CXO Think Tank

Accomplished Security, Risk & Compliance Manager with a proven track record of working in the information technology and services industry with expertise in information security and privacy. Strong operations leader skilled in Security, Risk & Compliance of next generation Cloud, IoT and legacy IT services. Broad client base of Fortune 100 and international government sectors. Effective leader with global and industry specific regulatory frameworks. Primary industries include: IT/ Cloud Services, Financial Services, Healthcare, Public Sector, Technology/ Telecom, Media and Entertainment.

Alex leads the strategic direction and execution of Advisor360°'s information security, risk, governance, and audit programs. Previously, he was the CISO at Commonwealth Financial Network, and have served in information security leadership roles both in the US and UK within the financial services, market research, and military sectors. Alex has a MS degree in information security leadership from Brandeis University and a BS degree in information technology with a minor in business from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His information security certifications include CISSP, CISM, and CRISC.

Brian has been driving security programs for two decades and brings a true practitioner’s approach to the industry. He creates a more realistic way to address information security and data protection issues for organizations. He has led programs for the DoD, Pentagon, Intelligence Community, Fortune 500, and many others. Brian is a renowned speaker and expert on NIST guidance, threat intelligence implementations, and strategic organizational initiatives. Brian is the contributing author for the latest book from Wiley, “Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework“. Lastly, he is a professor at Boston College, in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Master’s Program in Cybersecurity.

Dr. Mark Maybury is a C-Suite Executive and Board Member with leadership success across public and private sectors and expertise in senior management, innovation commercialization, ventures investment, cybersecurity, AI/ML, IOT, SaaS, data analytics, energy storage, new business models, startup incubation and acceleration, revenue growth, margin expansion, lean manufacturing, global supply chains, and digital marketing. Dr. Maybury is Stanley Black & Decker’s first Chief Technology Officer and Board Director and Nominations and Governance Committee Chair of the Internet Sciences Inc. He serves as a Special Government Employee for the Defense Science Board providing strategy and technology advice to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as a director for the boards of the Connecticut Science Center and Mark Twain House and Museum. He is a former board member of the Advanced Cybersecurity Center (ACSC), the Object Management Group (OMG) which oversees the Industrial Internet Consortium, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, and the Homeland Security S&T Advisory Committee. From 2010 to 2013, Dr. Maybury was Chief Scientist of the USAF serving as chief scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the USAF. He served on the Steering Committee and Senior Review Group of the AF Scientific Advisory Board. Mark spent 27 years (1990 to 2017) at The MITRE Corporation, including as VP of Intelligence Portfolios and Director of the NIST-sponsored National Cybersecurity FFRDC (NCF) supporting the National Cyber Center of Excellence (NCCoE). He also served as VP and CSO and CTO of MITRE. He is an active Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a Fed 100 awardee and the 2019 Veterans Advantage Veteran of the Year. Dr. Maybury is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 93), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 97), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), Multimedia Information Extraction (2012), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 99), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001), Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic 2004), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (Springer 2005), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000). He chaired the 2020 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Manufacturing and a frequent author and keynote speaker.

Experienced and passionate cybersecurity leader. Responsible for all facets of cyber security to Schneider Electric's enterprise IT, encompassing approximately 140,000 employees in 100 countries, including 220 factories, 35 distribution centers, and 1,200 sites

Unrivaled breadth and depth of technical skills across nearly all IT disciplines, honed over 25 years working in SaaS, healthcare, manufacturing, & financial services industries. 25+ years of hands on experience with networking (all layers), and Microsoft server/domain/AD (some Unix, Novell, VMS, AS400) 20+ years of hands-on SQL/ASP/.NET development, telco, & call center design, support, & optimization 15+ years of hands-on with VOIP, VMWare, & InfoSec (from policy writing to packet sniffing) 20+ years of management, leadership, hiring, mentoring of technical teams Information Security compliance with NIST, HIPAA, ISO 27001, DIACAP, FISMA, PCI, SOC, SAS Disaster recovery planning and testing Penetration and vulnerability testing and remediation. Router, Firewall, Switch, WAF engineering; design/build/harden/operations Load balancing implementations on Cisco Local Director, MS NLB, Cisco CSM, F5 BigIP LTM/GTM Windows Server and Active Directory design/build/operate from NT 3.51 to current VMWare ESX design/build/manage high availabilty multi-site clusters from v4 to currrent

Larry Weber is a Vice President of Product Marketing at Veracode. He is responsible for leading the overall product & industry marketing, market insights, and developer relations teams. Larry has multiple years of experience in cloud strategy, user experience and analytics. Prior to joining Veracode, he built and led the marketing team for the AWS Databases category and was responsible for thought leadership, awareness, adoption, engagement, and advocacy for AWS’s 15+ purpose-built managed database services. Larry received a Masters of Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an MBA from a UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

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.

Dave has been working in the Software Industry since 1998. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science focused on Neural Networks from the University of Alberta and has been working at Authomize since early 2021. Dave has held a variety of technical and management roles in development and sales engineering and has been in charge of the implementation, sale, delivery, and evangelism of a number of software products. Dave's current role is Director, Sales Engineering at Authomize and in that role he leads a team that delivers technical outcomes, enablement, and evangelism for the Authomize team, our partners, and our customers. Dave's spare time is spent kayaking, rock climbing, running, and reading a wide range of science fiction and fantasy novels. He has a long-suffering and extremely supportive wife and 2 kids aged 18 and 14. Dave has been living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada since 2005.

Matt Tesauro is a Distinguished Engineer at Noname Security. When not writing automation code in Go, Matt Tesauro is pushing for DevSecOps everywhere by contributing to open source projects, presenting, training and continuing to co-opt new technologies. Prior to joining Noname, he rolled out AppSec automation at a major financial institution and founded 10Security. Other experience includes the Director of Community and Operations at the OWASP Foundation, Senior AppSec Engineer building an AppSec Pipeline and continuous security program for Duo Security, a Senior Software Security Engineer at Pearson and the Senior Product Security Engineer at Rackspace. He is also an Adjunct Professor for the University of Texas Computer Science department teaching the next generation of CS students about Application Security. Matt is a broadly experienced information security professional of 20+ years specializing in application and cloud security. He has also presented and provided training at various international industry events including DHS Software Assurance Workshop, OpenStack Summit, SANS AppSec Summit, AppSec US, EU and LATAM. His work has included security consulting, penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, training and teaching at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University. He is a lead for OWASP AppSec Pipeline & DefectDojo projects. The AppSec Pipeline project brings lessons from DevOps and Agile into Application Security while DefectDojo is an application that is the source of truth for DevSecOps activities and ingests output from 100 different security tools. He holds two degrees from Texas A&M University and several security and Linux certifications.

Ganesh Pai is the Founder & CEO of Uptycs. Ganesh is a Boston-based entrepreneur and technologist who has been awarded multiple U.S. patents. Ganesh is a Featured Speaker at the CXO Think Tank in Boston, MA and will be discussing “Security Controls: Measuring Efficacy for Business Growth” in partnership with

Blake leads the Infrastructure Security team at Cloudflare; collaborating with systems and hardware teams on a global, multi-faceted approach to preventing and detecting cyber security threats. He specializes in building cyber security engineering organizations that focus on delivering reliable and mature solutions for customers within and without. Previously, Blake built and led SRE teams responsible for security services and enterprise SaaS products. In between meetings, Blake can normally be found herding several cats and dogs around his home in Austin.

Alon Levin is the VP of Product Management at Seraphic, the enterprise browser security solution. With a successful track record of over 15 years in the cyber security industry, Alon specializes in building and supporting the growth of new, innovative products in the areas of Product Management, Presales and Customer Success. Prior to joining Seraphic, he fulfilled numerous leadership positions such as VP Product Management at Infinipoint, and earlier in VDOO, and as a Consulting Engineer and Director of Sales Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, Cyvera and Wave. Alon holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

Shirish has a dozen plus years of technology experience currently CTO at Zen Labs and previously with State Street. He has a passion for decomposing particularly challenging problems into solvable units. He has pioneered the design and development of cloud-based strategies. His strengths include bringing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics to experienced data scientists while also enabling “citizen" data scientists by providing them with simple and accessible ways to leverage cutting edge technologies.

Brian has been driving security programs for two decades and brings a true practitioner’s approach to the industry. He creates a more realistic way to address information security and data protection issues for organizations. He has led programs for the DoD, Pentagon, Intelligence Community, Fortune 500, and many others. Brian is a renowned speaker and expert on NIST guidance, threat intelligence implementations, and strategic organizational initiatives. Brian is the contributing author for the latest book from Wiley, “Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework“. Lastly, he is a professor at Boston College, in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Master’s Program in Cybersecurity.

Shirish has a dozen plus years of technology experience currently at Staples and also CTO at Zen Labs and previously with State Street. He has a passion for decomposing particularly challenging problems into solvable units. He has pioneered the design and development of cloud-based strategies. His strengths include bringing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics to experienced data scientists while also enabling “citizen" data scientists by providing them with simple and accessible ways to leverage cutting edge technologies.