Karl Gouverneur

VP & CTO
Northwestern Mutual

Bio

Karl Gouverneur (pronounced "Governor") is vice president and chief technology officer for Northwestern Mutual, and head of the company's enterprise technology management department. In this role, Gouverneur oversees a team that sets the company's technology direction, manages technology innovation and governance, ensures a reliable operations infrastructure, and manages information risk to protect the company's brand and reputation.

Gouverneur focuses on providing technology that leads to efficiency and flexibility for business processes to enrich the experience of the company's clients, financial representatives and employees. He partners with business areas across the enterprise to integrate technology with the company's business strategies and objectives.

In addition to his other responsibilities, Gouverneur leads an award-winning technology innovation program which evaluates technology-based ideas for rapid development and funding.

Prior to joining Northwestern Mutual in 2006, Gouverneur was the vice president and chief technology officer at Seattle-based Safeco Insurance, where he built an IT architecture practice and identified over $110 million in business value. Before his role at Safeco, he was the chief architect at Chicago-based CNA Financial, where he focused on business alignment, IT strategy and IT standards, and strategic and innovative IT solutions including a claims transformation program, service-oriented architecture, voice over IP, strategic sourcing and enterprise content management. He started his career at Ernst & Young, where he progressed through the ranks to become a senior manager.

Gouverneur is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration – computer science. He is currently a member of the CTO Research Board and the ALPFA National Corporate Advisory Board. In the Milwaukee community, Gouverneur serves on Marquette University's Global Sourcing Advisory Board and is an active member of the Discovery World Board. He is also an advisor to the Northwestern Mutual Hispanic Employee Resource Group.

AssureIT Team

Information Assurance
SynerComm

Bio

SynerComm's AssureIT team provides professional computer security services such as audits, assessments and penetration tests.

Larry Walsh

CEO, Chief Analyst
The 2112 Group

Bio

Larry Walsh is CEO and chief analyst of The 2112 Group, a business strategy firm focused on improving the performance of technology companies' direct and indirect channels. Mr. Walsh specializes in the development and execution of channel programs, disruptive sales models, and growth strategies for companies of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations. A seasoned journalist, analyst, author, industry commentator, and founder of Channelnomics, Walsh previously served as editor of Information Security, VARBusiness, and Ziff Davis Enterprise's Channel Insider and Baseline Magazine. Follow him on Twitter @lmwalsh2112.

Matt Ebben

Vice President of Systems Engineering and Services
vArmour

Bio

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.

Bil Harmer

CISSP, CISM, CIPP, Strategist, Office of the CISO
Zscaler

Bio

Bil Harmer serves as the Strategist at Zscaler where he runs the Office of the CISO in the Americas. In this role he engages security executives at a peer level to drive best practices and facilitate industry wide collaboration on emerging security topics. Having effectively written the book on developing and implementing Security and Privacy compliance for Cloud, he is also responsible for providing subject matter expertise through speaking engagements, blogging and media collaboration. Prior to joining Zscaler Harmer was the Chief Security Officer at GoodData Corp and the VP Security & Cloud Privacy Office for the Cloud Division of SAP. He has provided advisory services to Adallom, TrustScience, ShieldX Networks and Resolve Systems. He is CISSP, CISM and CIPP certified.

Kristi Thiele

Manager, Enterprise Systems Engineering
Ixia

Bio

Kristi Thiele is the Sales Engineering Manager for the Central Enterprise team for Ixia. With 20 years of experience in information security, Kristi has helped organizations make informed technology decisions. As the Manager covering the entire Central US region, she is involved in and leading the design and solution development of many of the most complex solution designs to help customers achieve their technology and financial goals.

Geoff Korrub

Principle Architect; Center of Excellence
Juniper Networks

Bio

Geoff Korrub has served as a Principal Architect within the Advanced Technologies Solution group at Juniper Networks. He currently supports Juniper's largest customers from within the Center of Excellence.

Throughout his tenure Mr. Korrub has specialized in providing architectural guidance to organizations within the financial services and e-commerce verticals. As well as providing direct feedback into product development teams to align product portfolio with market demand.

Within the financial services sector Mr. Korrub has worked with a range of customer types including but not limited to the exchanges, distribution and aggregation networks that provide market feeds, algorithmic traders and large banking institutions. Mr. Korrub has engaged throughout the financial services on use cases that are in production as well as next generation technologies for for banking institutions such as UBS, BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs, as well as exchanges such as CME and NYSE in the US and all major exchanges througout Hong Kong and China.

Outside of the financial services sector Mr. Korrub has provided architectural level support for data center, wide area and Software Defined infrastructure technologies for some of the world's largest energy producers as well as E-commerce and social media based organizations spanning 100s of millions of active users.

With over 2 decades of industry experience, Mr. Korrub has achieved the highest levels of industry certifications across all major industry vendor organizations. These certifications include multiple Juniper JNCIE certifications as well as multiple Cisco CCIE certifications along with others from VMWare and Microsoft to name a few.

Bill Lundgren

Director of Systems Engineering
Aerohive

Bio

Bill Lundgren is the Director of Systems Engineering for Aerohive Networks. He has spent his career in enterprise IT and consulting, and for the past several years, focused on wireless solutions for service providers, broadcasters, and enterprise. He holds FCC licenses, industry certifications in network switching and routing, and also holds a patent related to SD-LAN capable wireless hardware. He resides in Wisconsin.

Ryan Vela

RVP, Security Consulting Services
Fidelis Cybersecurity

Bio

15 years cybersecurity field experience

Jerry Skurla

VP Marketing Advanced Threat
Arbor Networks

Bio

With over 10 years of cybersecurity industry experience, Jerry is VP Marketing Advanced Threat at Arbor Networks, the global leader in DDoS and advance threat solution for enterprises and service providers.

Prior to Arbor Networks Jerry was VP Marketing at FireMon, a firewall policy management start-up acquired by Insight Capital in 2014. Previously he was VP Marketing for NitroSecurity, a SIEM market leader acquired by McAfee in 2011.

Before his security assignments, Jerry held increasingly responsible executive positions at Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nnrtel. He received a bachelors of science in Marketing from Penn State University

Jim Hebler & Mike Riemer

Partner Velocity Director - Great Lakes & Security Architect
Pulse Secure

Bio

Jim Hebler – Pulse Secure Evangelist, Partner Velocity Director & Information Security Thought-Provoker

Privileged to play his part in helping Pulse Secure build upon its foundation as a Secure Access market leader post-Juniper, Jim Hebler is in the midst of his second decade monitoring all things Information Security, Digital Brand acceleration and rapid transformation as it applies to Technology. Hebler's career arc began covering Business and Technology for The Detroit News and USA Today, evolved into Technology-Brand Development for Fortune 100 firms such as SunGard, HP, CSC and the myriad of industries they collectively serve – all while keeping a sharp focus on helping growth-driven organizations manage transformation and change. CISSP trained while working with key visionaries and practitioners in Government, Health Care, Education, Financial Services and Manufacturing, Jim has never lost his fascination with the dynamics of Technology, Change, Business Acceleration - all while helping integrate key data to tell valuable stories that hopefully help to inform, monitor, educate and entertain. Pulse Secure – as lead by CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna – sees Secure Access as a facilitator to work anywhere growth, success and business-personal freedom. Jim Hebler resides in Detroit with Cathy and their three-children – 12-legs, 3-tails (Dog + 2 Cats).

Mike Riemer – Cyber Security Expert, 25-Year Military Hero and Pulse Secure Ninja Architect – Over 10,000 Global Installations

As a Pulse Secure Ninja Architect, it could be argued that Mike Riemer helped invent and mature the Secure Access space. Serving for 25-years as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Security and Network Specialist, Riemer cut his teeth in the ultimate network security testing ground – namely, battlefields in Grenada, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Post-his sterling military career, Mr. Riemer took his cyber-security and network expertise into the global market place, having worked locally in greater Milwaukee for key Pulse Secure partner, Synercomm – and then joining the Secure Access teams at Neotaris, Netscreen, Juniper and now – coming full-circle, Pulse Secure. Riemer is the "expert's expert" in the Secure Access space, having quarterbacked, project managed or directly implementing over 10,000 installs and counting. Riemer has driven legacy installations that run bullet proof in global telecommunications, health care, financial services, manufacturing and the services-government space. Recently married to Christine with their blended family of boys, girls, cats and dogs – Mike forgets more about Secure Access than most experts will ever know. Balanced with Hebler's cyber-security, business and brand-acceleration background, Riemer grounds this presentation into a technical future vision that is compelling for Pulse Secure's customers, partners and end-users.

Brian Krause

Channel Manager
Centrify

Bio

Brian is an experienced channel executive specializing in building security practices, go to market strategies and security evangelist speaking to groups on identity concerns. While currently Manager of North America Channels at Centrify; he has managed strategic accounts for HP Security, been an entrepreneur and started as a security specialist in the partner community.

Buck Bundhund

Regional Sales Director
Gigamon

Bio

Buck Bundhund is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience working with organizations ranging from Small/Medium Enterprises to Fortune 500 companies in all business verticals. He works with companies to design and implement Visibility Solutions integrating CyberSecurity, Network and Application performance and virtual solutions.

Doug Copley

Deputy CISO and Security & Privacy Strategist
Forcepoint

Bio

With over 24 years' experience in IT, information security and data privacy across multiple industries, Doug Copley is a passionate advocate and evangelist for effective information security and data privacy risk management for both organizations and individuals. Doug was the co-founder and past Chairman of the Michigan Healthcare Cybersecurity Council and does his best to remain active in statewide and national cybersecurity preparedness and data sharing efforts.

Doug was a Chief Privacy Officer in Financial Services and prior to 2016 was the CISO at a regional health system in the Midwest. This past January, Doug joined Forcepoint as Deputy CISO and Security & Privacy Strategist where he not only provides oversight of internal security efforts, but also gets to stay tuned to industry threats and best practices and provides thought leadership and advice to leaders across industries. Doug can frequently be found speaking or blogging on information security, data privacy and leadership topics for everyone's benefit.

James Cabe

Sr. Strategist Global Alliances and Cloud
Fortinet

Bio

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.