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2023 Silicon Valley CISO & Technology Executive Leadership Summit
California – Thu, 06-01-2023 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Visionary Leadership: Driving a Strategic and Secure Digital Agenda
Inflationary pressures and other macro-economic challenges are creating headwinds for technology executives and fellow members of the C-suite to execute on and achieve strategic goals through 2023. The fast-changing socio-economic landscape is prompting technology executives to become more creative than ever in a cost-conscious environment and to draw upon authentic and inclusive leadership skills to inspire their teams. Meanwhile, tech leaders will need to remain laser focused on new ransomware, phishing and crypto mining attacks amidst budgetary pressures.
Here are the four prevailing leadership and technology trends that HMG Strategy will be focusing on throughout its 2023 Executive Leadership Summit Series:
- Innovation & Invention to Spur Revenue Growth
- Fostering World-Class Collaboration and Teaming
- Harnessing Advanced Technology to Drive Cost Reduction
- Securing a Global Digital Agenda
Global economic challenges are creating unique opportunities for business technology executives to foster a collaborative culture, embrace fresh innovative approaches, and develop strong partnerships to leverage hot technologies such as AI, ChatGPT, cloud platforms and cyber technologies to securely move the needle for the business and win in tumultuous times.
JUNE 1, 2022, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM PT
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Registration and Networking Breakfast
9:00 – 9:20 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, Founder & CEO, HMG Strategy
Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
9:20 – 10:00 AM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Visionary Leadership: Going Beyond Protection to Make Security a Competitive Advantage
MODERATOR: Matthew Rosenquist, CISO, Eclipz.io
Al Ghous, CISO, Snapdocs
Morgan Wright, Chief Security Advisor, SentinelOne
Piyoush Sharma, Head of Enterprise Security, Platform & Web, Zuora
Janet Ge, Head of Security, Grail
It’s challenging to stay a step ahead of nation-state actors and other cyber criminals. But security can be positioned as a competitive advantage if it enables your company to be better prepared than your organization’s rivals.
In this thought-provoking executive panel discussion, top-tier CISOs and security leaders will share best practices for moving beyond securing the organization along with examples of leading companies that have achieved a competitive edge.
10:00 – 10:05 AM
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation
Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
10:05 – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners
10:30 – 11:05 AM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Security in the Spotlight: How Will Upcoming SEC Regulations Impact the Roles of CXOs and the Board
MODERATOR: Niharika Srivastav, Senior Vice President – Cybersecurity and Executive Programs, Women in Technology International
Rafi Brenner, VP, Information Security, Fortinet
Selim Aissi, Global Chief Information Security Officer, Blackhawk Network
Krishnan Chellakarai, CISO, Gilead Sciences
The evolving threat landscape is forcing CISOs and information security leaders to re-think their approaches to safeguarding the enterprise. This includes applying new skill sets, new technologies and new ways of thinking to keep a step ahead of cyber-criminals and threat actors. These strategic changes require buy-in from the C-suite, line-of-business leaders and the Board of Directors – including the ability to communicate the rationale for these changes to obtain the support and investments that are needed.
In this Executive Panel discussion, world-class security leaders will share the steps they are taking to lead effectively at the executive level, along with fresh approaches they are taking to safeguard the enterprise in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
11:05 – 11:30
Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners
11:30 AM – 11:50 PM
EXECUTIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Unleashing the Power of Cyber Security in the C-Suite and the Boardroom
Patty Hatter, Tech Investor/Advisory, Public Company Board Member, former Chief Customer Officer
Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Cyber security has transcended its backroom origins to become a critical boardroom concern. The role of CISO has transformed, demanding technical expertise and effective business leadership skills to engage board members with diverse backgrounds. Patty Hatter, Tech Investor/Advisory, Public Company Board Member and former Chief Customer Officer and Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy will share valuable insights on fostering productive relationships with board directors to drive business objectives forward. Discover strategic approaches to secure buy-in, not just within the C-Suite, but at the highest levels of governance as well. .
11:50 – 1:00 PM
Networking Lunch and HMG Global Leadership Institute Awards Program
NPower Update: Chris Starling, Executive Director, NPower
HMG Global Leadership Institute Awards Program
Presented by: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy and August Pelliccio, Managing Editor – Digital, HMG Strategy
Krishnan Chellakarai, CISO, Gilead Sciences
Parul Saini, Global Head of Business and Enterprise Apps, Uber
1:00 – 1:20 PM
HMG EXCLUSIVE FIRESIDE CHAT: Start Up Showcase
Tamar Bar-Ilan, Co-Founder and CTO, Cyera interviewed by Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
Research conducted by HMG Strategy reveals that one of the top focus areas for technology executive leaders is how to continue to innovate in a demanding business and how to stay ahead of the curve with new emerging technologies. In this exclusive session, Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts asks the CEOs of some of the most innovative Cyber security startups what drives their mission to create meaningful companies, deliver lasting value and how their solutions are differentiated in the market. Joining Emily in this session are CEO’s from two companies who are re-defining the security industry in how you protect a modern cloud enabled enterprise.
1:20 – 1:40 PM
Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners
1:40 – 2:10 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Securing Applications in the Age of Cyber Threats
MODERATOR: Nikhil Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Armorcode
Cassie Crossley, VP Supply Chain Security, Schneider Electric
Sangram Dash, Head of Cyber Security, CDK Global
Teza Mukkavilli, CISO, Chargepoint
- Correlating and prioritizing critical vulnerabilities found from standalone AppSec, Cloud, and Infrastructure security tools protecting your holistic attack surface
- Utilizing workflow automation to improve triaging of vulnerabilities and MTTR
- How do we improve the collaboration and coordination of our AppSec and DevOps teams?
- What key metrics does a CISO need to be monitoring – Risk vs. Vulnerability?
2:10 – 2:15 PM
HMG 2023 Global Leadership Institute Award Presentation
Cassie Crossley, VP Supply Chain Security, Schneider Electric
2:15 – 2:30 PM
Coffee Break, Networking, Meet our Partners
2:30 – 3:00 PM
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Innovating At The Speed of Change
MODERATOR: Hunter Muller, Founder and CEO, HMG Strategy
Emily Heath, General Partner, Cyberstarts
David Tsao, Chief Information Security Officer, Instacart
Eddie Borrero, Chief Information Security Officer, Blue Shield CA
Maarten Van Horenbeeck, Chief Information Security Officer, Adobe
As technology continues to evolve to support rapidly going business demands, keeping up with security is challenging enough, so how do CISOs and security executives continue to think strategically to stay ahead of the curve? Continuous innovation must be part of any modern security program, the alternative, not innovating cannot be the answer. In this expert panel learn from some leading enterprise CISOs on their approaches to innovation and learn how they stay ahead of the change while balancing day to day operations.
3:00 PM
Raffle Prizes & Closing Remarks

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Advisory Board

Alissa Abdullah
Deputy Chief Security Officer & Senior Vice President of Emerging Corporate Security Solutions
Mastercard
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Michael Coden
Associate Director, Cybersecurity Research Consortium
MIT Sloan School of Management
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Curtis Coleman
Asst. Professor & Founding Director of Cybersecurity Education Center
Oklahoma Christian University
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Chris Convey
SVP, CISO
Pediatric Associates | Alpine Physician Partners | Tapestri HealthTech
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Kwame Fields
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Acting Chief Diversity Officer
FHLBank San Francisco
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Nemi George
Vice President, Information Security Officer & IT Operations
Pacific Dental Services
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Rocco Grillo
Managing Director – Global Cyber Risk Services & Incident Response Investigation
Alvarez & Marsal
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Meredith Harper
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Synchrony Financial
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Peter Liebert
Chief Information Security Officer (Resident) & Product Advisor
Foresite Cybersecurity & Compliance
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Bob Lord
Senior Technical Advisor
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
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John McCormick
Head of IT (CIO) & Information Security Officer (CISO)
Global Asset Management (Confidential)
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Professor Kevin Powers, J.D.
Founder & Director, M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance Program
Boston College
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Tiffany Rusin
VP, Head of Cyber Security, Indo-Pacific (Global Services & Asia-Pacific)
Fiserv
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Neal Wright
Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives & Deputy CISO
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
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Rebecca Wynn
Global Chief Security Strategist & CISO | Soulful CXO Podcast Host
Click Solutions Group
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Michael Zanga
Managing Director, Global Head of Technology, Cyber, Data and Change Risk
Barclays
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Mark Polansky

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SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors. Designed for extreme ease of use, the S1 platform saves customers time by applying AI to automatically eliminate threats in real time for both on premise and cloud environments and is the only solution to provide full visibility across networks directly from the endpoint.
https://www.sentinelone.com/

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Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation (“ZTS”) company, stop breaches and ransomware from spreading across the hybrid attack surface. The Illumio ZTS Platform visualizes all traffic flows between workloads, devices, and the internet, automatically sets granular segmentation policies to control communications, and isolates high-value assets and compromised systems proactively or in response to active attacks.
Assume breach. Minimize impact. Increase resilience.
www.illumio.com
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Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world’s greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
www.paloaltonetworks.com

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ArmorCode supercharges security teams so their organizations can ship secure software faster. The ArmorCode Platform unifies AppSec and vulnerability management to normalize and correlate findings and orchestrate workflows so teams can identify, articulate, and remediate their most critical risks.

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Cyera is the data security company that gives businesses context and control over their most valuable asset: data. As a pioneer in Data Security Posture Management, Cyera instantly provides companies visibility over all of their sensitive data, context over the risk it represents and their security exposure, and automated remediation to reduce the attack surface and ensure operational resilience. We are redefining the way companies secure their data.
https://www.cyera.io
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Upwind was founded by the team who built Spot.io, the market leader for cloud infrastructure automation and optimization (acquired by NetApp). We are continuing our mission to empower organizations to run cloud environments and accelerate their businesses by focusing on what is next — helping make cloud-native security simple, effective, and easy to consume.
https://www.upwind.io

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Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals – to place our clients’ interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region. Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside. Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients’ expectations.
http://www.egonzehnder.com
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Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
http://www.heidrick.com
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At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.
https://www.kornferry.com
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Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms. We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world. Our clients range across industries, from the world’s largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups. We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world. Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology. We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients. We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.
https://www.spencerstuart.com

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Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm committed to redefining IT infrastructure, invests in technical entrepreneurs pursuing the multi-hundred-billion dollar Infrastructure 2.0 disruption. Amplify helps talented founders build valuable businesses by investing the right amount of early-stage capital and providing active company-building assistance. Amplify offers the unique combination of deep domain expertise, early-stage focus and a network of Venture AmplifiersTM to improve outcomes for infrastructure entrepreneurs.
http://www.amplifypartners.com
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Glynn Capital is focused on investments in leading private and public technology growth companies. We seek to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with world-class management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.
http://www.glynncapital.com/
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Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
http://www.greylock.com
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Lightspeed Ventures is a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in India, Israel, and China. With over $7 billion under management, Lightspeed invests in both enterprise and consumer tech startups from early-stage to late-stage. With over 300 active startups in the portfolio, Lightspeed has invested in companies like Brocade, Informatica, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft, zScaler, etc. Lightspeed has also created a CIO Innovation Advisory Network to connect forward-thinking IT leaders with Silicon Valley.
http://lsvp.com
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Sequoia is a venture firm with a 40+ year track record of partnering with daring entrepreneurs. Founded in 1972, we’ve been early business partners with many of technology’s biggest companies (Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, and more) along with many emerging leaders (WhatsApp, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, FireEye, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Airbnb, etc).
https://www.sequoiacap.com

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Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SIM! The Chapter strives to strengthen professional communications among members who direct the application of information technology in private and public organizations. Chapter activities include: Meeting to share innovative ideas and real world experiences which address enterprise information needs. We have excellent speakers both from our membership, and bring in industry executives and subject matter experts from many sources. Providing presentations by leading national information-management professionals and executives who benefit from management-information systems. Challenging our comfort levels by exchanging ideas with peers and business counterparts. Being a resource for each other, and personal networking.
https://chapter.simnet.org/sanfranciscobayarea/home
Venue
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
5101 GREAT AMERICA PARKWAY SANTA CLARA, CA, 95054-, US T: (408) 510-6410 F: (408) 510-6449
Rate: $399++
Cutoff Date: May 26, 2023 – please send this information out to attendees & sponsors asap as the cutoff date is next Friday.

Mark Polansky
Registration
The CIO Executive Leadership Summit is created for CIOs/IT leaders. It also has a strong appeal to leaders interested in better positioning their organizations and themselves for what’s ahead in business and to achieve the greatest benefits through the use of information technology.
To ensure a high-quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:
- Employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professional in an organization with $200M or greater revenue, or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size
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- Full-time academicians
If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.
All registration requests will be reviewed and approved based upon above-stated criteria.
If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.
* Sales/marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations are not permitted.
Special Needs – We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 221-2702 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.
