Active Defense, Cyber Detection
Moderator:
Russ Workman, AGC Partners
Russ is a Partner in the Investment Banking Group at AGC Partners, focused on IT Security and Defense Technolo- gies . Before joining AGC, Russ began his investment banking career in the technology banking group at Jefferies & Co. and has advised on more than 50 completed strategic advisory and capital raising assignments . Before banking, Russ was a US Air Force Officer managing the acquisition of intelligence and information warfare systems for the Intelligence Community, and performed cyber vulnerability assessments of Air Force electronic systems . Russ holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of Business, an M.S. in Operation Research from Northeastern University, and a B.S. in Operations Research from the US Air Force Academy
Panelists:
Greg Enriquez, Chief Executive Officer, TrapX Security
Greg works as CEO at TrapX, a global leader in deception-based cyber security defense. Prior to TrapX, Enriquez served as Vice President, Sales at FireEye, where he led the worldwide sales team for the company’s advanced tech- nologies division. Enriquez began his career in 1981 with IBM and ascended to the rank of Vice President, Worldwide Industry Sales, Software Group, with responsibility for products to meet the market-specific needs of 15 vertical indus- try sales organizations. Among his other executive assignments, Enriquez served as Vice President of Tivoli’s Ameri- cas sales organization following the company’s acquisition by IBM. From 2004 to 2008, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations for Stratus Technologies, a fault tolerant server company. He joined Symantec in 2009, and then led worldwide sales, business development, marketing and services teams for its Norton Data Services unit. Most recently Enriquez served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales for rapidly growing Mandiant, which was acquired for a one billion dollar valuation by FireEye. George Kurtz, President, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, CrowdStrike George is the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdStrike, a leading provider of next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and services. George has more than 23 years of experience in the security space, including extensive experience driving revenue growth and scaling small and large organizations. His prior roles at McAfee, a $3 billion security company, include Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM, as well as SVP of Enterprise. Prior to joining McAfee, George started Foundstone, a worldwide security products and services company, in 1999. George earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Seton Hall University.
Ofer Israeli, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, Illusive Networks
Ofer works as the CEO of Illusive Networks. Prior to founding Illusive, Ofer was a team leader at Check Point Software Technologies, where he led the “Endpoint Security Management” and the “Cloud and Doc- ument Security Management” teams. Prior to Check Point, Ofer was a Research Assistant in the Atom Chip Lab focusing on theoretical Quantum Mechanics. Ofer holds B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Jon Ramsey, Chief Technology Officer, SecureWorks
Jon serves as the CTO at SecureWorks, where he has worked since 2000. Jon has 25 years of hands-on experience at every level: system administrator, software engineer, analyst, security penetration specialist and senior engineer. Prior to joining SecureWorks, Jon worked for the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), Siemens, and the University of Pittsburgh. Ramsay is also a Dell Fellow. Jon earned a Master's degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Christopher Ahlberg, Chief Executive Office and Founder
Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, Inc. and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He advises a series of start up companies. Earlier Ahlberg was the president of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX) for $195M. Spotfire was founded based on his ground- breaking research on information visualization . Dr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technol- ogy, worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, and has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities - as well as published & lectured in computer science, cy- bersecurity, psychology, linguistics, biology, and chemistry. He has five granted software patents, and multiple pend- ing. Dr. Ahlberg was named among the World's Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation in 2002.
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