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Mario Duarte is a veteran security professional who has worked in the retail, health care and financial sectors for two decades. He has built and managed security teams, developed and implemented security programs and has managed PCI and HIPAA compliance initiatives for medium and large organizations.

Ian Glazer is the founder and president of Weave Identity – an advisory services firm. Prior to founding Weave, Ian was the Senior Vice President for Identity Product Management, at Salesforce. His responsibilities include leading the product management team, product strategy and identity standards work. Earlier in his career, Ian was a research vice president and agenda manager on the Identity and Privacy Strategies team at Gartner, where he oversaw the entire team’s research.

He is a Board Emeritus and the co-founder of IDPro, and works to deliver more services and value to the IDPro membership, raise funds for the organization, and help identity management professionals learn from one another. Ian is also a Board of Directors member and cofounder of the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation, focusing on removing financial barriers to participation in the digital identity industry. During his career in the identity industry, he has co-authored a patent on federated user provisioning, co-authored and contributed to user provisioning specifications, is a noted blogger, speaker, and photographer of his socks.

Marcos Christodonte II is the Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at CDW. Marcos has held a series of CISO and global security leadership roles across a number of industries including federal government, financial services, management consulting, academia, and high growth technology. His diverse perspectives are rooted in his experiences at companies such as Gartner, Bridgewater Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton, NATO, and U.S. Army. Marcos also advises cybersecurity startups on product strategy, direction, and security use cases—ensuring alignment with the current and emerging challenges of CISOs across industries and geographies. Marcos is a cybersecurity enthusiast; when not working and spending time with his family he mentors aspiring CISOs on career development.

Tim Callahan joined Aflac in 2014, bringing more than 30 years of experience in information and physical security, business resiliency, and risk management. Tim was promoted to his current role in January 2016, where he is responsible for directing Aflac’s global security strategy and leading the information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery functions across the company to prioritize security initiatives and allocate resources based on appropriate risk assessments.

Prior to joining Aflac, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Business Continuity and Information Assurance for SunTrust Banks, Inc. Tim also held leadership positions at People’s United Bank.

Tim served in the U.S. Air Force for 23 years and earned an associate’s degree from the Community College of the Air Force and a bachelor’s degree from the University of the State of New York, Albany.

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Jarrod Benson is responsible for the information security strategy, operations, and cyber-risk for Koch Industries and its subsidiaries. Additionally, Jarrod serves as the CIO of Koch Business Solutions, LP (KBS), where he provides leadership, planning and strategy for Koch's global shared services organization. Jarrod has held multiple leadership positions in information technology at Koch. Based in Wichita, KS, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America with estimated annual revenues as high as $115 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronics; information systems; commodity trading; minerals; energy; glass; ranching; and investments.

Marty Hellman is an American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Marty serves as professor emeritus at Stanford University, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Turing Award, considered the most prestigious award in the field of computer science, for 2015, together with Whitfield Diffie.