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As Vice President of Product Management for Niara, Karthik Krishnan is responsible for driving product strategy and direction as well as customer engagements. Karthik helped to drive the initial framework for the Niara Security Analytics Platform. Before joining Niara, he served as vice president of product management at Embrane, acquired by Cisco in 2015, and senior director of product management at PGP, acquired by Symantec in 2010. Karthik also spent five years at Juniper as the director of product management, driving product strategy, sales and customer engagements for Juniper's Access Control products.

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20 years as a design engineer, the last 10 with Juniper Networks. Initially working with Service Providers ATT and Verizon, currently a consulting engineer focused on supporting large partners.

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Tom has been in the network and security field for over 20 yrs. During this time he worked for large enterprises as a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering/Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. Currently at Arbor Networks he's a Director of Product Marketing focusing on Arbor's industry leading DDoS Protection solution.

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Mike Vizzi recently joined Guidance Software as Senior Product Marketing Manager. In his new role Mike has full responsibility for all marketing aspects of Guidance's industry-leading EnCase endpoint discovery and response (EDR) product lines. Mike's background includes tours of duty with telecommunications and electronic equipment giants Motorola, Ericsson and Bosch. More recently he has been the driving product marketing force behind mobile data offload and SaaS platforms at SMSI and PICS. Mike holds a B.S. from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. form Suffolk University's Sawyer School of Management.

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Assaf Mischari leads a team of elite cybersecurity researchers at Team8. Prior to joining Team8, Assaf held numerous leadership roles in the Israel Defense Force's Technology & Intelligence Unit 8200, where he was trained and served as the CTO of the Cyber Division. Assaf has over 15 years of cybersecurity experience researching and developing both software and hardware. Assaf is a proud husband and father to two amazing boys (and a slightly less amazing dog). Assaf holds a B.Sc in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

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Sudhakar Ramakrishna is CEO of Pulse Secure where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution. With nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets, Sudhakar joined Pulse Secure from Citrix. At Citrix, Sudhakar served as the senior vice president and general manager for the Enterprise and Service Provider Division, where he had profit and loss responsibility for approximately a $2.5 billion portfolio of virtualization, cloud networking, mobile platforms and cloud services solutions. Before Citrix, he was at Polycom and was president of products and services. Sudhakar has also held senior leadership roles at Motorola, 3COM and US Robotics and brings significant experience in strategic planning and execution, organization development, and incubating and scaling new businesses to Pulse Secure. Sudhakar earned his master's degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar is a member of the board of directors at Mitel Networks and Tely Labs.

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In his role as Chief Cyber Services Strategist for Fidelis Cybersecurity, Jim Jaeger is responsible for developing and evolving the company's cyber services strategy while synchronizing it with product strategy. Jim previously managed the Network Defense and Forensics business unit, including the Digital Forensics Lab. He has led cyber forensics investigations into some of the largest network breaches impacting our industry. Mr. Jaeger has also held a leadership role for a wide range of cyber programs including General Dynamics' support for the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Computer Forensic Lab and the DefenseCyber Crime Institute. Previously, he created General Dynamics' information assurance and critical infrastructure protection group, which has developed a wide variety of Information Assurance tools, ranging from the Air Force's intrusion detection infrastructure to the only network based multi-level security (MLS) system accredited by the National Security Agency at Protection Level 4 without waivers. He is a former Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and his military service includes stints as the Director of Intelligence (J2) for the U.S. Atlantic Command, Assistant Deputy Director of Operations at the National Security Agency, and Commander of the Air Force Technical Applications Center. In these capacities, Mr. Jaeger was responsible for the collection and reporting of intelligence to Theater Commanders and the National Command Authority. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Air Force Academy and his Master's degree in Management & Supervision from Central Michigan University.

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In his role as Director of Technical Product Management, Tony Goulding interacts with Centrify's enterprise customers across the Americas, gathering valuable feedback to help grow product revenues and steer the roadmap of the company's market-leading security solutions, Centrify Server Suite, Centrify Privilege Service, and Centrify User Suite. Tony brings over 30 years of experience in security, software, and customer relationship building to the Centrify team. Most recently, he held the position Vice President, Technical Sales of the security division at 8KMiles. Before that, he spent 10 years at CA Technologies, in presales, sales, product management, and strategy roles culminating in Director of Presales Security for the West. Under Tony's leadership, his team was consistently one of the highest performing worldwide and rose from last place to 1st within his first 12 months. Before his time at CA Technologies, Tony spent time managing technical sales, technical support, and professional services teams in the U.S. and Europe at WorldTalk Corporation, Tumbleweed, Inc., ValiCert, Inc., Entegrity Solutions, Inc., and Sema Group Limited in the U.K. Tony was educated in the U.K. and graduated with Honors in Mathematics and Biology. He is ITIL and CISSP certified.

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Matt Ebben is the Senior Director of WW Systems Engineering and services, leading vArmour's high performing world wide team of pre and post sales delivery engineers.s. Prior to vArmour, Matt was Worldwide Solutions Architect Blue Coat Systems, Corporate Systems Engineer at Crossbeam Systems, and System Specialist at Northwestern Mutual. He holds a BS, Telecommunication Systems, Business from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

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Thomas Sophiea is the Sr. Technical Architect for Aerohive Networks based in Michigan. He has worked with wireless manufactures in Silicon Valley for more than ten years. He is an alumni of Kettering University and majored in mathematics. It's no coincidence that Kettering has been a customer reference for Aerohive since 2013. Thomas resides in Traverse City, Michigan. Please view his profile here on Linked In.

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Prior to joining Forescout, Brian Gumbel spent 2 years at Tanium, running sales and operations as their VP for Americas East and Canada. In that position, he grew their business 400% year over year and closed several complex deals with Fortune 100 customers.

Prior to starting the sales organization at Tanium, Brian spent eight years at McAfee and served as the Vice President of Americas East and Canada. In this position, he consistently delivered double-digit growth and earned Global VP of the Year in 2012. Brian also served as Director of Sales for Government, Healthcare and Education (GHE) for Americas East.

Prior to joining McAfee, Brian spent seven years at Cisco in various sales and leadership positions; initially helping to launch Cisco's Financial Services vertical, he later became a Strategic Account Manager for the company's NYC Government sector sales. Brian was consistently ranked as a top performer, having received numerous awards and accolades during his tenure at Cisco.

Brian is based in New York City, and has a BS degree in Biology from Marist College, in NY.

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Born in Oakridge, TN (The Secret City), James Cabe spent the early years of his career in Cambridge MA working for BBN Planet (Autonomous System 1 on the internet). After being sold to the carrier GTE and spun off during the making of Verizon, James set course for New York and private network consulting and data security for legal firms, commodities trading networks and large global retail. In 2003, James moved to Houston, TX and began a career in Oil and Gas. The large independent E&P company formed an internal international consultancy to handle companies outside the scope of normal American IT operations. Operations in deep water and international made up the better part of the next decade. In the last three years James has worked for Fortinet as a Subject Matter Expert and Evangelist for mega-corporation security architecture, encryption, authentication, and next generation security.