SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Michael Corvo, RSD, Pentera

Michael Corvo, native to Chicago with his wife and two children, has been in technology sales for 10+ years. As a member of Pentera, Michael partners with organizations to validate and enhance their security programs through continuous and automated pentesting. 800+ global organizations partner with Pentera to validate their current investments and drive efficiency and efficacy of their security tools. 

Megan Keeling, Senior Strategic Threat Intelligence Analyst, Recorded Future

Megan is a senior strategic threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future with a multidisciplinary background in cybersecurity, technology policy, and international relations. Prior to Recorded Future, she worked as a cyber risk consultant supporting various federal civilian government agencies. She has a masters degree in international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and a bachelors in English Literature from The College of William and Mary. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jordan.

Juliet DeVries, Director IT Security and Compliance, GTreasury

Juliet DeVries is an accomplished Security professional with extensive experience supporting financial services companies, healthcare entities and government agencies. Her experiences include leading, designing and delivering audit gap assessments, audit preparation for complex frameworks such as HITRUT and SWIFT as well as implementing Risk and Vulnerability programs. While she has worked for large banking and pharmaceutical companies, her passion is working with mid-size companies integrating their compliance, privacy and legal concerns and creating comprehensive security programs that successfully proactively manage all areas. She is currently the Global Director of IT Security and Compliance for GTreasury.

Lori Kevin, Vice President, Enterprise IT & Security, Intelligent Medical Objects

Lori has over 20 years of experience in technology, operations, and specifically in building an innovative and robust security program from the ground up. She is currently VP of Enterprise IT & Security at Intelligent Medical Objects, a software development organization whose product offerings ensure clinical data quality and integrity across the healthcare ecosystem. Lori and her team provide not only technical security expertise and guidance to software engineers, they also collaborate across the entire enterprise to communicate security awareness through training, awareness campaigns, and risk management.

Kevin Novak, Chief Information Security Officer, Old National Bancorp

Bio to come!

Nitin Raina, Global CISO and Global Head of Enterprise Risk, Thoughtworks

Nitin has close to 24 years of experience in performing IT, Security and Risk leadership roles for various organisations and serves as a global advisor tasked with prioritizing and evaluating trade-offs and conflicts among various security initiatives within the realm of ThoughtWorks businesses.

Proven leadership with key skills like security governance, compliance, budgeting, hiring, risk management, project management, mentoring, negotiation, and problem-solving skills demonstrated throughout his career.

Expert in translating between technical and business contexts; people, processes, technical aspects of technology, and in assisting organisations delivering effective, secure, and business-enabling solutions. Stakeholders/CxO advisory experience in IT/ITes organizations. Customer-focused and strategic mentality. Problem-solving and process-oriented. 

Ken Ward, Customer Engineer, Zero Networks

Passionate Security Architect with 14+ years of experience, helping organizations navigate their secure cloud adoption & leverage Zero Trust solutions. Proven record in designing & implementing secure Azure architectures aligned with industry best practices. Deep expertise in threat detection & response. Driven to solve complex challenges & foster innovation.

Ron Zochalski, CTO & CISO, Lake County, Indiana Government 

CTO & CISO for Lake County Government – Superior Courts Juvenile Division on the zero trust journey to protect data, assets and buildings for current and emerging security threats. I have the ability to break down the financial and technical risks and issues to both technical and the non-technical professionals including the boardroom and get buy in. This is not an easy task.

Ron also has spent the last 12 years teaching at Indiana University Northwest teaching students to understand and use various technologies, Personal Finance and Business Administration.

Ron’s 20+ year journey started in Financial Services then to Automotive, Newspaper/Media, ECommerce, Supply Chain, Mobile and currently Government and Courts. It’s always the questions you don’t know to ask are the ones that give you an issue.