Anthony E. Zuiker is the creator of the "CSI" franchise, which has earned the title of the "most-watched show in the world" on multiple occasions, spawned three television spin-offs ("CSI: Cyber," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York"), aired hundreds of episodes, and even garnered a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD®.

Most recently, Zuiker announced that he is officially on board to write Soul Train the musical for Broadway. He has also pushed the envelope on both scripted and reality television with his first foray into the reality genre, "Whodunnit?" for ABC. One of the most groundbreaking cross-platform storytellers today, Zuiker created and executive produced "Cybergeddon," a digital blockbuster for Yahoo. Zuiker is also credited as pioneering the "Digi-novel" genre and is the author of the best-selling series "Level 26," published by Dutton/Penguin Group. In 2011, Zuiker published his personal memoir, Mr. CSI: How a Vegas Dreamer Made a Killing in Hollywood, One Body at a Time, with Harper Collins.

With a busy year ahead, Kal Penn will next star opposite Tyler Labine in Hulu's original comedy series "Deadbeat," premiering in April. He is currently in production on the ABC series "Designated Survivor," a conspiracy thriller in which a low-ranking cabinet member becomes President of the United States. Penn will star opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the series, on which he also serves as government consultant. Next up, he will return as host of "Superhuman," Fox's competition series that has been picked up for an 8-episode run, following a 2-hour special that aired this past January.

Kal Penn is known for his starring roles in "House," How I Met Your Mother," and, of course, the "Harold and Kumar" franchise, among many other studio and independent films and television series. Notably, The New York Times called his lead role in Mira Nair's The Namesake a "crackling, star-making performance." He recently completed production on several independent films including, "Sisterhood of Night", "Outliving Emily", "The Layover" and "Stereotypically You."

From 2009 to 2011, Penn took a sabbatical from acting, and served as an Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, where he focused primarilyon outreach related to Young Americans, including related issues such as the Affordable Care Act, repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and veterans benefits for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Originally from New Jersey, Penn received his undergraduate degree in Sociology, Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a graduate certificate in International Security from Stanford University. Penn has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Nir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies, and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.

Mark D. McLaughlin joined as president and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in August of 2011 and became Chairman of the Board in 2012.

Before coming to Palo Alto Networks, Mark served as President and CEO of Verisign. Prior to that, he held a number of key positions at Verisign including serving as Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Products and Marketing, and head of the company's Naming Services business. Prior to Verisign, he was the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Signio, a leading Internet payment company. Before joining Signio, he was the Vice President of Business Development for Gemplus, the world's leading smart-card company. Previous to Gemplus, he also served as General Counsel of Caere Corporation and practiced law as an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP.

President Barack Obama appointed Mark to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) in January, 2011. In 2014, President Obama appointed Mark to the position of Chairman of the NSTAC. He received his J.D., Magna cum Laude, from Seattle University School of Law and his B.S. Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as an attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army and earned his Airborne Wings. Mark currently serves on the board of directors for Opower (NYSE:OPWR) and Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).

Lee Klarich brings a strong track record in network security product management to Palo Alto Networks. Lee was Director of Product Management for Juniper Networks, where was he responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Prior to NetScreen Technologies, Lee held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC.

Sai is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in datacenter and cloud security team at Palo Alto Networks. His specific interests include datacenter security architecture, cloud security, security policy for SDN environments He supports Palo Alto Networks  Datacenter, Cloud, SDN, Enterprise Networks Architecture marketing activities. He has 15+ years of experience in the security, data-networking/telecom industry including software/hardware architecture and product management . He holds B.E and M.S degrees in computer science and engineering.

Technical Security Architect with 22 years of experience in Information Technology, 14 of them in a Security role. A former Nuclear Engineer, an informal Nuclear Evangelist (ask me about LFTR), and former cowboy and dirt-track race-horse jockey. A strong advocate that Security baked-in must trump bolted-on. Outside of work, I am a severely outnumbered family man (wife and 3 daughters) with way too many dogs/horses/cats/goats, an 18 year Dog Agility competitor/instructor and 6 year Judge (North American Dog Agility Council - NADAC).

Marc Benoit is currently the Vice President of Technical Business Development at Palo Alto Networks.  Mr. Benoit leverages his broad technical experience to analyze emerging technology trends and their impact on Palo Alto Networks strategic vision.  He also drives advanced solutions with key technology partners. During his tenure at Palo Alto Networks, Mr. Benoit has delivered advanced prototypes and led cross-functional teams to transform them into marketable products. 

Christopher Beyer has over 20 years of experience supporting IT systems for large companies, and has implemented secure network and remote access solutions in many different environments. Chris has been heavily involved with ICS security and compliance, and co-founded SYNACKTEK, LLC to focus on helping utilities improve their cyber security and compliance management programs. Before becoming a full time consultant, Chris was the manager of an IT/OT team for a utility headquartered in New England, and dealt first hand with the issues and politics around implementing security and compliance frameworks around industrial control systems.

Leonid Burakovsky currently serves as the Senior Director of Mobile Security, Service Providers in Product Management at Palo Alto Networks. Prior to this role, he served as F5 Networks' Senior Director of Strategic Solutions and Juniper Networks' Alliances CTO. Leonid regularly speaks at industry forums such as NGMN Forum, Mobile World Congress, 4G, CTIA, Futurecom, IEEE, BroadbandForum, LTE NA, LTE World, LTE LATAMÉ to name a few. Leonid also worked at Airslide, Bezeq International, ECI, Alcatel and the Center for Communication Research. Leonid has more than 30 years of industry experience and holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Information Systems Engineering.

Christopher Campbell serves as the Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise Mobility in AirWatch Marketing at VMware.  Prior to this role, he served as Director of Product Marketing, Mobile Security for Identity Management for Workspace Services, EUC Marketing. Christopher experience spans technical services, ngineering, product management and product marketing with more than 17 years of industry experience. Christopher currently leads the marketing efforts for the Mobile Security Alliance, VMware AirWatch & NSX Integration, AirWatch Ecosystem Marketing and Mobility Excellence Programs.  Christopher is certified in project Leadership from Cornell University and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Management from Florida Atlantic University, and a MBA in Marketing from the University of Miami (aka The U).

Lawrence brings 25+ years of IT experience to the Industry Initiatives team, and is focused on developing the market for financial institutions that need innovative enterprise security solutions. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Lawrence spent 17 years at one of the largest global enterprise banks with leadership roles in network architecture and engineering for a worldwide network spanning 100 countries and more than 20 data centers. His experience ranges from branch/campus networks, Internet and 3rd party network perimeter, data center networks, and international backbone network designs. In all these areas, Lawrence delivered world-class solutions to realize strategic business goals through network technologies. This was accomplished with an emphasis on cost optimization, maximizing network performance and availability while minimizing the risk to the enterprise. Lawrence started his IT career with Bellcore, which was the research and development arm of the Regional Bell Operating Companies.

Richard Clarke is CEO of Good Harbor Security Risk Management, which advises companies and governments on cyber security. He served for thirty years in the United States Government, including an unprecedented ten continuous years as a White House official, serving three consecutive Presidents. In the White House he was Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace, and National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism. In addition to his work at Good Harbor, he served or currently serves in several advisory or board capacities: Member, President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology (NSA review group); Co-Chairman, Virginia Cyber Security Commission; Member, New York Governor Cuomo's Cyber Security Advisory Board; Senior Advisor on Cyber-Security and Counter-terrorism to the CEO of SRA International; Chairman of the Board of Governors, Middle East Institute; Member, Board of Directors of Veracode; Member, Board of Directors of Bit9; and, Member, Board of Directors of Nok Nok Labs.

Gus P. Coldebella is a principal at the law firm of Fish & Richardson concentrating on cybersecurity, litigation, and government investigations. From 2005 to 2009, he was the deputy general counsel, then the acting general counsel, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, focusing on all major security issues confronting the nation. As the department's top lawyer, Mr. Coldebella helped lead implementation of President Bush's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, designed to shore up the government's civilian networks from attack and to promote information sharing and cooperation between the public and private sector. At Fish & Richardson, he focuses on helping companies plan for and respond to cyberattacks. As a securities litigator, he is well positioned to advise public companies on SEC disclosures regarding cybersecurity and boards of directors' corporate governance responsibilities to oversee and manage this important enterprise risk.

Retired U.S. Army Major General John Davis is the Vice President and Federal Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks, where he is responsible for expanding cybersecurity initiatives and global policy for the international public sector and assisting governments around the world to successfully prevent cyber breaches.

Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, John served as the Senior Military Advisor for Cyber to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. Prior to this assignment, he served in multiple leadership positions in special operations, cyber, and information operations. His military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star Medal.

John earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Master of Military Art and Science from U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and Bachelor of Science from U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

With more than 20 years of experience in Technology and Information Security, he has led teams in development, security operations, architecture and policy development. He is currently serving as the Central Region Engineering Manager for Palo Alto Networks and is actively involved with issues of security at major companies and on the forefront of what will be needed near and long term. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he has held roles at F5 Networks, Check Point Software and Arthur Andersen. He actively speaks at various regional and national events and is a member of the Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force that is organized by the US Secret Service.

Steve brings a wealth of full spectrum cyber operations and strategic development experience gained through solving some of the toughest national security problems over the past 15 years. Steve's unique insight into national cyber operations, big data management, and the security industry shape the focus and direction of Hexis' Innovation Roadmap. Previously, Steve was one of KEYW's initial employees and worked tirelessly to build KEYW's cyber portfolio and reputation resulting in KEYW transcending into a recognized leader in the fields of computer network operations development and training.

Sean is Vice President and Regional Chief Security Officer for Asia Pacific at Palo Alto Networks where he works on the development of thought leadership, threat intelligence and security best practices for the cyber security community and business executives. With more than 17 years of experience in security, he acts as a trusted advisor to organizations helping them improve their security postures and align security strategically with business initiatives. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he spent 15 years in a variety of roles at Intel Security, with his last position as the Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific.

Robert is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with Unit 42 focusing on malware analysis, reverse engineering and tracking advanced threat actors. Prior to joining Unit42, he was a Malware Research Engineer at Verisign iDefense focusing primarily on malware analysis and tracking threat actors associated with cyber espionage activity. He also worked as a Security Engineer within the Security Operations Center for VeriSign's Managed Security Service focused on intrusion detection and prevention.

Jon Farkas has been a focused Security practitioner for over 16 years; designing security strategies for some of the largest, best known organizations in the world.  Most recently Jon has become focused on helping organizations rationalize security in the modern world of automation in both the dynamic data center and cloud based applications.

Andrew Fischbach, is a Consulting Engineer with Palo Alto Networks, providing customers and business partners with superior technical and sales support. Presently focused on GlobalProtect.

With a strong knowledge of routing, switching, security and remote access solutions, Andrew brings a unique background and perspective with his 25+ years in the telecommunications industry. He prides himself on being creative with technology to enhance the users experience while always keeping in mind the business value to any solution.

Mr. Fischbach came to Palo Alto Networks through experiences at Synoptics, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, TippingPoint, Juniper Networks and as CTO of the Medical Utility Company.

Andrew Fischbach holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the University of Wisconsin, an Associates Degree from The Milwaukee Business Technology Institute, and a Masters in Telecommunications from Denver University.

Andrew lives in the mountains of Colorado, enjoying numerous outdoor sports to include skiing, horseback riding, hunting, fishing and hiking.

Jamie is a Sr. Product Manager responsible for Palo Alto Networks management software. Accountable for visibility, logging, reporting, architecture across Panorama and the device interface.

Justin Flynn is the Sales Engineering Manager at Burwood Group, Inc. His focus is on designing and implementing networking and security solutions that provide strategic value. Utilizing a consultative approach to understand business issues, Justin is able to provide meaningful technological solutions that scale to meet changing demands. His vertical expertise includes healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.

Richard Foltak is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff working at Verizon. Richard's responsibility includes designing, planning, and deploying Network and Security infrastructure solutions across all private, public and hybrid Cloud deployments within Verizon IT. Richard has an extensive network and security background, having spearheaded the design and development of many networking and security frameworks and applications at various companies, including Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks. Richard has extensive experience in developing and deploying both software and hardware solutions across all infrastructure and server application stack layers, giving his a unique broad insight into effectively orchestrating a DevOps ecosystem.

Jon has been a Security Geek and Product Manager for 20 years with a passion for all things Threat Intelligence. Previously designing and running the Californian parts of Obamacare IT Security and now leading Network Access Control solutions in an age of BYOD. Of equal comfort in the boardroom or admin cube, understanding and designing solutions with a focus on deliverability. Since the acquisition of Aruba Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprises, working to the new challenges of even greater scale and more research and resources to digest. Always look to conferences such as RSA, Ignite and Atmosphere as a learning opportunity, not just speaking.

David Guretz is an IT security expert with more than 15 years of leadership and hands-on experience in enterprise security, holding both CISM and CISSP. David has built solutions to protect intellectual property and data assets for many organizations in the financial industry as well as telecommunications, legal, and insurance. David has practiced security in a variety of capacity: Directing security programs at Jump Trading and The Warranty Group, as an architect at Allstate and AT&T, and currently as a Systems Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks. David is currently part of the Palo Alto Networks field team, advising enterprise customers on how to evolve their security infrastructure to meet today cybersecurity challenges.

Since 2004, Jef has specialized in IT security. During this time he has designed and implemented creative and practical security solutions for customers in a variety of business verticals. His experience covers a broad range of product types and vendors with solutions in the security spaces of application control, malware research, detection and prevention, wired and wireless network security and availability, authentication and access control, datacenter design, public and private cloud design, and automation. Jef is currently a Consulting Engineer at Palo Alto Networks and has been with the company since January of 2012

Rick is the CSO for Palo Alto Networks where he is responsible for the company's internal security program, the oversight of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Intelligence Team and the development of thought leadership for the cyber security community. His prior jobs include the CISO for TASC, the GM of iDefense and the SOC Director at Counterpane. He served in the U.S. Army for 23 years and spent the last 2 years of his career running the Army's CERT. Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy. He taught computer science at the Military Academy and contributed as an executive editor to two books: "Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures" and "Cyber Security Essentials."

Eric Ji is responsible for joint go-to-market activities and sales enablement with technology partners in OpenStack ecosystem. Prior to Mirantis Eric served 10+ years at Juniper Networks in a variety of roles in solution architect, marketing, engineering and management?. ??His technical background spans Cloud, NFV, SDN, Security, Virtualization and Data Center Fabric.

Srikanth brings a strong track record of product management in areas spanning Network security, Cloud management software, Data Center Switching, and Routing. At Palo Alto Networks, Srikanth is currently responsible for addressing the needs of the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and Cloud Security Service Provider (CSSP) segments. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Srikanth was a Director of Product Management at HPE. As the first Product Manager hired for NFV at HPE, he was responsible for SDN, OpenStack and Converged DC Systems offerings for the growing NFV market segment. Prior to HPE, he held the role of Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks. At Juniper, as was one of the first Product Managers in the EX product group, he played an instrumental role in Juniper's success in the Ethernet switching market.

Hari Krishnan is currently Sr. Director of Product Management for Security at Nuage Networks, a SDN venture from Nokia / Alcatel-Lucent. Hari brings over 18 years of experience leading product management, strategy and marketing for network security, virtualization, networking and management software products for Enterprise and Service Provider customers. Prior to his current role at Nuage, Hari was Director of Product Management for ACI at Cisco Insieme Business unit. Prior to Cisco, Hari held a variety of product leadership roles at market leading companies such as VMware, F5 Networks and Nominum.

Hari has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Masters in Computer Science from UCLA and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Ody Lupescu currently serves as the head of information security & compliance at Medivation.  Prior to joining Medivation, Ody held a number of senior roles in technology risk management in the financial services industry, most recently as a VP of information risk management at Redwood Trust; he also served as the head of infrastructure and security for the Financial Services Group at AIG. In-between his industry roles, Ody spent over 8 years in consulting roles, most recently leading the Protiviti technology risk management and privacy practice in Northern California. 

Steve Maks has been a Systems Engineer at Palo Alto Networks since July of 2012. He has over 16 years of experience in the network security industry and prior to Palo Alto Networks held SE positions at NetScreen
Technologies and Q1Labs, among others.

Vinay is a Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks and drives OpenStack and Orchestration strategy. He joined Palo Alto Networks in January and comes with a strong background in driving Cloud/SDN and Orchestration integrations at his previous tenures at A10 Networks and Juniper. 

Matt McLimans is a Network Security Engineer at Warren Rogers Associates, a precision fuel diagnostic company near Newport, Rhode Island. He began at Warren Rogers as a Computer Engineer developing the company's technical processes and procedures. Beginning in 2012, Matt transitioned into the Network Security role. He has worked extensively within public cloud infrastructures to develop solutions to meet numerous compliance regulations including, PCI DSS 3.1 and SSAE-16.

Matt has provided Qualified Security Assessors implementation reports to verify compliance on a variety of platforms within remote, and diverse, networking environments. He has applied various tools to run penetration and vulnerability scans, including Metasploit, Nexpose, and Kali Linux. Matt has implemented a business continuity plan to guide disaster recovery procedures to ensure risks are identified and removed effectively.

In addition to meeting corporate compliance regulations, Matt has designed a virtualized infrastructure to serve as the termination point for a large endpoint network. He has experience in designing action plans with corporate security teams to address complex security and networking projects. Matt obtained a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

Robert McNutt is a Director of Strategic Engineering responsible on aligning technology innovation, technical partnerships and relationships with strategic customers at ForeScout. By aligning a background and experience in solving security challenges for Fortune 100 organizations with the concept of making different security products work well together ForeScout is able to deliver solutions that unify the approach to information security intelligence, control and response. Robert currently runs a team which helps define how security products should work together with CounterACT by working directly with partners, customers and internal development teams.

Matthew Mellen is a security architect with Palo Alto Networks and is based out of Santa Clara, CA. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Matt led an information security operations team at a large hospital network in the San Francisco Bay area. As the IT Security Manager he managed security programs in the areas of Compliance, Incident Response, Threat and Vulnerability Management and Identity and Access Management. He also facilitated external audits and was a primary member of the Major Computer Incident Response Team at the hospital. Matt has spent the majority of his 14 year career consulting for large complex organizations to help introduce technology and processes that make information security efforts easier and more effective. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College and his graduate work in Information Security at Golden Gate University.

Joby Menon is senior product manager for mobility at Palo Alto Networks. Joby drives the GlobalProtect product line to safely enable the enterprise mobile workforce. Joby has extensive experience building solutions for mobility in various industry verticals. Joby holds MBA and computer science engineering degree.

Monzy Merza serves as the Director of Cyber Research and Chief Security Evangelist at Splunk Inc. He has over 15 years of tactical, advisory and research experience in government and commercial organizations. His experience includes product development and testing, penetration testing, adversary modeling, security operations infrastructure and program development. Monzy has served as content developer and instructor for cyber trainings and red/blue team exercises. He has also been an invited speaker at government and open conferences. Monzy's  research is focused on integrated approaches to human driven and automated responses to targeted cyber attacks.

For more than ten years, Jen has worked in cyber threat intelligence and served as a Subject Matter Expert to multiple US federal agencies. She has influenced national cyber security policies and regularly briefed at all levels of government. Her focus is detecting, identifying, and differentiating between cyber-espionage and cyber-crime actors and groups. A veteran of the US Air Force, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Jen has several degrees and technical certifications, including a Master of Science degree in information technology from the University of Maryland.

Reza is part of a dynamic organization, helping to guide state government entities in the direction of compute, network and storage. Currently the team is building a software defined datacenter by leveraging VMware NSX, Palo Alto Networks & Arkin to lessen CAPEX and OPEX and giving customers in a multi-tenant Data Center the ability to self-provision IT resources.

Erin Nealy Cox is an Executive Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg, a global leader in investigations, intelligence, and risk management. In this capacity, she leads the Incident Response Unit for Stroz Friedberg. Ms. Nealy Cox is responsible for the overall operations of the global incident response group, including supervising first responders, threat intelligence analysts, and mal-ware specialists. These responders are deployed to assist corporate clients affected by cyberattacks, state-sponsored espionage, and data breach cases in sectors, including retail, hospitality, energy, biomedical and health, and critical infrastructure. Ms. Nealy Cox also maintains a full docket of corporate client assignments in the areas of cybercrime investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and electronic discovery processing. She is a trusted advisor to top executives, in-house lawyers, and outside counsel. Prior to Stroz Friedberg, Ms. Nealy Cox served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, leading major cybercrime prosecutions nationwide while also handling complex cases of white-collar fraud, public corruption, and intellectual property theft. Additionally, she served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel for the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, during the Bush Administration.

Nivedita Ojha, Sr. Director, Product Management, Citrix is currently leading the Server & Platform team within XenMobile. She recently launched the 10.3 release of the platform with a focus on unified end-point management. In addition, increased XenMobile's investment with security partners by delivering the API gateway. Prior to Citrix, she has led global Product Management teams in Fortune 500 as well as Venture Backed start-ups. Besides possessing Engineering and MBA degrees from the USA, her professional career has spanned international assignments, across Europe, South America, and Asia.

Ryan Olson is the director of Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence team; responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Olson served as Senior Manager in Verisign's iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. He is a contributing author to the book,"Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures," and primary author of "Cyber Security Essentials." He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in Security Informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Siva Rajasekaran is a Technical Marketing Engineer with expertise in Network and Enterprise Security. Having worked for Start-ups and large firms and several years in engineering department, Siva has diverse experience and deep technical skills to understand and solve customer requirements and problems. He has been instrumental in several successful customer engagements, helping customers at various stages of product deployment – from evaluation to POCs to production deployments and to handling feature enhancement requests. Siva completed his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from India and most recently he worked for Pulse Secure and Juniper Networks before joining Palo Alto Networks.

Sarvesh is a Sr. Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks. As a product manager with many years of experience in building Firewall, VPN, Access control and other security solutions he is passionate in the mission to empower the good guys stay ahead of the game.  Prior to Product Management, he has worked as an IT Manager with Ericsson for nearly a decade and believes that being in the customer’s shoes has tremendously helped him in building solutions with strong customer and business focus. 

Anoop Reddy leads many Security Features on NetScaler including the Web Application Firewall. He is a NetScaler veteran leading and architecting multiple generations of ADC and Security functionality. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and holds multiple patents in Distributed Systems, Networking, Security and Applied Machine Learning. He has also published in ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE JSAC and IEEE Infocom.

Del's experience in industrial automation goes back to his very first job as an electrical engineer at Xilinx Inc, where he was responsible for optimizing and troubleshooting production yields of advanced semiconductor devices. Today as the ICS and SCADA Solution Lead for Palo Alto Networks, he looks at automation systems through the lens of cybersecurity. Del helps asset owners globally and across multiple critical infrastructure sectors understand the importance of cybersecurity in these environments and how best practices and technologies could be applied to balance the goals of preventing cyberincidents while keeping uptime and safety high. His 19 years of technology industry experience spans Cybersecurity, Networking, Aerospace/Defense, and Semiconductors with roles in strategic marketing and engineering. Del holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Andreas has 15+ years experience in the field of IT and security. He hold the deputy CISO role in the Federal Ministry of Defense Germany, gave lectures at Dartmouth and Carnegie Mellon University. Following specialist and management positions in the energy and automotive sector he is now leading the technology and operations in a security start-up / joint venture in Berlin, Germany, aiming to raise the security level of large to small companies. The start-up is also dedicated to act as a neutral partner and clearing house for threat information sharing for the greater good.

In June 2015, Saito was named Vice Chairman for Palo Alto Networks Japan. Named by Nikkei as one of the “100 Most Influential People for Japan,” Saito began software programming in elementary school and started his own company while still in high school. By the time he was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 (by Ernst & Young, NASDAQ and USA Today), and is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on encryption, biometric authentication and cybersecurity. 

After selling his business to Microsoft, he moved to Tokyo in 2005 and founded InTecur, a venture capital firm and consultancy that identifies innovative technologies, develops global talent and helps entrepreneurs become successful. 

In 2011, he served as the Chief Technology Officer of the National Diet’s (Parliament) Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission. Later that year, he was named as both a Young Global Leader and Global Agenda Council member for World Economic Forum (WEF) and subsequently been named to its Foundation Board. In 2012, Saito was appointed to a council on national strategy and policy that reported directly to the Prime Minister of Japan. 
Saito also advises several national governments around the globe. In Japan, he has served as an advisor to METI, MIC, MEXT, and MLIT; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; the Information Technology Promotion Agency; the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, among others. He is currently the Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister of Japan.
He went to medical school at UCLA and attended Harvard Kennedy School and now teaches at several universities, sits on the boards of several companies, frequently appears as a commentator on TV and is the author of numerous publications in addition to writing several weekly newspaper columns. His best-selling management book, The Team: Solving the Biggest Problem in Japan, was published by Nikkei BP in 2012, and his autobiography, An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur, was published in 2011 by John Wiley & Sons. Other books published include “IOT – A Warning to Japanese Companies” (Diamond Publishing, 2015) and “The Change Maker” (Nikkei Publishing, 2016).

Dr. Udo Seidel would have been a teacher for mathematics and physics if he would not have been infected by the Linux and Opensource virus in 1996. After his PhD he worked as Linux/Unix instructor, sysadmin and senior solution engineer. Now he is a Technology Evangelist and Chief Architect at the Amadeus Data Processing GmbH near Munich. He regularly speaks at conferences and publishes articles in computer magazines.

Jigar Shah is a senior product manager at Palo Alto Networks focusing on security for public cloud environments. Prior to this he managed a large-scale SaaS platform for managing desktop virtualization devices at Dell Wyse. ÊHe started out as an engineer developing core network software for 3G cellular systems at Motorola.

Scott is Sr. Threat Intelligence Manager at Palo Alto Networks, where he leads efforts to analyze new attacks, profile adversaries, and expose new campaigns with the Unit 42 threat research team. Mr. Simkin's role includes all threat research, threat intelligence platforms, and information sharing efforts at Palo Alto Networks. He has a broad experience across network security, including cloud-based security services, advanced anti-malware products, and bringing innovate new threat intelligence products to market. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Scott held a broad range of responsibilities during a five year tenure at Cisco Systems, including leading their threat research program. Scott is a seasoned speaker on Cybersecurity topics, including the RSA conference, among others.

Carles is the Information Security Director of "la Caixa" and the Director of the Spanish Cyber Security Institute. He leads the team responsible for Information Security Governance, Security Compliance and Cybersecurity. Carles earned a degree in Informatics Engineering from UPC, a postgree in Banking from the UPF, master degree in Data Protection, Audit and IT Governance from the UAB, and an MBA from the IESE. He also holds the following security information related certificates: CISM , CGEIT and CRISC from ISACA, and CISSP from (ISC)2. He's member of the European IBM Security Board of Advisors and the ISMS Forum Board.

Leader with 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Networking. Forward-leading, big thinker with a passion for transformative and cutting edge technologies. Believer in the power of sharing and collaborating with other like minded individuals to evolve the industry. Outside of work, focus and energy is on family, all things cycling, brewing beer, Duck and Packer football. Goals for the next 24 months are to ride all the classic climbs in the Tour de France and build an application defined fabric which will eliminate the need for a LAN, a WAN and the Data Center Network.

Fred Streefland, EMSD, Bc. is currently working as the Corporate Information Security Manager (CISO) of LeaseWeb. Within this organization, he is managing a small team of security engineers and is globally responsible for the corporate security of the LeaseWeb Group its entities. LeaseWeb is a Dutch hosting provider with the largest network of Europe and operating worldwide with several datacenters in the US (San Jose, Dallas, Manassas), Singapore, Germany and The Netherlands.

After graduating from the Military Academy, Fred served more than 20 years as an Intelligence & Security officer (LtCol) in the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) before he was offered a function as security consultant at IBM. After several years within IBM, Fred moved to Accenture as a senior manager where he led a team of 20 security consultants and he delivered a risk assessment project on SCADA systems within the energy domain. After this function he became Director Education & Training at the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS), a start-up company in The Hague, and he developed the Red Team/Blue Team course for Industrial Control Systems (ICS).

Since 2008, Fred was involved in the development of the Netherlands Cyber Security Strategy and the set-up of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Besides this, Fred is also a cyber-security advisor for several Members of Parliament and is being requested on a regular base as a security expert/spokesman for Business News Radio (BNR).

Fred holds an Executive Master of Security & Defense (EMSD) from the Air Defense College and a bachelor’s degree (Bc.) from the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam. He has certificates of several security courses (Black Hat, SABSA, Idaho National Lab, IBM Big Data Analytics).

Ahmed Tharwat is Palo Alto Networks product Manager in Mideast communication systems. With 10 years of experience in Information Security who designed security solutions for large number of Enterprises in different sectors like (Governmental, Financial, Energy, Educational, service providers ...etc.). Also he is a professional Certified trainer for Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks and Intel security since 2010, had the pleasure to train more than 800 security professionals in Egypt, ME and Africa, was working in France Telecom Security Engineering for 5 years and awarded as an Excellent Achiever in 2011 during the Egyptian revolution.

Brian Tokuyoshi is a Senior Solutions Analyst for Palo Alto Networks, where he researches the mobility and wireless network security landscape. Brian has an extensive career in computer security, with domain expertise in encryption, data protection, and identity. Previously, Brian worked for PGP Corporation, Symantec and ActivIdentity, and served as senior market analyst for identity & cryptography at The Radicati Group.

Tim Treat's focus at Palo Alto Networks is explaining the Next-Generation Security Platform's relevance and transformational prevention to protect enterprises from attacks. He has over 21 years of experience in Network Operations and Defense. Tim began his career in the United States Air Force as a communications electrical engineer. In the Air Force, he led global fixed and deployed organizations performing Engineering and Installation, Combat Communications, Network Operations and Security Operations. After transitioning from active duty, Tim spent four years working with commercial industry at Mandiant. The experience he gained leading federal and commercial Network and Security Operations provides an in-depth understanding of challenges faced by governments and industry verticals. Tim uses his experience to help organizations incorporate enterprise resilience, prevention and protection into Global Enterprise Operations and Defense cohesion strategies.

Dr. Paul Vixie is the CEO of Farsight Security, Inc. In 2014, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as an Innovator. Previously, he served as President, Chairman and Founder of Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), as President of MAPS, PAIX and MIBH, and as CTO of Abovenet/MFN. He served on the ARIN Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2013, and as Chairman in 2008 and 2009. He has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980. He earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS.

Warby Warburton is a Technical Marketing Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks.  Warby has been at Palo Alto Networks for a little over four years and has been focused on virtualization and cloud security.  Prior to that, Warby worked at Hewlett Packard for fifteen years focusing most recently on data center architecture.  Warby holds a B.S. In Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona. 

Scott Ward is a solutions architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Based out of Seattle, WA, Scott is part of a team that supports AWS's global network of technology and consulting partners. For AWS partners Scott’s focus is on existing AWS architecture validation and improvements, planning new architectures for workloads on AWS, providing guidance on how to use new AWS services, and providing general technical enablement.  Scott has a deep background in supporting, enhancing, and building global financial solutions to meet the needs of large companies, including many, many years supporting the global financial systems for Amazon.com.  

Michael Weber is currently manager of the Architecture group for the Professional Services Team at Palo Alto Networks. He focuses on complex customer migrations, and deploying next-generation technologies in production environments. Mike has over 15 years of experience in the security and networking fields. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2011, Mike worked at Juniper, Force10 Networks, and Hewlett-Packard. Mike received a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a Masters from Georgia Institute of Technology in Computer Science.

Todd Weller joined Hexis Cyber Solutions in March 2014. His responsibilities include analyst relations, competitive and market intelligence, corporate visibility, M&A, and strategic partnership development. Todd draws on his 17+ years of experience as a Wall Street research analyst.

Tim Woods, VP Customer Technology Services, has more than two decades of experience in information security and data technology. With a proven track record of leading sales teams to success and deep domain expertise in security and technology, he is a driving force of many thriving companies.

Zhaoyan Xu is a Research Engineer in Palo Alto Networks, CA, United States. He joined the Palo Alto Networks in 2014 and worked in the area of internet security. He earned his PhD degree in Texas A&M University, College Station in 2014. His research interests include web security, malware analysis, detection and system security.

Erik Yunghans is a Threat Prevention Consulting Engineer for Palo Alto Networks. In his tenure he has consulted with Fortune 500 companies to provide guidance and thought leadership in developing unified and cohesive strategies for combating the modern day threat landscape. Through the use of real-world examples used in the creation of malware, exploits and DDoS attacks Erik provides unique insight into the security landscape through the eyes of an attacker.