Featured Thought Leaders – The NKST

FEATURED THOUGHT LEADERS

Priya Mouli (Co-Chair)

CISO

University of Alberta

Genaro Liriano

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)

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

Senior Director of Engineering

Veryon

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

Roozbeh Taheri-Nia

Founder and Managing Director

InCloud Security

Aamir Bhaijiwala

Senor Director, Information Security

Chartwell Retirement Residences

Ketan Kapadia

Chairman & Co-Founder

BlokSec Technologies Inc.

Nasreen Latheef

Director of Authentication & Automation

CIBC

Julien Boninfante

IAM Advisor

Questrade

Behram Faroogh

President Elect

ISACA Toronto Chapter

Nadine Fares

Senior Manager & IAM Product Manager

Royal Bank of Canada

Nitin Thukral

Field CTO

Fintech Mosaic

June Leung

Principal Partner

jULE Consulting Inc.

Puroo Maheshwari

Managing Director, Cybersecurity

CPP Investments

Nicole Landry

Sr. Director, Workforce Identity and Access Management

CIBC

Sandi Jones

Senior Technology Leader

Interac

Serena Tejani

Cybersecurity Partner I National Alliances Partner for Risk Services

KPMG Canada

Rola Turk

Senior Director, IAM Identity Lifecycle Management & Intelligence.

Royal Bank of Canada

François Guay

Founder and CEO

Canadian Cybersecurity Network

Dana Reed

Distinguished Engineer, Office of the CTO

SailPoint

Manas Khanna

Senior Director of Engineering

Veryon

Saranya Arulnathan

Chief Information Security Officer | Cyber Risk & Digital Trust Leader

Harsh Sahni

AI Security & Governance Leader

Shruti Mukherjee

Director of GRC

GlobalVision

Evgeniy Kharam

Chief Strategy Officer

Discern Security

Leon Lukiyanets

PAM Field CTO

SDG Corporation

Josh Leclerc

Cybersecurity Solutions Architect

Arancia

Suhail Chaharain

Group Leader – AD & IAM

Kraft Heinz

Gennady Duchovich

Principal Cybersecurity Advisor

1SEC Solutions Inc

Tracey Nyholt

Founder & CEO

TechJutsu

Josh Wagman

Global Director Cyber Resilience Advisors

Semperis

Rafi Wanounou

Vice President and CTO

Fortinet

Bill Williams

CTO & Head of Advisory

IDM Works

Surinder Singh Rait

Head of Global IT Security Assurance

Ericsson

Vinay Puri

Senior Cybersecurity Advisor (Executive Team)

Laurentian Bank

Raphael Adeyemo

Senior Manager of Technology Risk Management

Manulife

Aneel Syed

Head of Global Advanced Analytics & AI- Internal Audit

CIBC

Zain Haq

Senior Director – Audit & Advisory Services – Technology and Infrastructure Audits

Manulife Financial Corporation

Ter Govang

Chief Security Officer, Ontario Line

Hitachi Rail

Mina Movahedi

Cyber Threat Investigator

Bell

Hendra Hendrawan

Technical Counselor

Cyprian Kebbianyor

Privacy and Compliance Officer

GreenShield Canada

Chad Marson

Technology Risk Officer and BISO

Fahad Iqbal

Senior Security Architect

CPP Investments

Sahil Razdan

Senior Legal Counsel

Samsung Canada

Simi Odusanya

Senior Security Consultant

Daniel Zaman

CISO

Holt Renfrew

Sanjay Chadha

Partner

SAV Associates

Mehak Wani

Business Information Security Office and IT Compliance Management

Interac

Andrea Knoblauch

Principal of Security

Softchoice

Lionel Akagah

Director Cybersecurity

Parul Khanna

Director, Technology Governance and Control

Manulife

Junior Williams

Senior Solutions Architect

MOBIA

Atif Malik

Founder

Zarori

Daniel P Kent

Field CTO Americas

Cloudflare

Sara Hosseini

Product Manager, Observability

IBM

Victoria Ghandour

Director, Cybersecurity, Health Information Management

Osler Health System

Imran Hussain

Director Technology and Cybersecurity

Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN)

Teodor Pana

Director of Cyber Security

SE Health

Hardeep Mehrotara

VP Information systems technology (IT & OT)

Concert Properties

Thais Ramos

Compliance Manager, Privacy and Information Security Management – (PrISM)

University of British Columbia

Anthony Green

Co-founder

OpenRep

Jories Timmers

IT and Cybersecurity Director

Powerex

Sergey Bukharov

Co-founder

SkyHive technologies

David Royer

CISO & Head of Infrastructure

West Fraser

Dr. Vito Nozza

Principal, Security (Design Studio)

Softchoice

Santosh Nair

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Styx Intelligence

Curtis Simpson

Chief Information Security Officer

Armis

Edward Pereira

Principal Consultant – Cybersecurity and Information Risk

Carmel Info-Risk

Rob Goehring

Founder and CEO

Wisr

Rob Davidson

Chief Information Security Officer

Pacific Blue Cross

Sonny Sarai

Chief information security officer (CISO)

Brockton Point Solutions

Pamela Pouliot

Manager, Cybersecurity

Trans Mountain Pipeline

Eder Marques

Director of Payments Security and High Value Assets of the Financial Crimes Unit, Cybersecurity

BMO Financial Group

Farooq Naiyer

CEO

NKST

Curtis L. Blais

Shared CISO

Cybera

Andrew Ginter

VP Industrial Security

Waterfall Security Solutions

Terry Freestone

RCO

CSA Z246.1 Technical Committee Member

Mehran Darabi

Engineer

Norman Runte

CEO

SimpliGRC Inc.

Tim McCreight

CEO & Founder

TaleCraft Security

Ashif Samnani

Principal Security Architect

Mobia

Hon. Todd McCarthy

Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

MPP – Durham

Nazanin Bayati

AI and Cybersecurity Researcher

University of Ottawa

Amar Singh

CIO and CISO

St. Clair College

Pravine Balkaran

Technology & Cyber Security Risk Management Services

Arancia

Nouman Ashraf

Associate Professor

Rotman School of Management

Lester Chng

Senior Cybersecurity Advisor

Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst

Sue McGlashan

Information Security Educator

University of Toronto

Daniel Michaluk

Partner

Borden Ladner Gervais

David Langille

Director – Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk Management & Architecture

Ontario Government

Joshua Shapiro

Lead Strategic Threat Advisor

CrowdStrike

John Roberts

Chief Privacy and Data Officer

Ontario Public Service

Brent Fowles

CISO, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Services

Western University

Daniela Spagnolo

CISO, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery, Cyber Security Division

GovTechON

Cristian Rodriguez

Field CTO – Americas

CrowdStrike

Lina Dabit

Chair – Women’s + Employee Network

RCMP Ontario

Imran Ahmad

Partner and Head of Technology, Co-Chair Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

Norton Rose Fulbright

Duska Kennedy

Vice President Strategy & Digital Health, CDO

North York General Hospital

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