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Marissa Salzone is an award-winning marketing executive and Director of Marketing at Echelon Risk + Cyber who has spent her career proving that marketing is not an elective, it is a business driver.

With deep roots in B2B cybersecurity and demand generation, Marissa drove over $22 million in revenue and a 420% increase in sales while helping grow a cybersecurity firm from startup to industry leader, earning coverage in The Washington Post, TIME, and Business Insider. She holds a record-breaking lead-to-prospect conversion rate of 46%, was named Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year for North America, and recognized as one of the Most Inspiring Women in Business.

Marissa has spent her career operating at the executive level and building marketing organizations that run like business units: accountable, aligned, and impossible to ignore.

Four months into her role at Echelon Risk + Cyber, she received the firm's highest honor: Echelonian of the Year, a reflection of the culture and standards she brings to every team she joins.

When she is not building marketing strategies, you will find her exploring new restaurants because life is too short to cook, and at her local yoga studio whenever it is time to decompress and reset.

15 years selling to people who read the docs first.

Mate has spent 15 years figuring out what makes technical buyers actually buy - and 10 of those leading the teams responsible for the answer.

Currently VP Marketing at Axoflow, he previously served as Fractional CGO at BitNinja Security, where he turned a culture of "don't ship on Friday" into weekly sprints, halved churn, and doubled trial-to-paid conversion. Along the way, he's consulted for a range of seed-series A startups on PLG, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.

He specializes in B2B and B2D SaaS in cybersecurity - because marketing to people who can and want to read the documentation is the most honest version of the job.His teams run on empowerment, scrum inspiration, and the firm expectation that you'll ship before you've over-thought it. He's a doer with a thinking problem.

Based in Valencia, Spain. Married, father of twin girls, casual gamer, and a surfer in ongoing negotiations with the ocean.

Matt Johansen is a cybersecurity leader, educator, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience helping hundreds of organizations level up their security programs. He previously led software security at Reddit, where he helped secure the infrastructure behind one of the world’s most visited websites. Today, he runs Vulnerable U, a fast-growing cybersecurity media brand known for its popular newsletter and daily expert content across social media. He also leads a content agency that helps security vendors tell better stories without the marketing cringe. Outside of content and consulting, he advises and invests in early-stage tech companies and supports nonprofits with security strategy they otherwise couldn't afford.

Michelle Radlowski is the Vice President of Field & Partner Marketing at Vertex, bringing 20 years of experience building and leading high performing regional and partner marketing teams. She has a proven track record of enabling revenue growth, strengthening sales alignment, and scaling organizations through hypergrowth, acquisitions, and major transformation.Before joining Vertex, Michelle led the AMS and EMEA Regional & Partner Marketing teams at DigiCert, where she established integrated go-to-market frameworks and deepened collaboration across sales, SDR, and channel organizations. She previously led the Americas Field Marketing team at Zscaler, where she helped scale the company through significant expansion, including its successful IPO and a 14x growth trajectory during her tenure. She also held impactful roles at Dell, Quest Software, and Vizioncore, consistently elevating field marketing into a strategic, datadriven engine that supports both customer needs and business priorities.

Michael Lyborg is the Chief Information Security Officer at Swimlane. Prior to taking his current role, Michael was Global Vice President of Advisory services, a highly sought-after expert by the world’s largest Fortune 500 companies and global government agencies to advise on the creation and operation of industry leading security operations programs in North America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia.

Before joining Swimlane, Michael was a head of security for the Fortune 100 fastest growing pharmaceutical company Heska (HSKA), where he held multiple responsibilities for global security operations, engineering, and compliance. His roles at Swimlane and Heska built on decorated US Marine Special Operations career supporting both cyber and physical response and the mitigation of emerging threats.

Missi Carmen is Chief Revenue Officer at Safetica, where she leads global sales, marketing, sales engineering, customer success and revops. She joined Safetica as CMO, rebuilt the marketing org, and later stepped into the CRO role. Her career includes leadership roles across cybersecurity and global B2B organizations including Spirion, OPSWAT, SYKES and Concentrix. She speaks from an operator’s perspective on marketing, revenue growth, RevOps and what it takes to lead effectively at the executive level.

MJ Kaufmann is the author of Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management and co-author of Attack Surface Management, both published by O’Reilly Media. She holds a master’s degree in Information Security and has more than two decades of experience across development, IT, cybersecurity, higher education, and technical marketing.MJ is also the CEO and founder of Write Alchemist, a product and content marketing company that helps cybersecurity and technology companies turn complex technical ideas into clear, credible messaging. Through Write Alchemist, she has worked with startups and global technology leaders, including UST, Saviynt, Bitdefender, Cisco, and Snyk. Her work combines technical depth, cybersecurity experience, and marketing strategy to help companies create content and messaging that buyers can trust.

Nathan Burke has spent his career building cybersecurity brands that don't look like cybersecurity brands.

At Axonius, where he was the first US employee and stayed from pre-product through $100 million in ARR, that meant a campaign built around Simone Biles and adaptive athlete Amy Bream — an argument that the best don't just overcome complexity, they find a way to give back — in a category still buying stock photos of hooded figures.

At 7AI, where he's CMO, it has meant a Black Hat booth designed as an art gallery, demo stations disguised as the exhibits, sitting quiet and deliberately strange in the middle of the show floor's sensory overload. The next year, 7AI took over the Las Vegas Sphere — and put almost no words on the booth at all.

The through line is a conviction that boring is the only unforgivable marketing sin, and that the playbook everyone is running is precisely why everything in this industry looks the same.He's a three-time CMO across five cybersecurity startups and seven startups total. He also once pitched Axonius at the RSAC Innovation Sandbox on less than 24 hours' notice after his CEO's flight was canceled, and won — a story he has now told enough times that you've probably heard it and you're rolling your eyes.

Nate lives on Cape Cod full time with his wife Randi and daughter Maggie, where his primary household function is early-morning food source to Travis the dog and to Eddie and Ashley, two cats with strong opinions and no volume control. He is a rabid New England Patriots fan and an unapologetic WWE fan, and considers exactly none of those a character flaw.

Nicole Gates is VP of Global Growth Marketing at Varonis and has spent the past 15+ years building growth teams, driving pipeline, and learning the hard way what actually scales in cybersecurity marketing. She communicates primarily in memes and GIFs, has strong opinions about Real Housewives, and will absolutely talk to you about both.

Paul Innella is the CEO of TDI and a cybersecurity entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience leading and advising cybersecurity companies. In addition to building and scaling his own firm, Paul serves on boards of cybersecurity companies where he provides direct input on go-to-market strategy, positioning, and differentiation. He works closely with executive teams to pressure-test messaging, align product and sales narratives, and communicate credibility to customers, partners, and investors. Paul brings a candid, operator-level perspective on what actually resonates in cybersecurity markets and how boards influence successful growth.

Randall Degges is VP of AI Engineering and Developer Relations at Snyk, where he builds AI-powered security tooling and leads the teams behind Snyk's developer relations and community. He's been writing software for over 25 years -- a former startup CTO who built some of the internet's most-used API services (ipify alone handles over 100 billion requests a month) along with a stack of open-source security tools. Before Snyk, he led developer advocacy at Okta and Stormpath.These days, Randall speaks and writes about where AI and security collide: shipping code fast without shipping vulnerabilities, why authentication still isn't a solved problem, and what secure development looks like when AI writes most of the code. He's a hands-on engineer who'd rather walk you through working code than a slide full of buzzwords.

From helping build a cyberstartup from 10 to 200 employees to leading regional demand generation acrossLatin America and Africa, I’ve spent about a decade mastering the art ofcreating pipeline where none existed. I thrive on turning chaos into scalableprocesses, aligning marketing with sales and partners, and advancing brandsthrough every stage of maturity.

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Revenue marketer. Sales champion. Data devotee.For19 years, I've built regional, partner, and corporate marketing programs across the IT Networking and Cybersecurity industries that don't just generate activity - they move pipeline. I've learned that great marketing isn't measured in impressions or clicks; it's measured in the deals sales closes because marketing showed up as a true partner.I lead Global Field, Partner, and Corporate Events Marketing at Varonis, a leader in AI data security, where I get to do what I love most: aligning our channel organization with partners, launching go-to-market programs that give sales real momentum, and turning prospect and customer insight into campaigns that actually convert. Data isn't a nice-to-have process, it's the foundation every strategy is built on, from the first target account to the last touchpoint before close.Connecting with people is my passion. Whatever the background, whatever the communication style, I strive to find the common ground, because the best marketing programs aren't built in a vacuum, they're built in strong partnership with sales, the channel, and customers alike.

Ron Eddings is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer ofHacker Valley Media. Ron’s mission is to help unleash the potential ofcybersecurity professionals and companies through creative content.

Before setting his focus on creative content, Ron spent 12years as a security architect and supported government intelligence agenciesand Fortune 50 companies to become more resilient against cyber attacks.

Ron'scommitment to learning and storytelling make him a pivotal figure in shapinghow cybersecurity narratives are crafted and received. Ron has spoken atconferences worldwide and, as the host of the Hacker Valley Studio podcast, hasan audience that spans more than 150 countries

Human-first Product Marketer

I tell stories, build go-to-market strategies and execute marketing projects to simplify lives of Information Security professionals, salespeople and product managers in their jobs. My approach to GenAI agentic workflows in 2026 is to supercharge the quality of my output. But first start with human-first conviction and taste in any activity. I have grown mature appsec products worth $100M+ at 20-50% year on year and built up startup insider threat and CASB products to grow 100%+ yoy.

Samaresh Kumar Singh is anEngineering Principal at HP Inc. with more than 21 years of experiencedesigning and implementing large-scale distributed systems, cloud-nativeplatform architectures, and secure Edge AI / ML systems. His expertise spansagentic AI systems, GenAI / LLMs, Edge AI, federated and privacy-preservinglearning, and secure hybrid cloud–edge computing.

 In addition to buildingintelligent systems, Samaresh specializes in cybersecurity, Zero Trustarchitectures, and AI governance frameworks for production environments. He hasled initiatives focused on securing AI pipelines across the full lifecycle fromdata ingestion and model training to deployment, monitoring, and continuousvalidation. His work integrates secure MLOps practices, model risk management,AI supply chain security, identity-centric access control, and runtimeprotection for distributed AI systems operating at the edge.

 Throughout his career, hehas architected high-throughput, low-latency services and resilientorchestration frameworks that deliver intelligence closer to devices and datasources while maintaining strong security, compliance, and governance controls.He actively contributes to the technical community, serving as a book revieweditor for Apress and Manning, and has reviewed more than 50 research papersfor IEEE conferences and journals spanning AI/ML, distributed systems, edgecomputing, cybersecurity, and AI risk management.

 Samaresh is passionateabout translating academic research into secure, production-grade systems andmentoring engineers and researchers in building trustworthy, scalable, andgovernance-aligned AI platforms.

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Sarah builds Demand Gen and Field Marketing teams from scratch at early stage IT and Security startups. After re-locating from the US to the UK, Sarah co-founded the first ‘Demand Gen ’ community for marketers in London which is supported by brand partners like Cognism, Yext and LinkedIn.

Scott Johnson is the founder of Amplifyed, an Inc. 5000 agency that exclusively does SEO/GEO for cybersecurity companies. Scott lives in San Diego with his wife and daughter. When he isn't working or with his family, he's likely losing at pickleball or chess.

Seth Steinman is VP of Marketing at PreVeil, where he's helped 10x the business in under 3 years. With 15+ years in tech and cyber marketing, he specializes in building small teams that punch well above their weight.

A previous speaker at the Cyber Marketing Conference & CMMC Summit, Seth has been published in Security Boulevard, Digital Guardian, and Security Clearance Jobs.

Shlomi Ashkenazy is Head of Marketing at Rein Security and a B2B marketing and positioning expert who specializes in turning complex technologies into clear, compelling market narratives.

Over the past decade, he has worked with 50+ VC-backed startups across cybersecurity, AI, DevOps, fintech, and even quantum computing, helping founders move from “we have a great product” to “we’re defining a movement.”, changing thier karma as a result. His work focuses on positioning, product marketing, and building movements that drive real growth, often helping companies scale to 8-figure ARR and beyond.

Before Rein, Shlomi was Head of Marketing at Cybellum, and the Strategy Director at Atreo, one of the leading B2B tech branding agencies, where he led positioning and brand work for companies like JFrog, Axis Security, Bionic, Cybellum, and Claroty. Prior to that, he spent five years at Monitor Deloitte, building growth strategies for both startups and enterprises.

He sees his work as a mix of engineering and creativity. Designing positioning, categories, and messaging systems that do not just explain a product, but make the market move.

Stephanie leads market strategy across the company’s IT portfolio, including ITPro, ActualTech Media and SmartBrief. She focuses on connecting audience insights, research and content strategy to help technology marketers better understand and engage today’s IT decision-makers. With extensive experience in B2B media and marketing, Stephanie is particularly focused on how changing buyer behaviors, including the growing role of AI in research and discovery, are reshaping the technology buying journey.

As Chief Innovation and AI Officer at Sendmarc, Stephen builds AI-powered solutions that transform how cybersecurity companies enable their partners. His experience spans building marketplace businesses across Africa to now creating AI agents that help partners understand products, assess security postures, and scale sales—all while integrating seamlessly into existing workflows. He's passionate about using AI to solve real business problems, not just as technology for technology's sake, but as a practical tool that drives measurable GTM results.

I am a transformational marketing and communications leader who creates corporate narratives and builds market-defining thought leadership to deliver authority and expertise. My work elevates executive engagement through inspirational narratives, data-driven storytelling, and brand differentiation to bring decision-makers to the table, accelerate sales pipelines, and enable GEO-ready marketing.At AT&T Cybersecurity and LevelBlue I developed new messaging, led communications, and created an award-winning thought leadership program fostering business discussions about the future needs of cybersecurity in the age of AI with executive decision makers.I help executive teams, technical leaders, and global audiences understand how the market is changing, what it means to the business, and what to do next. I’ve delivered over 1,000 keynotes, briefings, and presentations around the world reaching more than one million people. The goal is always to turn insight into action.As a former Gartner industry analyst and chief cybersecurity evangelist, I don’t just speak – I listen, analyze, and create a clear point of view. I work closely with executive teams to ensure that message reflects reality, inspires action, and drives results.If you need a trusted communications leader, evangelist, and top-ranked speaker to help with executive engagement and leave your audiences thinking differently, let’s talk.