Speaker Biographies
DATA BREACHES: DEFENSE AND RESPONSE – SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES – March 18, 2026
Tim Connolly, Senior Systems Engineer, Illumio
Tim Connolly has been working with Fortune 500 customers to help them with their security needs for 30 years. Tim helps Illumio’s customers understand how to use Segmentation to protect critical workloads and reduce the impact of a breach by restricting East-West traffic. Before he joined Illumio, Mr. Connolly was a Sr Solutions Architect with Venafi protecting Machine Identities, a Sr Systems Engineer working on Data at Rest encryption products and services at Thales, and prior to that, a Principal Systems Engineer at Ixia (now Keysight Technologies), working with Network Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers to test the security effectiveness and performance of security infrastructure solutions.
David Fagan, Director of Cyber Security, Ferrara
Bio to come!
Corey Hlavacek, Senior Director, Information Security, enVista
Corey Hlavacek is a seasoned cybersecurity leader who champions security as a strategic business enabler. With nearly two decades of experience, he has built and led information security programs that strengthen business resiliency, optimize risk, and enable organizational growth.
Corey brings deep expertise in information security best practices and regulatory compliance, with experience spanning Fortune 500 organizations across transportation and logistics, manufacturing, and high-tech industries.
He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems Security and maintains multiple professional certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CICISO, CIPP, CIA, CISA, and CEH. A frequent industry speaker, Corey has presented at leading conferences including RSA Conference 2026, CornCon 2025, and Hacker Halted 2025.
Dan Horwich, President & Executive Director, CAMP IT Conferences
In 2001, Dan Horwich earned the title of President and Executive Director of CAMP IT Conferences. Prior to joining CAMP IT, Dan held sales and sales management positions at U.S. Robotics, 3Com, Mercantec, Spring Tide Networks, and Lucent Technologies, winning several sales and professional development awards.
An active networker, focused on making a difference in the professional lives of IT practitioners, Dan has built a win-win climate for CAMP IT’s attendees, speakers, and sponsors. He’s a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BBA in Marketing and lives in Glenview, IL with his wife and two daughters.
Fred Kwong, Vice President & CISO, DeVry University
Dr. Fred Kwong has been in the information technology field for the past 15 years in working in education, financial, and telecommunication sectors. Fred currently works at a Farmers Insurance where he currently is the Global Head of Privileged Access Control. Fred is currently building a new program seeking to govern, control, and profile privileged identities throughout the enterprise.
Fred’s work includes the creation of security and privacy policies, standards, and procedures. He is a subject matter expert in PCI, leading organizations to pass their report on compliance. With an extensive background in IT technologies, Fred continues to challenge the status quo by providing guidance in security and network architecture creating holistic designs that align to todays’ threat vector for organizations.
Fred has a passion of combining IT skills with organization development values. His broad range of IT skills has allowed him to view IT from many different paradigms and present them to the business partners in an easy to understand language. Fred servers as an adjunct professor at Benedictine and Roosevelt University teaching courses in international business, organization behavior, project management, and information systems. He holds a Ph.D. from Benedictine University and earned his master’s degree in business administration from Roosevelt University. Fred is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM), and a PCI Professional (PCIP).
Mike Neuman, AVP, Security & Compliance, VelocityEHS
Mike is well versed in navigating the complexities of regulated environments, improving cybersecurity operations, and continuously driving compliance. His has successfully lead onshore and offshore teams while maintaining high performance standards and focusing on business solutions and client engagement. Prior to joining VelocityEHS, Mike served as the Vice President of Information Security at Backstop Solutions Group, where he spearheaded the development of a process-driven approach towards achieving FedRAMP certification and SOC2 Type II certification. Earlier in his career, Mike drove the efforts at Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) to achieve PCI compliance as a merchant and service provider. Mike earned his MS in Communications System Management from Northwestern University and a BA in History and Political Science from Purdue University.
