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Eric Goldstein
Eric Goldstein serves as the Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as of February 19, 2021. In this role, Goldstein leads CISA’s mission to protect and strengthen federal civilian agencies and the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber threats.
Previously, Goldstein was the Head of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and Regulation at Goldman Sachs, where he led a global team to improve and mature the firm’s cybersecurity risk management program. He served at CISA’s precursor agency, the National Protection and Programs Directorate,from 2013 to 2017 in various roles including Policy Advisor for Federal Network Resilience, Branch Chief for Cybersecurity Partnerships and Engagement, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, and Senior Counselor to the Under Secretary.
At other points in his career, Goldstein practiced cybersecurity law at an international law firm, led cybersecurity research and analysis projects at a federally-funded research and development center, and served as a Fellow in Advanced Cyber Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, among other roles.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgetown University School of Public Policy, and Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr. Jordan Brandt
Dr. Jordan Brandt is the cofounder and CEO at Inpher, a Secret Computing® company pioneering privacy-preserving analytics and AI. As a Technology Futurist, Jordan’s research and insight on cybersecurity, AI, and robotics have been featured in print and live broadcast internationally on Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Financial Times, Wired and other business and technology press. Jordan is the former CEO and cofounder of Horizontal Systems, acquired by Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK) in 2011. He went on to serve as the director of Autodesk’s $100m investment fund, while also teaching and conducting research as a Consulting Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. Jordan completed his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in Building Technology at Harvard. In 2014 he was selected as one of Forbes ‘Next-Gen Innovators’.
Shahidul Mannan
Shahidul Mannan is the Head of Data Engineering and Innovation at Mass General Brigham (Partners Healthcare) – largest healthcare organization in New England. He is also founder of Bridge Innovation Institute – an organization focused on education and innovation connecting global talents and entrepreneurs, and founder Principal of MBS Analytics. Shahidul served as the Chief Analytics Officer at Human Health Project. Most recently he commercialized data and AI products at TTEC Digital as Vice President and GM of AI Platform products. Shahidul also led at Dell EMC as Global Head of Big data and Analytics – leading all data assets and building next generation Data Lake and AI driven Analytics across enterprise, and at Altisource, where he served as Vice President of Technology - responsible for all data management, big data, business intelligence and advanced analytics, developing Fintech analytics products and services.
A 20 years veteran in Data Analytics and Technology, Innovation management, Shahidul has a B.Sc. in Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and an MBA in Finance from Baruch College, New York. Shahidul obtained Executive Certifications in Strategy, Innovation and Data Analytics at Sloan Management School in MIT and Tuck School of Business in Dartmouth College.
Withold Henisz
Witold J. Henisz is the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management at The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Wharton Political Risk Lab and the founder of the Wharton ESG Analytics Lab. His research examines the impact of political hazards as well as environmental, social and governance factors more broadly on the strategy and valuation of global corporations. This work analyzes best practices in corporate diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of external stakeholders as well as the measurement thereof. It has been published in top-ranked journals in international business, management, international studies and sociology. Witold is also the author of the book “Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations and Relationships with External Stakeholders”. He has won multiple teaching awards and teaches extensively on the topic of Corporate Diplomacy as well as ESG integration in executive education programs. He served as the academic co-Director for the KEROVKA stakeholder engagement in a crisis simulation. He has authored numerous teaching cases highlighting the importance of managing stakeholder risks together with their financial and operational counterparts and is developing a new suite of cases on ESG integration practices among asset managers. He is currently a principal in the consultancy PRIMA LLC whose clients span multinational firms, asset managers, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.
Pushpak Pujari
Pushpak leads Product Management at Verkada where he runs their Cloud Connected Security Camera product lines. He is responsible for using AI and Computer Vision on the camera to improve video and analytics capabilities and reduce incidence response time by surfacing only meaningful events in real-time, with minimal impact on bandwidth.
Before Verkada, Pushpak led Product Management at Amazon where he built the end-to-end privacy-preserving ML platform at Amazon Alexa, and launched a no-code platform to design and deploy IoT automation workflows on edge devices at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previous to Amazon, he spent 4 years at Sony in Japan building Sony’s flagship mirrorless cameras.
Pushpak has extensive experience of starting, running and growing multi-million dollar products used by millions of users at the fastest growing companies in the US and the world. He holds an MBA from Wharton and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, India
Rhea Rajwani
Rhea Rajwani heads the Model Risk Governance and Controls portfolio for TD Bank in the US. She has worked with the Bank since 2006 on both sides of the border – Canada and the US, in Finance & Risk Management. In addition to her work past few years in model risk governance, her areas of expertise include financial modeling, efficiency planning, resolution and recovery planning primarily focused on strategy and liquidity management, model validations, management and regulatory reporting and investor relations. Prior to joining TD, Rhea has worked at the Bank of India in Planning and Forecasting and ICICI Bank where she was responsible for Capital Planning and Regulatory filings including her work on filings with the SEC in the US and as a representative from the Bank to the working committee for Basel supervision and reporting at the Reserve Bank of India. Rhea has a Masters degree in Business, Bachelors degree in Financial Accounting & Auditing, completed the Canadian Securities Course, is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers, passed the CFA level II exams and has several technology certifications to her credit.