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Emily Rosenfield is the Marketing Director at Fig Security, with over a decade of experience scaling high-growth tech brands. A veteran of the cybersecurity space, she has also worked at Cymulate and JFrog. Emily specializes in bridging the gap between creative brand strategy and technical operational excellence to build scalable marketing engines.

Eran Kinsbruner is the Chief Product Officer at HeroDevs, where he leads product strategy for the company’s Never-Ending Support for open source software that has reached end of life. Before HeroDevs, he was VP of Product Marketing at Checkmarx, where he led a global PMM team and shaped the company’s application security positioning and go-to-market, including its AI-driven AppSec strategy.

Over 20+ years in software development, testing, and go-to-market, Eran has held leadership roles at Perforce, Perfecto, Lightrun, Oracle, GE, Texas Instruments, NeuStar, and Sun Microsystems. He is a bestselling author (The Digital Quality Handbook, Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals, Accelerating Software Quality), a patent-holding inventor, a PMA Top 100 influencer, and a frequent keynote speaker on Agentic AppSec, DevOps, and software quality.”

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Eric Gaither is a senior marketing executive who builds durable brands and marketing organizations that support scale in complex technology environments.

Over two decades in enterprise technology and cybersecurity, he has led brand strategy and marketing at Mandiant, Google Cloud Security, FireEye, and Brocade—companies navigating acquisitions, divestitures, category creation, and market transformation. At Mandiant and Google Cloud, he architected the brand integration following Google's acquisition, unifying security products under a coherent platform narrative. At FireEye, he managed brand strategy through corporate restructuring and divestiture, then relaunched Mandiant as an independent entity. At Brocade, he contributed to the brand foundation that supported the company's evolution from hardware to software, culminating in a 230% stock increase and premium acquisition.

His work operates at the intersection of brand, narrative, and business strategy. He translates technical complexity into market clarity, builds systems that scale across global teams, and partners with CEOs and boards during the moments that determine company trajectory. He has led through acquisitions, divestitures, category launches, and market repositioning bringing the judgment required to decide what to preserve, what to rebuild, and what to leave behind.

Eric is drawn to companies at threshold moments: entering new categories, scaling through complexity, or redefining their market position. He approaches marketing as a discipline of clarity and finds the signal in technical noise, building narratives that compound in value and creating brands that become assets, not expenses.

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 founder of Simply Cyber, a cybersecurity education and media company built on one unglamorous habit: showing up. Since December 2021 he has hosted the Daily Cyber Threat Brief live every weekday morning, 1,237 consecutive mornings, and won the SANS Difference Makers Award for Podcast of the Year in 2024 doing it.

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

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

Gianna Whitver is Co-Founder and CEO of the Cybersecurity Marketing Society, producer of CyberMarketingCon, CyberCMO Summit, and CyberCEO Summit, and Co-Host of the Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing Podcast.

Gianna advises on marketing & GTM for cybersecurity and technology companies. She speaks publicly on marketing, community, and entrepreneurial topics, having presented at CMX Summit, RSA Conference 365, (ISC)2, InfoSec World, and others. Previously, she worked in marketing and operations at cybersecurity, tech, and commercial RE companies. She loves bees and attempting to be funny.

Gianna is a podcast host, emcee/moderator, and on-stage speaker. List of recent speaking engagements:

● How to Create Influence: Four Cyber Creators Tell All (CyberMarketingCon 2025)

● Engagement Killed the Community Star (CMX Summit 2025)

● How Not to Fail at Community (CyberMarketingCon 2024)

● Cyber Oddities: A Lighthearted Look at 2023's Most Bizarre Cybersecurity Moments (SANS 2023)

● What Cybersecurity Practitioners Can Learn From Honeybees (InfoSec World 2022)

● What Cybersecurity Practitioners Can Learn From Honeybees (ISC2 Security Congress, 2021)

● What Cybersecurity Practitioners Can Learn From Honeybees (RSA365 2021)

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.

Gordon Knapp is VP of Marketing at Cleverbridge, a managed global commerce platform for software and technology companies, including cybersecurity vendors such as Tenable, Sophos, and Malwarebytes. He leads Cleverbridge’s marketing team and strategy, and helped produce The Cost of Selling Software, its research on what software vendors spend to sell and renew through reps, partners, and marketplaces. He has over 8 years of experience in B2B marketing and previously worked at Yext, where he helped lead marketing for the company’s platform and AI products.

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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.

Examines federal cybersecurity purchasing, agency priorities, budget pressures, procurement realities, and how GTM teams can align sales and marketing with government buyers.

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.

Jade Hill is the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Drata, where she leads brand, content, communications, web, and customer advocacy. She's currently repositioning Drata in a crowded GRC market, integrating a major company acquisition, and building an AI-powered marketing operating system designed to extend her team's judgment—not just their output.

She has nearly a decade of experience in marketing for cybersecurity, spending more than four years at Abnormal AI scaling the content and communications program across a period of 1,000%+ revenue growth. During that time she led content strategy, public relations, analyst relations, and a team spanning content marketers, comms managers, social media strategists, and agencies—earning coverage in WSJ, Bloomberg, Fortune, WIRED, and Dark Reading. Prior to Abnormal, she built and led the content and brand function at Agari, and spent time at Facebook as a Content Strategist.

She speaks and writes about the things corporate marketing leaders rarely say out loud: how to earn internal credibility when your work doesn't generate MQLs on a Tuesday, what it costs to build a brand that actually resonates, and what you learn about your own leadership when you try to teach AI to replicate it.