Judging Committee

Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman & Founder
SINET

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)

Mario Beccia
Director Cybersecurity
Council of the European Union

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
Former 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

Jeff Farinich
EVP Technology Services and CISO
NAF

Will Farrell
CSO
TikTok US Data Security

Carey Frey
CSO, CISO, VP
Telus

Brian Fricke
CISO
AutoNation

Rick Geritz
President & Founder
LifeJourney

Stacey Halota
Former 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

Sabastian High
Business Information Security Officer
Elevance Health

Yuval Illuz
SVP, Group CSO
RBC

Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director
Dell Tech Capital

Vishal Jindal
Application Security Leader
Apple

Kurt John
CISO
Con Edison

Bill Jones
Director, Cybersecurity & Information Technology Line of Business Lead
mcfa

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 & Managing Partner
SYN Ventures

Nate Lesser
VP & CISO
Children’s National Hospital

Nadav Lev
Chief Technology Officer
YL Ventures

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
Unilever

Tim Marsden
CISO
Credit Acceptance

Karl Mattson
Strategic Advisor
Endor Labs

Michael McGlynn
CISO
World Wide Technology

Mario Memmo
SVP, CISO
Otis

Jenny Menna
CSO
Sallie Mae

Anmol Misra
Head of Security
Gecko Robotics

Rob Moncini
Executive Director Threat &
Identity Management
DTCC

Paul Montrose
VP Cybersecurity, Risk, & Compliance
Axiom

Benjamin Murphy
SVP & Global CISO
Unum Group

Greg Murray
SVP Cyber Security, Privacy & Network
Loblaw

Yonesy F. Nunez
CISO
Surf AI

Umesh Padval
Managing Director
Seligman Ventures

Pathik Patel
Cloud Security
Salesforce

Juan Piacquadio
CIO
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
Former Senior Director, CISO
QuidelOrtho

Bill Ryckman
Managing Principal
Three Kings Capital LLC

Sanaz Sadoughi
Senior Risk Officer
The World Bank

Nick Salian
CISO
bitFlyer USA

Megan Samford
Vice President, Product & Supply Chain Security
Schneider Electric

Kurt Steege
Chief Technology Officer
ThunderCat Technology

Jake Seid
Co-Founder and General Partner
Ballistic Ventures

Chris Smith
Information Security Leader
MassMutual

John N. Stewart
Angel Investor
Talons Ventures, LLC

Gur Talpaz
Co-Founder / General Partner
Brightmind Partners