Re:Con 2021

Jodi Watkins serves as Chief Commercial Officer at GTN a Information Technology Staffing firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Jodi brings more than 17 years of IT workforce solutions to the organization. Jodi oversees commercial strategy, development and delivery of Fortune 500 clientele. She spearheads all enterprise accounts with a particular focus on Healthcare, Financial, Retail and Government industries. Prior to joining GTN, Jodi spent many years in private equity, women owned business and as a stakeholder in a global staffing firm. Jodi currently sits on the board of the Dallas Wildlife Rescue and is active in the community working with the McKinney Food Bank and the Samaritan Inn. 

Shamla Naidoo is an accomplished executive with experience managing hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets for large, globally distributed teams who support operations in 170 countries. As Managing Partner of IBM Global Security Services, Shamla is one of the most influential security executives among Fortune 50 companies. Her advice and thought leadership in strategy and execution is sought by governments, public institutions, and private companies. Her ability to communicate complex technical process into simpler, more understandable terms is highly regarded. Shamla serves on advisory, not-for-profit and academic boards of various public and private institutions.

At Canada Life, we’re focused on improving the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians. Whether handling policy claims, help growing and protecting clients’ retirement and investment savings, providing workplace mental health support for all employers or helping build stronger communities by investing in community projects, we are committed to putting the customer first in all that we do. That trust is built on the dedication, skill and energy of our employees and advisors and their commitment to our customers and to our communities.

Igor Volovich is the founder and chief strategist at Cyber Strategy Partners, a Washington, DC‐area cybersecurity leadership and strategy advisory practice focusing on enterprise risk management, cyber defense, governance, and compliance, and national critical infrastructure protection, serving large-scale multinationals, public sector agencies, and emerging segments such as Smart Cities, Internet‐of‐Things (IoT), Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT), and Smart Grid.

Mr. Volovich has recently served as Senior Advisor, Enterprise Security Architecture and Strategy, Office of the CISO at the United States Postal Service, advising senior executive leadership on cyber risk management strategies, program development, capability maturity improvements, and governance and compliance for the Postal enterprise including IT and OT environments, creating and guiding transformative initiatives across the cybersecurity program.

Previously, Mr. Volovich served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Romad Cyber, an emerging-stage endpoint security startup, where he led product and market strategy efforts leading to two consecutive Security Shark Tank® wins for innovation and product strategy, and development of $30M in net-new enterprise business.

Mr. Volovich served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Global Information Security at Schneider Electric, a $32‐billion 185,000‐staff industrial automation and energy management multinational, leading the firm’s information security functions in the Americas region. Prior to joining Schneider through a merger, Mr. Volovich served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Vice President of Information Security and Cyber Risk Management of Invensys plc, a global $5B market leader in the fields of industrial process control, automation, and safety systems (ICS/DCS/SCADA).

Before entering private practice, Mr. Volovich served as a senior member of the Corporate Incident Response and Intrusion Detection Team at Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) organization, where he was responsible for the architecture and management of security controls deployed in protection of Microsoft’s global information assets, as well as internal investigations and incident response functions.

Additionally, Igor has volunteered as a STARS Mentor at MACH37 (mach37.com), the nation’s first cyber-focused startup accelerator operated in partnership with Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (cit.org) and CIT GAP Funds, advising founders and leaders of emerging cyber technology firms on product development, market positioning, and business strategy.

Mr. Volovich has worked with and advised some of the world’s leading firms including United States Postal Service, Schneider Electric, Invensys, Microsoft, MSN, IBM, Altria/Philip Morris, Standard & Poors, AT&T Wireless, Freddie Mac, FINRA, Estée Lauder, US Department of Defense, US Department of Labor, British Telecom, Pep Boys, Toyota Financial, Aviva, Asurion, as well as tech startups such as Romad Cyber, TeraBeam Networks, eCharge, and LivingSocial.

Mr. Volovich holds the CISSP designation from ISC², Certified in Risk Controls (CRISC), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designations from the Information systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Mr. Volovich is a member of ISC², ISACA, InfraGard, NIST Cloud Forensics Working Group, US DHS ICS‐CERT, Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement (AGMA Global), and the Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA). In addition to his professional work, Mr. Volovich volunteered as a Flight Officer with Virginia Airborne Search and Rescue Squad, serving the Northern Virginia and DC area communities, attaining the rank of Lieutenant, and serving as Chair of the Membership Committee and a Fundraising Committee member.

Recognized as one of the 2022 Top 20 Women in Canada, Octavia Howell has spent her career protecting some of the world’s largest financial institutions from cyber attacks. Today, she serves as Equifax Canada’s Chief Information Security Officer and is the Founder and CEO of Augustus Redefined, an organization focused on the advise ent of Black Women in Cyber. Octavia believes a security leader should mentor, motivate trust, and lead their teams to act with integrity and transparency. She often says, “A team is only as strong as their leaders and each leader casts a shadow that they will be held accountable for.” Octavia is motivated by the belief that we are placed on this earth to help each other achieve greatness (whatever that may be).

An experienced and passionate global leader, Meira has a track record of launching companies, building brands and credibility. With proven strength in go-to-market, brand awareness, business growth, thought leadership and customer engagement, she is an agile business leader that influences tomorrow’s market leaders and drives organizational change with business discipline. Meira is responsible for positioning Cybersixgill as a thought leader in cybersecurity and scaling the business for accelerated growth as well as partnering with other security vendors to deliver joint impact for customers.

Eric has extensive leadership and practical C-suite experience working as a Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Risk Policy Committee Chair in regulated and non-regulated companies. He has a proven track record of building high-performance teams and partnering with both clients and colleagues to drive the recognition and treatment of franchise level strategic, cyber, privacy, operational, and regulatory compliance risks within interconnected global companies.

Eric currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for IHS Markit (INFO), a $45 billion public company that is a global leader in information, analytics, and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide.  He is charged with driving the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a global cybersecurity program that supports innovation as an enabler of business and revenue growth establishes a stronger enterprise-wide posture that reduces risk, improves decision-making, and accelerates business priorities, and, cost-effectively mitigates and reduces the risk and impact of the client, market and regional disruptions caused by physical, technology and cybersecurity-related incidents. Previously, Eric held senior leadership team roles at S&P Global (Chief Risk Officer, S&P Global Market Intelligence) and Thomson Reuters (Chief Resiliency and Business Information Security Officer, Wealth Management), and senior product, operational, and risk management roles at Citibank and Bankers Trust.

Eric received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Finance and Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business.  He is a co-Chair for the New York CISO Advisory Forum, holds the CISSP certification from (ISC)², the FBCI (Fellow) certification from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), and serves as a speaker, trainer, contributor, moderator, and panelist for (ISC)², the BCI, DCRO, ISACA, and several New York metropolitan area business schools on topics including Operational Risk, Crisis & Incident Management, Data Privacy, Supply Chain Resiliency, and Cybersecurity and Business Resiliency Convergence.

Victoria van Roosmalen is focused on empowering a brighter future and navigates others towards thoughtful actions by sharing her expertise in IT, cybersecurity, and privacy. She fuels her passion for mastering her crafts by diving deep into them—allowing her to rapidly (for)see adverse effects and guard against them. Although playing safe doesn’t allow us to flourish, Victoria is determined to help others stay ahead and reveal the seemingly impossible yet possible while bringing her unique mixture of expertise, passion, fun, and controversy to the table. Catch her, if you can. 😉 ► https://victoriavanroosmalen.eu Personality type: INFJ-A Her certifications include: CGEIT, CISM, CRISC, ISO 27001 LI, FIP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPP/C, CIPM, CIPT, CDPSE, ISO 27701 LI