SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
SPEAKERS AT THE DATA BREACHES: DEFENSE AND RESPONSE
CONFERENCE – MARCH 13, 2025
Michael Boucher, CISO, JLL
Bio coming soon!
Mike Brunetti, Director of Professional Services, Entara
Mike Brunetti is an experienced IT professional in the managed services, IT consulting, financial, and incident response industries. In his role as the Director of Professional Services at Entara, a security-first eXtended Service Provider, he has led the team through over 250 projects and 165,000 hours of frontline breach remediation work. Through this experience, Mike has become a thought leader in the incident response space and is passionate about teaching organizations about the steps they can take to improve their security hygiene and dissuade bad actors from targeting them. A realist, he also teaches that ransomware attacks are inevitable, but there are actions organizations can take to reduce the fallout and business disruption from a ransomware attack. Mike also has expertise in operations and design of sales, services, systems, networks, cloud infrastructure, and data center infrastructure, and is a board member of XonaSoftware.
Juan Felipe Gonzalez-Gomez, Cybersecurity Services Manager and Product Owner, Motorola Solutions
Bio coming soon!
Jason Fruge, Resident CISO, XM Cyber
Jason is a global business leader and a trusted strategic advisor. His role extends beyond digital governance leadership, as he has a proven track record of providing valuable insights and guidance in advancing cybersecurity risk oversight in America’s corporate boardrooms. Jason is the Resident CISO for XM Cyber and was formerly the CISO at Upbound Group (FKA Rent-A-Center). Before his time at Upbound Group, Jason was CISO to several large enterprises, including Fossil Group, Signet Jewelers, and Cerner Healthcare. Jason also served as the global head of infrastructure security at Citi.
Victor Hsiang, CISO, GATX
Victor Hsiang is an accomplished Information Security, Risk and IT Professional with over 19 years of experience working within the Financial Services and Healthcare sectors. He has an established track record of delivering successful IT and Information Security solutions that manages risk while supporting business requirements. His experience includes implementation of technology, security audits, risk assessments, information records management, privacy concerns, compliance and legal issues related to security, forensics, security practices and policy development. He currently leads the Information Security program at GATX Corporation.
Nathanael Iversen, Chief Evangelist, Zentera, Inc.
Nathanael Iversen, as Zentera’s Chief Evangelist, helps prospects and customers understand how segmentation, identity, device posture applies to securing datacenter, cloud, user and OT systems. He has over two decades of customer-facing experience, with a broad background in networking, security, and virtualization. Nathanael has held positions in systems engineering, product management, and technical marketing; has experience with enterprise data centers and telecommunications provider networks. He began his career designing and implementing large-scale data centers for the U.S. Air Force. Nathanael holds a degree in Communication Systems Design from the Community College of the Air Force.
Amir Javeri, Senior Manager, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Protiviti
Amir is a Senior Manager with Protiviti’s Cloud Security team and a former Big 4 Advisory consultant. Amir’s entire career has been spent in the Cloud Security consulting space aiding cloud-adopting and cloud-incipient organizations in securing their cloud presence or establishing guardrails to encourage secure cloud adoption. He has experience leading dozens of AWS, Azure, and GCP-oriented cloud security engagements with clients in across 10+ industries (including 5 “Fortune 100” companies). These engagements centered around security efforts related to IaaS/Web app security assessments, tools rationalizations, cloud preparation/adoption strategies, and incident response remediation.
Randy Lee, Senior Systems Engineer – Enterprise, Veeam Software
Randy Lee is a Senior Systems Engineer/Advocacy Ambassador for Veeam Software. Randy has led a variety of IT leadership roles and technology initiatives that have modernized legacy data centers and significantly reduced operating budgets while assuring non-disrupted operations. Randy spent over seven years as a Senior Solutions Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he was a contributing member of the Worldwide Enterprise Storage Ambassadors program. Randy has managed technology teams in manufacturing, healthcare, and the financial services industries where he focused on aligning technical strategies with corporate business objectives.
Randy is also a cofounder of the Wisconsin Cyber Education Support Network Inc. and a collaborator with the Cyber Threat Intelligence Center, LLC.
Randy holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/MIS with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Randy is a Merit Badge Counselor for the Boy Scouts of America, an instructor with the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets, and a Coach for the Air Force Association CyberPatriot Program.
Jatin Mannepalli, Information Security Officer, IMC Trading
Jatin Mannepalli CISSP, CCSP, is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 10 years of experience in the financial and technology sectors. He has a strong track record of delivering security solutions that effectively manage risk while supporting business objectives. His expertise includes cloud security, threat analysis, compliance, policy development, and incident response. He has worked with leading firms like McKinsey & Company and CCC Information Services. Currently, he is an Officer of Information Security at IMC Trading, ensuring a secure and resilient digital environment.
Brian Palmer, Director IT Security & Infrastructure, Ventas
Adaptive, customer-focused cyber security and infrastructure executive skilled at delivering projects and services of superior quality; history of leading large, geographically-disbursed teams to meet service level agreements, timelines, and budget targets with solutions that result in improved IT scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
Highlights of Expertise: CISSP and CCSP Certified • Global Technology Management • Enterprise IT Infrastructure Management • Data Center & Network Management • IT Security Management • ITIL Methodologies • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity • Short / Long-Range Strategic Planning • Recruiting, Team Building & Training • Contract Negotiation / Vendor Relations • Budget Management & Cost Reduction • Metrics Creation, Analysis & Reporting
