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Jacqui built her early career leading marketing programs across a variety of start-up technology companies—and doing every marketing and communications job that needed doing along the way. Then 8 years ago, one of those companies was acquired by IBM. Initially a reluctant convert to big business, Jacqui now loves leading the technology and consulting field marketing team for IBM Americas. She spends the days working with IBM sellers, ecosystem partners, and marketers to generate demand, progress opportunities and help customers solve business problems with great technology and solution expertise.

Lorellee Welch is a thought leader in digital and organizational transformations. She has an impressive portfolio of achievements spanning two decades across the sectors of strategy, product management, operational restructuring, and technology management in Global-500 companies with industries in Fintech, Proptech, e-commerce, media, and auto finance. Lorellee is an internal consultant to key executives while building teams to execute transformation initiatives. She currently serves as the Director of IT Strategy & Planning at First American Corporation, driving Corporate IT’s transformation roadmap and strategic programs to achieve business value, cultivate innovation, and manifest change. Lorellee has spent a considerable portion of her career at Hyundai Capital America, working in various roles for the company, including an expatriate position at Hyundai Capital Canada. While living and working in Toronto, she established a long-term business and operations model enabled by organizational restructuring with digital transformation to achieve new market penetration and a profitable business. While in Canada, she also co-founded Women for Leadership Foundation and partnered with Lean-In Canada. Lorellee recently received an academic appointment as an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University. She teaches MBA students with concentration in Digital Innovation and Information Systems.

Vijay is an experienced IT leader with over two decades of diverse experience developing, nurturing, and leading high performing teams to deliver cutting edge services and solutions. His deep technical experience stems from successful stints in running and managing Information Technology in academia, private sector, and public sector organizations resulting in a unique skill set enabling him to provide strategic insights and drive innovation in just about any environment. His overriding passion for people shines through in his desire to motivate, inspire, and mentor his team to fulfill their potential. This passion drives him to deliver immense value in all his engagements with a focus on customer satisfaction and long-term sustainable positive outcomes. Vijay firmly believes that people come first, second , and third when it comes to the success of any organization because the right people with the right mindset can break through any obstacles regardless of the other constraints placed upon them. In addition to his passion for people, Vijay has extensive experience and deep-seated passion in leading and driving process improvement maturity within organizations leading to recurring and consistent impact in business outcomes with an emphasis on recurring value instead of just one-off benefits. In his current role as Deputy CIO for L.A. County Probation (the largest probation department in the country) he directly oversees infrastructure and operations, business applications, and data management while providing peripheral oversight over information security, PMO and administration. Vijay focuses on developing his team to deliver continuous value and innovation by driving the right culture, mindset, and process discipline in every facet of the work environment. This approach leads to meaningful and enduring operational outcomes that have tangible impact on the health and maturity of any organization.

Chris Stoneley is a highly qualified governance, risk management, and compliance program executive with extensive experience, and demonstrated effectiveness in designing, implementing, and leading Information Technology practices through Audit and Global Risk Management programs in Compliance, and Operational Risk Areas for large financial institutions. He leverages a unique combination of information technology knowledge, analytical/intelligence skills, and practical financial services experience to drive innovative and effective governance, risk, and compliance management solutions. He also brings specific experience with enterprise risk management, models, information security, cybersecurity, data management, information technology general controls, end-user computing, risk assessment development and implementation, risk issue management, emerging risk analysis, and vendor risk management. Chris currently holds the position of Chief Information Security Officer at Cathay Bank.

Andre brings a unique combination of strong cybersecurity, cloud security, fraud, and risk knowledge to Uptycs. Prior to Uptycs, Andre spent five years at AWS in various senior leadership roles. Most recently, he was Head of the AWS Account Takeover group within the Fraud Prevention organization. Prior to AWS Andre spent seven years at Rackspace, where he oversaw the global AWS Technical Operations & Support organization that focused on DevOps services for customers. In his free time, Andre enjoys tinkering with and learning the intricacies of cloud computing, especially from a threat actor’s vantage point.

Kymberlee is a Technology Transformation Leader that helps organization accomplish their strategic level goals by utilizing communication, data and analysis, technology, business acumen, and employee motivation and development. Kymberlee Page has over 23 years of experience working in every aspect of the IT life cycle. She has worked in a variety of industries like Education, Financial Services, Health Care, and Home Building. She has experience working in small start companies as well as top Fortune 500 companies with over 100,000 employees. Kymberlee has several years of Product and Project leadership experience that has met the evolving needs for consumer products and services. Over the last 2 decades, she has been successful at accomplishing key strategic products and projects utilizing technology. Kymberlee is currently the Director of PMO for Tri Pointe Homes. Her role is responsible for all IT Strategic Projects and Initiatives, IT training and IT curriculum development, Technology Product Management and User Experiences, and Quality Assurance for all IT systems and services. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Xavier University, and Master’s degree in Organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix. Kymberlee also has received a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification, and Pragmatic Marketing (PMC – II) certification. Kymberlee frequently speaks at conferences and sits on a variety of advisory boards for different organizations. She is a firm believer that you should never stop learning and is excited to share some insight with everyone.

After completing his undergraduate at UC Berkeley and master’s degree at San Jose State University, Kenneth joined NASA Ames Research Center. At NASA, he worked in local and wide area networking and network research. He has played major roles in several engineering and research projects. Examples include development of the Next Generation Internet Exchange West; development of quality of service, and IPv6 technologies on NASA networks; and prototyping of a wide range of high-performance networking applications, from remote echocardiography to air-traffic management. Based on previous work related to bringing Internet protocols to NASA’s space program, Kenneth began work in space communications. As NASA began work on replacing the space shuttle. Kenneth joined a team that began working on test and evaluation of the space communications systems for future space missions. He then led at team to implement NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC), building a cybersecurity operations center that is the nerve center for the detection and monitoring information security incidents for NASA. Once built, he moved on to manage the operational NASA SOC. He is now leading the Secure Airspace project, which develops and demonstrates capabilities, for secure data integrity, resiliency and information privacy for national airspace environments.