Kash Shaikh is the President and CEO of Securonix, a cybersecurity leader in AI-Reinforced Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response. With over 30 years of experience in executive roles across Fortune 50 and small-cap companies, Kash has a distinguished record of driving profitable growth in the software, SaaS, and AI infrastructure markets.

Kash is a dynamic, growth-oriented executive, known for his customer obsession and servant leadership. He has consistently delivered leading-edge technology solutions to enterprise customers, emphasizing innovation and strategic market expansion.

Before joining Securonix, Kash was the President and CEO at Virtana, an observability software company, where he successfully transformed the company to achieve sustained profitability and expanded into new segments such as FinOps and AIOps. He adeptly scaled the go-to-market strategy through channel-reselling and Managed Service Provider models, raised significant debt and equity investments, and spearheaded acquisitions and integrations to accelerate the product roadmap and increase the customer base.

Kash’s notable tenure at Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) as the Enterprise Solutions Business General Manager saw him driving significant operational efficiencies, expanding margins, and achieving a 28% CAGR over three years. His strategic initiatives, including scaling the go-to-market strategy through partnerships and expanding the customer base internationally, grew the business to approximately $2 billion.

Simon Hunt brings over 30 years of experience as a CTO, CPO, and GM in the cybersecurity industry. He has led global product and engineering teams to deliver effective solutions that protect society from cybercriminals. Simon’s personal mission is to “stop criminals from getting rich,” a goal he has pursued through various domains, including data protection, anti-malware, smart home security, payment security, and third-party supply chain risk.

Notable recent roles include Chief Product Officer at Reveald, Inc., where he helped enterprise organizations and local governments better manage their cybersecurity risk exposure. As EVP of Cybersecurity Innovation at Mastercard, he led the acquisition of RiskRecon to provide global merchant cybersecurity risk ratings. At McAfee/Intel, he served as CTO and founded their smart home security division.

Simon has also held CTO and CPO positions at several startups. He advises several others, including a cybersecurity education company that helps motivated individuals transition into the industry as cyber-defenders and a cryptocurrency security company that protects businesses from fraud.

With more than 30 years of client-focused leadership experience at global enterprise software companies, Scott Sampson has a proven track record of driving profitable growth.

Scott most recently served as the Chief Revenue and Commercial Officer at DailyPay, Inc., a leading on-demand pay solution provider, where he helped the company double its revenue to $250 million in his first year.

Prior to joining DailyPay, Scott was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at 8×8, leading unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS) provider. Scott was responsible for 8×8’s global mid-market and enterprise sales, led its field organization and sales operations, and grew organic revenue from $250 million to more than $500 million during his tenure.

In addition to serving as Chief Revenue Officer of NewVoiceMedia through its acquisition by Vonage, Scott spent 10 years at IBM in North American and global enterprise sales leadership positions.

Ajay Biyani is Vice President for Asia Pacific & Japan, India, and the Middle East & Africa (APMEA) at Securonix. Based in Singapore, Biyani is responsible for charting the company’s overall growth strategy across the region.

Biyani brings nearly two decades of diverse engineering and sales leadership experience to Securonix. He previously served as regional VP for ASEAN at ForgeRock, leading the company’s commercial organization across key markets in Asia.

During his tenure at ForgeRock, Biyani played an instrumental role in driving regional adoption of the ForgeRock Identity Platform, and counseling customers and partners on emerging industry trends, privacy enhancement, and distributed authorization.

Other senior leadership roles Biyani had assumed over the course of his career include those held at Verizon Enterprise Solutions and Wipro Technologies.

Zubair Mukhtar Chowgale is Manager, Sales Engineering - APMEA at Securonix, driving success across the APMEA region with over a decade of experience in the IT security domain. Renowned for his technical expertise and strategic acumen, Zubair specializes in designing innovative solutions to address complex cybersecurity challenges. His passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies ensures organizations are equipped to mitigate threats and enhance security operations. With a strong focus on customer success, Zubair has built a reputation as a trusted advisor, empowering clients to achieve their cybersecurity goals while fostering growth and resilience in today’s dynamic digital landscape

Kevin has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, specializing in managed services with a deep focus on cybersecurity, security project management, policy compliance, and auditing for diverse companies and organizations. He currently holds a senior managerial role at NEC Asia Pacific, supervising 30 staff working on various cybersecurity projects and operations.

Mr. Andrew Namboka is the Head, Strategy and Innovation, NTT DATA Singapore. In his current role, Andrew is responsible for the execution and strategy for the security solutions portfolio supporting NTT DATA’s clients in assessing, planning, building and operating their environment.

Andrew is a well-known security advocate and industry speaker and has more than 25 years of IT industry experience, helping government, telecommunications and commercial companies with their networks.

Prior to joining NTT DATA, Andrew worked as Enterprise Security Technologist for Check Point, and prior to that as Chief Security Technologist at Nokia APAC, developing partnerships with clients to build effective solutions for their current and anticipated IT security challenges.

Andrew brings a wealth of in-depth technical experience gained in the data-communications and security industry. He started his career in the field as a lead engineer with IBM UK where he was responsible for building secure retail banking infrastructure. In 2000, Andrew joined Nokia UK as a European senior technical consultant before taking on the role of technology manager and subsequently engineering manager for EMEA.

He holds an Engineering Honors Degree in mechanical engineering with specialization and post graduate work in robotics and artificial intelligence.

Jenny is currently leading a global internal audit practice, including IT audit, with a global real estate cum fund management MNC. Jenny is the former PwC Risk Assurance Partner where she led the IT Audit & Advisory and Business Resilience Practices. She was PwC Singapore’s CIO and DPO. Jenny is the winner in Education 2.0 Excellence Award 2024, The Cybersecurity Award 2023, 2022 Top Woman in Security (SG & Asean), 2022 Women Program of the Year Award (Asia), 2021 Women in IT Outstanding Contribution Award (Asia) and 2021 SG 100 Women in Tech recipient. She has also received the Top 20 Cybersecurity Women in Singapore, 2020 award.

Outside of work, Jenny volunteers heavily in the technology community space where she actively promotes technology (including cyber) awareness and adoption to both business and IT professionals and organisations. She is currently the Immediate Past President of ISACA SG Chapter. Jenny spearheaded the ISACA’s SheLeadsTech programme in Singapore in 2019 and has since framed the programme as a cross- border female leadership experience & knowledge sharing platform. She has also successfully launched the 2021 SLT Mentorship Programme with dedicated mentor- mentee engagements to guide the career development of our SLT members accordingly. Jenny has also pioneered the Conversion Programme to achieve private- public-nonProfit objectives of bringing more women into the tech workforce. Feedback on both programmes were excellent! Her effort paid off as she is recognized by ISACA Global as one of the four 2021 Outstanding Chapter Leader Award global recipients and SLT Programme has also won her two Ally of the Year 2002 i.e. Best Program (International) and Best Contributor (Asia). Minister for Communications and Information, Josephine Teo, has also recently commended the Conversion Programme at the Cybersecurity Awards 2022 event. Jenny was also a finalist for Advocacy of the Year with the Women in IT, Asia 2023 award and as finalist in the national Do-Good Award 2024 by NVPC with her Cyber Safety Awareness volunteering effort.

With over 30 years of experience across Asia, Stuart supports MSSPs and Securonix partners in delivering secure, compliant log management to enterprise and government clients. Stuart has worked with organizations across sectors such as federal government, financial services, critical infrastructure, and healthcare. Leveraging transparent and trustworthy data from Snare, he continues to empower organizations to enhance their security posture while meeting stringent compliance requirements.

Experienced CISO with 18+ years in cybersecurity and leadership roles. Demonstrated expertise in developing and implementing robust security strategies, risk management, incident response, and compliance frameworks. Proven track record in protecting organizations from evolving threats, driving cultural change, and building resilient security programs. Strong advocate for collaboration and continuous improvement.

Victor has some 30 years’ experience in business and technology media and has launched several technology and business publications and portals for leading media organizations in Asia Pacific.

He is currently Editor-in-Chief of www.cybersecasia. net, www.digiconasia. net, www.martechasia. net. Prior to this, he served in various leading content roles in Questex Media Group as its S E Asia Bureau Chief, and Editor-in-Chief of NetworkWorld Asia and Enterprise Innovation. He was also previously the Regional Editorial Director overseeing the content development teams responsible for CNET and ZDNet content sites across the region.

Over the last 15 years, Victor has sat on the panel of judges for leading technology awards programmes, as well as chaired, moderated and spoken at many events catered to C-levels and senior ICT and cybersecurity professionals in Asia Pacific.

Victor holds a BA in social sciences and an MBA with distinction in strategic management. He ran a leading boutique media consultancy for more than 12 years and has served as an adjunct lecturer in top Singapore universities and polytechnics. He also held C-level positions and sat on the boards of media and technology startups, as well as various non-profit and educational organizations, over the last 20 years.