CIO & CISO Think Tank

Innovative thought leader and influential IT executive with over 20 years experience in the SMB, Midsize and Enterprise markets. Extremely effective communicator, delivering CIO/CTO level leadership, with the ability to build and manage high functioning teams. Excellent relationships manager, with a keen instinct for leveraging technology to generate revenue and new lines of business. Product and project manager, with an impeccable track record of successful deployments across multiple business types. Wide breadth of experience and skill in software and hardware solutions; capable and consistent in delivering the solutions that fit needs and future growth. Strategic planner with a clear understanding of the cloud, managing the digital transformation of data and traditional infrastructure transitions to IaaS, SaaS and PaaS solutions.

Mani is currently serving as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He oversees the Bank’s risk management, compliance, model risk, market risk, member and counterparty credit, and related governance frameworks. He has over 20 years of experience in risk management, internal audit, banking, capital markets, and technology. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Massoomi was the head of operational and enterprise risk at SoFi in San Francisco. Prior to his tenure at SoFi, he was the audit executive for the domestic and international asset management and enterprise risk management functions at TIAA. His experience also includes positions at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, Millennium Management Hedge Fund, General Motors, and Morgan Stanley. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Financial Services Auditor, and Certified Investment and Derivatives Auditor, and holds a Certification in Risk Management Assurance. He received his B.S. from Tufts University and has completed post-graduate work at the Wharton School and Cornell University.

Manjeet Singh loves two things: AI and Fitness. By day, he is Senior Director of Product Management for Agentforce AI, building next generation AI platforms. He has previously led product teams at ServiceNow and high growth startups. Beyond tech, he is a fitness coach and a long-term practitioner of health and fitness. He runs a nonprofit community, Agile Fitness, with over 300,000 members. He writes and speaks about AI and fitness, believing the best systems, human or artificial, are built to improve continuously.

• Accomplished Technology executive with over 20 years experience leading portfolio / program / release / project management operations in both high-growth startups and large enterprise software companies with documented success in critical roles. • Built a business value driven, high performing, cross-functional PMO with geographically distributed PMO/TPM teams. • Specializes in driving business value by aligning all levels of leadership and cross-functional teams through the implementation of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) based framework and tools. • Recognized for improving customer satisfaction by standardizing processes, procedures and removing inefficiencies to eliminate downtime. • Increased productivity by fundamentally re-architected how Product Development teams and people align and collaborate at all levels. • Experienced public speaker, reporting to C-level executives with solid strategy and presentation skills. • FDIC and OCC presence and presentations for National Bank Charter for Technology.

Ramnath is responsible for driving Fortinet's SASE business for SD-WAN, SSPM and SASE. He has a long experience of over 9 years in the SD-WAN space and was very close to SASE product planning at a competitor. He started his career in engineering as a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, moved to Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) and now to Products. Because of his engineering background, he is also comfortable talking technical details. He is passionate about technology and always jokes that “SD-WAN runs in his blood!”. He did his Masters in Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder, but after graduating he moved to California and has made Silicon Valley his home for the past 14 years.

Stephen Chen is an entrepreneurial technologist with a demonstrated track record of developing innovative solutions that strategically align business objectives with cutting-edge technology. His expertise spans a range of domains, including data science, software engineering, cybersecurity, and digital marketing. With a rich background encompassing defense, commercial, and nonprofit sectors, Stephen brings a diverse skill set and operational excellence to the table. His unique blend of experience instills the discipline of large organizations into startups while reintroducing the agility of startups to larger enterprises. In addition to his corporate endeavors, Stephen has garnered significant exposure in board and advisory roles, particularly in the nonprofit and educational sectors. He has served as a board member and currently holds an advisory position for Here To Serve, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting families facing childhood cancer. Stephen maintains an active involvement in local schools, exemplified by his advisory council for the cyber security program at California State University, Chico.

Sanny Liao is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Fable Security. She was previously the Head of Data Science at Abnormal Security, building its core detection platform, and the first Data Science hire at TellApart, shaping its bidding algorithms and scaling it to $100M+ ARR. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Gopal Bhat is an award-winning technology leader with experience in leading four startups through product and technology build, with successful exits through IPO and unicorn acquisition exits. Gopal’s recent success was building a Marketplace for Sports Card collectibles and leading it through successful acquisition by Fanatics. Gopal’s prior success involves starting a Gartner recognized technology transformation methodology and selling that to IBM, CTO at startups, and CIO at Rakuten. Prior to Rakuten, Gopal held similar leadership roles at Ebates (acquired by Rakuten) and AVG (IPO exit) – an antivirus company where he helped start-up level companies grow their technology teams and evolve application platforms to scale for hundreds of millions of customers. He held senior technology architecture leadership roles at Electronic Arts and Ebay in the past and holds MBA from San Jose State University.

Gopal Bhat is an award-winning technology leader with experience in leading four startups through product and technology build, with successful exits through IPO and unicorn acquisition exits. Gopal’s recent success was building a Marketplace for Sports Card collectibles and leading it through successful acquisition by Fanatics. Gopal’s prior success involves starting a Gartner recognized technology transformation methodology and selling that to IBM, CTO at startups, and CIO at Rakuten. Prior to Rakuten, Gopal held similar leadership roles at Ebates (acquired by Rakuten) and AVG (IPO exit) – an antivirus company where he helped start-up level companies grow their technology teams and evolve application platforms to scale for hundreds of millions of customers. He held senior technology architecture leadership roles at Electronic Arts and Ebay in the past and holds MBA from San Jose State University.