Our speakers taking part at MENA ISC. The list will continue growing so do keep an eye out for it…
CEO, Virtuport
SAMER OMAR
Samer Omar is a seasoned subject matter expert with over 24 years’ experience in the areas of Cyber Security Advisory, Consultancy and Security Management
CEO and Founder, Obrela Security Industries
George Patsis
Mr. Patsis speech will focus on Risk Management in Real Time, global threat landscape, trends and challenges. The importance of awareness and readiness as well as how effective and efficient security governance must leverage the human factor by regulating the way people and technologies interact with each other.
VP & Regional Sales Director EMEA- UEBA, Forcepoint
Peter Heim
Peter serves as VP EMEA – UEBA (User & Entity Behavioral Analytics) for Forcepoint, having been acquired when Forcepoint purchased RedOwl , the next generation Human Behavioral analytics firm focused on both Security & Compliance related to the insider threat, where he is responsible for driving and implementing the EMEA growth strategy of the company.
Director – Security Markets Specialisation EMEA, Splunk
James Hanlon
James Hanlon is the Director of Security Markets Specialisation, EMEA at Splunk. Responsible for GTM strategy, strategic relationships and markets bookings, James, and his team, provides cross industry insights & executive strategic advisory services to promote better industry security analytics collaboration and effectiveness.
CEO and Founder, Aiuken
Juan Miguel Velasco López-Urda
Mr. Juan M. Velasco currently CEO & Founder of AIUKEN CYBERSECURITY, International European CyberSecurity and Cloud Managed Services Corporation that operates in over 7 countries Spain, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dubai, Bahrein, Morocco, Peru and Chile. Mr. Velasco is also VP&CFO of EuroCloud Security Spain, President of the Eurocloud Cybersecurity Commission and Head of the Advisory Board Committee at iSMS Security Forum for Spain.
Vice President Worldwide Marketing & Business Development, A10
Gunter Reiss
Gunter has more than 20 years of success in international business development & global sales with technology expertise in the mobile, IP networking, SDN, cloud and IT industries.
Gunter has galvanized and established myriad multi-million-dollar business alliances and senior level executive relationships with Fortune 500 companies throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Regional Sales Director for the Middle East, Tenable
Maher Jadallah
Maher joined Tenable from Cisco Global Security Organization, a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions. Prior to Cisco Maher had served as Sourcefire’s Regional Manager for Middle East and Africa since 2011, with responsibility for growing the company’s business in the region and establishing a strategic partner-network.
Major Account Manager, Fortinet
Rayan Mohtasib
Studied Computer Engineering at Arizona State University, Has over 5 years experience Information security, a member of Saudi Council of Engineering.
Vice President – Global Security Sales, Cisco Systems
John Maynard
John Maynard is Vice President, Global Security Sales for Cisco. He leads the worldwide sales team dedicated to helping customers solve complex business issues with Cisco security solutions.
Richard Wray is a 25+ year veteran of the data networking business. Having been involved in designing and building many state of the art network solutions for both enterprises and large service providers, Richard has now focussed his last 11 years on protecting those networks.
Global Consulting Strategist, Micro Focus Cyber Security Services
James Blake
Dr James Blake is the Global Consulting Strategist for Micro Focus Cyber Security Services. Micro Focus Cyber Security Services have designed, built and matured the cyber security operations capability – as well as responding to major breaches – for some of the largest organisations across the globe including a number in the Middle East region.
Technology Sales and Services Manager – Saudi Arabia, Symantec
Jamil Abu Aqel
Jamil is an information security professional with more than 17 years of experience working for multi-national corporates in the region. He is recognized as a subject matter expert in areas of security services, operations and management.
Vice President, Corporate Business, Kaspersky Lab
Veniamin Levtsov
Veniamin Levtsov is a graduate from Moscow State University in both Computer science (1996) and Law (2000). He is also certified as Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2008.
Managing Director – Security, Accenture
David Powell
David is a Managing Director in Accenture’s security practice and has over 20 years of experience in cyber security, primarily working with health financial services and government.
Leader of Middle East & Turkey, McAfee
Scott Manson
Scott joins McAfee from his previous role at Cisco, as the Technology and Cybersecurity Director in Middle East and Africa with a proven track record of delivering sales results across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Ercan Aydin is regional vice president for emerging markets at Palo Alto Networks. In this role, Ercan leads the company’s sales operations across the Middle East, Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Pakistan & Africa and is a member of EMEA Management Team.
Head of Presales Saudi, Egypt and North Africa, F5
Motaz Ibrahim Alturayef
Motaz Has Have over 10 years of experience with a broad exposure to many technologies. Started with building Internet Gateways and National MPLS network, with all the major DPSs’ in Saudi Arabia.
Senior VP Technology & Operations
Haitham Alfaraj
More than 17 years of experience conceiving, planning, and implementing transformation initiatives/projects to improve organization-wide deployment of technology and resources. An experienced operations executive who possesses extensive technology knowledge, strong leadership skills and superb relationship management abilities.
Senior technology director, Palo Alto Networks
Tarek Abbas
Tarek Abbas is Senior Technology Director responsible for the Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks. He has over twenty years of experience in information and cyber security.
Senior technology director, Palo Alto Networks
Tarek Abbas
Tarek Abbas is Senior Technology Director responsible for the Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks. He has over twenty years of experience in information and cyber security.
Senior technology director, Palo Alto Networks
Tarek Abbas
Tarek Abbas is Senior Technology Director responsible for the Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks. He has over twenty years of experience in information and cyber security.
Leader of Middle East & Turkey
Scott Manson
Scott joins McAfee from his previous role at Cisco, as the Technology and Cybersecurity Director in Middle East and Africa with a proven track record of delivering sales results across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Meet the
Moderators
CEO and Founder, Cyber Marathon Solutions
Robert W. Wilkinson
Bob Wilkinson is the founder and CEO of Cyber Marathon Solutions, an Information Security and Operational Risk Management consulting company.
Cyber Security GM, STC
Yasser N. Alswailem
Yasser currently serves as GM of Cyber Security in Saudi Telecom Company.He has over 15 years of experience applied in IT & Information Security, having cross-industrial exposure to organizations in different verticals and countries.
Cyber Security GM, STC
Yasser N. Alswailem
Yasser currently serves as GM of Cyber Security in Saudi Telecom Company.He has over 15 years of experience applied in IT & Information Security, having cross-industrial exposure to organizations in different verticals and countries.
Meet the
Panelists
Solutions Consultant EMEA, Anomali
Andrew de Lange
Andrew de Lange is a solutions consultant for Anomali. Andrew has over 15 years experience in cyber security, with the bulk of that time spent in Financial Services and Banking, he is an evangelist for Cyber Threat Intelligence collaboration initiatives and community driven defence.
Authorized (ISC)² Instructor
Muntaser Bdair
For over 22 years, Mr. Bdair has been Information security, education, and information technology professional serving business and government clients in USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
VICE PRESIDENT – MEA/APAC, ZEROFOX
Gabe Goldhirsh
Mr. Gabe Goldhirsh, Vice President, MEA/APAC, leads ZeroFOX’s sales strategy and operations across the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Prior, Mr. Goldhirsh led ZeroFOX’s Global Services business unit for two years where he oversaw operations of the Enterprise Managed Services, Customer Success, and Professional Services groups.
Chief Information Security Officer, KAUST
Ed Sleiman
An accomplished senior Cybersecurity director with executive level experience in providing leadership and security programs across a wide range of areas.
Security Engineer, RSA
Mahammad Alazab
Driven by the recent spikes in magnitude and severity of cyber breaches and their potential devastating impact on businesses, cyber risk is increasingly getting recognized by many organizations at the board level as one of the top risks they strive to manage, with 15+ years of experience in Cyber Security
Vice President – META, Attivo Networks
Ray Kafity
Ray Kafity, Vice President – Attivo Networks Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) has extensive experience in Sales and Marketing Management of high-tech solutions.
Managing Director – Middle East, Qualys
Hadi Jaafarawi
With more than 20 years of Security and Business Development experience in the IT sector in the Gulf Region, Hadi Jaafarawi manages Qualys Field Operations in the Middle East region across both direct and indirect sales.
CEO/Founder Intel 471
Mark Arena
Mark Arena founded Intel 471 in 2014 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Intel 471 provides cybercrime intelligence (adversary and malware intelligence) for leading intelligence, security and fraud teams.
Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA, Carbon Black
David White
David has been a security and risk professional for over 18 years having previously held Senior Management positions at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, Symantec, and MessageLabs.
Regional Head – Cyber Security and Risk Management business, Wipro
Bharat Raigangar
Bharat is a cyber defense domain enthusiast and an advisor in the domain of Cyber Risk Management, with specialisation on the Cyber Defense, Cyber Fraud and Cyber Resilience domains. Known for his strategic initiatives, assisting in building the Cyber Security Advisory services practice for Wipro from the past 2 years.
Vice President of Global Sales, Kaspersky Lab
Maxim Frolov
As Vice President of Global Sales, Maxim Frolov manages Kaspersky Lab’s sales operations across five business segments – consumer, digital, SMB, enterprise and xSP – and leads a team of regional managing directors to ensure efficient business processes, as well as strengthen the company’s sales culture.
Regional Sales Engineer – Saudi Arabia, Carbon Black
Ahmed El-Kosairy
Ahmed El-Kosairy is an InfoSec engineer with over 8 years’ experience in the creation and deployment of network security, application security and endpoint security solutions.
