Ed Amoroso

Chief Executive Officer, TAG Cyber LLC

Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLCDr. Ed Amoroso is currently Chief Executive Officer of TAG Cyber LLC, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company supporting hundreds of companies across the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T after thirty-one years of service, beginning in Unix security R&D at Bell Labs and culminating as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of AT&T from 2004 to 2016.

Ed has been Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology for the past twenty-seven years, where he has introduced nearly two thousand graduate students to the topic of information security. He is also affiliated with the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU as a Research Professor, and the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University as a senior advisor. He is author of six books on cyber security and dozens of major research and technical papers and articles in peer-reviewed and major publications.

Shamla Naidoo

Managing Partner of IBM Global Security Services

Shamla Naidoo is an accomplished executive with experience managing hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets for large, globally distributed teams who support operations in 170 countries. As Managing Partner of IBM Global Security Services, Shamla is one of the most influential security executives among Fortune 50 companies. Her advice and thought leadership in strategy and execution is sought by governments, public institutions, and private companies. Her ability to communicate complex technical process into simpler, more understandable terms is highly regarded. Shamla serves on advisory, not-for-profit and academic boards of various public and private institutions.

Ambassador Jonathan Scott Gration

Major General, USAF (Ret)

Ambassador Scott Gration has had a unique career as a diplomat and military leader. His diplomatic assignments have included serving as the United States (US) Ambassador to Kenya, as US Special Envoy to Sudan, and as Special Assistant to the President in the White House. Scott Gration retired as a Major General from the US Air Force after serving for thirty-two years as a fighter pilot and senior military leader.

Having spent nearly half his life in Africa and the Middle East, he has a deep and profound understanding of Kenya and East Africa, including the language and culture of each region. Scott remained in Kenya following his diplomatic assignment and served as a businessman and humanitarian for another five years. He now serves as a business consultant and pubic speaker.

Ambassador Gration recently published his unique and interesting experiences in an inspirational memoir, “Flight Path: Son of Africa to Warrior-Diplomat.” He and his wife Judy have settled in Winter Garden, Florida. They have four children and eight grandchildren.

John Scott-Railton

Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab

John Scott-Railton is a Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab (at The University of Toronto). His work focuses on targeted malware operations and online disinformation. His greatest hits include a collaboration that uncovered the first iPhone zero-day in the wild, as well as the abuse of government-grade spyware like NSO's Pegasus, FinFisher and Hacking Team around the globe. Other investigations include exposing Dark Basin, an Indian mercenary hacking operation, the discovery ISIS-led malware operations, and China's "Great Cannon," the Government of China's nation-scale DDoS tool. John also tracks Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns, and the manipulation of news aggregators. John has been a fellow at Google Ideas and Jigsaw at Alphabet, and he consults on cybersecurity and operations in high risk and denied environments.

Mark Clancy

IANS Faculty

Mark is the CISO and VP of Cybersecurity at Sprint and is Founder of Cyber Risk Research LLC, an independent information security R&D consultancy. He also serves as an Advisor and Advisory Board Member for Global Cyber Institute and The Florida Center for Cybersecurity respectively. Mark has testified before congress three times on cybersecurity policy and is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity and technology risk management forums globally.

Nick Mankovich

IANS Faculty

Nick is the CEO of CyberRisk Consulting, providing risk management advisory services for corporate boards and executive leadership. Trained in biological science, Nick worked extensively in R&D and has a long history of transformational leadership in R&D, product security, enterprise security and privacy, culminating in executive CISO roles in two Fortune 500 companies.

Steven Martano

The Caldwell Partners, Consultant, Cyber Security Practice

Steven Martano is a consultant in Caldwell Partners’ Cyber Security Practice. He recruits across the information security function, including CISOs, CSOs, cyber advisory board members, and cyber leaders in professional services.

Steven spent seven years at Russell Reynolds Associates, where he helped build the Cyber Security and Supply Chain functional practices, serving as a member of the global Corporate Officers practice.

Earlier in his career, Steven worked at Sikorsky Aircraft (then part of United Technologies Corporation), where he led operations and financial planning for multi-billion contracts for the U.S military and key international customers in the Middle East, Asia and South America.

In addition to his professional career, Steven serves as an editor and featured writer at Beyond the Box Score, SB Nation’s baseball analytics platform, and is a contributing columnist to FanGraphs’ The Hardball Times. He holds a BA from The Catholic University of America and a master’s degree in economics & finance from Trinity College.