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Courtney Chatterton is a Marketing Manager at Miscreants, where she runs full-funnel demand generation and campaign operations for cybersecurity brands. With four years in the industry, she's built a reputation for a practical, no-fluff approach to campaign strategy. She’s known for turning jargon-filled messaging into programs that actually convert with security buyers. Courtney co-hosts monthly marketing meetups with the Cybersecurity Marketing Society and has previously presented at CyberMarketingCon 2024.

Cyrus J. Walker III is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Defenders, a civic cybersecurity firm serving municipalities, counties, nonprofits, and healthcare organizations. He brings thirty years of practitioner experience across cybersecurity operations, network architecture, digital forensics, and critical infrastructure protection.

Cyrus serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CISA Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) as a member of the Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council, working directly with federal partners on threat intelligence and joint incident response capabilities for election infrastructure. He is an internationally recognized expert in electronic voting system security and holds a certificate from MIT's Smart City Design program.

Earlier in his career, Cyrus served as a Subject Matter Expert in Cyber Terrorism Defense and Incident Management at the University of Arkansas's Cyber Defense Analysis Center under DHS funding, where he trained more than 5,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement professionals, including personnel from the NSA, FBI, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Secret Service.

Under his leadership, Data Defenders serves as the operational architect of Aurora, Illinois's regional cybersecurity operation, which has detected and mitigated 35,331 threats, eliminated 351 high-severity threats, declared zero major security incidents, and delivered those results at 77% below the cost of an equivalent in-house Security Operations Center.

Brand = Pipeline. Prove me wrong.

Danielle Guetta is the first marketer at Jazz, the AI-native DLP platform that took the cybersecurity industry by storm with its DLP Sucks campaign. Before Jazz, Danielle was the second marketer at Astrix Security, where she led product marketing and helped build the Non-Human Identity (NHI) category from the ground up — defining the language, narrative, and positioning that the entire market now uses. Before Astrix, she spent years at Check Point Software (joining through an acquisition), giving her nearly a decade of cybersecurity marketing experience across stealth-stage startups, category-defining scale-ups, and global enterprise. Danielle specializes in turning complex security problems into bold, contrarian brand moments that move pipeline.

Impactful Intelligence

Previously Vice President of Marketing at Cyberint, and now Director of Marketing, Exposure Management division @ Check Point software.

Based in Israel. Rich history in the software and internet industry, specifically focused on cybersecurity for the past 15 years or so.

Hold graduate degrees in Business and Psychology.

David J Ebner is the President and Founder of Content Workshop, a story-first content agency. While in graduate school, he assembled a collective of storytellers whose sole purpose was to use their storytelling skills to help brands create and convert an audience. That idea became Content Workshop in 2013. After graduating from the University of Tampa with an MFA in Creative Writing, he authored the Amazon Best Seller–Kingmakers: A Content Marketing Story. Today, David runs Content Workshop from the headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children.

David Koke is Head of Marketing at Intruder, a UK-based exposure management platform. With a decade of experience in marketing and customer-facing roles at early-stage tech startups, from Seed through Series B, David has a deep understanding of what it takes to build and scale GTM motions with limited resources and high ambition.

David Spark is the founder and executive producer of the CISO Series, a media network for cybersecurity professionals. He also co-hosts many of our shows. Spark is a veteran tech journalist who’s appeared in many media outlets such as eWEEK, Wired News, Forbes, PCWorld, Clearchannel, and TechTV (formerly ZDTV). Spark is the author of "Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows." Outside of tech, security, and marketing, Spark squandered over a dozen years working as a touring stand-up comedian, a San Francisco tour guide, and a comedy writer for The Second City in Chicago.

Deb Wolf is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Dataminr responsible for elevating the company’s brand, driving customer engagement, and supporting growth goals.

Prior to Dataminr, Deb served as CMO at Lookout, where she pivoted the company from B2C to B2B, expanded its product portfolio from mobile to cloud security, and scaled its go-to-market efforts.

She has 35-plus years of experience growing private and public companies, and has held marketing leadership roles at organizations such as Workday, Integrate and BetterUp.

Deb has a BA in English from California Polytechnic State University, and advises CEOs at three early-stage venture-backed companies in the AI, leadership development and data industries.

Deepika D’Souza is a Senior Marketing Communications Manager at Endor Labs, where she leads influencer and community programs for one of the fastest-growing AppSec companies.

She has built Endor Labs’ influencer program from the ground up, partnering with podcasts, creators, and technical communities to reach security and developer audiences.

Her work focuses on turning trusted voices into measurable business impact, tying influencer efforts directly to demo requests, pipeline, and revenue outcomes.

Deepika brings an operator’s perspective on what it actually takes to make influencer marketing work inside a B2B organization.

Emily Rosenfield is theMarketing Director at Fig Security, with over a decade of experience scalinghigh-growth tech brands. A veteran of the cybersecurity space, she has alsoworked at Cymulate and JFrog. Emily specializes in bridging the gap between creativebrand strategy and technical operational excellence to build scalable marketingengines.

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Eran Kinsbruner is Vice President of Product Marketing at Checkmarx and a recognized thought leader in software quality, secure development, and DevSecOps. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, product marketing, and developer advocacy, he helps global enterprises modernize pipelines and strengthen AppSec in the AI era. A frequent keynote speaker, author, and advisor, Eran bridges the gap between AppSec and engineering by promoting shift-left practices, developer-first security, and the use of agentic AI to enhance code quality without slowing innovation. He has contributed to leading industry reports, whitepapers, and open-source projects, and authored several books on continuous testing and secure software delivery. Today, Eran focuses on advancing next-generation AppSec powered by agentic AI—helping modern software teams build faster, stay secure, and deliver with confidence.

A field marketer with 15+ years of experience driving pipeline through in-person experiences, executive events, and ABM programs, now leveraging AI to shift field marketing from activity-based to impact-driven field marketing at Snyk, a platform for developers to build cloud native applications securely in a DevOps environment.

Fari Banimahd-Mansur is a cybersecurity marketing leader with more than 15 years of experience building global demand generation, integrated marketing, and go-to-market programs for some of the industry's leading technology organizations. Throughout her career, she has helped high-growth startups and enterprise cybersecurity companies—including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Xage Security, and Silver Peak—scale pipeline growth, launch emerging solutions, and transform how marketing organizations operate.

Fari specializes in developing integrated campaign strategies that align Product Marketing, Sales, Brand, Field Marketing, and Marketing Operations around unified customer journeys and measurable business outcomes. Her expertise spans demand generation, executive engagement, campaign orchestration, lifecycle marketing, and building scalable operating models that connect marketing strategy to revenue impact.

Passionate about simplifying complexity, Fari is known for helping organizations evolve from product-centric marketing approaches to solution-led go-to-market strategies that better reflect how modern cybersecurity buyers evaluate, purchase, and adopt technology.

Gary Robbins is the Founder and CEO of FOURCORTERS, a B2B marketing agency focused on helping cybersecurity and enterprise technology companies leverage an extensive network of independent analysts and firms to build credibility, create meaningful industry conversations, and drive pipeline through executive engagement, content, and events.

Gary works closely with marketing and business leaders across the cybersecurity industry, helping brands connect with buyers in more authentic and trusted ways. He also leads weekly executive roundtables designed to surface and address some of the most pressing challenges facing today’s marketing leaders across demand generation, partner marketing, product marketing, ABM, content, field marketing, and overall marketing leadership.

Before founding FOURCORTERS, Gary spent more than 27 years at Frost & Sullivan helping technology companies strengthen their market presence, sharpen their messaging, and accelerate growth through strategic marketing and analyst engagement.

Gerald Auger, PhD is the founderof Simply Cyber, a cybersecurity education and media company built on oneunglamorous habit: showing up. Since December 2021 he has hosted the DailyCyber Threat Brief live every weekday morning, 1,237 consecutive mornings, andwon the SANS Difference Makers Award for Podcast of the Year in 2024 doing it.

What began as a livestream becamea community: more than 275,000 subscribers on YouTube, 75,000 followers onLinkedIn, and 17,000 members in a Discord server where practitioners trade jobleads and hard-won advice every day.

He holds a PhD in cyber operations from Dakota StateUniversity, has spent more than twenty years in governance, risk, andcompliance, teaches as an adjunct professor at The Citadel, and has taught GRCto more than 11,000 students through Simply Cyber Academy. He is at his bestexplaining why a risk matters to someone who did not ask for a lecture.

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Gianna Whitver is Co-Founder and CEO of the Cybersecurity Marketing Society and Co-Host of the BreakingThrough in Cybersecurity Marketing Podcast.Gianna advises on marketing & GTM for cybersecurity and technology companies. She speaks publicly on marketing and entrepreneurial topics, having presented at RSA Conference 365, (ISC)2, InfoSec World, and others. Previously, she worked in marketing and operations at cybersecurity, tech, and commercial RE companies.

Head of Performance at AdConversion, a paid media agency specializing in B2B SaaS.We've worked with recognizable brands in the space, including Rippling, Brinqa, DigitalOcean, Checkr, and ActiveCampaign.Before AdConversion, I worked as a Performance Marketer at Metadata, where I gained visibility into the strategy and performance of a wide range of B2B SaaS ad accounts.

Heather Daval has spent her career helping companies communicate clearly when the issues are complex and the stakes are high. She now leads public relations at Pentera.Previously, as an SVP at FleishmanHillard, Heather advised Salesforce, Cisco and GM on corporate reputation, media strategy and executive communications. Her work included AI, autonomous driving and other technologies that were moving faster than public understanding.Heather brings that same perspective to crisis response. A strong plan matters, but reputational threats rarely follow a script. The companies that respond best are the ones prepared to adapt quickly while staying clear about who they are and what they stand for.

Hiten Sethi is Director of Product Marketing for AI Security at Palo Alto Networks, leading messaging and category strategy for Prisma AIRS and AI security initiatives. Previously at AWS, VMware, and Cisco, he focuses on AI security, platform narratives, and executive storytelling. Hiten is a published author and researcher who has written white papers and ghostwritten thought leadership on AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, including work tied to the Digital Vortex research program.

Idan Gol is a cybersecurity marketing executive and CMO at OX Security. He leads the company’s global marketing efforts, including brand, demand generation, product messaging, events, and communications. Idan is passionate about building strong teams, simplifying complex technology stories, and helping security companies stand out in crowded markets.

Ingrid Velasquez-Woodley is Senior Director of Revenue Strategy at 38North Security. She oversees the company’s go-to-market architecture, revenue operations, partnerships, and practice growth—building repeatable systems that turn deep technical capability into scalable revenue. At 38North, she has helped drive the Practice Lead operating model, supported the launch of Compliance Engineering as a distinct offering, and contributed to the productization of LaunchPad as a compliance accelerator. She also leads thought leadership efforts that translate evolving frameworks like FedRAMP 20x into practical guidance for cloud providers navigating continuous validation.

Jaakko Jalkanen brings more than 15 years in digital marketing and demand generation to cybersecurity. He leads marketing at WithSecure (formerly F-Secure for Business), one of Europe's longest-established cybersecurity companies, founded in 1988, and previously worked at the NATO-awarded cyber range company CybExer Technologies.

Jacqui Morgan is the Head of Social and Brand at CoreWeave, where she shapes the brand narrative for one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world. Before CoreWeave, she led social at Palo Alto Networks, one of the most recognized names in cybersecurity. She's a strategist who sits at the intersection of brand, audience, and culture and has the receipts to prove social belongs at the leadership table.