Judging Committee
Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman and Founder
SINET
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.
Founder and Managing Director
AllegisCyber Capital
Mo Ahddoud
Interim CISO
Cyber Security Advisor
Selim Aissi
Chief Information Security Officer
Blackhawk Network
Ian Amit
Advisory CSO
Rapid7
Omkhar Arasaratnam
Engineering Director – Assurant
Google
Jerry Archer
Senior Vice President
and Chief Security Officer
Sallie Mae
Abhi Arunachalam
General Partner
Alkeon Capital Management
Brian Barrios
CISO / VP, Cybersecurity & IT Compliance
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Sandeep Bhadra, PhD
Partner
Vertex Ventures
Deven Bhatt
Deputy CISO
Department of Education,
Federal Student Aid
Joydeep Bhattacharyya
General Partner
Canaan Partners
Charles Blauner
Partner & CISO in Residence, Team8
President, Cyber Aegis
Eddie Borrero
Vice President and
Chief Information Security Officer
Blue Shield of California
John Brennan
Partner
YL Ventures
Ben Carr
Chief Security & Trust Officer
Cradlepoint
Brian Chang
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus
Susan Chiang
Deputy CISO
Cloudflare
Roland Cloutier
Global CSO
TikTok
Michael Colao
Global Chief Underwriting Officer
Direct and Indirect Cyber Risks
AXA XL, a division of AXA
Nick Coleman
Chief Security Officer
Vocalink: A Mastercard Company
Mark Connelly
Global Risk Executive
Gregory S. Crabb
Founder
10-8, LLC
Paul Crichard
Director Information Security
Doctor Care Anywhere
Michael D’Ambrosio
Managing Director
Liberty Strategic Capital, Stanford University
Daniel DeSantis
Director, Americas, CISO Advisor
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ed Devinney
Corporate Director Cyber Programs
Northrop Grumman
Sunil Dhaliwal
Founder and General Partner
Amplify Partners
Alex Doll
Founder, Managing General Partner
Ten Eleven Ventures
Benjamin Eason
Managing Director, Cyber
Apollo Global Management Inc.
Ken Elefant
Partner
Sorenson Ventures
Elik Etzion
Partner
Elron Ventures
David Fairman
Venture Partner
SixThirty
Guy Filippelli
Managing Partner
Squadra Ventures
Jake Flomenberg
Partner
Wing Venture Capital
Carey Frey
VP, Chief Security Officer
Corporate Security
Telus
Brian Fricke
Managing SVP
Chief Information Security Officer,
Information Security
City National Bank
Glenn Gaffney
EVP
In-Q-Tel
Venky Ganesan
Partner
Menlo Ventures
Rick Geritz
President & Founder
LifeJourney
Al Ghous
Chief Information Security Officer
SnapDocs
Gamiel Gran
Vice President of Business Development
Mayfield
Bob Griffin
Managing Partner
DVI Equity Partners
Nipun Gupta
Vice President – Strategy & Innovation
Deutsche Bank
Gary Harbison
Global Chief
Information Security Officer
Bayer
Gary Hayslip
Chief Information Security Officer
SoftBank Investment Advisers
Lisa Humbert
Managing Director
Operational Risk Management Officer
MUFG
Ramy Houssaini
Chief Cyber & Technology Risk Officer and Group Privacy Officer
BNP Paribas – France
Phil Huggins
Director, Department of Health and
Social Care (UK) and Interim National
CISO for Health and Social Care
NHS England
Aaron Hughes
Group Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Albertsons Companies
Yuval Illuz
Group CISO and COO, Trust, Data & Resilience
Standard Chartered Bank
Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director
Dell Tech Capital
Kurt John
Global Chief Security Officer
Expedia Group
Michael Johnson
Chief Information Security Officer
Facebook META
Bill Jones
Director Cybersecurity Architecture
and Engineering
Trane Technologies
Peder Jungck
Vice President Intelligence Solutions
BAE Systems
Vijaya Kaza
Chief Security Officer, Head of Engineering &
Data Science for Trust & Safety
Airbnb
Shaun Khalfan
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer
Discover Financial Services
Dr. Kimberly S. King
Senior Engineer Specialist, Engineering and Technology Division
The Aerospace Corporation
Thomas Krane
Principal
Insight Partners
Dr. Ronald Layton
Vice President
Sallie Mae
Jay Leek
Co-founder and Managing Partner
SYN Ventures
Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner
YL Ventures
Nate Lesser
Chief Information Security Officer
Children’s National Hospital
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
John Masserini
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Millicom
Karl Mattson
Chief Information Security Officer
Noname Security
Douglas Maughan
Office Head
NSF Convergence Accelerator
Kevin Nally
US Secret Service CIO
US Secret Service
Kjetil Nilsen
Special adviser
Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, Department of National IT-policy and Public Governance
Lamont Orange
Chief Information Security Officer
Netskope
Javier Ortiz
Partner
Falcon Cyber Investments
Umesh Padval
Venture Partner
Thomvest Ventures
Rob Pate
Senior Cyber Security Strategist
Idaho National Labs (INL)
Jerry Perullo
Adversarial Risk Management
Founder
Jim Pflaging
Managing Partner
Cynergy Partners, Inc.
Jean-Yves Poichotte
Group Head of Cyber Security
Sanofi
Conan Reidy
SVP, Corporate Development
Rapid7
Admiral Mike Rogers
Former Director
NSA
Craig Rosen
Chief Security and Trust Officer
ASAPP
Lauren Dana Rosenblatt
Vice President & Chief Information
Security Officer
International Flavors & Fragrances
Richard Rushing
Chief Information Security Officer
Motorola Mobility
Bill Ryckman
Managing Principal
Three Kings Capital LLC
Marcus Sachs
Deputy Director Research
McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security
Sanaz Sadoughi
Information Security Officer
International Monetary Fund
Enrique Salem
Partner
Bain Capital Ventures
Ted Schlein
General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
Ken Schneider
Managing Director
Precode Labs
Mary Ellen Seale
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The National Cybersecurity Society
Richard Seewald
Managing Partner
Evolution Equity Partners
Dr. Lewis Shepherd
Senior Director, National Technology Strategy
VMware
Will Sheldon
Principal
Accel
James Shira
Global & US Chief Information &
Technology Officer
PwC
Auriol Stevens
Co-Founder
Inogesis
Nick Shevelyov
Executive Consultant, Strategic Advisor, Former CSO
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
Karthik Swarnam
Vice President Information Security
AT&T
Justin Taft
President & Chief Executive Officer
The Soter Group
Gur Talpaz
VP, Corporate Development
CrowdStrike
Roar Thon
Specialist Director
Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM)
Sid Trivedi
Partner
Foundation Capital
Ariel Tseitlin
Partner
Scale Venture Partners
Phil Venables
Vice President &
Chief Information Security Officer
Google Cloud
Mornay Walters
Chief Information Security Officer
AngloGold Ashanti
Brian White
Partner
DBO Partners
Troy Wilkinson
Chief Information Security Officer
Interpublic Group (IPG)
Alberto Yepez
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Forgepoint Capital
Sounil Yu
CISO & Head of Research
JupiterOne
Nadav Zafrir
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Team8
Dave Zilberman
General Partner
Norwest Venture Partners