Judging Committee

Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman, SINET
Venture Partner, SYN Ventures

Antony Abraham
Deputy CISO, Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Omkhar Arasaratnam
Distinguished Engineer, Security
LinkedIn

Michael Baader
VP, Divisional Information Security Officer – Banking & Premium Products
Capital One

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

Charles Blauner
President
Cyber Aegis

Louis Bobelis
Deputy CISO
Axis Capital

Timothy Brown
Former CISO
SolarWinds

Brian Chang
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

Tom Chowanski
Former CISO
Kemper

Michael Colao
Former Global Chief Underwriting Officer
Direct and Indirect Cyber Risks
AXA XL, a division of AXA

John Cordo
Partner
Evolution Equity Partners

Paul Crichard
CISO
SERCO

Ashley Devoto
CISO
Discount Tire

Alex Doll
Founder, Managing General Partner
Ten Eleven Ventures

Prashant Doshi
Associate Principal Director, Cybersecurity and Advanced Platforms (CAPS) subdivision
The Aerospace Corporation

Benjamin Eason
Managing Director, Cyber
Apollo Global Management

Ken Elefant
Managing Director, Ventures
Sorenson Ventures

Lucy Engel
CISO
Vivo

Elik Etzion
Former Partner
Elron Ventures

Jeff Farinich
SVP Technology Services and CISO
NAF

Will Farrell
Security Officer
TikTok USDS Joint Venture

Carey Frey
CSO, CISO, VP
Telus

Brian Fricke
MSVP, CISO, Technology Risk Executive
City National Bank of Florida

Gamiel Gran
Chief Commercial Officer
Mayfield

Stacey Halota
VP, Information Security and Privacy
Graham Holdings

Jack Hamm
VP Security Architecture & Controls
Reinsurance Group of America

Gary Harbison
SVP, Global CISO
Johnson & Johnson

Erik Hart
CISO
Cushman & Wakefield

Brigitte Herbert
Director of Corporate Information Security
TELUS

Sabastian High
Business Information Security Officer
Elevance Health

Yuval Illuz
SVP and Group CSO
RBC

Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director
Dell Tech Capital

Michael Johnson
CISO, Meta Financial Technologies
Meta

Bill Jones
Former Director Cybersecurity Architecture
and Engineering
Trane Technologies

Ronald Jones
Director Security & Innovation,
Senior Manager
DTCC

Peder Jungck
VP Intelligence Solutions
BAE Systems

Kevin Kennedy
Managing Director of Cybersecurity
Blackstone

Shaun Khalfan
SVP, CISO
PayPal

Boris Kogan
CISO
Interactive Brokers

Thomas Krane
Managing Director
Insight Partners

Ben Le
Managing Director,
Deputy Chief Security Officer
The OCC

Jay Leek
Founder and Managing Partner
SYN Ventures

Nate Lesser
CISO
Children’s National Hospital

Maria Lewis Kussmaul
Founding Partner
AGC Partners

Jason Lish
Global CISO
Cisco

Stella Maerker
Head of Cyber Security Strategy / Chief of Staff to Global CISO / Office of the CISO
Unilever

Ted Maliga
Assistant Director, CTO
U.S. Secret Service (Retired)

Karl Mattson
Strategic Advisor
Endor Labs

Kevin McCarty
CISO, Group VP, Information Security
Gartner

Mario Memmo
SVP, CISO
Otis

Jenny Menna
Chief Security Officer
Sallie Mae

Anmol Misra
Head of Security
Gecko Robotics

Rob Moncini
Executive Director Threat &
Identity Management
DTCC

Michael Montoya
Chief Technology Operations Officer
F5

Paul Montrose
VP Cybersecurity, Risk, & Compliance
Interpublic Group

Benjamin Murphy
SVP and Global CISO
Unum Group

Greg Murray
SVP Cyber Security, Privacy & Network
Loblaw

Yonesy F. Nunez
Independent Director
Chain Bridge Bank

Umesh Padval
Managing Director
Thomvest Ventures

Pathik Patel
Head of Cloud Security
Informatica

Juan Piacquadio
Chief Information Officer &
VP, Information Technology
Phlow Corporation

Brandon Pinzon
CISO, Advisor
SPKTR Ventures

Jean-Yves Poichotte
SVP, Group Head of Cyber Security
Sanofi

Jayaraj Puthanveedu
Group Head – Cyber, Information Security & Tech Risk, Third Party Risk, Anti-Fraud & Resilience
BNP Paribas

Ian Rathie
Managing Director – Technology Control Executive
Wells Fargo

Drew Robertson
CISO/CIO
Renaissance Learning

Richard Rushing
CISO
Motorola Mobility

Patty Ryan
Senior Director, CISO
QuidelOrtho

Bill Ryckman
Managing Principal
Three Kings Capital LLC

Marcus Sachs
SVP and Chief Engineer
Center for Internet Security

Sanaz Sadoughi
Senior Risk Officer
The World Bank

Nick Salian
CISO
bitFlyer USA

Megan Samford
CSO, US National Security Agreements & US Federal Business
Schneider Electric

Ken Schneider
Managing Director
Precode Labs

Kurt Steege
Chief Technology Officer
ThunderCat Technology