Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2022

Bjarke Alling

National Danish Cybersecurity Council

Group Director of Liga, Member of the National Danish Cybersecurity Council and Chair of the IT Security Committee at The Danish IT Industry Association. Years of experience with Enterprise IT...

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Warwick Ashford

KuppingerCole

Warwick Ashford is a Senior Analyst who researches cybersecurity and identity-related topics, including emerging technologies and trends. He has been writing IT news and analysis as a journalist...

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Maik Aussendorf

German Bundestag

After studying mathematics and computer science in Münster and writing his diploma thesis on Artificial Neural Networks (AI), Mr. Außendorf worked from 1999 in the Rhineland as a...

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Oran Aviezer

Axonius

Oran currently works as a Sales Engineer for Axonius. With over 15 years of pre and post sales activities from cyber security start-ups such as SafeBreach, Empow Cyber Security, and Tufin.

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Nadav Avital

Imperva

As a manager in Imperva’s threat research group and an expert in Web Application Security, I lead efforts to capture and analyze hacking activities, create new security solutions and research new...

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Avidor Bartov

Axonius

Avidor is the Co-Founder & Chief Architect of Axonius.Avidor is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert. Starting at the age of 13, Avidor became a staple in the Israeli cybersecurity...

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Boris Beuster

E.ON SE

Boris studied economics with a wholesale/resale focus and gained experience as project manager for process optimisation and IT. Since 2011 he has been working on cyber security topics and made it...

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Zane Bond

Keeper Security

Zane Bond is the Director of Product Management at Keeper Security. In his role, Zane is responsible for driving product strategy while building the product roadmap for Keeper’ portfolio. Zane has...

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Kai Boschert

KuppingerCole

Kai Boschert joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG as Advisor in September 2021. Background & Education: Kai is holding a master’s degree in management and technology with focus on...

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Dr. Robert Brcina

Mercedes-Benz AG

Robert is working in the area of Global Cyber Security focussing on Digital Identity within Mercedes-Benz Group AG. He is leading the IAM Governance for the zero trust initiative and constantly...

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Fabrizio di Carlo

Fabrizio is the former Head of Product and Infrastructure Security for Scoutbee, prior that he spent 6+ years in the Financial Services Industry where he designed and secured systems for some of...

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David Chaum

xx network, Elixxir.io

David founded xx network, a lead blockchain platform supporting secure, private decentralized messaging and payments. Designed to address public concern for user privacy and the threat of quantum...

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Lester Chng

Bank of Montreal

Lester Chng is a cybersecurity practitioner and his work focuses on running cybersecurity and crisis exercises. He currently runs an exercise program for a large North American Financial...

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Aaron Chu

Atos

Aaron is working with Atos customers in finance, media and manufacturing industries, defining technology strategies and implementing solutions that transform operating environments to meet the...

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Severin Collins

D3 Security

Severin Collins is passionate about cybersecurity and loves what he does. His experience includes enterprise security management/monitoring, technical pre-sales, risk assessment and analysis,...

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Pascal Cronauer

ShardSecure

Pascal has worked in the cybersecurity industry for over 16 years, both technical & commercial roles with numerous years focusing on security operations in particular SIEM. Pascal has developed...

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Rainer Enders

Keeper Security, Inc.

Rainer Enders holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University and has over 30 years of experience in the data and storage networking and security industry. His...

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Carsten Fischer

Deutsche Bank

Carsten is the Deputy Group Chief Security Officer and runs the Office of the CSO. In addition he is the regional Lead for Technology, Data and Innovation (TDI) for Germany. For the majority of...

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Frank Fischer

Deutsche Bahn

Frank is the CISO and global head of Information Security at Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) with more than 300000 employees. He is also program manager of the CyberSecurity@DB transformation...

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Enrico Frumento

Cefriel

Dr. Enrico Frumento is a Cybersecurity Senior Domain Specialist in the cybersecurity team at Cefriel a European and privately funded research and innovation project on ICT Security. He is the...

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Jean-Christophe Gaillard

Corix Partners

Jean-Christophe Gaillard is the Founder and Managing Director of Corix Partners He is a senior executive and a team builder with over 25 years of experience developed in several global financial...

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Jean-Noël de Galzain

WALLIX

Jean-Noël de Galzain is the founder and CEO of WALLIX, the European cybersecurity leader in Privileged Access Management, and an active contributor towards the creation of a sustainable and...

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Arnd Gille

Palo Alto Networks

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Noam Green

Cyolo

Noam Green is VP of Product at Cyolo. He joined the company after holding multiple executive product positions in a variety of cybersecurity companies, including Forescout Technologies and...

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Guido Grillenmeier

Semperis

Guido Grillenmeier is the Principal Technologist of Semperis in EMEA. Based in Germany, Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for 12 years. He spent 20+ years at HP/HPE as Chief...

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Christoph Hagenbuch

E.ON

Christoph is working as governance, risk & compliance manager in the cyber security unit of E.ON. His main responsibility is to ensure the compliance within the digital supply chain and...

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Roger Halbheer

Microsoft

Roger Halbheer is Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft covering Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands. In this role, he acts as a trusted advisor to C-level executives in the...

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Jennifer Hanley-Giersch

Berlin Risk Advisors GmbH

Jennifer is a co-founder and managing partner of Berlin Risk and ALL AML, and Advisor to Blackdot Solutions. She has been working in investigations and anti-financial crime for twenty two years and...

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Steffen Hellwig

Lacework

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Dr. Ing. Sibylle Hick

Deutsche Börse

Starting 2022 she joined Deutsche Börse AG as the Head of Section Cyber Protection . 2011 Sibylle worked at German Bank as technical expert to design and develop a Data Leakage Protection...

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Dr. Marc Hofmann

Nordea

Marc is the Nordea’s Group Chief Security Officer and is responsible for providing oversight on information security, cyber and physical security. He relocated to Copenhagen from London in...

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Kashif Husain

Nomura

In 2019 Kashif Husain joined the Frankfurt office of Nomura, a Japan headquartered financial services group present in over 30 countries. In addition to his role as Information Security...

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Hernan Huwyler

IE Business School - Milestone Systems

Prof Hernan Huwyler, MBA CPA is a governance, risk, and compliance director at multinational companies in consulting oil and gas, and financial services. He currently serves Academic Director at...

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Julian Iavarone

Imperva

Julian Iavarone has been Senior Sales Engineer for the DACH region at Imperva since May 2018 and has developed a strong expertise in Advanced Bot Protection and API Security over the last 15+...

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Ksenia Iliuk

Detector Media, Ukraine

Ksenia Iliuk is Head of Research at Detector Media, Ukraine. She specialises in leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to identify and expose hostile information influence, in particular...

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Max Kaiser

Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Max is a Senior Manager in Cyber & Strategic Risk and an expert in Cyber and Business Resilience. His focus is on cross-industry consulting on cyber business continuity management (BCM), IT...

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Serge Van Kampen

SD Worx

Seasoned middleware and Security leader with 20+ years of experience in the field. As the Product Owner for Middleware and Hosting Solutions at SD Worx, Serge is...

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Saz Kanthasamy

International Association of Privacy Professionals

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Andrzej Kawalec

Vodafone Business

Andrzej Kawalec is the Head of Security Portfolio at Vodafone Business. Andrzej manages Vodafone Business’ global portfolio of security offerings. An inspirational and creative leader in the...

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Berthold Kerl

KuppingerCole

Berthold Kerl, born 1960, studied economics at the University of Nürnberg and performs as CEO of KuppingerCole since 1st July 2020. Before that he had been with Deutsche Bank AG for 17 years....

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Guido Kraft

WALLIX GmbH

Guido Kraft is Strategic Consultant at WALLIX. He has been working in the field of technical and organizational security for companies for more than 20 years. After a decade with a technical focus...

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Christoph Kumpa

Axonius

Christoph Kumpa is Regional Director at Axonius. His previous roles include Sales and Consulting responsibilities at HP, Computacenter, and Dimension Data. Kumpa is an Information Security and Data...

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Martin Kuppinger

KuppingerCole

Martin Kuppinger is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to...

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Benny Lakunishok

Zero Networks

Benny Lakunishok is co-founder and CEO of Zero Networks. He has been in cybersecurity for more than a decade. He was part of the leadership team of Aorato, which was a disruptive detection...

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Yaron Lavi

AxoniusX

Yaron Lavi is Director of Development at AxoniusX and a Cybersecurity researcher and Senior Developer himself since many years.Yaron has been an officer in Israel’s IDF intelligence, and managed...

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Alejandro Leal

KuppingerCole

Alejandro joined KuppingerCole as a Research Analyst in December 2021. His main areas of expertise include digital transformation in the public and private sector, managing business in...

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Manuel Garat Loureiro

Booking.com

After being a software developer for 10 years, Manuel realised that his focus on value delivery, product vision and strategic significance was pulling him towards a new and exciting role. As an IAM...

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Sven Lurz

Cyber Samurai GmbH

Sven Lurz has been active in IT for almost 20 years. His focus is on security awareness, deep web monitoring and access rights management. As a passionate evangelist, the human factor within a...

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Dr. Barbara Mandl

FOSTER FORE

Dr. Barbara Mandl is a FOSTER FORE Advisor with a focus on topics related to the CISO role in large enterprises. Her previous role was Group CISO at Daimler until May 2017; She was also...

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Connie McIntosh

Ericsson

Named top 100 women in Cybersecurity worldwide by Cyber Defense Magazine. An International speaker, presenter, CTF judge and mentor in cybersecurity. Connie is a Product Security Leader in Ericsson...

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Bryan Meister

Yahoo

Bryan Meister has been with Yahoo since 2011 holding multiple roles throughout the CIO organization including Service Desk Analyst, Technical Program Manager, Business Systems Analyst, and...

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Hila Meller

BT Security

Hila has more than 20 years of experience in the security world. During her career, she’s worked with some of the world’s best known brands and international organisations to protect...

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Daniel Mesfin

Allianz SE

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Thomas Müller-Lynch

Siemens

Thomas joined Siemens 24 years ago. During this time, he took over various IT positions covering web, document management and during the last 10 years IT infrastructure technologies. Now as...

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Raghu Nandakumara

Illumio

Raghu Nandakumara is a Senior Director Solution Marketing, at Illumio based in London, UK, where he is responsible for helping customers and prospects through their segmentation journeys....

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Ralph Noll

Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Ralph is a Partner at Deloitte Cyber and the main point of contact for Cyber Resilience & Response issues, including cyber incident response, cyber forensics and cyber wargaming. Ralph has more...

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Jerry Onesti

E.ON

In 2015, after returning from living abroad, Jerry pursued a career in infosec by gaining a vocational degree as an IT security technician.He then joined E.ON in 2020 as a Security Analyst in the...

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Filipi Pires

Saporo

I’ve been working as Security and Threat Researcher at Saporo, and Cybersecurity Advocate at senhasegura, Snyk Ambassador, Application Security Specialist, Hacking is NOT a crime Advocate and...

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Denny Prvu

Royal Bank of Canada

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world with public and private sector organizations as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for...

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Stefan Rabben

WALLIX GmbH

Stefan Rabben is Area Sales Director DACH & Eastern Europe at the WALLIX Group. The graduate information technology engineer previously spent more than seven years at Quest and Dell in various...

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Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg

Goethe University Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg holds the Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security (www.m-chair.de) at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2002. While the chair is part of the Faculty of...

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Matthias Reinwarth

KuppingerCole

Matthias is Head of Advisory and oversees and leads the KuppingerCole advisory team. Additionally he acts as lead advisor in various customer projects. As head of the IAM practice, Matthias...

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Eleni Richter

EnBW

Eleni Richter is working as chief architect of the identity and organizational data management at EnBW and as lecturer in IAM at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has been...

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Noémie Rinckenbach

KuppingerCole Analysts AG

Noémie joined KuppingerCole as a PR Manager in May 2022. She is responsible for Public Relations and Media. Noémie studied Philosophy in France, the United-Kingdom and Germany where...

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Victoria van Roosmalen

Coosto

Victoria van Roosmalen is focused on empowering a brighter future and navigates others towards informed and thoughtful actions by sharing her expertise in IT, cybersecurity, and privacy-related...

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Christina Rupp

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Christina Rupp is Project Manager for International Cybersecurity Policy. Her work focusses on issues of cyber diplomacy and cyber foreign policy, especially with regard to international norms for...

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Anthony Scarfe

Elastic

Anthony Scarfe is the Director of Information Security Assurance at Elastic, where he leads a globally distributed team within the CISO organisation. Before joining Elastic, Anthony...

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Dr. Ralf Schneider

Allianz SE

Ralf Schneider is Allianz Group CIO since October 2010. From 2010 until 2016, he also held the position as Board Member for IT of Allianz Technology SE. Before that, he had been CIO of Allianz...

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Michael Schrank

Major sport goods brand

Michael Schrank is a passionate, tech-savvy & major incident proven CISO. He was born 1985, loved computers since he was a kid and therefore later studied Computer Science at the University of...

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Christopher Schütze

KuppingerCole

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cyber Security and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing...

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Sarb Sembhi

Virtually Informed

Sarb speaks, writes and contributes to global security events and publications. He was the Workstream Lead for Thought Leadership of UK Cyber Security Council Formation Project and is the Co-Vice...

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Drs. Jacoba C. Sieders

Independent

Jacoba is a digital identity expert, eager to make digital life better and a lot more secure than it is today. Keynote speaker at international IAM congresses and teacher of masterclasses. ...

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Alexander Silhavy

E.ON

Alexander is a fresh Leader with a focus on digitalization & security + supporter of modern working in the new normal. His forward-looking mindset still considering proven practices is one of...

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Mike Small

KuppingerCole

Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA’s security management software product line within Europe,...

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Alina Smith

Aroundtown

After completing an MBA in General Management and gathering experience as a Product Manager of an ERP system, I was given the opportunity to lead all Information Security Governance initiatives of...

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Tobias Staehle

Deutsche Börse

Tobias is the Deputy Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Deutsche Börse Group and the Head of Section for Information Security Governance & Risk His current functional responsibilities...

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Graham Stanforth

DEKRA SE

Graham, born April 3, 1972 in Chertsey, England, is Head of Business Line - Information Security Training for the Advisory & Training Services Division at DEKRA SE.He is currently tasked with...

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Johannes Steger

Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity

Johannes Steger is the managing editor of Tagesspiegel Backgrounds Cybersecurity, a daily briefing for decision makers focused on digital security from a political, economic and societal...

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John Tolbert

KuppingerCole

Background: John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises...

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Mark Troyer

LastPass

Mark has been working in the SaaS industry for the past 15 years in various consulting and managerial roles focusing on Network Security, IoT product development, Identify and credential management...

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Michael Tullius

Exeon Analytics

Michael Tullius is an experienced industry expert in cyber and network security with a focus on Advanced Threats, DDOS and NDR. Over the last 25 years, he has been successfully involved in new...

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Jochen Tösmann

E.ON

Jochen is working as Resilience and CyberRange-e Senior Expert in the cyber security unit of E.ON. His main focus is to support E.ON’s DSOs during trainings at the CyberRange-e, managing...

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António Vasconcelos

SentinelOne

António Vasconcelos has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and is a well versed professional in several cyber security areas, with a deep focus in the EDR and XDR space,...

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Hinrich Völcker

Deutsche Börse

Hinrich Völcker acts as Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Deutsche Börse Group (DBG), fostering the accountability Information as well as Physical Security globally. His role covers all...

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Dirk Wahlefeld

CYFIRMA

Dirk Wahlefeld is a proven technology leader, consistently applying his deep technical expertise and prowess to deliver tangible outcomes for partners and customers. Dirk has over two decades of...

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Dr. Donnie Wendt

Mastercard

Dr. Donnie Wendt is a Principal Security Researcher for Mastercard. In this role, Donnie researches the latest security threats, technologies, products, services, and innovations to drive the...

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Jochen Werne

Prosegur Germany & Prosegur Crypto

Jochen Werne is a German Manager with a proven track record in business & digital transformation and in the field of People’s Diplomacy. He’s a member of the Executive Committee of PROSEGUR...

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Stefan Würtemberger

Marabu Inks

Stefan Würtemberger is employed at Marabu GmbH & Co. KG, where he is Vice President Information Technology and responsible for Global IT. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer and CIO...

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