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Announcing Cybersphere,
Futurum Group's Cybersecurity Advisory

As cyber threats continue to escalate in complexity and frequency, businesses are challenged with the important mission of keeping their data, and their customers’ data, safe. The Futurum Group’s launch of Cybersphere empowers organizations to mitigate threats by providing actionable insights,  proactive strategies, and advisory services for protecting their data. Led by cybersecurity expert Shira Rubinoff, our team enables you to anticipate emerging risks and offers tailored solutions to foster resilience in an interconnected world fueled by data, AI, and emerging technologies.

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ADVISORY BOARD

Marene Allison

Retired CISO, Johnson & Johnson

Gary R. Hayslip

SoftBank Investment Advisors
& SoftBank Group

Stacy Mill

CEO, Pivot Tech Solutions

Johnathan Nguyen-Duy

Field CISO, Intel Corporation

Holly Ridgeway

EVP, Chief Security Officer
Citizens Bank

Howard Israel

vCISO, Google

Matthew Rosenquist

CISO, Mercury Risk

Raymond Lipps

CISO, Broadcom

Rinki Sethi

VP, CISO, & CIO, BILL

Vaughn Hazen

Assistant VP & CISO, CN Rail

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Marene Allison

Retired CISO
Johnson & Johnson

Marene Allison retired Chief Information Security Officer for Johnson & Johnson, has had over 30 years of corporate risk and security responsibilities that have included not only J&J but also Medco Health Solutions, as their Chief Security Officer.   Head of Global Security for Avaya communications where she worked on securing the World Cup Network in Korea and Japan in 2002 and Vice President of Loss Prevention and Safety for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.  Before joining the corporate world, she served as a Special Agent in the FBI.    Marene is a graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the first class of women and served in the Army as a Military PoliceOfficer. She has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services appointed by the Secretary of Defense and the Overseas Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State.  She served on the Health ISAC Board of Directors and is a founding member of West Point Women and currently serves as their President.  She is an advisor to CISA/DHS on national resiliency.  She and her husband operate an organic blueberry farm and are currently the largest producers of organic berries in Madison County Florida.   

Gary R. Hayslip

CISO
SoftBank Investment Advisors & SoftBank Group

Gary Hayslip is an experienced Global CISO with repeated success delivering innovative security programs to safeguard billion-dollar enterprises at every touchpoint. An insightful thought leader with proven business acumen and commitment to organizational mission, values, and goals. Hayslip brings this wealth of information technology, security leadership, and risk management experience to his role as the CISO, for SoftBank Investment Advisers & SoftBank Group. Hayslip’s previous executive roles include multiple CISO, CIO, Deputy Director of IT, and Chief Privacy Officer roles for the U.S. Navy (Active Duty), the U.S. Navy (Federal Government employee), the City of San Diego California, and Webroot Software.

Hayslip is a proven cybersecurity professional; he has established a reputation as a highly-skilled communicator, author, and keynote speaker. Hayslip co-authored the CISO Desk Reference Guide: A Practical Guide for CISOs – Volumes 1 & 2, The Executive Primer: An Executives Guide to Security Programs, and Developing your Cybersecurity Career Path. He also recently published The Essential Guide to Cybersecurity for SMBs. Hayslip is currently on four security & technology advisory boards and writes for Forbes Technology Council. Hayslip is an active member of the cyber community with memberships in the professional organizations ISC2, ISSA, ISACA, and Infragard. He currently holds several professional certifications, including CISSP, CISA, and CRISC and has earned a BS in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland University College and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Stacy Mill

Chief Executive Officer
Pivot Tech Solutions

Stacy Mill is CEO of Pivot Tech Solutions, helping her clients unlock the potential of their talent, engineer secure solutions, and drive value faster. Stacy ensures enterprise risk is understood and controlled to acceptable levels by building trust and awareness at all levels for her clients. Prior to Pivot, Stacy served in critical infrastructure as CIO and CISO of Nashville Electric Services. As the CTO for the State of Kansas, she was responsible for IT strategy across 18 state agencies. As CISO and VP, Enterprise Risk and Global Compliance, for Spirit AeroSystems, she led ethics, global compliance, cybersecurity, and M&A technical strategy. Stacy also designed Spirit’s first Global Enterprise Risk Program. At KAR Global, she built business continuity, disaster recovery, security architecture, security operations, information risk, and compliance programs. At Yum Brands, Stacy built an international team to address all aspects of information security spanning 120 countries. Yum Brands achieved global PCI/SOX/HIPAA/Safe Harbor compliance, matured security practices, and kept ahead of the myriad of US and international data and privacy laws under her leadership. Stacy served on the Overseas Security Advisory Council for Yum. Her security career started as Humana Military’s Chief Security Officer working with the Department of Defense as a member of the Information Assurance Work Group in support of the Tricare Management Agency and DITSCAP/DIACAP initiatives. She achieved a Qualified Technical Expert (QTE) certification by Digital Directors Network (DDN) attesting to her applied experience, and formal education necessary to work in the corporate boardroom. Stacy serves as vice chair of the Utility Technology Council’s Technology Division, Utility Technology Association Board of Directors – President, Music City Cloud Security Alliance Board of Directors, Pivot Technology School Board of Advisors, Executive Women’s Forum Board of Advisors, and is a graduate of the 2019 Leadership Kansas and 2023 Leadership Nashville classes.

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy

Field CISO
Intel Corporation

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy is the Field CISO at Intel’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, where he is the global Zero Trust Practice Leader – developing solutions that ensure trusted digital experiences for better business outcomes.   Intel delivers AI anywhere, with built in security and safety – helping enterprises create new and better ways for their customers, partners and employees to interact with their brand.

His 25+ year career spans tenure as Fortinet’s Global Field CISO, and at Verizon, where he was the Security CTO responsible for partnerships, the Verizon Cyber Intelligence Center, and the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.   Jonathan was also the GM of Verizon’s Managed Security Services business unit – leading over 500 security professionals, supporting thousands of customers around the world.

Before joining to Verizon, Jonathan served with the U.S. Foreign Service in Central America working on economic development and disarmament initiatives. He is a widely published security expert and an award-winning industry speaker.  Jonathan holds a BA in International Economics and an MBA in IT Marketing and International Business from the George Washington University.

Holly Ridgeway

EVP, Chief Executive Officer, Citizens Bank

Ms. Ridgeway has extensive experience in visionary leadership. For the past 20 years, Ms. Ridgeway has built enterprise security programs in both the commercial sector and the Federal government. Currently, Ms. Ridgeway is the EVP, Chief Security Officer for Citizens Bank.

Ms. Ridgeway served as FireEye/Mandiant’s Director, Information Security Programs, and led the Global Government and the Innovation Center. She spearheaded significant efforts to mature key services like the Security Program Assessment and developed new strategic offerings and partnerships in areas such as M&A and Cyber Insurance. Ms. Ridgeway either led or was instrumental in many of the largest and most strategically significant clients and engagements around the world.

Ms. Ridgeway has served as the Chief Information Security Officer for PNC Financial Services Group, and the Department of Justice. In these roles, she led the organization’s information security efforts with responsibility for leading all cyber program activities, including the creation of detection, monitoring, incident response, reporting and security services of the 24×7 PNC Fusion Center, and Department of Justice Security Operations Center. She is credited with developing and implementing a highly successful real-time situational awareness program and has successfully led many large incident response efforts, including the Distributed Denial of Service attacks against the financial sector that occurred in 2012-13.

In 2013, Ms. Ridgeway was recognized by her peers and honored with the Global CISO Top Ten Breakaway Thought Leader Award. In 2023, she was elected into the CSO Hall of Fame.

Howard Israel

vCISO
Google

Howard Israel has been practicing Cybersecurity continuously for 42 years. He was the V-CISO Practice Director at Google, where he was the interim CISO at 15 enterprises globally over 6 years. Most recently he has consulted to a major financial institution in Latin America and an enterprise with 300K endpoints and 20K+ servers. He has managed a team of 65 staff and multimillion dollar budgets. Previously he was the CISO, Americas at Fidessa, which is a SaaS for 26,000 professional traders at global broker dealers and banks that processes over $20 Trillion in trades annually. His work experience includes the NSA and AT&T Bells Labs. He has also published a number of cybersecurity technical papers, webinars, and speaks at security conferences. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science.

Matthew Rosenquist

CISO
Mercury Risk

Matthew Rosenquist is a Chief Information Security Officer, cybersecurity strategist and industry advisor. He is a well-known thought leader with over 30 years as a respected authority with a specialty in developing forward looking strategies, frameworks, and best practices that support optimal business outcomes. He is a keynote speaker, innovator, and one of the most recognized influencers in the industry, earning awards for his work to make digital technology trustworthy. He sits on many advisory boards for universities, startups, and industry collaboration. Matthew advises companies, academia, and governments on emerging cyber threats and best practices for risk management.

Matthew built key security organizations at Intel Corp, including the Security Operations Center, M&A security, and the cyber crisis response team. He oversaw security operations, developed innovative risk models, tools, processes, and policies. He justified strategies for Intel’s worldwide chip production operations, oversaw security features in Intel’s core chips, established the cybersecurity governance for a billion-dollar AI business unit, and was the cybersecurity strategist for Intel Security – the third largest security group in the industry which included McAfee.

His expertise in understanding and measuring the fundamental aspects that drive the industry, enables the identification of business opportunities to balance risks, costs, and usability factors to achieve optimal levels of security.

Raymond Lipps

CISO
Broadcom

Ray is the CISO at Symantec a Broadcom Company.  Previously he was a Managing Director in the Cyber practice of Ernst & Young LLP. Heading up the CISO as a service practice. He has over 25 years of Global computer science, cybersecurity, and IT Risk experience. Ray has lead Information Security as the CISO in several Life Sciences and Financial Services organizations globally.

Ray has experience leading multiple teams of technical resources with subject matter expertise in Data Leakage Prevention, Third Party Information Security Assessments, Threat Intelligence, Data Protection, and Vulnerability Assessment.

Highlights:

  • A strategic digital transformational Chief Information Security Officer managing risk in the Financial, Biotech, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail and Pharmaceutical Industries.
  • Selected by ExecRank as a “Top Security Executive” for 2012 and was ranked 75/10,000 IT Security Professionals.
  • Board level presenter
  • Member Board of Trustees – Geneva College
  • Awarded a “Top 25 CISO” award from the 2013 CISO Gartner Executive Summit.
  • New Jersey Technology Council “Chief Information Security Officer of the Year – 2016”
  • CSO50 Award winner for best in class Information Security Spearhead – 2017
  • Maintain full US Government Security Clearance, including relationships with the FBI, DHS, and DOD.
  • In-depth experience in International Risk and have used my business-related experience in challenging environments in the pharmaceutical, financial, and public-sector industries /organizations. 
  • New York City Evanta/Gartner Executive CISO Summit Chair – 2010-2019
  • New Jersey Evanta/Gartner Executive CISO/CIO Summit Chair – 2012-1019
  • HMG CIO Executive Strategy Summit Chair
  • PWC New England Enterprise Risk Conference Key Note Speaker
  • Gartner 2019 Global Chief Information Security Officer of the year finalist.  (3 finalists)

Relevant experience:

  • Deploy Risk based Information Security Framework assessments based on NIST
  • Build an Identity and Access Management program
  • Architect a Third Party Information Security Vendor Assessment Program
  • Roll out manufacturing and IoT assessments
  • Lead Data Classification Programs
  • Spearhead Data Protection and Data Privacy programs globally
  • Implement GDPR compliance programs
  • Deploy Data Leakage prevention programs

Rinki Sethi

VP, CISO, & CIO
BILL

Rinki Sethi is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at BILL, a publicly traded, Silicon Valley based company in the financial technology industry. 

Board work: Rinki Sethi serves on the board of directors at Vaultree, a private company in the data encryption space. From 2021-2023, she served on the board of directors and a member of the audit committee at ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), an identity and access management company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. She serves on the board of directors of One Prosper, a nonprofit organization empowering girls and women in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. She serves on the advisory boards for Graduate Studies at University of California, Davis and the Cyber Fellows at New York University. She also serves on the advisory board for cybersecurity startups: Fable Security, Harmonic Security, Upwind, Cyera, Breeze Security, Apisec, Praetorian, Onyxia Cyber, Cybersaint, Coverbase, Elron Ventures, Fika Ventures, Stripes, 11.2 Ventures, Sheva, Warburg Pincus, YL Ventures, Dark Reading. She also was on the advisory board for Living Security, Neosec (acquired by Akamai), LevelOps (acquired by Harness), Oort (acquired by Cisco), and Authomize (acquired by Dilenea). 

Deep technology experience: Rinki is an experienced business leader with a deep technology background. With a master’s degree in information security, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Rinki brings a deep understanding of technology into her work. 

Cybersecurity: Rinki has served as a security leader at companies like Pacific Gas and Electric, Walmart.com, eBay, Intuit, and Palo Alto Networks, and IBM. Rinki served as the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Rubrik, Twitter, and BILL. Rinki has managed large scale global security infrastructure on-prem and in cloud securing 400,000+ endpoints, leading 500M+ budgets and security teams of 500. Rinki has many industry recognized certifications including the CISSP and CISA. 

Fundraising and financial management: Rinki is an angel investor in Step Security, Andromeda, Onyxia, Dodgeball, Praetorian, Sola Security, Observo, Coverbase, and Averlon. She has served on the Audit Committee for ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), a 2.2B publicly traded company before being bought by Thoma Bravo. 

Thought leadership: Rinki is on the advisory board and frequent contributor at Dark Reading and a frequent keynoter and recognized thought leader and influencer in the industry. Rinki served on the development team for the ISACA book, “Creating a Culture of Security” by Stephen Ross. Rinki has articles published on Fortune, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal and is a keynote speaker for several large global conferences and events. 

Diversity and inclusion: Rinki led the creation of the first cybersecurity badges for the Girl Scouts of USA, building curriculum for grades K-12 enabling cybersecurity education for girls in every zip code in the United States. Rinki is recognized as a leader in industry D&I initiatives. Rinki has served as an executive sponsor for women in technology groups in her roles at Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, Twitter, and BILL. 

Awards and industry work: Rinki was a recipient of the “One to Watch” award with CSO Magazine and Executive Women’s Forum in 2014 and “Senior Information Security Practitioner” award with ISC2 in 2018. More recently, in 2023, she was recognized in Lacework’s top 50 CISOs list. Rinki serves as a mentor for many students and professionals.

Vaughn Hazen

Assistant VP & CISO
CN Rail

Vaughn Hazen has served as Chief Information Security Officer at CN Rail since 2019. Prior to joining CN, Vaughn served seven years as CISO at Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) and held several management positions at Solvay S.A. and Dart Container Corp. where he directed Security Operations, Telecommunications Project Management, and Telecommunications Operations. Vaughn received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University and holds several Security Certifications, including CISSP and CISM.  Vaughn is a U.S. Army veteran and a retired U.S. Coast Guard Reserve officer.

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