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 Russell Okoth is a Business & Technology Executive. He is the Founder and Consultant at Cyberdiligent, a Dallas-based Information Security Governance and Risk Advisory firm, where he provides strategic guidance to Boards, C-suites, and Executives. Russell has over twenty years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance across technology, retail, telecommunications, finance, insurance, and fintech industries. Russell has held notable leadership roles, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Privacy Officer at Pacific Premier Bank and CISO at Apex Fintech Solutions.

Davi Ottenheimer is a leading authority on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition strategy, helping enterprises navigate the shift from classical to quantum-resistant cryptographic infrastructure. As founder of Ottenheimer GmbH and creator of pqprobe — a quantum cryptography discovery and inventory management toolkit — Davi enables organizations across healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and the public sector to assess their cryptographic exposure and build actionable PQC migration roadmaps. Ottenheimer GmbH also delivers counter-drone strategy and trust engineering for critical infrastructure.

Davi's career in security spans three decades at industry giants — from delivering the first VMware-based remote desktop for IBM/RedHat in 1999, to protecting two billion users at Yahoo! during the mobile phone revolution, to pioneering regulated software security at MongoDB where he served as its first CISO. In 2006, Davi foresaw the future of IoT security, patenting the "PIN login" for devices, and he helped lead app-level key management standards. A decade later he delivered field-level encryption for NoSQL databases.