Our Advisory Board

The Expertise Behind NKST’s Vision

The Advisory Board

Leadership ThatShapes What’s NKST

The NKST Advisory Board brings together senior cybersecurity and technology leaders from across Canada, representing diverse industries, sectors, and areas of expertise. With extensive experience in cybersecurity strategy, risk management, emerging technologies, and digital resilience, our advisors provide valuable industry perspectives that help shape NKST's strategic direction, research priorities, and event themes.

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Perspectives that help shape

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Strategic Direction

Where NKST focuses next, informed by leaders who see the landscape first-hand.

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Research Priorities

The questions our research explores, grounded in real industry challenges.

03

Event Themes

The conversations our roundtables and summits bring to the stage.

Their collective expertise ensures NKST remains aligned with evolving cybersecurity challenges, emerging innovations, and the priorities of Canada's cybersecurity and technology ecosystem.

Evolving Challenges Emerging Innovations Canada’s Ecosystem
Advisory Board

Meet the NKST Advisory Board

ADVISORY BOARD

NKST Advisory Board

Ter Govang (Co-Chair)

Global Lead, Security Executive Advisory | Integrated Security Lead, Eastern Canada
PBX Engineering Ltd.

Saif Azwar (Co-Chair)

Vice President, Information Security
Triple Five Group

Mary Carmichael (Co-Chair)

Field CISO, Western Canada
Bell Cyber

Priya Mouli (Co-Chair)

Global Executive Advisor – Cybersecurity & AI Strategy
Info-Tech Research Group

Rob Davidson (Co-Chair)

Chief Information Security Officer
Pacific Blue Cross

Brent Fowles (Co-Chair)

CISO, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Services
Western University

Genaro Liriano (Co-Chair)

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)

Manas Giri

Head, Cybersecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sandra Liepkalns

Executive Cyber Security, Risk and Governance Advisor, CRISC, CDPSE

John Del Grande

SVP of Business Innovation (& Cyber)
Ecclesiastical Insurance

Nicole Landry

Sr. Director, Workforce Identity and Access Management
CIBC

TJ Odugbasen

vCISO
TechniRise Consulting Inc.

Andrea Knoblauch

Customer Solutions Architect, Security
Softchoice

Manas Khanna

Founder
Spectrum Assist

Lilian Seidaros

CISO and Vice President, IT Infrastructure
360insights.com

Shazeen Ahmed

Director, Cybersecurity Governance
TouchTunes

Jennifer Pugliese

Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Technology
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

Nabeel Yousif

Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President
Momentum Financial Services Group

Terence Lam

AVP, Cyber & Technology Risk
Canadian Tire Corporation

Sumon Acharjee

Chief Information Officer
City of Markham

Shilpa Dahiya

Sr. Director, Information and Cybersecurity
CAAT Pension Plan

Sanjay Sharma

Chief Information Security Officer
Zafin

Lionel Akagah

Co-Founder and Director
Fortlyai-pro

Abhay Raman

Sr. Vice President & Global Chief Security Officer
Sun Life

Rachel Guinto

Sr. Director, Information Security
CIBC

Samuel Aluko

Principal Information Security Consultant
SATACyber

Puroo Maheshwari

Managing Director, Cybersecurity
CPP Investments

Shruti Mukherjee

Director of GRC
Esko

Victoria Ghandour

Director, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Health Information Management
William Osler Health System

Imran Hussain

Director Technology and Cybersecurity
Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN)

Teodor Pana

Senior Director of Cyber Security
SE Health

Sonny Sarai

Co-Founder
Brockton Point Solutions