Michael O'Brien

Vice President, Worldwide Channel Sales
Silver Peak Systems

Bio

Michael O'Brien is the vice president of worldwide channel sales leading the Silver Peak global channel strategy and program with a primary focus on fully enabling partners and accelerating market expansion. Michael joins Silver Peak from Aerohive where he served as the vice president of global channels and architected a managed service program to enable partners to offer unique services to customers. Prior to Aerohive, Michael served as executive director of global channels and alliances at Dell where he focused on maximizing partner opportunity and satisfaction. Michael joined Dell in 2011 through the Force 10 acquisition, where he served as vice president of channels and alliances. Prior to that, he served in various channel leadership roles at AMD and Sun Microsystems where he led channel transformation initiatives to tightly align partner enablement to changing market dynamics and customer requirements.

John Dasher

Vice President of Product Marketing
RiskSense

Bio

An industry veteran, John Dasher brings extensive technology marketing and product development experience to the table, with over a decade of experience in enterprise and consumer cybersecurity, mobile, and IoT. Currently serving as the Vice President of Product Marketing at RiskSense, John previously was Enlighted's vice president of Products for Retail, Industrial and Manufacturing. Prior to Enlighted, he built and led teams at groundbreaking cybersecurity companies including security analytics firm Niara (VP Marketing), Good Technology (VP Product Marketing), AppCentral (VP Products and Marketing), McAfee/Intel (Sr. Director for Data Protection & Mobility) and encryption pioneer PGP (Dir. Product Marketing / Management). Earlier he held senior positions at Chemdex/Ventro, Xerox, and co-founded Verano, an enterprise content management startup. He also spent 11 incredible years at Apple, playing key roles in the development of numerous award-winning PowerBook, Internet, Imaging, and Input Device products.

Dr. Bill Mitchell, Todd McLees

Foxconn VP - Business Operations, Strategic Partner to Foxconn
Foxconn

Bio

Dr. Bill Mitchell is the VP of Business Operations for FoxConn and CEO of Aguila, a FoxConn Company. He is known for his success in helping develop organizations with value-based cultures. Over the past 25 years, Bill has worked with more than 500 corporations and organizations, helping develop best of breed practices to provide long-term success. He has served as the executive coach and corporate psychologist to many of today's leading corporations. He provides unique insights in the development of policy, process and people that serve as a catalyst for systematic sustainable growth.

Over 30 years of professional public speaking, Bill has motivated audiences in 47 states and 5 continents. He has designed and presented training in the areas of teamwork, ethics and leadership, communication, corporate culture and many more. His unique conversational style and subtle humor allow him to instruct, inspire and impact audiences from all walks of life.

Pendio Group is a a managememnt consulting firm in Milwaukee. Todd's team builds frameworks to help organizations throughout the region implement strategies to scale faster. Todd is a strategic consultant to key members of Foxconn's business unit responsible for manufacturing, production and distribution of their solutions. Pendio built the frameworks for the Supplier Readiness Program being used by Foxconn to identify high-performing suppliers in the region, enabling them to build the infrastructure of partners they need in Wisconsin. His team also built the frameworks for choosing ideal partners for joint solution development and Industry 4.0 initiatives. Todd is helping Foxconn build their ecosystem throughout our region with a particular emphasis on Smart Factory and Smart Office solutions.

Todd is an active member of the steering committee for HERA, the Higher Education Regional Alliance in Wisconsin. He volunteers his time applying lessons learned to the rapid growth that is possible for our economic region.

Karl Gouverneur

Vice President Digital Workplace, Corporate Solutions and Head of Digital Innovation
Northwestern Mutual

Bio

Karl Gouverneur (pronounced "Governor") is vice president digital workplace, corporate solutions and head of digital innovation for Northwestern Mutual. In this role, Gouverneur leads a team focused on NM's digital workplace and our corporate systems including finance, human resources, investments, compliance and others.

Gouverneur focuses on providing a digital core to enable efficiency and flexibility that enriches the experience of the company's employees including an award- winning digital innovation program. He partners with business areas across the enterprise to integrate digital solutions with the company's business strategies and objectives.

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 CIO Research Board and the ALPFA National Corporate Advisory Board. In the Milwaukee community, Gouverneur serves as the head of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute and is a member of the Discovery World Board. He is also a board member of Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Cream City Venture Capital Investment Committees, and an advisor to the Northwestern Mutual Hispanic Employee Resource Group.

Tom McKenzie

Cloud Security Specialist
Barracuda Networks

Bio

Tom McKenzie is a Cloud Security Specialist at Barracuda Networks. In his role he specializes in security products which are fully deployed in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Tom has specialized in the public cloud business for over 4 years, and has been with Barracuda for over 8 years. His entire career has been in software business since graduating from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Science.

Darren Mehl

Principal Sales Engineer, CISSP, AWS CSAA
Forcepoint

Bio

Darren Mehl is a Principal Sales Engineer specializing in Cloud Access Security Broker for Forcepoint. In this role Darren consults with clients to help them protect their data in the cloud and provide user activity visibility. Darren has close to 20 years of IT and security experience in a variety of industries including the federal government, financial services and cyber security companies. This include a diverse background in Information Security, Enterprise and Security Architecture and Security Engineering. In the security discipline he holds a certified CISSP and AWS CSAA. He lives in Lincoln, NE, where is enjoys spending time with his family, travelling, live music, fishing and time with neighbors.

Gregg Kalman

AVP Sales North Central
Attivo Networks

Bio

Gregg Kalman has been a consultative sales professional in the IT networking and security industry for over 25 years. He's held various sales and sales leadership roles at various companies: Cisco, Avaya, Network General, Motorola, Halock Security Labs, Aerohive and currently at Attivo Networks. For the last two years, Gregg has been helping enterprise security organizations understand the role of deception technology to improve in-network threat detection and incident response.

Eddie Doyle

Head of New Customer Engagement
Check Point

Bio

From English language teacher to cyber-security business executive, Eddie Doyle has the unique ability to articulate in non-technical language, the risks associated by avoiding internet security best practices.

With a particular interest in educating people to become human firewalls in the combat against social engineering, Eddie realizes that hackers exploit the DNA of trust within us, often as their first line of attack & he teaches people how to identify & resist the conn man, while not interrupting business as usual.

With a focus on cyber-crime & cyber-terrorism, Eddie's keynotes help individuals & corporations alike, to stay ahead of the newest threats. Protecting people online and in life has been Eddie's passion for over twenty years and he defines his success by his zealous love of education and training and his commitment to building rich, meaningful and key relationships.

Troy Dixler

Territory Manager
Intsights

Bio

As the Territory Manager for IntSights, Troy brings more than 25 years of security experience to focused on a wide-ranging background threat intelligence, vulnerability management, virtual private networking among many other areas. Prior to Intsights, Troy has held a variety of sales and marketing leadership positions in both startup and established companies such as Tenable Networks, Pulse Secure, Ciena, Motorola, Allegro Networks, Alcatel, and Packet Engines. Troy has spoken at many industry events as well as published contributed articles in the area of cyber security around current challenges facing the industry.

Scott Taschler

Director of Product Marketing
CrowdStrike

Bio

Scott is a 20+ year veteran of the cyber security industry, with a strong focus on optimizing workflows in the security operations center. In his current role as Director of Product Marketing for CrowdStrike, Scott works with organizations all around the globe to understand the biggest barriers to productivity, and to drive thought leadership on optimizing incident response and threat hunting. Prior to CrowdStrike, Scott spent 14 years as a technical leader for McAfee, gaining deep expertise in SIEM, incident response, threat intelligence, and other building blocks to a successful SOC. Scott is based in Minneapolis, MN.

Derick Winkworth

Product Marketing Engineer
Juniper Networks

Bio

Derick Winkworth has been working in the tech industry for 22 years as a software engineer, network engineer, network architect, product manager, and technical marketer. He is enjoying his current position at Juniper Networks on the Enterprise Cloud Transformation team developing new ways to help the network engineering community adopt network automation tools and technology.

David Anteliz

Senior Sales Manager
Skybox Security

Bio

David Anteliz has more than 25 years' experience in IT and network security. He currently serves as the senior sales engineer for Skybox Security in the Ohio Valley region of the north-central United States. Prior to Skybox, Anteliz held director and manager positions within the IT security and service provider space, including lead implementation roles in large-scale and global rollouts for securing networks across multiple verticals and solutions.

Dan Wolff

Director of Endpoint Product Marketing
Bitdefender

Bio

Dan Wolff is Bitdefender's Director of Endpoint Product Marketing, responsible for global enterprise go-to-market for Bitdefender's leading endpoint detection, response and protection solutions. Previously, he was Director of Cloud Security Product Management in IBM's Security Division, driving new cloud security offerings from concept to launch across IBM. Previously, Dan was McAfee's Director of Products for Endpoint Security, responsible for enterprise endpoint security products. He is a recognized security expert with over 18 years of security engineering, marketing and management experience.

Christopher Kudulis

Systems Engineer
Forescout

Bio

Christopher Kudulis is a tenured IT professional, with over 20 years of industry experience. His career has included in-house IT, consulting, and vendor positions, including work across OS, wired- and wireless-networking, and security policy, risk assessment, and remediation.

Chris currently works in the fast-paced arena of IT//OT security.