Executive Dinner

Tolgay Kizilelma is a business-driven IT leader with three decades of experience. He currently serves as the Director of the MS in Cybersecurity Program at Dominican University of California, Barowsky School of Business where he also teaches as an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity. As an adjunct faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California, he has been teaching various data analytics courses as part of the MSBA and Professional MBA graduate programs since 2017. As an advocate of lifelong learning, Tolgay has many industry certifications, a B.S. degree in computer engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. focusing on information security. He also volunteers for various non-profit organizations as a board member, and frequently participates at cybersecurity conferences as a speaker and a panelist. His contribution to the cybersecurity community was recognized with the 2022 C100 Award – Top 100 CISOs by CISOs Connect.

SHADAAB KANWAL serves as MD Digital, Data, and Analytics at Charles Schwab, executing digital technology, data, AI, and advanced analytics strategies. NYSE:SCHW is a global investment and wealth management firm with >$8.5T(AUM) in client assets, 33M+ brokerage accounts, and a full range of banking and financial advisory services. As a transformational, strategically adaptable, and value driven leader. ★ Adept at creating vision to value, linking strategy to execution, and agile change management. ★ Executed >$300M+ mega programs of technology-led, business agility, and hyper-automation, with global teams of >300+ for Kaiser Permanente, UCLA Health, OhioHealth, MAYO Clinic, and UnitedHealth Group. ★ Passionate about team empowerment and carving innovative business capabilities, with customer360 design thinking, analytics engineering, and knowledge management.

Mr. Zalewski currently provides CISO, security consulting and security advisory services. These include: • International cybersecurity advisor and trainer. • Executive advisory board member for security startups, providing guidance on security market direction and product requirements. • CISO advisory board member for venture capital firms internationally. • vCISO for companies requiring temporary or part-time CISO expertise. Services also include guidance and solutions to address incident response, security program design, security assessment, security due-diligence, vendor/supplier due-diligence, security architecture review, board reporting and other key security leadership requirements. Operational experience in Healthcare, Utilities and International Retail verticals. Key Strengths: •Organizational Management •Strategic Planning & Execution •Enterprise Security Architecture/Strategy •Executive and BOD Security Governance/Reporting •Cybersecurity Incident Response •Security Risk & Compliance Management Additionally, I co-hosts the CISOSeries Defense-in-Depth Podcasts and am a frequent speaker and panel moderator at industry events.