Healthcare Dinner

Yotam Segev is the co-founder and CEO of Cyera, the leader in Cloud Data Security. Yotam is a cyber security expert with 15 years of experience in offensive cyber security and security architecture. Yotam is an alumni of Israel’s prestigious Talpiot program, where he met Tamar Bar-Ilan, Cyera’s co-founder and CTO. Together they served in cyber security leadership roles for over a decade in unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Force’s signals intelligence service. At the agency, they experienced firsthand the tremendous challenge of securing data in the cloud and founded Cyera to solve this problem. Cyera has raised over $60M in its first year of operations and is backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia, Accel and Cyberstarts. Cyera’s mission is to enable organizations to unlock the true value of their data while keeping it secure.

Anthony has 20+ years of balancing strategic initiatives and financial discipline to drive change management and optimize performance of for profit and non profit public health systems in New York, Chicago and New Jersey. He is a Turnaround Specialist who restored three large teaching hospitals to regulatory compliance in record time through use of best practices and industry standards and has been repeatedly tapped to solve organizations’ most complex challenges. As a FEMA-trained Emergency Preparedness Expert he has successfully led hospitals through three weather-related events in three years. Operating the facilities with minimal staff and no adverse patient events.

Mr. Swope brings over 20 years of experience in IT Project Management, BI Solutions Development, IT Security, IT Controls (CoBIT, SOX 404/MAR, etc) IT Risk Management, and HealthCare Compliance, to both the public and private sectors. His focus is on identifying gaps relating to key IT security processes and the implementation of IS Security and Risk Management programs to Health Care, Pharmaceutical and various commercial clients. Has a proven track record of delivering the following: • Interpreting and applying 21 CFR Part 11, GLP, GMP, GCP, and QSR regulations • MDM and Data Governance • Identity Access Management • HIPAA Risk Assessments and GAP analysis • Information Assurance Program Management - SCRUM, AGILE, SDLC, Six Sigma • Implemented large security, risk and compliance initiatives of SOX-404 IT, HIPAA/HITECH, including security policies, procedures and controls. • "Big Data", Data Management and Health Care Data Analytics • Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Compliance Reviews • Implemented the security standards - 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164 Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule He has supported these Information Assurance and IS Security initiatives for organizations that include: Excellus BCBS, Medimmune/Astra Zeneca, ENDO Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, Daiichi-Sankyo Solutions, Catalent Pharma Solutions, Johnson and Johnson, District of Columbia Government office of the Chief Financial Officer, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, City of Richmond, Virginia Department of Public Utilities, Virginia State Department of Health, and the Kentucky Department of Health Services, as well as the U.S. Department of Labor.