Judging Committee

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

Selim Aissi
Chief Information Security Officer
Blackhawk Network

Omkhar Arasaratnam
Former Engineering Director – Assurant
Google

Jerry Archer
Cybersecurity Luminary

Abhi Arunachalam
General Partner
Alkeon Capital Management

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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

Deepali Bhoite
Chief Information Security Officer
Anaplan

Charles Blauner
Partner & CISO in Residence, Team8
President, Cyber Aegis

Eddie Borrero
Vice President and
Chief Information Security Officer
Blue Shield of California

Beth-Anne Bygum
Chief Security & Compliance Officer
Acxiom

Ben Carr
Global Security & Risk Executive

Brian Chang
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

Susan Chiang
Deputy CISO
Cloudflare

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

Paul Crichard
Chief Information Security Officer
SERCO

Michael D’Ambrosio
Managing Director
Liberty Strategic Capital, Stanford University

Daniel DeSantis
Director, Americas, CISO Advisor
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Sunil Dhaliwal
Founder and General Partner
Amplify Partners

Alex Doll
Founder, Managing General Partner
Ten Eleven Ventures

Ken Elefant
Partner
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

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

Alvaro Garrido
Group Chief Information Security Officer
Standard Chartered Bank

Rick Geritz
President & Founder
LifeJourney

Al Ghous
Chief Information Security Officer
SnapDocs

Gamiel Gran
Vice President of Business Development
Mayfield

Kevin Greene
Public Sector CTO
OpenText

Jack Hamm
Vice President Security Engineering
& Architecture
Albertson

Gary Harbison
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Johnson & Johnson

Gary Hayslip
Chief Information Security Officer
SoftBank Investment Advisers

Justin Heyl
Director, Enterprise Risk Management
Baxter International Inc.

Lisa Humbert
Managing Director, Operational Risk Management Officer
Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi Union Financial Group

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

Oche Idoko
Director Americas Cyber, Technology,
Data & Change
Risk Barclays

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

Shaun Khalfan
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer
Discover Financial Services

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Dr. Kimberly S. King
Senior Engineer Specialist, Engineering and Technology Division
The Aerospace Corporation

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Thomas Krane
Principal
Insight Partners

Dr. Ronald Layton
Vice President
Sallie Mae

Jay Leek
Co-founder and Managing Partner
SYN 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

Benjamin Murphy
SVP, Head of Cyber Operations
Truist

Kevin Nally
US Secret Service CIO
US Secret Service

Terry O’Daniel
Acting Head of Security
Amplitude

Lamont Orange
Chief Information Security Officer
Netskope

Padval, Umesh

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

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

Nick Salian
Global CISO
Cantor

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

Dr. Lewis Shepherd
Senior Director, National Technology Strategy
VMware

James Shira
Global & US Chief Information &
Technology Officer
PwC

Auriol Stevens
Co-Founder
Inogesis

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

Emanuel Tanase
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Lombard International Assurance

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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

Walters, Mornay

Mornay Walters
Chief Information Security Officer
AngloGold Ashanti

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Brian White
Partner
DBO Partners

Troy Wilkinson web

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