Speakers

Robb is the Chief Trust Officer for Red Canary, where he is responsible for ensuring the company maintains the trust of its customers and employees. Robb is directly responsible for security, IT, privacy and enterprise risk.
Previously, Robb served as CISO for Ping Identity for 5+ years, leading security, privacy and compliance. Prior to that, Robb led security for a number of software and financial companies, including Pulte Financial Services, D+H, Aurora Bank FSB, among others. In addition Robb is an active member of the Colorado security community. In early 2017 he co-founded the Colorado = Security community and podcast (check it out at www.colorado-security.com).

Jim Gogolinski serves as Vice President of Research and Intelligence at iboss. Jim brings many years of research and threat intelligence experience and has an extensive background in software and tool development in both the security and networking fields. Jim has led threat intelligence and research teams at prior positions including Deloitte and Fidelis Cybersecurity. He has also been responsible for nations state threat actor tracking and vulnerability research at Trend Micro. In addition, Jim has also worked in critical infrastructure working with the Idaho National Labs as well as being a lead intel and malware analyst on DHS’s ICS-CERT team.

Marc Thompson became a managing partner of ITPG in December 2001. In this role, Marc managed multiple cyber security associations, including (ISC)2 which delivered the very popular CISSP review courses and SCIPP International – focusing on creating and developing a workforce to help combat cyber threats. In 2007, Marc was appointed President of SCIPP International, a leading International Security Awareness Certification organization which works with career development within the DOD community and NIST related compliance initiatives. In 2018, Marc was appointed as the Executive Director at ISSA international.

Marc has spent the last 20 years as a senior executive, working for associations that specialize in training and career development. From 1999-2012, he focused exclusively in the Information Security field, attempting to meet the overwhelming demand for training and certifying the InfoSec professional. Since 2013, Marc has expanded into all areas of credentialing and association growth – helping numerous associations grow their membership through education and certification.

Eric has been in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years and is currently at TikTok focussed on Endpoint Security. Prior to TikTok, Eric was the Global Head of Mobile and Mac Security for HSBC.

Previously Eric served as Security Strategist for CyberAdapt after its acquisition of the startup Mobile Active Defense he helped co-found. He also simultaneously was the program director for SC Magazine, the industry’s leading cybersecurity magazine from 2009 -2019.

Eric had the privilege of being an SME for the NSA’s National Information Assurance Partnership in developing the requirements for the mobile device management protection profile used to create a Common Criteria for mobile device management. He was also part of the team tasked with the creation of a mobile security management certification for CompTIA.

Past experience includes running a technology book division publishing 12 books with a wide variety of industry luminaries, primarily in security.

A China cyber strategy research advisor to KPMG, MacDonnell Ulsch is a widely respected commentator, lecturer, author and analyst, advising the US government legislative branch and the private sector on the China threat. He has been at the forefront of many of the world’s major domestic and international national security and corporate data breaches—the ones you never hear about! The ones involving transnational organized criminal groups hijacking a CEO’s web identity to threatening a public company with blackmail—and exposing its top clients to pornographic web sites. A former global cyber threat advisor to the Central Intelligence Agency operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he is the author of two books, THREAT! Managing Risk in a Hostile World and CYBER THREAT! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks.
Don is the founder of The China 863 Analyst, a research initiative specializing in how China is transforming itself and the developing world through advanced technology transfer—through cyber espionage, merger and acquisition, equity investment, international joint market and research ventures.
He is a commentator and analyst on the syndicated talk radio program Homeland Security Off the Record and a contributing editor at the national security website Inteliscopx.com. Don is a Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement, a Cybersecurity Research Fellow at Boston College, and a Guest Lecturer on Cyber Warfare at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
He proudly served on the United States Treasury Critical Infrastructure Task Force and the United States Secrecy Commission. Don was a Senior Managing Director of Cybercrime at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a Vice President of Information Security and Chief Analyst at Dun & Bradstreet/Dataquest. He also was a national security source the the novelist Dan Brown for his book, Digital Fortress.