Westport, CT — May 3, 2024 — HMG Strategy, the World’s #1 platform for enabling technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is excited to be hosting its 8^th Annual New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit on June 11 at The Harvard Club of New York.

CISOs, CIOs and other cybersecurity leaders at the event will explore the steps needed to safeguard data used in GenAI-focused initiatives.

“CISOs, cybersecurity leaders and their teams are having to contend with new and emerging threats, including AI-generated attacks,” said Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO at HMG Strategy. “Our New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit is focused on the top issues facing cybersecurity leaders along with world-class thought leadership and actionable insights.”

Top-tier executives speaking at the 8^th Annual New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit will include:

• Alissa (Dr. Jay) Abdullah, Deputy CSO & SVP of Emerging Corporate Security Solutions, Mastercard
• Alex Bazay, CISO, Align
• Paul Carpenito, Head of Information Security, Loews Corp.
• Marlowe Cochran, CISO, NYSED
• Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity Research Consortium, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Cassie Crossley, VP, Supply Chain Security, Schneider Electric
• Davin Darnt, CISO Americas, Louis Vuitton
• Juan Espinosa, VP, Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, Parsons Corp.
• Cindy Finkelman, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
• Ken Fishkin, Senior Manager of Information Security, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
• Kostas Georgakopoulos, Global CTO & CISO, Mondelez International
• Kevin Gowen, CISO, Synovus
• Kelly Isikoff, CISO, Common Securitization Solutions
• Satya Jena, SVP, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Proofpoint
• Matthew Lagana, Managing Director, CTO & CISO, MBIA
• Shamla Naidoo, Head of Cloud Strategy & Innovation, Netskope
• Klara Neginsky, Deputy CISO, Royal Caribbean Cruises
• Bala Rajagopalan, CISO, Tradeweb
• Yotam Segev, Co-Founder & CEO, Cyera
• Mike Towers, Chief Security and Trust Officer, Veza
• Steven Wallstedt, CISO, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, NY
• Laura Whitt-Winyard, VP of Security & IT, Hummingbird
• Gernette Wright, IT Security Officer – Americas, Schneider Electric
• Amit Zimerman, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Oasis Security

World-class CIOs and business technology leaders being recognized at the 8^th Annual New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit under HMG Strategy’s 2024-2025 Global Leadership Institute Awards will include:

• Alissa (Dr. Jay) Abdullah, Deputy CSO & SVP of Emerging Corporate Security Solutions, Mastercard
• Ken Fishkin, Senior Manager of Information Security, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
• Kostas Georgakopoulos, Global CTO & CISO, Mondelez International

Valued Partners for the 8^th Annual New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit include Akamai, BetterCloud, Box, Cyberstarts, Cyera, Darktrace, Delphix, Fortinet, LastPass, Netskope, Nutanix, Oasis Security, Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, SIM New York Metro, T-Mobile for Business, Tanium, Trustmi, Upwork, Varonis, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 8^th Annual New York CISO & Technology Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will also be hosting its 16^th Annual New Jersey C-Level Technology Leadership Summit on May 23 at The Madison Hotel in Morristown.

World-class executives speaking at the 16^th Annual New Jersey C-Level Technology Leadership Summit will include:

• Bashir Agboola, CTO, Hospital for Special Surgery
• Roota Almeida, Head of Security Governance, Amazon Stores, Amazon
• Saqib Awan, Founder & Managing Director, GTM Capital
• Marianne Bachynski, Former CIO, Investments, Enterprise Systems, Corebridge Financial (formerly AIG)
• Gene Barskiy, VP IT, Anti-Defamation League
• Christopher Callahan, CISO, The Weichert Companies
• Pasquale Cirullo, PMP, ITIL, VP, IT, Richard Manufacturing Co.; President, New Jersey SIM
• Mark Coggin, VP, Portfolio Marketing, Rimini Street
• Richard M. Entrup, MD and Head of Emerging Solutions – Enterprise Innovation, KPMG U.S.
• Shai Gabay, Founder and CEO, Trustmi
• Mark Goodaire, Director of Automation & Transformation, Automation Anywhere
• Elizabeth Hackenson, SVP & CIO, Schneider Electric
• Karen Higgins-Clark, EVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Gilbane Building Company
• Stuart Kippelman, Chief Innovation Officer, Helton + DataLaw, LLC
• Jim Knight, CEO/Principal, Knight Insights
• Warren Kudman, SVP & CIO, The Turner Construction Company
• Geoffrey Laissus, Senior Director of Product Management, Automation Anywhere
• Ravi Mani, SVP & CISO, Quest Diagnostics
• Lakshman Nathan, EVP & CIO, Paramount Global
• Adam Noble, Operating Partner, IT/CIO/CTO, Littlejohn & Company
• Joseph Puglisi, Chairman & Co-Manager, North Andover Investors Collaborative, LLC
• Ramesh Razdan, Global CIO, Bain & Company
• Mark Sander, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Azurity Pharmaceuticals
• Samir Sethi, SVP, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Hackensack Meridian Medical
• Hari Shah, CISO, Tapestry
• Nik Umrani, Global CIO, NSM InsuranceGroup
• David Walter, Transformation Progress Process Oversight Director, Citi
• Gabrielle Wolfson, SVP, CIO & CDO, Quest Diagnostics
• Ben Yarom, Director, Lightrun

Valued Partners for the 16^th Annual New Jersey C-Level Technology Leadership Summit include Akamai, Automation Anywhere, BetterCloud, BigID, Box, Cyberstarts, Cyera, Darktrace, Delphix, Denodo, Fortinet, GTM Capital, Illumio, LastPass, Lightrun, Moveworks, Netskope, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Rimini Street, RingCentral, SafeGuard Cyber, SAP, Schneider Electric, SIM New Jersey, T-Mobile for Business, Trustmi, Upwork, Varonis, Zoom, and Zscaler.

To learn more about the 16^th Annual New Jersey C-Level Technology Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

To learn more about HMG Strategy’s upcoming schedule of C-Level Technology Leadership Summits, click here.

About HMG Strategy 

HMG Strategy is the world’s #1 trusted digital platform connecting technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. The HMG Strategy global network consists of more than 500,000 CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, CTOs, senior business technology executives, search industry executives, venture capitalists, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.

HMG Strategy was founded in 2008 by Hunter Muller, a leadership expert who has worked side-by-side with Fortune 2000 executives on strategic planning and career ascent for the past 30+ years. Hunter has published six books on leadership, innovation and business transformation and is currently working on book 7.

In 2024, HMG Strategy will host 100 unique experiences for top-tier business technology leaders, including executive leadership summits, networking dinners and digital roundtables.

Since the inception of its Transformational CIO Awards in 2012, HMG Strategy has recognized hundreds of premier business technology executives who are making a difference in their organizations through the industry’s most distinguished and recognizable global leadership awards program.

In 2020, HMG Strategy introduced the Global Technology Executives Who Matter Awards to recognize the top-performing Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Senior Business Technology Leaders, Venture Capitalists and Search Executives who have demonstrated unparalleled leadership in areas such as Innovation, Business Transformation and Digital Disruption.

Now entering its 15^th year of recognizing the exceptional contributions of business technology executives, HMG Strategy extended its recognition program beginning in 2021 to honor exemplary technology leaders and their teams who are making outstanding contributions to their organizations under the 2024-2025 Global Leadership Institute Awards.

HMG Strategy’s global media model generates more than one million impressions per week, providing vast opportunities for business technology leaders and sponsor partners to promote themselves and their brands. 

HMG Strategy’s regional CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, authored books and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven guidance from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs and technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation and career ascent.

HMG Strategy offers a range of peer-led advisory services such as its Global CIO & CISO Executive Leadership Alliance (CELA) service which bring together the world’s top CIOs, CISOs and technology executives to brainstorm on the top opportunities and challenges facing them in their roles.

HMG Strategy’s Global Advisory Services are a unique set of peer-driven research services that are designed to keep business technology executives up to speed on the latest leadership, business, technology and global macro-economic trends that are impacting businesses and industries.

HMG Ventures is a venture capital unit that’s designed to connect CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other technology executives with innovative early-stage technology companies from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv. HMG Ventures provides technology executives with a window into hot emerging technology companies that can help move the needle for their businesses while also offering these executives unparalleled personal investment opportunities. One early-stage investment in an enterprise-level AI-powered service management provider has generated a 100X return.

HMG Strategy also produces the HMG Security Innovation Accelerator Panel, a forum that’s designed to connect enterprise technology and cybersecurity leaders with the most innovative technology and cybersecurity companies from across the world.

HMG Strategy: We Build Legends Here.

For more information, contact Tom Hoffman at tomhoffman@hmgstrategy.com or by calling 203-221-2702.