Speakers & Panelists
The International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) features many of the top subject matter experts in the world on cyber security. They are deeply attuned to the ever-increasing threats and the need for companies and organizations to remain informed and alert to protect their assets, reputation, employees, and customers.
As in previous years, attendees can expect to hear from pre-eminent authorities in cyber security and all areas related to it.
Speaker Bios
Lisa Black
Former Chief Deputy County Executive, Suffolk County, NY
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Lisa Black is the former chief deputy county executive in Suffolk County, NY. For nearly eight years she managed the daily operations of a government that served 1.5 million residents with a $4 billion budget and a workforce of approximately 12,000 county staff. Black has over two decades of public sector experience, serving in both Albany and New York City for two Senate majority leaders and later for two NYC mayors. Black was also a member of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's administration serving as director of intergovernmental affairs and senior advisor for transportation & infrastructure at the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.
In 2024, Black launched her public affairs consultancy, Elevate238 LLC, advising organizations on strategic planning and public impact. Black joined Aeon Nexus Corporation earlier this year, consulting for their public sector clients across the U.S. Committed to enhancing justice through innovative government technology solutions, Black works with Aeon’s JusticeNexus product, a legal case management solution that delivers a single, secure, centralized, cloud-based system to public sector entities.
Geoff Brown
Former President & COO, Arete Incident Response
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Geoff Brown most recently was Arete Incident Response’s president and chief operating officer where he spearheaded strategic growth by enhancing interoperability within the broader risk, cybersecurity, technology, services, and government sectors. Prior to Arete, Brown was with Recorded Future and led efforts to deliver the company’s premiere intelligence cloud offering to global governments.
Between 2016 and 2022, Brown was chief information security officer for the City of New York, a position focused on cybersecurity and aggregate information risk across all 100+ NYC departments and agencies. In July 2017, Mayor de Blasio established New York City Cyber Command, an agency founded and led by Brown, reporting to City Hall, and charged with consolidating and leading the City’s enterprise cybersecurity strategy, inclusive of building NYC Cyber Command itself, and through this new agency setting Citywide cybersecurity policies; directing response to cyber incidents; rationalizing the City’s cybersecurity spend and cyber defense technology footprint, and advising City Hall, agencies and departments on the City’s overall cyber defense. Brown also created the City’s first public-facing cybersecurity initiative, called NYC Secure, wherein the City brought enterprise cybersecurity capabilities to everyday New Yorkers in a privacy respecting way.
For five years Brown has been a member of the Aspen Institute Cybersecurity Working Group, having co-authored Aspen’s publication on cyber defense assistance for Ukraine. He has been a visiting professor with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies department, an advisor for New York University’s Cybersecurity and Risk Strategy program, and has previous experience in financial services and formative experience in intelligence with the U.S. Federal Government, including with the 9/11 Commission.
Maria Chano
AI and Cybersecurity Strategist, ICF International, INC.
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Maria Chano is an AI and cybersecurity strategist supporting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) through her current role as a federal contractor with ICF. A former federal employee with CISA, she brings government and industry experience, focusing on integrating artificial intelligence into national cybersecurity efforts.
A proud Fordham University alumna, Chano earned a Master’s in Cybersecurity and an Advanced Certificate in Data Science for Cybersecurity, along with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning certifications from UT Austin and UC Berkeley. As an assistant director at Fordham Center for Cybersecurity & AI, she taught AI for Cybersecurity courses to students and faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) and high school learners, focusing on accessibility and workforce development.
Chano’s work spans AI-powered threat detection, blockchain fraud analysis, secure software development, and ethical hacking using large language models. She is also dedicated to inclusive cybersecurity education, developing learning pathways for underrepresented communities and K–12 students.
Steve Coll
American Journalist, Academic, Executive
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Steve Coll was dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he also served as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism until 2022. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012.
Coll is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, a PEN American Center John Kenneth Galbraith Award, an Arthur Ross Book Award, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Eman El-Sheikh
Associate Vice President and Professor, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida
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Eman El-Sheikh, Ph.D. is a global award-winning leader with 30+ years of experience in AI, Machine Learning, and Cybersecurity. El-Sheikh serves as associate vice president and professor at the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity. She received over
$26 million in competitive grants and several awards, including the 2024 GISEC Global Educator of the Year, 2024 Cybersecurity Woman of the World finalist, UWF Million Dollar Research Hall of Fame induction, and 2020 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity by Security Magazine. El-Sheikh leads several national initiatives, including the National Cybersecurity Workforce Development Program, CyberSkills2Work®, and received numerous grants to enhance cybersecurity education and workforce development. She launched the award-winning Cybersecurity for All® Program to enhance competencies and hands-on skills for evolving cybersecurity work roles.El-Sheikh has published several books, over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and given over 150 keynote and invited talks and presentations. She serves as a U.S.A. Ambassador on the Global Council for Responsible AI. She was part of the NSF/NSA Cyber-AI Project leadership team that developed AI-Cyber and Secure AI programs and curriculum for use by US universities. She teaches and conducts research related to the development, use, and evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity. El-Sheikh founded the Florida Women in Cybersecurity Affiliate and serves on its Advisory Board. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and AI from Michigan State University.
Anthony J. Ferrante
Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Cybersecurity, FTI Consulting
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Anthony J. Ferrante is an expert in data security, compliance, privacy, and cybersecurity readiness, prevention, incident response, remediation, recovery, and complex investigation services.
He has more than 25 years of top-level cybersecurity experience, providing incident response and readiness planning to more than 1,000 private sector and government organizations, including more than 350 Fortune 500 companies and 90 Fortune 100 companies. He advises companies within the most regulated industries in the world, including large companies in finance and technology on their toughest cybersecurity challenges, from regulation and legislation enforcement (including DFARS, HIPAA, ITAR, GDPR, CCPA, NYDFS, and PCI DSS) to expert witness litigation.
Ferrante maintains first-hand operational knowledge of more than 60 criminal and national security cyber threat sets, and extensive practical expertise researching, designing, developing, and hacking technical applications and hardware systems, allowing for unparalleled client advisory and support in complex investigations and litigation.Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ferrante served as director for cyber incident response at the U.S. National Security Council at the White House, where he coordinated U.S. response to unfolding domestic and international cybersecurity crises and issues. Building on his extensive cybersecurity and incident response experience, he led the development and implementation of Presidential Policy Directive 41 – United States Cyber Incident Coordination, the federal government’s national policy guiding cyber incident response efforts.
Before joining the National Security Council, Ferrante was chief of staff of the FBI’s Cyber Division. He joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005, assigned to the FBI’s New York Field Office. In 2006, he was selected as a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, a fly-team of experts who deploy globally to respond to the most critical cyber incidents on behalf of the U.S. Government.
Ferrante was an adjunct professor of computer science at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he served as the founder and co-director of the Master’s of Science in Cybersecurity program. During his time at Fordham University, he served as the co-director of the undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity research program.
Ferrante is a member of the Ethics & Integrity Committee at Cellebrite, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity, where he works to strengthen digital trust and promote the responsible development of technology.
He received the 2019 Global Leaders in Consulting award for his Excellence in Execution from Consulting magazine and has been recognized as a Data Expert by Who’s Who Legal (2021-2024), and in the global-wide Cybersecurity Risk, Crisis & Risk Management Chambers & Partners 2021-2023 guides. The Consulting Report named him one of the Top 25 Technology Consultants and Leaders of 2023.
In August 2019, Ferrante summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain in the world. In November 2022 and 2023, he ran and completed the TCS New York City Marathon.
Ferrante holds a B.S. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Fordham University. In addition, he has earned a Certificate in Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology from Harvard University; and a Certificate in Cybersecurity Strategy from Georgetown University.
Stephenie Gosnell Handler
Partner, Gibson Dunn
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Stephenie Gosnell Handler is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office, where she is a member of the International Trade and Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation practices. She advises clients on complex legal, regulatory, and compliance issues relating to international trade, cybersecurity, and technology matters. Gosnell Handler’s legal advice is deeply informed by her operational cybersecurity and in-house legal experience at McKinsey & Company, and by her active-duty service in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Gosnell Handler is regularly recognized for her excellence in the field, most recently being named to Financier Worldwide Magazine’s “Power Players: Foreign Investment & National Security 2025 – Distinguished Advisers” report. In 2024, Lawdragon named her to their “500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers” and “100 Leading AI and Legal Tech Advisors” list. She also was recognized in Foreign Investment Watch’s “Top Advisors” list for 2024 and 2025, which highlights “top advisors who provide advice and counsel concerning foreign investment and national security in the U.S. and abroad.”
Gosnell Handler returned to Gibson Dunn as a partner of the Washington, D.C. office after serving as director of cybersecurity strategy and digital acceleration at McKinsey & Company. In this role, she led development of the firm’s cybersecurity strategy and advised senior leadership on public policy and geopolitical trends relating to cybersecurity, technology, and data. Stephenie managed a team of experienced professionals responsible for the firm’s cybersecurity strategic initiatives, cybersecurity standards and certifications program, lifecycle governance initiatives, data analytics and optimization, and digital acceleration efforts across the cyber domain. She previously led McKinsey’s in-house cybersecurity legal team, where she advised on diverse global cybersecurity and technology matters, including strategic legal issues, data localization, regulatory compliance, risk management, governance, preparedness, and response. She frequently advised at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, and data and export control and sanctions requirements.
Previously, Gosnell Handler was a senior associate at a leading international law firm, where she focused her practice on international trade matters including CFIUS, export controls, and sanctions, and cybersecurity matters across the cybersecurity risk management and incident lifecycle, including assessments, incident response preparedness, incident response, regulatory compliance, transactional due diligence, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Gosnell Handler began her legal career at Gibson Dunn, where she focused on international trade, cybersecurity, and transactional matters. She earned a J.D. from Stanford University in 2011, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, both in 2001.
Prior to attending law school, Stephenie served as officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, where she focused on logistics and political-military affairs during her seven years of active duty service.
Diba Hadi, Ph.D.
Principal director of the Cyber Academic Engagement Office within the Department of Defense (DoD), Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Diba Hadi, Ph.D., serves as the principal director of the Cyber Academic Engagement Office within the Department of Defense (DoD), Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this leadership role, Hadi directs strategic initiatives to strengthen academic partnerships, expand cybersecurity education, and enhance workforce development across the Department and the broader national security community.
With extensive experience in cybersecurity, information technology, and digital transformation, Hadi has been instrumental in advancing the DoD’s efforts to address emerging threats and leverage new technologies. She is a champion for innovative approaches to cyber education and a key advocate for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into cybersecurity training and operations.
Hadi’s career spans senior leadership roles within defense, intelligence, and academic sectors, where she has driven initiatives focused on workforce readiness, technological modernization, and cyber resilience. Her work emphasizes building a robust talent pipeline to meet evolving national security needs, particularly at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.
Hadi holds advanced degrees in engineering and business administration, along with specialized executive education in cybersecurity leadership. Her vision and leadership continue to shape the future of cyber education and workforce innovation across the Department of Defense.
Neil Hare-Brown
CEO, STORM
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As CEO of STORM, Neil Hare-Brown has specialized in information risk and investigations for over 40 years working in law enforcement, military, and commercial sectors. As founder of the first commercial digital investigations team in the UK in 1996, and architect of the CyberCare Incident Response team, he has led thousands of investigations into a range of cybercrimes, negotiated many ransoms and recovered businesses from significant impact.
An innovator in information risk, Hare-Brown has developed several methodologies to assess cyber risk in a range of sectors with a key aim to support businesses to improve Cyber Risk Management Maturity (CRMM).
LTG William J. Hartman
Acting Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Performing Duties of Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service
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Lieutenant General William J. Hartman assumed his role as acting commander, U.S. Cyber Command; performing the duties of director, National Security Agency/chief, Central Security Service, effective April 3, 2025.
He previously served as the commander, Cyber National Mission Force. A native of Mobile, Alabama, LTG Hartman is a distinguished military graduate of the University of South Alabama, where he received his commission through the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps as an infantry officer.
LTG Hartman served in multiple positions as an infantry, military intelligence, and cyberspace operations officer, with assignments in the United States, Italy, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Turkey.
LTG Hartman has commanded a company, battalion, brigade, and Special Mission Unit, and served as the senior intelligence officer at the battalion and regimental level for the 75th Ranger Regiment, and multiple tours as a SOCOM Joint Task Force S2.
LTG Hartman is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic Course, the Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, Air Command and Staff College, School of Advanced Military Science, Senior Service College Fellowship with the CIA, and the Joint and Combined Warfighting School. He holds degrees from the University of South Alabama, Air University, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
LTG Hartman’s awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf clusters, the Joint Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, and the Army Achievement Medal with oak leaf clusters. He is qualified to wear the Ranger Tab, Master Parachutist Badge, the Combat Infantry Badge, and the Combat Action Badge. LTG Hartman was designated as a distinguished member of the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2007.
LTG Hartman and his wife are the proud parents of two children.
Thaier Hayajneh
University Professor and Director of the Fordham Center for Cybersecurity and AI
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Thaier Hayajneh, Ph.D., university professor and founding director of the Fordham Center for Cybersecurity and AI at Fordham University, is a nationally recognized leader in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. With over two decades of experience, he has built a distinguished career at the intersection of research, education, and innovation.
Hayajneh has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 5,000 citations, reflecting the broad impact of his work in areas such as IoT security, machine learning for threat detection, secure communications, and adversarial AI. His research has attracted more than $12 million in funding from prestigious agencies including the NSA, DoD, and NSF, supporting national initiatives in cybersecurity education, AI integration, and workforce development.
Hayajneh earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh, and holds a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley. A sought-after keynote speaker, educator, and mentor, he actively leads national workshops and training programs on AI for Cybersecurity, ethical hacking with large language models, and hands-on lab development. His work bridges theory and practice, helping public and private sector organizations prepare for the evolving cyber threat landscape.Through his leadership, Hayajneh continues to shape the future of cybersecurity with strategic insight, impactful research, and innovative AI solutions.
Steve Hill
Independent Senior Board Adviser
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As an independent senior board adviser, Steve Hill leverages his extensive experience in national security and cyber security to help clients navigate complex risks in a globalised world. With over 30 years of experience in the UK government, Hill has tackled serious threats to national and international security such as terrorism, espionage and nuclear proliferation. In the National Security Secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office, he shaped and implemented aspects of UK cybersecurity policy.
Hill also has corporate experience, having held senior executive roles as a managing director at Credit Suisse and UBS. He was responsible for overseeing and enhancing technology, cyber and third-party Risk management, as well as leading the global operational resilience and group CISO functions. Hill is a recognized thought leader and a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College, London. He is a member of the Dell Technologies Global Security and the Twine Security Advisory Boards, as well as a national security contributor for ABC News. He studied law and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge.
D. Frank Hsu
Clavius Distinguished Professor and Professor of Computer and Information Science, Fordham University
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Frank Hsu is the Clavius Distinguished Professor and a professor of computer and information science at Fordham University. His research interests include interconnection networks, responsible AI, recommender systems, search engine optimization, and combinatorial fusion analysis (CFA), a ML/AI paradigm, with a variety of domain applications including information and cyber security, X-informatics, drug discovery, information retrieval, target tracking, ChIP-seq peak detection, equity ranking, risk management, and cognitive neuroscience.
Hsu received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a life senior member of IEEE, an ExCom member of IEEE New York Section, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Sean Joyce
Global Cybersecurity & Privacy Leader
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Sean Joyce is a principal in PwC’s Consulting Practice where he serves as the leader of the U.S. Cyber, Risk, and Regulatory business and the Global Cybersecurity and Privacy business.
With more than 26 years of service in the FBI—most recently as its deputy director with daily oversight of its 36,000 employees and its $8 billion budget—Joyce brings strong operational and leadership experience. Furthermore, he spearheaded several strategic initiatives that were an integral part of transforming the FBI into an intelligence-driven organization, including ‘next generation cyber’—a cross-organizational initiative to maintain the FBI’s world leadership in law enforcement and domestic intelligence.Joyce has met regularly with congressional leaders, senior members of the White House National Security team, and Cabinet officials. Also, on a routine basis, he met with visiting dignitaries from nations throughout the world.
Joyce is a recipient of the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, the DIA’s Director’s Award FBI Meritorious Medal, and the Presidential Rank Award.
A Boston native, he holds degrees from Boston College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Amit Kachhia-Patel
Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC)
FBI, New York Office, Cyber Branch
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Since 2022, Amit Kachhia-Patel has overseen the largest FBI computer intrusion program encompassing 100 personnel investigating nation state and criminal cyber threats. Kachhia-Patel has over 20 years of experience as an FBI special agent, having worked counterintelligence insider threat and cyber intrusion matters as a front-line investigator, program manager, as well as advisor to two FBI directors. He also has managed some of the largest cyber incidents to include Sony Pictures destructive malware attack, OPM and Anthem hacks. Kachhia-Patel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Brandon Kappus
Chief of Intelligence and Solutions Delivery, NISOS
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Brandon Kappus is an executive at Nisos, a human risk management firm offering OSINT-powered solutions that mitigate risks and stop threats to business and people. Kappus has 20 years of experience in intelligence-led security solutions, client strategy, and consulting. As chief of intelligence & solutions delivery at Nisos, he leads the company’s intelligence services, client success, and solutions engineering teams, ensuring high-impact delivery, client retention, and innovation across a dynamic threat landscape. In a past life, Kappus worked in the Foreign Service, building strategic relationships and capacity overseas. He resides in the greater Washington, D.C. area."
Robert C. Kissane
Special Agent in Charge, FBI
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As SAC, Kissane oversees the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Kissane joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and has spent the bulk of his career in the New York Field Office. He was first assigned to investigate violent crime as a member of the New York Joint Bank Robbery Task Force. In 2009, he transferred to the New York JTTF and investigated terrorist threats to the United States from East Africa. He was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2014 and oversaw those investigations.
In 2017, Kissane was named the chief of a unit in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters that focused on terrorism matters originating in the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
Kissane returned to New York in 2020 as an assistant special agent in charge, responsible for ensuring the office executed its national security mission to defeat foreign intelligence threats and activities.
Kissane was appointed chief of a China operations section in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters that covers intelligence services, technology transfer, and espionage. He also served as acting deputy assistant director of the division’s China Branch.
Kissane received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in the human intelligence program for his role on the team that located an operative wanted for his role in the 2000 USS Cole Attack.Prior to joining the FBI, Kissane served in the U.S. Army and worked in banking and finance. He earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Colorado.
Matthew Knight
VP Security Products, OpenAI
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Matt Knight serves as VP security products at OpenAI, where he builds technology that creates asymmetric defensive advantage using AI. He previously served as chief information security officer and head of security for five years, leading OpenAI’s security, privacy, and IT engineering and research programs. He transitioned from his role as CISO back into research and development to drive broader transformation and impact of AI-powered defensive capabilities developed under his leadership of OpenAI's security programs.
Knight directs AI and security research to advance their respective sciences and capture their benefits. His teams at OpenAI are at the forefront of applying AI for cyber defense, leveraging AI to improve software security, enhance security operations, and address emerging threats. Additionally, Knight's program oversees the OpenAI Cyber Grant Program, whose mission is to improve cyber defense by supporting the research community and initiatives at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.
Before joining OpenAI, Knight co-founded Agitator LLC, a startup focused on cybersecurity and radio frequency research. His expertise across the full spectrum of security informs his approach. He holds an engineering degree from Dartmouth and remains hands-on.
David C. Lashway
Partner, Sidley LLP
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David Lashway is a partner at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C. where he leads the global cybersecurity, privacy, and national security practice. He is widely recognized as a leading adviser for crisis management, cybersecurity, data security incidents, misinformation, trade secret theft, and related investigation and litigation matters. With more than 25 years of experience, Lashway has advised a diverse range of private and public organizations on material cybersecurity incidents across almost every critical infrastructure sector. He has significant experience in addressing election security and misinformation-related issues and was deeply involved in the investigations into the 2016 and 2020 actions targeting various U.S. political parties. He has served as the lead lawyer advising on the legal response to operationally impactful malware for many Fortune 500 entities, and led the incident response, associated investigations and litigations for companies impacted by almost every significant global cybersecurity incident. He has earned numerous acknowledgements, including a Band 1 ranking in Chambers USA and Chambers Global for Privacy & Data Security: Incident Response and “Hall of Fame” recognition in Legal 500 for Cyber Law. Lashway is fluent in several key languages to national security work and is a sought-after speaker on such matters.
Brett Leatherman
Assistant Director for Cyber, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Brett Leatherman is assistant director for Cyber and the director of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force. Under Presidential Policy Directive 41, the FBI is the lead cyberthreat response agency for the United States Government, and in this role, Leatherman serves as a senior executive managing the FBI’s strategy to impose cost on some of the most sophisticated cyber adversaries targeting U.S. interests. He earned a computer information systems degree from Cornerstone University and a Master's in Cybersecurity Risk Management from Georgetown University. Leatherman holds several widely recognized cyber certifications and speaks domestically and internationally on emerging national security and cyberthreats.
Mike Levine
Senior Investigative Reporter, ABC News
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Mike Levine is an investigative reporter for ABC News. He has covered homeland security, law enforcement and intelligence-related matters for more than a decade. His reporting appears across the network’s platforms, from flagship TV programs like “World News Tonight with David Muir” and “Good Morning America” to ABC News Digital and ABC News Radio. Prior to joining ABC News in June 2013, Levine covered the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for Fox News Channel, where he began his career in 2002.
From 2007 to 2009, Levine was a producer for "The Chris Matthews Show" on NBC. Levine received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2002.
Michelle Liu
Supervisory Special Agent (SSA), FBI
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In June 2024, Michelle Liu began to work in FBI Newark as the cyber program manager and Supervisor of the Criminal Cyber Program. Prior to this assignment, Liu was the cyber program manager over APT29 during one of the FBI’s most progressive and proactive times against the threat. Prior to working at Cyber Division, she led a counterintelligence squad in Philadelphia Division, where she spent the previous eight years working both CI and Cyber matters. Liu began her special agent career in 2010 in the FBI's El Paso Division where she conducted national security investigations. She also is one of the FBI’s certified crisis negotiators.
Josh Margolin
Chief Investigative Reporter, ABC News
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Josh Margolin is the chief investigative reporter at ABC News. In 2011, he co-authored “The Jersey Sting,” a bestselling book about one of the biggest political corruption cases in American history. He leads breaking news and crime coverage for all programs and platforms of ABC News and produces investigative and long-form projects. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards which include Six Emmys, two Murrow Awards, as well the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News.
Peter M. Marta
Partner, Goodwin
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Peter (Pete) Marta is a partner in Goodwin’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution group and Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. He advises global organizations at the C-suite and board level on all aspects of responding to complex cybersecurity incidents, as well as on cyber and data risk management and governance, proactive cyber incident readiness, insider threats, regulatory strategy, and government and internal investigations. Leveraging decades of experience in government and the private sector, Marta helps clients navigate the rapidly evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, respond to a broad range of crises, and find practical solutions to complex problems.
Marta is recognized by the Legal 500 US, where clients praised him for his “calm demeanor” and “ability to communicate risk to senior management.”
J.T. Mendoza
Executive Director, US Insider Risk Management Center of Excellence
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J.T. Mendoza has over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors, serving in positions of progressive responsibility. Mendoza currently serves as global head of insider risk management for a Fortune 200 company with more than 800k employees in over 140 countries. Prior to joining the commercial sector, Mendoza served as deputy director, US Air Force Insider Threat. Before the USAF, he served as a senior leader within Defense Intelligence Agency’s Counterespionage Division. In addition to working numerous joint cases with the FBI, which led to successful prosecutions, he led DIA’s efforts to revamp and increase the ability to protect and defend the agency against insider threat penetration attempts.
As the executive director of the US Insider Risk Management Center of Excellence, Mendoza is focused on furthering the COE’s ability to fulfill its vision of promoting private, public, and academic partnerships to foster knowledge sharing and resources to raise the tide and lift all insider risk/threat practitioners.
Anna Mercado Clark, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP
Partner, Phillips Lytle LLP
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Anna Mercado Clark, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, is a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP and has extensive experience at the forefront of law and technology. She serves as the firm’s chief information security officer (CISO) and is a member of the firm’s Governing Committee, its executive governing body. She is co-leader of the firm’s Technology Industry Team, and serves as leader of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Team and e-Discovery Team, as well as co-leader of the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Team. Clark specializes in cybersecurity, data privacy, AI-related compliance, transactions, and litigations, as well as complex e-discovery, digital forensics and complex commercial litigation. With a wealth of experience, Clark advises and represents a diverse range of clients, including not-for-profits, government entities, law firms and organizations ranging from startups to regional and multinational organizations in the AI, technology, consumer, health care, insurance, education, manufacturing and financial industries. Clark also serves as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.
Clark holds several prestigious ANAB-accredited credentials by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), including Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E); Certified Information Privacy Professional for the U.S. Private Sector (CIPP/US); and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). CIPP/E and CIPP/US are preeminent certifications for advanced concentration in European data protection laws and U.S. private-sector laws, standards and practices, respectively. The CIPM certification recognizes her ability to design, build and operate data privacy management programs that are compliant with privacy laws and regulations. She has also been designated as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP). The FIP designation signifies that she has demonstrated her comprehensive knowledge of privacy laws, privacy program management and essential data protection practices with significant data security and privacy experience in these areas. Clark is among a select group of individuals around the world who have received this designation.
In addition to her legal expertise, Clark is the Immediate Past President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and has served at various times on a combination of the following American Bar Association’s Science & Technology Section’s committees including: Cloud Computing Committee, Vice Chair; Membership and Diversity Committee, Vice Chair; Privacy and Computer Crime Committee, Co-Chair; Law School and Interdisciplinary Education Outreach Committee, Vice Chair.
Clark has received the Huntington Her Hero Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York City Bar Association and the Fordham University School of Law Moot Court Distinguished Alumni Award. She was also recognized in Crain’s New York Business Notable Women in Law publication. Additionally, she has been named to the AAPI Power Players list by Politics NY and amNY Metro, City & State’s Responsible 100, Above & Beyond Innovators, and Power of Diversity: Asian 100 lists, Lawyers of Color’s inaugural Nation’s Best List, Super Lawyers New York Metro list, and is a recipient of the Hon. Denny Chin ‘78 Alumni Award for Excellence in the Legal Profession from the Fordham University School of Law Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, among other honors. Clark is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was named a Ponemon Institute Distinguished Fellow.
Carsten Meywirth
Director of the Cyber Crime Division of the Bundeskriminalamt, Germany
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Carsten Meywirth has been the head of the cyber crime department of the Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Criminal Police Office) since April 1st, 2020. After his police training with the Lower Saxony police force, he joined Bundeskriminalamt in 1987. In his more than 30 years of service, Meywirth has held various managerial positions in the central services and organized and general crime departments. From 2005, he managed numerous projects in the information technology department. In 2008, he took on the role of head of staff for the IT director. In addition, he headed the cyber crime group within the organized and serious crime department for three years and, from 2016, the central logistics tasks group in the central administration department. In October 2019, Meywirth was commissioned to set up the cyber crime department. Under his leadership, Abteilung Cyber Crime (Cybercrime Department) was founded on April 1, 2020 at Bundeskriminalamt.
John J. Miller
Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst, CNN
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John J. Miller is the chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst for CNN. Miller joined the network in 2022. He is a veteran award-winning journalist and experienced law enforcement and intelligence executive.
Prior to joining CNN, Miller served as deputy commissioner of intelligence & counterterrorism of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In that role, Commissioner Miller oversaw the Intelligence Bureau, the Counterterrorism Bureau, and the NYPD’s partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Miller is the former deputy assistant director of National Intelligence for Analysis overseeing programs to improve analysis across the US government’s 16 intelligence agencies.
Rafael Misoczki
Cryptographer, Meta
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Rafael Misoczki is a cryptographer at Meta. His areas of expertise are post-quantum cryptography (PQC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), privacy enhancing technologies (PET), conventional cryptography, and the application of these constructions to various use cases. Previously, he was a cryptographer at Google, co-maintainer of Google’s cryptography library, Tink, and the lead for storage encryption projects. He was a member of the PQC workgroup responsible for the migration of Alphabet to post quantum cryptography. Prior to that, he was a research scientist at Intel Labs, where he created Intel’s cryptography library, TinyCrypt, and led the post quantum cryptography migration efforts in the company. He is an active contributor to international standardization efforts on cryptography (NIST, ISO, IETF), and has dozens of scientific papers published and patents filed. Misoczki earned a Ph.D. from Sorbonne Universités, France, in 2013, with a thesis on efficient constructions for post-quantum cryptography.
Koji Nakao
Distinguished Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
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Koji Nakao received his B.E. in Mathematics from Waseda University, Japan, in 1979. He spent his career at KDDI Laboratories, researching communication protocols and information security before shifting to cybersecurity at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in 2004 and Yokohama National University in 2015. Since 2000, Nakao has played a pivotal role in several governmental security research projects and actively participated in international security standardization activities. His current research interests include IoT security, 5G security, and supply-chain security. Presently, he serves as a distinguished researcher at NICT, overseeing cybersecurity technology research, and as a visiting professor at Yokohama National University, focusing on IoT security research. From 2017 to 2024, he advised the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat on cybersecurity.
Sean Newell
Deputy Chief, U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division
Counterintelligence and Export Control Section
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Sean Newell is a deputy chief with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Security Division (NSD), Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES), where he manages DOJ’s strategic and tactical efforts to investigate, disrupt, and deter malicious cyber activities conducted by nation states and their proxies, including their targeting of the private sector and critical infrastructure and cyber-enabled malign influence operations.
Newell is a member of the prosecution team that obtained the first ever criminal charges against state-sponsored cyber actors: the May 2014 indictment of five members of China’s People’s Liberation Army in United States v. Wang Dong et al. Since then, Newell has been a member of the prosecution team or otherwise provided headquarters program management for every national security-related DOJ technical operation or cyber prosecution. Newell also represents the DOJ on interagency policy committees concerning cybersecurity.
Armando Nuñez
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Fordham University
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A key player in the global media industry for more than 25 years, Armondo Nuñez led the international divisions of major U.S. media companies that have launched some of the most well-known content in the world. In a series of high-profile executive roles, he was responsible for shaping CBS’s global licensing and syndication business and turning CBS Studios International into a worldwide distribution leader. His focus on global access fueled the network’s marquis franchises, including CSI, NCIS, and Star Trek. He was also instrumental in the integration, separation, and reintegration of significant CBS and Viacom operations worldwide. In January 2022, he founded Peritus Global Advisors.
As president and CEO of the Global Distribution Group at CBS from 2016 to 2019 and ViacomCBS from 2019 to 2020, Nuñez was responsible for international licensing and syndication, including worldwide multiplatform distribution worth $6 billion a year. He had significant roles in CBS’s acquisition of Network 10 in Australia and several joint venture networks in Europe and Asia. He also oversaw CBS Television Distribution (now CBS Media Ventures), the largest U.S. syndicator with shows like Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Judge Judy, during two critical periods: 2012 to 2016 and 2018 to 2020.
Nuñez joined CBS as president of CBS Broadcast International and executive vice president of CBS Enterprises in 1999. He began his career with television production and sales roles before taking executive positions at Viacom Entertainment, New World International Television Distribution, and Universal International Television.
Nuñez has been named to the “power” lists of multiple media outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter and Hispanic Business Magazine, as a major television influencer. In 2019, he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and the inaugural class of the Imagen Foundation’s Television & Film Latino Hall of Fame. He was one of the first recipients of the inaugural MIPTV Médaille d’Honneur, which recognized six international television executives, including his father, Armando Nuñez Sr., for their achievements in the industry.
A longtime leader in multiple industry groups, Nuñez is a member of the executive committee and the board and co-chair of the global committee for NATPE International and a member of the board and executive committee for the International Council of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Nuñez graduated from the Gabelli School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management in 1982. In 2012, he established the Nuñez Family Scholarship Fund for full-time Gabelli School students, with preference given to students who are economically disadvantaged or part of underrepresented populations.
Evan Perez
Senior Justice Correspondent, Washington, D.C. Bureau, CNN
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Evan Perez is a CNN senior justice correspondent based in the Washington, D.C. Bureau, reporting on legal, crime, and national security issues.
Perez previously principally covered the Russia investigation, helping to lead the team that covered the Department of Justice. Perez, along with CNN colleagues Jake Tapper, Carl Bernstein and Jim Sciutto, was awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award in the broadcast category for their January 2017 report on how the intelligence community believed Russia had compromising information on then President-elect Trump.
When prosecutors filed criminal charges against the U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, and the first charges against the leader of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Perez delivered the news first on CNN.
Before joining CNN, Perez led Justice coverage at the The Wall Street Journal, helping to break news on the complaint that sparked the federal investigation of former CIA Director David Petraeus, and the subsequent removal of an FBI agent in the case. In a dozen years at WSJ, he covered business beats on real estate, airlines, cruise lines, as well as Hurricane Katrina.
Perez began his career in Miami working as a reporter for the Associated Press. He was born in Belize City, Belize and studied journalism at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Christopher G. Raia
Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office
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In April of 2025, Christopher G. Raia was named the assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office by FBI Director Kash Patel. He most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Terrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Raia joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and reported to the Texas City Resident Agency, a satellite office of the Houston Field Office. He spent 10 years investigating violent crime, gangs, drugs, and white-collar crime at the resident agency and served as the coordinator of the Safe Streets Task Force.
In 2012, Raia reported to FBI Headquarters as a supervisory special agent to serve as a program manager in the International Terrorism Operations Section of the Counterterrorism Division. He oversaw all international terrorism cases in the Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; and Mobile, Alabama, field offices.
Raia was promoted in 2014 to senior supervisory resident agent at the Bryan/College Station Resident Agency of the Houston Field Office, where he oversaw all national security and programs. In 2020, he was named the assistant special agent in charge of the Houston Field Office’s Violent Crime Branch and then of its National Security Branch in 2021.
In 2023, Raia was selected to serve as the chief of staff for the executive assistant director of the National Security Branch at FBI Headquarters. Raia managed strategic initiatives, supervised executive staff, and directed communications projects. In addition, he coordinated major projects for external entities, such as Congress and the White House.
Raia was promoted to deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters in 2024 and oversaw all international counterterrorism program-management for the FBI. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and served as a Coast Guard officer in Florida before joining the FBI.
Jordan Rae Kelly
Senior Managing Director, Head of Americas Cybersecurity, FTI
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Jordan Rae Kelly is a senior managing director and the head of cybersecurity for the Americas at FTI Consulting. She has more than 15 years of experience coordinating incident response and managing cyber policy planning.
At FTI Consulting, Kelly advises clients on a broad range of cybersecurity and data privacy matters involving breaches, insider threats, intellectual property, crisis communications, vendor management, compliance, regulation, risk management, and forensic investigations.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Kelly served as the director for cyber incident response on the National Security Council at the White House. During her tenure there, she was responsible for both national incident response coordination, as well as management of the U.S. Government’s process for managing zero-day exploits. She was also a chief author of the National Cyber Strategy, the first of its kind in the United States in 15 years.
Before joining the National Security Council in 2017, Kelly served as chief of staff and chief of strategic initiatives in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cyber Division, where she managed daily operations and strategic and policy planning for the FBI’s national cyber program. Prior to her 10-year tenure at the FBI, she was a law clerk in the Office of General Counsel at the Y-12 National Security Complex, a Department of Energy facility in Tennessee.
Kelly was named to Consulting magazine’s inaugural Women Leaders in Technology list, recognized in the Leadership category, and Global Investigation Review’s 2020 40 under 40 guide, which honors leading young investigations specialists from across the globe. She is a member of Women in Cybersecurity and Girls Who Code.
Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she served as an author and editor for Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
Marc Raimondi
Chief of Staff, Silverado Policy Accelerator
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Marc Raimondi is chief of staff to the executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on national defense, cybersecurity, emerging technology, trade, and energy security. He also is the founder of LexStrat, a national security and tech policy consultancy, and co-organizer of the Munich and Paris International Cyber Summits. Raimondi previously served as head of public affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice and as director of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council. He has held senior roles at L3Harris Technologies, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army CID, and began his career as a U.S. Army infantryman.
Terence G. Reilly
Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) FBI, Newark
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Terence G. Reilly entered on duty as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010. From 2010 through 2016, he was assigned to the Miami Field Office, where he investigated white-collar crime matters, specifically healthcare fraud and money laundering.
In 2016, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the FBI’s Money Laundering Unit at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he served as a program manager for the FBI’s money laundering program, ensuring FBI field offices effectively utilized federal money laundering statutes in investigations to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations, with a primary emphasis on targeting money laundering facilitators.
In 2017, he was promoted to unit chief in the National Security Branch (NSB)—Executive Staff Section. In this role, he served as a senior member of the NSB executive assistant director's (EAD) staff, advising, supporting, and implementing strategic initiatives. He managed teams working on critical Strategic Information Technology Initiatives and led multiple special assignments directed by the EAD of NSB.
In 2019, he was selected as supervisory special agent of the Complex Financial Crimes squad in the Newark Field Office. In this role, he was responsible for the administration and oversight of resources and investigations for all Complex Financial Crimes in New Jersey.
In 2022, he was appointed assistant special agent in Charge of the Newark Field Office’s Cyber and Counterintelligence Programs, overseeing eight squads and approximately 130 personnel, including special agents, task force officers, analysts, and professional staff. Reilly integrated with the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, foreign law enforcement, and private sector partners to lead multiple joint-sequenced operations targeting hostile nation-states and criminal organizations. He also has prioritized engagement with private sector and academic institutions, including hosting symposia at major universities to foster information-sharing and enhance collaboration on emerging cyber and counterintelligence threats.
Reilly holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Scranton and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Florida. Prior to joining the FBI, he was an audit manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a certified public accountant, licensed in the states of New York and New Jersey.
Elizabeth Rossi
Quantum AI External Affairs, Google Quantum AI
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Elizabeth Rossi works on external affairs and governance for Google Quantum AI, facilitating initiatives to connect Google Quantum AI's research with industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. Before Google, Rossi consulted with the Department of Defense on the intersection of quantum computing and security strategy. She also gained her technical expertise as a physics researcher with the U.S. Army and a mathematician for U.S. intelligence. Rossi holds a B.S. in Physics from The George Washington University.
Fred Scalera
Director of Program Management FirstNet, AT&T
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Fred Scalera is the director of program management and The Response Operations Group for the AT&T FirstNet Program. He is responsible for facilitating collaborative innovation with FirstNet users and Public Safety. Scalera has a long history of public safety service and innovation. He retired in 2008 as a deputy chief with the Nutley Fire Department in New Jersey. During his time with the Nutley Fire Department, Scalera was assigned to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Arson Task Force. He was the first Fire Service Arson Investigator to attend a Police Academy. He served as an instructor at the Essex County Police Academy for over 25 years.
During Scaler’s career with the Fire Service and Municipal Government he also became a Certified Fire Official. Other responsibilities included radio communications, the Township Information Technology Bureau and the Emergency Management coordinator. Scalera not only served his home township of Nutley, but also within Essex County as a deputy sheriff, the deputy director of the County Office of Emergency Management and the Hazardous Material coordinator.
Scalera also served in the New Jersey State Legislature. He rose to be the deputy speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and served as chairman of the Homeland Security Preparedness Committee. He also served as the bureau chief of interoperable communications and was responsible for NJ as one of the FirstNet Early Builder projects.
Rob Schuett
Director of Insider Intelligence and Investigations, (i3) for DTEX
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Rob Schuett is the director of insider intelligence and investigations (i3) for DTEX Systems, the global leader for insider risk management. He has more than 20 years’ of experience in Cyber National Security as an FBI special agent and supervisory special agent, and in various technical and services roles at large public organizations. To close out his law enforcement career, Schuett was the lead case agent in the cyber espionage case against Su Bin, leading to the arrest and conviction of the Chinese cyber actor and co-conspirator Daniel Duggan. He has built and delivered numerous intelligence services across Mandiant, Google, and now DTEX Systems. Schuett has three children and is an advocate for parents with autistic children.
Ed Stroz
Co-Founder, Consilience 360
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Edward Stroz is a member of Consilience 360, LLC, a cyber risk consulting firm. Previously he founded Stroz Friedberg, an international digital forensics and cyber investigations firm, later sold to Aon plc in 2016.
Stroz was an FBI supervisory special agent, where he specialized in white collar investigations and then formed their Computer Crime Squad in New York. Trained as an auditor, Stroz has extensive experience in investigations of white-collar crime, including financial fraud, and has testified numerous times as an expert witness. Stroz has a special expertise in using behavioral science insights for managing insider risk for institutional clients. He is a former trustee of Fordham University, sits on the Board of Directors of the Citizens Crime Commission of NYC, and the Board of Directors of The Soufan Center. He also is a member of the Board of Advisors of DiligentIQ and Clearspeed. He is a senior fellow of the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) at the NYU School of Law.
Tania Tetlow
President, Fordham University
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Tania Tetlow was named the 33rd president of Fordham University on February 10, 2022, and took office on July 1. She is the first layperson, and the first woman, to hold the office at Fordham.
President Tetlow was the 17th president of Loyola University New Orleans. She was the first woman and the first layperson to lead Loyola since the Society of Jesus founded the university in 1912. President Tetlow was also the fourth, as well as the youngest, woman to lead one of the 27 colleges and universities in the U.S. that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. She joined Loyola in August 2018 and during her tenure ushered in a new and exciting era at the Jesuit, Catholic university.
Under her leadership, Loyola successfully completed a turnaround after the most challenging period in its financial history, improving its bond rating and repositioning university finances through careful budgeting, increased retention, continued enrollment growth, and expansion of online, graduate, and professional programs.
A dynamic leader, President Tetlow also set a clear and attainable vision for the future at Loyola. The university’s Strategic Plan for Inclusive Excellence and Strategic Plan 2020: Courage and Creativity were created to capitalize on the university’s strength in diversity, equity, and inclusion, while encouraging sustainable and meaningful improvements to programs and enrollment growth. New academic programs created in response to local and regional needs placed increased emphasis on health care. A new undergraduate nursing program established in partnership with national industry leader Ochsner Health System has created clinical placement opportunities for students and helped fill a critical gap for the system.
President Tetlow oversaw the completion of Loyola’s $100 million Faith in the Future campaign, the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history. Funds raised went primarily toward scholarships, endowed professorships, improvements to academic programs, and construction of the new Chapel of St. Ignatius and the Gayle and Tom Benson Jesuit Center. Newly created student hardship and digital equity funds have helped ensure that students are able to complete their Loyola education.
When the COVID-19 pandemic took root in New Orleans in March 2020, President Tetlow ensured the general safety of the Loyola community and a smooth transition to online and hybrid operations with minimal impact to finances. Consistent, clear communication and new virtual marketing and recruitment tools ensured that Loyola not only survived but, in many ways, thrived, taking advantage of new technology and bringing lessons learned into future operations.
Prior to joining Loyola, President Tetlow served as senior vice president and chief of staff as well as the Felder-Fayard Professor of Law at Tulane University, where she was a key strategic adviser to President Michael Fitts. As a law professor, President Tetlow’s research helped persuade the Department of Justice to reimagine its regulation of constitutional policing. She also directed Tulane’s Domestic Violence Law Clinic for which she raised millions of dollars in federal grant funds.
Before her career in academia, President Tetlow was an associate at Phelps Dunbar, litigating complex commercial transactions. She also served as an assistant United States attorney, prosecuting everything from violent crime to fraud cases.
President Tetlow graduated cum laude from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies and is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree and was a Harry S. Truman Fellow. A Catholic who was born in New York and grew up in New Orleans, President Tetlow has deep family ties to the Jesuits and to Fordham, where her parents met as graduate students in the late 1960s.
Amanda Walker
Sr. Director, Engineering - Privacy, Safety and Security, Google
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Amanda Walker is a senior leader in the field of security, privacy, and safety engineering at Google. She currently holds the position of senior director of engineering for security, privacy, and safety at the company. Walker has extensive experience in building APIs, services, and other components related to privacy infrastructure. As a software engineering manager of privacy infrastructure, she has played a crucial role in shaping Google's approach to user privacy. Her work involves applied research and open source security. Her leadership has been instrumental in Google's efforts to balance innovation with user privacy concerns.
Currently, Walker is leading efforts to integrate and advance Google's security and privacy research initiatives. She also is contributing to discussions and events focused on the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and privacy.
From August 2019–February 2022, she served as vice president of engineering at Nuna, which builds products to enable value-based healthcare in the US, serving private payers and provider systems, as well as federal and state governments. Prior to her time at Nuna, she worked for more than 13 years in roles of increasing responsibility at Google—from senior software engineer to director of engineering. In this latter role she headed up privacy infrastructure engineering. She is considered one of the early security and privacy pioneers at Google.
Prior to her first stint at Google, Walker was the principal member technical staff for San Diego Research Center, Inc. and served as the lead systems engineer for the development of an innovative military wireless communications system. Earlier in her career she served as a senior software engineer for IOXperts, Inc.; as a senior systems engineer for Xram /SMI Group, Inc., a senior software engineer for Widevine Technologies, Inc. and InterCon/PSINet/Ascend/Lucent; and a Software Architect for Visix Software, Inc.
Rebecca Ulam Weiner
Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, NYPD
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Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Ulam Weiner oversees the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, managing investigative, analytical, operational, and engagement efforts across the domains of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal intelligence, infrastructure and event protection, cyber threat intelligence, and geopolitical risk. She develops and implements policy and strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau and publicly represents the NYPD in matters involving counterterrorism and intelligence. Prior to assuming command of the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau, Deputy Commissioner Weiner oversaw the NYPD’s counterterrorism operations and analysis section, developing an internationally recognized intelligence and threat analysis program. She also served as the first representative of local law enforcement in the Office of the director of National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council, where she focused on transnational crime and terrorism.
Deputy Commissioner Weiner previously served as assistant commissioner for intelligence analysis, legal counsel to the Intelligence Bureau’s Intelligence Analysis Unit, and team leader for the Middle East & North Africa, overseeing intelligence collection and analysis related to threats associated with those regions. Prior to joining the NYPD in 2006, Deputy Commissioner Weiner was an international security fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a biotechnology consultant at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and a science & technology research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Deputy Commissioner Weiner graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in History & Literature, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005 with a Juris Doctorate. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Leadership in Counterterrorism Alumni Association, and she was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 2006.
Wendi Whitmore
Senior Vice President, Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks
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Wendi Whitmore serves as senior vice president for Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks. Whitmore is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, with two decades of experience building incident response and threat intelligence teams that have helped solve some of the world’s largest breaches. She is the chair of the industry Advisory Board for the Duke University Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity (MECS) and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity. Whitmore was previously an inaugural member of the Cyber Safety Review Board, launched by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
B. Chad Yarbrough
Operations Director for Criminal/Cyber, FBI
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Chad Yarbrough is the operations director for criminal/cyber. He most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Office. Yarbrough also served as a deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
A native of the Dallas area, Yarbrough joined the FBI as a special agent in 2006. He was first assigned to the Dothan Resident Agency of the Mobile Field Office in Alabama, where he investigated violent crime and crimes against children. In 2010, Yarbrough transferred to the Chicago Field Office. As a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, he investigated domestic terrorism matters.
Yarbrough was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2012 and worked in the Internal Investigations Unit of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters. In 2014, he was named supervisory special agent of the Mobile Field Office’s Violent Criminal Threats squad and also supervised Mobile’s Child Exploitation and Safe Streets task forces.
In 2017, Yarbrough was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office, overseeing the criminal, crisis-management, and SWAT programs. Yarbrough led the FBI’s response to—and investigation of—the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue. He also had oversight of criminal and counterterrorism matters in the resident agencies in Pennsylvania that fell under the Pittsburgh Field Office.
Yarborough was promoted again in 2020, to section chief of the FBI’s National Threat Operations Section. He led more than 300 FBI employees receiving, analyzing, and processing tips from the public and private sector about allegations of federal criminal violations and threats to national security. In 2021, he was named deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, overseeing the Transnational Organized Crime, Violent Crime, and Operational Support sections.
Prior to joining the FBI, Yarbrough worked in the Fort Worth, Texas, area as a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigative Division. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Sam Houston State University in Texas.
Andy Yolevich
Business Information Security Office, Yahoo
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Andy Yolevich is the business information security officer (BISO) at Yahoo, working within The Paranoids, the company’s dedicated security team. He partners with product leaders to embed security into the heart of innovation across Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, and beyond.
Previously director of threat investigations & intelligence, Yolevich led global teams that protected millions of users and safeguarded critical revenue streams. Today, he brings those frontline insights to the product space—transforming security from a blocker into a business enabler and championing user trust at scale.