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
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
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
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
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
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
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