chairmain, Reliance acsn
Tarquin served in government for over 30 years, finishing his career as a senior diplomat focused on national security policy. Since retirement, he has worked in the UK tech sector.
Adrian Taylor, Director of Transformation & Strategy Hacking, Bluecap Solutions
A strategy loving, cyber operations geek and leadership coach, Adrian balances his time working on complex transformation projects with trekking through jungles in far-flung lands.
Hannah Tufts, Owner, EXHALE Global
Hannah specialises in cybersecurity awareness and behaviour change as well as brand, marketing and content strategy for cybersecurity businesses in the UK and Europe.
Kasia Olszko, Founder, Lead Consciously
Kasia is a leadership and wellness consultant, she is also an experienced facilitator and coach. She is committed to serving individuals and organisations through executive coaching, interactive culture-focused experiences, leadership training and wellness programmes.
She loves combining analytic insight with simple tools to create the greatest impact and supports her work with the latest findings in modern neuroscience. She also curates and produces content around conscious leadership, sustainability and digital and mental wellbeing. She is passionate about making organisations more human and creating strong, healthy communities.
Her heart lies between London, Warsaw and Barcelona, where she lives with her partner and 7-year-old son.
Mark Tilbrook, Childline Website Supervisor, NSPCC
After time in the videogames industry, Mark achieved his Master’s in Advanced Child Protection. He now supervises the Childline website – he is responsible for the wellbeing of those using its online services and social media and supervises counselling shifts on the live helpline.
Steve Trippier, Group CISO, Anglia Water
Steve been CISO for Anglian Water since before cyber was ‘sexy’. Growing his skills as cyber grew up, he knows a little about a lot – evolution not revolution is his focus. Steve is keen to focus on wellbeing alongside risk.
Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, Founder, Consciously Digital & TEDx Speaker,
Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Homo Distractus, and founder of the London-based tech-life balance consultancy and first ICF-certified digital wellbeing coach training company Consciously Digital. Anastasia is a frequent speaker at global conferences, such as Mobile World Congress, and she has appeared numerous times in the national and international press, including BBC, ITV, Metro, The Guardian. Anastasia’s TEDx talk ‘Could you live without a smartphone?’ has been viewed more than 217,000 times on YouTube.
Bev Costoya, Company Director and Digital Wellbeing Consultant/Coach
Bev has worked in software design, development and training for over 20 years and is a data privacy cheerleader. She loves helping people and businesses work out how they can use tech on their terms.
Rachel Wolff, Legal Counsel, Trip Actions, and CD Graduate
Rachel works as a legal counsel for a technology company. In 2019, she decided it was time to pursue a life in which her devices were no longer managing her time and focus. Now, she is managing her devices instead! She helps people with their digital habits and healthy lifestyle.
Marilise de Villiers, Founder & CEO, Marilise de Villiers Basson Consulting Ltd
Marilise is a mindset and performance coach, best-selling author and technology executive, specialising in cyber awareness, culture and talent. She is passionate about individuals and organisations finding their ROAR!
Nicole Sutherland, Director, Mayhaven Healthcare
Nicole has worked in the care industry for 16 years, initially managing an NHS Trust commissioning team then moving to the private sector to become a Director of a care home group in the South West.
Chris Ensor, Deputy Director for Cyber Skills, NCSC
As Deputy Director for Cyber Growth, Chris is charged with using NCSC’s expertise and brand to build national cyber security capabilities in education, skills, research, innovation and industry.
Paul Chichester, NCSC Director Operations, NCSC
Paul has worked in the UK Government intelligence and security community for over 30 years. He manages the national response to significant cyber incidents and ensures the UK Government understands and can counter a wide range of state and non-state cyber threats. He was awarded an MBE in 2005.
