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Nader Nemati is the Chief Information Officer for QTC - Leidos. Mr. Nemati directs all technology aspects of QTC including Product Management, Software Development, Software Quality Assurance, Help Desk Support, IT Compliance / Security and overall IT Infrastructure. Mr. Nemati was also instrumental in the integration of QTC with Lockheed Martin during the acquisition and creation of the initial IT Infrastructure for the Lockheed Martin Healthcare platform. Subsequently, Mr. Nemati worked closely with Leidos, Lockheed Martin, and QTC team to transition QTC to the Leidos Network environment in July 2017. Mr. Nemati has been instrumental in leading the development and deployment of numerous innovative technology solutions and other key process improvement initiatives across QTC by working closely with internal stakeholders as well as key clients. Mr. Nemati has a successful track record of award-winning enterprise application deployment building industry leadership, sound understanding of global IT infrastructure, IT security and compliance (e.g. HIPAA, NIST) and operational innovation in private and public organizations providing great value for our clients and key stakeholders. Mr. Nemati is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of experience in Operations, Sales, Information Technology (IT), and Product Management in Fortune-50, mid-market and start-up companies with focus on revenue growth through product positioning, licensing models and go to market in more than 100 countries, integration, contract management, field enablement, and productivity gains through Lean and Six-Sigma principles and Agile Scrum methodologies, and overall enhancement of stakeholder value through digital transformation while continuing to focus on the highest level of customer service. Mr. Nemati is responsible for leading several enterprise application products to market through direct as well as partner channels including on premise and subscription-based license model offerings across different markets. Mr. Nemati has collaborated with several Private Equities and been involved in numerous mergers & acquisitions before joining Leidos. He was the co-founder and CEO of CompuNet eBusiness Group, Inc. later acquired by Epicor Software. Mr. Nemati has also held management-level positions at several Fortune 50 companies including Honeywell, Sears & Roebuck, and AlliedSignal in all key geographic regions worldwide.

Chris Bontempo is the Chief Marketing Officer for IBM Americas, where he leads all aspects of Marketing for IBM with direct responsibility for marketing sourced revenue, demand generation and geography marketing professionals across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Chris works with IBM sellers, marketers and ecosystem partners to help clients find the right innovative IBM solutions to solve their digital transformation challenges. Prior to leading geography marketing, Chris was responsible for IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software Marketing in the Americas, focusing on field and channel marketing and demand generation. He supported multiple business units including IBM Public Cloud, Data & AI, Automation, AI Apps and IBM Security. He joined IBM in 2005 and has led marketing teams in Market Intelligence, Cloud, and also led Marketing and Offerings for the IBM Security business unit in North America for the past 6 years. Chris is based in New York City with his family and dog, where he runs, plays and coaches soccer, and occasionally plays guitar and bass in some truly forgettable bands.

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.

As SVP Americas at Virsec, Jason brings with him more than 20 years of go-to-market cyber security leadership and strategy experience at global technology companies. Jason previously served as Duo Security's VP Americas Sales, where he played a critical role in building up Duo as a unicorn in its marketplace. Jason grew annual sales from just a few million dollars to more than $75 million ARR over a period of three years, structured Duo's sales operation for enterprise and Fortune 100 companies, and expanded its sales team from two to 165 employees, priming the company for its acquisition by Cisco Systems Inc. for $2.35 billion.

Michael Panico has over 20 years of information security experience. A former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Michael is credited with breaking up an international ring of botnet operators who used Denial of Service attacks to cause millions of dollars of damage. After leaving the FBI in 2006, Michael joined Microsoft to serve as Incident Response lead for Microsoft’s Global data center infrastructure, which at the time, underpinned all of the company’s Internet-facing web services. In 2011, Michael took a role as Vice President in the Seattle office of Stroz Friedberg, a digital forensics consultancy. In that role he served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, specializing in data breach investigations. He has responded to some of the most serious computer intrusions in recent history and has served as a trusted advisor to executive management when they sought to design secure computing environments. After recent stints working in Content Protection and cybersecurity for The Walt Disney Company and NBC Universal, Michael now is Vice President and Head of Information Security at Curative, a genomics company on the front lines of fighting Covid-19.

Colin Crowley is CX Advisor at Freshworks and has spent over 12 years managing global customer experience organizations and promoting technological changemaking. He specializes in building customer service departments from the ground-up, with a focus on scalability, infrastructural agility, product innovation, and gold-standard quality and efficiency. Previously, he served as AVP of Consumer Transactions at the event ticket marketplace TicketNetwork, the inaugural VP of Customer Experience at the food tech company Freshly, and also SVP of Customer Experience at the fintech company Albert. Colin is also an award-winning playwright whose plays have been performed across fifteen states, as well as New York City and London.

Ian’s focus is on designing secure industrial networks that operate efficiently at scale. By profession, Ian is the President of Dispel. By training, he is an industrial engineer. Outside of his day job, Ian is the Vice President of the National Defense Industry Association’s NY-CT Chapter, a Principal Investigator for Dispel on three projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and a member of the OMAC Remote Access Work Group. He is also a feisty flyweight rower and open weight coxswain.