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
CISO
SolarWinds

Brian Chang
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

Tom Chowanski
CISO
Kemper

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

John Cordo
Investor
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
Partner and Co-Founder
Sorenson Ventures

Lucy Engel
CISO
Vivo

Elik Etzion
Former Partner
Elron Ventures

Will Farrell
Security Officer, TikTok U.S. Data Security
TikTok

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 Engineering & Architecture
Albertsons Companies

Gary Harbison
SVP, Global CISO
Johnson & Johnson

Erik Hart
CISO
Cushman & Wakefield

Justin Heyl
VP, Corporate National Security
Midpoint Technology, Inc.

Sabastian High
Business Information Security Officer
Elevance Health

Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director
Dell Tech Capital

Michael Johnson
CISO, Meta Financial Technologies
Meta

Bill Jones
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

Karl Mattson
CISO
Endor Labs

Kevin McCarty
CISO, Group VP, Information Security
Gartner

Mario Memmo
CISO
Otis

Jenny Menna
Chief Security Officer
Sallie Mae

Anmol Misra
Advisor, Utiltyx and Former Senior Director, Autodesk Inc
Utiltyx

Rob Moncini
Executive Director Threat &
Identity Management
DTCC

Michael Montoya
COO
BlueVoyant

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
CISO
DTCC

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
MD, Group Head of Cyber and Technology Risk, Fraud and Resilience
BNP Paribas

Ian Rathie
Former Managing Director, CISO
Fitch Group, Inc

Drew Robertson
CISO
Finance of America Companies

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