Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape: Insights Beyond the CISO Survival Guide

Janey Hoe is a Vice President of Cisco Investments. Previously, she held multiple product management, technical marketing, and business development leadership roles at Cisco, operating multi-billion dollar product lines as well as pioneering new products in switching, security, data center, and video collaboration. Along with her team, she was recognized as a finalist for the Pioneer Award, the highest honor for innovation at Cisco.

Prasad Parthasarathi is Senior Director and Global Head of Cisco's Cybersecurity Investments and M&A practice. Prasad's strong M&A track record extends to large cap technology platforms such as HP and EDS, characterized by 25+ category defining investments, multiple successful exits, as well as landmark transactions such as Cisco's $2.4B acquisition of Duo Security and $14B sale of EDS to HP among others.

Leoncio "Leo" Casusol is Managing Director at Forgepoint. He is a seasoned technology leader and investor with over 20 years of executive experience building and operating large-scale global technology companies. His expertise in product development, infrastructure management, global operations, sales, business development, telecommunications, and government contracting has been successfully applied at startups as well as Fortune 20 companies. Prior to Forgepoint, Leo spent over two decades as the CIO at Cyxtera Technologies, Verizon Business, Terremark Worldwide, and Liquidity Services(Nasdaq: LQDT). Leo was also a founding member and technology architect for QuadremUS (acq. Ariba and subsequently acq. SAP). Leo holds an MBA from the Universidad Nacional deSan Agustin and a BASc from the Universidad Católica de Santa Maria.

Morgan Kyauk is a Managing Director at NightDragon, bringing a wealth of experience leading M&A transactions for companies of all sizes - from late stage, pre-IPO companies to large, serial acquirers. Most recently, Morgan was the Vice President of Corporate Development at FireEye, where he was responsible for the evaluation, execution, and integration of all acquisition, investment, and strategic partnering activity for the company. Morgan has also held corporate development leadership roles at a variety of technology companies, including Dropbox, Juniper Networks, and HP. Morgan began his career advising technology companies on M&A activity while at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Morgan received his MBA from Wharton and his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Amir Zilberstein is Managing Partner of Team8 Enterprise. Amir is also Chairman and Co-Founder of Claroty, a pioneer in the OT security market. Prior to Claroty, Amir co-founded Waterfall Security Solutions and Gita Technologies, and prior to that, he managed a team of exceptional researchers and developers in the Israeli elite technology unit 8200. Amir is the inventor and author of more than ten patents, most of which are in the field of cybersecurity.