John Pescatore is a Vice President and Research Director at Gartner Group in the area of Network Security. He has 22 years experience in computer, network and information security. Prior to joining Gartner Group, John was Senior Consultant for Entrust Technologies and Trusted Information Systems, where he started, grew and managed security consulting groups focusing on firewalls, network security, encryption and Public Key Infrastructures. Prior to that, John spent 11 years with GTE developing secure computing and telecommunications systems. John began his career at the National Security Agency, where he designed secure voice systems, and the United States Secret Service, where he developed secure communications and surveillance systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and is a NSA Certified Cryptologic Engineer. He is an Extra class amateur radio operator, callsign K3NT.

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Thomas J. Maxwell is the Director of Advanced Payment Solutions at MasterCard. He is responsible for the marketing and implementation of Advanced Payment programs with MasterCard member banks and the online merchant community. Thomas currently manages the deployment of both MasterCard SecureCode and MasterCard Site Data Protection as well as the development of vendor alliances in support of these programs. Before joining MasterCard in 2001, Thomas spent 12 years in the highly competitive telecommunications industry, holding various positions in marketing, product management and product development. He has worked for major telecommunication and technology companies including SBC Communications, AT&T and MCI Communications. Thomas is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Drew University with a B.A. degree in Economics and also holds a M.A. degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut.

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Russell Rice is a Director of Marketing in Cisco System’s CTO Security Office in the Security Technology Group. With over 10 years in the network security industry, he is currently responsible for the planning, partnering, and marketing of Network Admission Control and other next generation system security initiatives. His team are the architects for the SAFE network security best practice design guidelines. Before joining Cisco through acquisition, Russell was the Director of Engineering at Global Internet, developers of the first NT firewall. Prior to focusing on network security, he held marketing and engineering management positions at Dow Jones and ABB, as well as founding an Internet gaming company. Russell graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

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Monty Couch heads up the Global Security Technical Domain that has responsibility for the delivery of global security solutions across AXA. Monty has worked in IT for the last twenty years. For the last 12 years he has specialised in IT Security. Monty started his IT Security career working for Clerical Medical in Bristol in 1994 as a Senior Security Analyst. In 1997, he became the Operational Internal Controls Manager at Severn Trent. Since 2000, Monty has worked in the Financial Services Industry, firstly as Global Head of Operational Security with Standard Chartered Bank and in the last three years with AXA.

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Paul Simmonds is the Global Information Security Director at ICI. Paul’s varied career has included Electronic counter-measures, Theatre Lighting, North Sea Oil control systems, JET (Nuclear Fusion Research) and commercial radio. Prior to joining ICI in 2001 he was Head of Information Security with a high security web hosting company and before that spent seven years with Motorola, as global information security manager. Paul was awarded European Chief Security Officer of the year at the 2005 SC Magazine Awards and is listed in both the 2004 & 2005 global top 50 most powerful people in networking by the US publication Network World. Paul sits on the management board of the Jericho Forum and the Executive Advisory Board of ISSA UK. He also is a British Canoe Union Level 3 Kayak Coach.

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Philippe Courtot is the chairman and CEO of Qualys, Inc., a leading provider of on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance. Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Philippe has repeatedly built innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Philippe has worked with thousands of companies to improve their network security. In 2004, Philippe received the SC Magazine Editor’s Award for bringing on demand technology to the network security industry and for co-founding, with former White House advisor Howard Schmidt, the CSO Interchange to provide a forum for sharing information in the security industry. Before joining Qualys, Philippe was the Chairman and CEO of Signio, an electronic payment start-up that he repositioned to become a significant e-commerce player. In February 2000, VeriSign acquired Signio for more than a billion dollars. Today, VeriSign’s payment division, based on the Signio technology, handles 30% of electronic transactions in the U.S., processing $100-million in daily sales. Prior to Signio, Philippe was President and CEO of Verity, where he re-engineered the company to become the leader in enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions. Under Philippe’s direction, the company completed its initial public offering in November 1995. Philippe also turned an unknown company of 12 people, cc:Mail, into the dominant e-mail platform provider, achieving a 40% market share while competing directly against IBM and Microsoft. Acknowledging the market leading position of cc:Mail and the significance of e-mail in corporate environments, Lotus acquired the company in 1991.

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Wolfgang Kandek is the Vice President of Operations at Qualys, Inc. As the VP of Operations, Wolfgang is responsible for the security, availability and performance of the QualysGuard service and its infrastructure. Wolfgang has over 20 years of experience in developing and managing information systems. His focus has been on Unix-based server architectures and application delivery through the Internet. Prior to joining Qualys, Wolfgang was Director of Network Operations at the Online Music streaming company myplay.com and at iSyndicate, an Internet media syndication company. Earlier in his career, Wolfgang held a variety of technical positions at EDS, MCI and IBM. Wolfgang earned a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

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