Judging Committee
Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman, SINET
Venture Partner, SYN Ventures
Omkhar Arasaratnam
Former Engineering Director – Assurant
Google
Jerry Archer
Cybersecurity Luminary
Abhi Arunachalam
General Partner
Alkeon Capital Management
Brian Barrios
VP & Chief Security Officer
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Sandeep Bhadra, PhD
General Partner
Vertex Ventures
Deven Bhatt
CISO
Department of Education,
Federal Student Aid
Joydeep Bhattacharyya
General Partner
Canaan Partners
Deepali Bhoite
CISO
Anaplan
Charles Blauner
Partner & CISO in Residence, Team8
President, Cyber Aegis
Eddie Borrero
CISO
Blue Shield of California
Brian Chang
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus
Susan Chiang
Deputy CISO
Cloudflare
Tom Chowanski
CISO
Kemper
Michael Colao
Global Chief Underwriting Officer
Direct and Indirect Cyber Risks
AXA XL, a division of AXA
Paul Crichard
CISO
SERCO
Michael D’Ambrosio
Managing Director
Liberty Strategic Capital, Stanford University
Alex Doll
Founder, Managing General Partner
Ten Eleven Ventures
Ken Elefant
Partner and Co-Founder
Sorenson Ventures
Taher Elgamal
Partner
Evolution Equity Partners
Elik Etzion
Partner
Elron Ventures
David Fairman
Venture Partner
SixThirty
Will Farrell
Interim Security Officer
TikTok U.S. Data Security
Jake Flomenberg
Partner
Wing Venture Capital
Carey Frey
Chief Security Officer
Telus
Brian Fricke
Managing SVP
Chief Information Security Officer,
Information Security
City National Bank
Alvaro Garrido
Group Chief Information Security Officer
Standard Chartered Bank
Rick Geritz
President & Founder
LifeJourney
Al Ghous
CISO
SnapDocs
Moni Givol
Chief Security Officer
Unity
Gamiel Gran
Chief Commercial Officer
Mayfield
Kevin Greene
Public Sector CTO
OpenText
Stacey Halota
Vice President, Information Security and Privacy
Graham Holdings
Jack Hamm
Vice President Network, UC/Voice, and Security Engineering
Albertsons Companies
Gary Harbison
Global CISO
Johnson & Johnson
Gary Hayslip
Chief Security Officer
SoftBank Investment Advisers
Justin Heyl
Director, Enterprise Risk Management
Baxter International Inc.
Ramy Houssaini
Chief Cyber & Technology Risk Officer and Group Privacy Officer
BNP Paribas – France
Oche Idoko
Director, Group Technology Risk
Barclays
Yuval Illuz
SCV Member and CTO, SC Ventures
Standard Chartered
Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director
Dell Tech Capital
Kurt John
Chief Information Officer & Chief Security Officer
Expedia Group
Michael Johnson
CISO, Meta Financial Technologies
Meta
Bill Jones
Director Cybersecurity Architecture
and Engineering
Trane Technologies
Peder Jungck
Vice President Intelligence Solutions
BAE Systems
Shaun Khalfan
Senior Vice President & CISO
Discover Financial Services
Dr. Kimberly S. King
Senior Engineer Specialist, Engineering and Technology Division
The Aerospace Corporation
Thomas Krane
Managing Director
Insight Partners
Jay Leek
Co-founder and Managing Partner
SYN Ventures
Nate Lesser
CISO
Children’s National Hospital
Nadav Lev
Chief Technology Officer
YL Ventures
Ben Levitan
Chief Executive Officer
Cedalion Partners
Maria Lewis Kussmaul
Co-Founder and Partner
AGC Partners
Jason Lish
Chief Security Officer
Lumen Technologies
Rob Mancini
Chief Information Officer
Prince William County, Virginia
Karl Mattson
Field CISO
Noname Security
Eric Meyer
Sr Director, Infosec Operations (Divisional CISO)
Equinix
Anmol Misra
Senior Director – Infrastructure Security
Autodesk
Michael Montoya
Senior Vice President & CISO
Equinix
Paul Montrose
VP Cybersecurity, Risk, & Compliance
Acxiom
Benjamin Murphy
Global CISO
Unum Group
Umesh Padval
Venture Partner
Thomvest Ventures
Pathik Patel
Head of Cloud SecurityHead of Cloud Security
Informatica
Jim Pflaging
Managing Partner
Cynergy Partners, Inc.
Juan Piacquadio
Chief Information Officer (CIO) & Vice President, Information Technology
Phlow Corporation
Jean-Yves Poichotte
Group Head of Cyber Security
Sanofi
Jayaraj Puthanveedu
MD, Global Head- Operational Risk – Resilience| Cyber| Digital Fraud|Digital Resilience| 3rdParty ICT
BNP Paribas”
Conan Reidy
SVP, Corporate Development
Rapid7
Admiral Mike Rogers
Former Director
NSA
Lauren Dana Rosenblatt
Vice President & CISO
International Flavors & Fragrances
Richard Rushing
CISO
Motorola Mobility
Bill Ryckman
Managing Principal
Three Kings Capital LLC
Marcus Sachs
Chief Security Officer
Pattern Computer
Sanaz Sadoughi
Information Security Officer
International Monetary Fund
Nick Salian
MD, CISO
Cantor Fitzgerald
Megan Samford
VP, Chief Product Security Officer
Energy Management
Schneider Electric
Ken Schneider
Managing Director
Precode Labs
Mary Ellen Seale
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The National Cybersecurity Society
Piyoush Sharma
Head of Enterprise Security &
Technology Operations
Zuora
Auriol Stevens
Vice President, Workplace Experience
Kyndryl
Kurt Steege
Chief Technology Officer
ThunderCat Technology
John N. Stewart
Angel Investor / Startup Whisperer / Anti-poaching Advocate
President, Talons Ventures, LLC
(fmr) SVP, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cisco
Justin Taft
President & Chief Executive Officer
The Soter Group
Gur Talpaz
VP, Corporate Development
CrowdStrike
Emanuel Tanase
Global CISO
Lombard International Assurance
Heath Taylor
Vice President, Information Security
Ticketmaster
Kenneth Taylor
Vice Chairman of Cyber Security
Investment Banking
Cohen & Company Capital Markets
Roar Thon
Specialist Director
Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM)
Sid Trivedi
Partner
Foundation Capital
Ariel Tseitlin
Partner
Scale Venture Partners
Mornay Walters
CISO, VP Cyber Safety
AngloGold Ashanti
Brian White
Managing Director
Piper Sandler
Troy Wilkinson
CISO
Interpublic Group (IPG)
Sounil Yu
CISO & Head of Research
JupiterOne
Nadav Zafrir
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Team8
Dave Zilberman
General Partner
Norwest Venture Partners