The data security & management summit

Jen Easterly is the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Jen was nominated by President Biden in April 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As Director, Jen leads CISA’s efforts to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the cyber and physical infrastructure Americans rely on every day.

Before serving in her current role, Jen was the head of Firm Resilience at Morgan Stanley, responsible for ensuring preparedness and response to business-disrupting operational incidents and risks to the Firm. Jen has a long tradition of public service, to include two tours at the White House, most recently as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Counterterrorism. She also served as the Deputy for Counterterrorism at the National Security Agency.

A two-time recipient of the Bronze Star, Jen retired from the U.S. Army after more than twenty years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Responsible for standing up the Army’s first cyber battalion, she was also instrumental in the design and creation of United States Cyber Command.

A distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Jen holds a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 2022 National Defense University Admiral Grace Hopper Award; the 2021 Cybersecurity Ventures Cybersecurity Person of the Year Award; the 2020 Bradley W. Snyder Changing the Narrative Award, and the 2018 James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a French-American Foundation Young Leader, Jen is the past recipient of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship, the National Security Institute Visiting Fellowship, the New America Foundation Senior International Security Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and the Director, National Security Agency Fellowship.

Kevin is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Mandiant, Inc. Kevin also leads the Cohesity Security Advisory Council and sits on the Cohesity board of directors. One of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts, Kevin is sought after by the U.S. government and Fortune 100 companies to lead the response when cybercriminals strike. He has testified in hearings before the U.S. House and Senate committees and has served as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency since December 2021. Kevin began his cybersecurity career in the United States Air Force, serving as a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon and later as a special agent and cyber crime investigator in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In the private sector, Kevin held senior positions in the security consulting divisions of Sytex, acquired by Lockheed Martin, and Foundstone, acquired by McAfee. Kevin holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.

Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. He is an industry thought leader and has successfully steered the company’s strategy and technology evolution across VMware’s rich history.

During his tenure at VMware, Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, where had responsibility for all of VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support, and operational functions. Prior, he led the company’s software-defined data center business as the executive vice president and general manager, where he was responsible for the division’s strategy, business and product planning and engineering execution. Before, he led the company’s cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager, and led worldwide product marketing, product management and business planning for the company, and served as part of the leadership team that took the company through its initial IPO. Raghuram began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere.

Prior to VMware, Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks and Netscape. Raghuram holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Francessca Vasquez is the Vice President of Technology and Customer Solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is responsible for Technology Architecture, Enterprise Modernization & Migration, Innovation Engineering, and Workforce Diversity Equity & Inclusion across the Worldwide Commercial Organization. She and her team support global startups, digital native companies, Independent Software Vendors, Small Midsize Businesses, and Enterprises. Her team helps customers enable digital transformation, deliver new customer experiences, and drive business innovation outcomes. Her organization focuses on prescriptive solution guidance across 200+ full featured AWS services and solutions such as business continuity, compute, storage, databases, cloud operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, security, people transformation, and management governance. Francessca also serves as the Executive Sponsor for the AWS Global CIO Council.

Prior to AWS, Francessca spent 11 years with Oracle, most recently as the Group Vice President of the North America Cloud Infrastructure team. She’s held numerous leadership roles in consulting, business development, and business-technology architecture strategy with Salesforce, CSC (now DXC) Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Her studies include a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Public Policy from George Mason University, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Lynchburg. She is a STEM advocate and active participant in non-profits that inspire cultural inclusion, equitable access, and diversity such as the First Tee, Year Up, the Information Senior Management Forum, Hispanic IT Executive Council, Code.org, and Rainier Scholars – a 12-year program offering a pathway to college for low-income students of color. Francessca is a Board of Trustee member at the University of Lynchburg.

Brooke Ignet Hocker is an Associate Vice President in Infrastructure & Operations at Nationwide where she leads the Compute & Storage team. In this role, her compute responsibilities span Windows, Linux, iSeries, physical servers, and virtual VMware. Within the storage space, she has responsibility for sub-products including block, file, and object storage, as well as data protection backup solutions like Cohesity. Brooke has been with Nationwide for 14 years and has held a variety of roles within Information Technology.