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John Marshall is President and CEO at Userful, a leading provider of IT solutions for core enterprise operations and mission-critical environments serving IT organizations worldwide. He focuses on developing and implementing strategic growth initiatives for Userful; launching the company into new markets, and expansion through new technology and channel partnerships. He has more than 25 years of experience building innovative, market-leading organizations.1 Articles
John McGowan is the founder and CEO of HubSync, a SaaS company with a next-generation tax and accounting automation platform created with the goal of changing how tax professionals work and how clients interact with CPA firms. Previously, John has over 25 years of experience driving technology innovation and investment at Deloitte and KPMG, where he served as a Partner-in-Charge of Tax Technology and the Global Chief Information Officer, respectively. John holds a BSBA and a Master of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1 Articles
Joseph Campbell is Senior Manager, Cyber Security Strategy for Verinext, a company that delivers transformative business outcomes through technology and services, preparing customers for everything that comes next. A skilled security solution architect and cyber risk management expert, Campbell works to deliver the security outcomes companies need to protect their data and their brand.1 Articles
Dr. Joye Purser is the Global Field CISO at Cohesity and the 2023 ISC2 Lifetime Achievement Award winner in Cybersecurity. She previously served as CISA’s first Regional Director for Cybersecurity in Region 4, held senior roles at the White House and Pentagon shaping defense technology and supply chain security, and worked on Capitol Hill advancing science and technology legislation. With experience spanning government, consulting, and nonprofit leadership, she has guided billion-dollar programs, pandemic recovery operations, and workforce diversity initiatives. A Georgia Tech graduate and published researcher, she also serves on the Board of Cyversity and mentors emerging security professionals.1 Articles
J Stephen Kowski is an experienced global technical leader with a demonstrated history in the cybersecurity, design, engineering, information technology, and manufacturing industries. In his current role as Field CTO of SlashNext, he provides sales enablement for internal and external partners, and he represents the “Voice of the Customer” to senior leadership and product & engineering teams. Stephen has a background in Information Technology, Web Development, Engineering, Robotics, Sales, and Software Development. He is a graduate of the Stetson University College of Law, University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing, and the University of South Florida College of Engineering. When he isn’t helping companies fight threat actors, he helps run two high school K-12 education charities focused on getting kids excited about STEM career pathways through the vehicle of competitive robotics in his Central Florida community and was one of the two charities' founders 20 years ago.1 Articles
Kamal Srinivasan is the Senior Vice President of Product and Program Management at Parallels (part of Alludo). With more than two decades of experience in the field, he’s renowned for building robust enterprise technology platforms. At Alludo, Kamal plays a pivotal role, collaborating closely with the product and engineering leaders to ensure the successful execution of the company vision.1 Articles
Karla Nussbaumer is Head of Product Marketing for Yellowbrick, a leading SQL data platform for data warehousing and workload analytics. She has more than 15 years of leadership experience driving revenue growth and building high-performing teams across APIs, telecom, contact centers, and data management sectors.1 Articles
Lars Thomsen is one of the world's leading futurologists. Born in Hamburg in 1968, the trend and futurologist is considered one of the most influential experts on the future of energy, mobility and smart networks. He advises entrepreneurs, companies, institutions and government-related bodies in Europe on the development of future strategies and business models. His personal list of references now includes more than 800 companies.1 Articles
Lisa Thee is the Data and AI Managing Director at Launch Consulting, where she helps companies navigate a world of data for better, safer, and more informed decision-making. Ms. Thee is a consultant to some of the world's most innovative healthcare, and global technology companies including Microsoft and UCSF’s Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation to accelerate FDA approval for AI use in clinical settings. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Minor Guard, an Artificial Intelligence software company focused on making people safer online and in real life. She is a keynote speaker including her TEDx talk "Bringing Light To Dark Places Online: Disrupting Human Trafficking Using AI." She hosts the Navigating Forward podcast. She has been named to the 2021 Top Health and Safety, Privacy, and AI Thought Leaders and Influencers and Women in Business you should follow by Thinkers 360. She was recently named to the 2022 “Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” global list. Ms. Thee currently serves as an advisory board member for Engineered Medical Solutions, Humaxa, Spectrum Labs and Marketplace Risk. She is also a Board of Director's member for 3 Strands Global Foundation, a human trafficking prevention and reintegration focused organization. As CEO and Chairman of the Board for Minor Guard, she secured seed funding, led product development and set the sales strategy. She brings board value for ESG specifically around AI ethics and Diversity & Inclusion. Ms. Thee has 19 years of digital director experience most recently overseeing $6B in business for Intel’s data center and storage markets. Ms. Thee drove the enterprise and government playbook to grow data center market segment share (MSS) by addressing big data and AI use cases for cybersecurity, image, and text processing. Ms. Thee led engagements for big data solutions to disrupt child exploitation in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Google, and Microsoft; including ingestion, transition to hybrid cloud, and building machine learning models to accelerate the coordinated national response to child abuse reports from 30 days to 24 hours. As the founder of the project she secured $4M in funding for hardware and engineering resources for 2017. Ms. Thee holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Management Engineering, from the University of Michigan. She is also a certified Project Management Professional who was licensed by the Project Management Institute in 2005.1 Articles
Luke Watts is the Managing Director of RoundWorks IT, which are specialists in managed IT services, including, backup and disaster recovery, cyber security and more for businesses across East Midlands.1 Articles