Speakers
We are pleased to announce a few of the distinguished speakers joining us at Zenith Live. Additional leaders in cloud, technology, and industry will be added to the speaker lineup in the days ahead.
Keynote
Speakers

Salim Ismail
Founder
EXO WORKS
Salim Ismail is the Founder and Chair of ExO Works, a team of innovation experts who create customized solutions for corporations and organizations seeking to remain relevant in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Salim co-founded ExO Works in 2016 to help transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking. ExO Works delivers a 10-week program called the ExO Sprint that leapfrogs an organization's mindset forward by two years. He is also the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations, a sought-after technology strategist, and a renowned entrepreneur with ties to Yahoo!, Google, and Singularity University.

Andrew Stanley
CISO
MARS
Andrew Stanley is a seasoned technology executive who has spent 20 years across multiple industries building strong teams, driving transformation programs, and delivering novel solutions to difficult technology problems. He is continuously recognized by his teams as a strong, engaged leader who empowers his teams to decide and succeed.
Since 2017, Andrew Stanley has served as the Chief Information Security Officer for Mars, Incorporated, a global consumer goods, petcare, and veterinary health company headquartered in Washington, DC. Mr. Stanley has a deep background in cybersecurity, which started in his pre-university years designing one-way hashing algorithms.

Ken Athanasiou
CISO
VF CORPORATION
Ken Athanasiou is the Chief Information Security Officer at VF Corporation and serves on the Board of Managers for Spirion, the Board of Directors for the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center, and the Board of Directors for the National Technology Security Coalition. Ken has extensive experience in information security and risk management. His career includes senior positions with global companies in the retail and financial service sectors as well as thirteen years of service as an officer in the United States Air Force. Just prior to joining VF Corporation he was the Chief Information Security Officer for AutoNation. Ken holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and a Master’s Degree in Computer Resources Management and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Alex Simons
Corporate VP of Program Management
MICROSOFT
Alex joined the Identity Division in January of 2012 and is responsible for driving Microsoft’s business and consumer identity strategy and product plans. Alex spearheaded Microsoft’s rapid shift to building cloud based identity and security services including creating the vision and direction for Azure AD Premium. He is also a vocal champion inside and outside Microsoft for supporting open standards and 3rd party platforms.

Jeff Mealiffe
Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
Jeff Mealiffe is a Principal Program Manager on the Office 365 engineering team. In his 19-year tenure at Microsoft, he has held various engineering roles related to the Exchange server and Office 365 service products. His current position leading the Office 365 FastTrack Workload PM team is focused on connectivity, security, and client access for Office 365 services. In this role he and his team focus on strategic projects across multiple Office 365 workloads, working directly with some of our largest customers to ensure their Office 365 services are running as efficiently as possible.

Ben Sapiro
Global CISO
CANADA LIFE
Ben Sapiro is the head of Cyber Security for Canada Life’s group of companies which include Irish Life, Putnam and Empower. Prior to joining Canada Life, Ben has led security in multiple sectors including cloud based services, natural resources and professional services.

Phil Armstrong
CIO
CANADA LIFE
Philip joined Canada Life in January of 2016 and is currently responsible for technology governance and strategy across Canada Life, with a focus on technology innovation, digital transformation, cyber security, hybrid-cloud enablement, risk management, employee productivity, big data analytics, A.I. and robotic process automation. Reporting to the CEO, Philip is a member of the Lifeco Executive Management Committee and Executive Risk Committee.

George Maddaloni
Global CTO
AIG
George Maddaloni is AIG Global Chief Technology Officer. As Chief Technology Officer, George is responsible for delivering compute, cloud, network, employee and identity access services to AIG businesses. He also partners closely with business CIOs on both the technology modernization strategy and agenda for AIG.
George has over 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology industry. He joined AIG in October 2015 from UBS, where he was Managing Director, Americas Infrastructure and Global Network Operations.

Rich Baich
SVP, CISO
AIG
George Maddaloni is AIG Global Chief Technology Officer. As Chief Technology Officer, George is responsible for delivering compute, cloud, network, employee and identity access services to AIG businesses. He also partners closely with business CIOs on both the technology modernization strategy and agenda for AIG.
George has over 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology industry. He joined AIG in October 2015 from UBS, where he was Managing Director, Americas Infrastructure and Global Network Operations. Prior to UBS, he spent 20 years in various positions at AT&T. His most notable role at AT&T was Vice President, Global Managed Services and Outsourcing, where he was responsible for running enterprise networks for Internal AT&T and several Fortune 100 Financial, Manufacturing and Technology companies.

Alex Philips
Chief Information Officer
NOV
Alex Philips is the Global Chief Information Officer at National Oilwell Varco (NOV). He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Information Technologies, Systems, Applications and Security in support of NOV’s business plan and strategic goals.
Alex joined National Oilwell Varco in 1997 as an IT Implementation Engineer and subsequently held roles as IT Infrastructure Manager and Director IT Security. He successfully led the IT integration of 300+ acquisitions while the company grew from 4,200 to 35,000+ computer users.

Benjamin Vaughn
CISO
HYATT
With over twenty years of experience in the information security and physical security fields, Benjamin is an ardent advocate for information sharing and continued vigilance of advanced eCrime and foreign government threat actors in enterprise computing environments. As Chief Information Security Officer for Hyatt, Benjamin and his team work every day to further Hyatt’s purpose of ‘Taking Care Of People So They Can Be Their Best’.

Marij Kouwenhoven
CIO
NATURE'S BOUNTY
Under Marij’s leadership DFA became one of the first large enterprises that successfully migrated to the cloud while modernizing the technology architecture, automating, insourcing IT and reducing spend.

Randy Herold
CISO
MANPOWER GROUP
Randy Herold is the Chief Information Security and Chief Privacy Officer for ManpowerGroup, responsible for overseeing ManpowerGroup’s Information Security and Privacy efforts globally. Prior to joining ManpowerGroup Herold held technology leadership roles with PHH, Chubb/ACE Group, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Nielsen/Arbitron and multiple government defense contractors. He has received various technology related certifications and is a member of numerous security and technology professional organizations.

Rob Franch
CTO
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD
Chief Technology Officer beginning May 2014 leading a team of 250 IT professionals across 60 countries focused on delivering best in class global solutions for clients & colleagues.

Tony Fergusson
IT Infrastructure Architect
MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS
Tony Fergusson is an Infrastructure architect, working with many technologies within the Enterprise with a focus on the Security. Tony has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has been recently focusing his efforts on how to secure the enterprise and the internet of things using emerging technologies like software defined perimeter and cloud security.

Jay Chaudhry
CEO, Chairman and Founder
ZSCALER
Jay leverages more than 25 years of security industry expertise, including engineering, sales, marketing and management experience with leading organizations, such as IBM, NCR and Unisys. Prior to founding Zscaler in 2008, he founded and led AirDefense, a wireless security pioneer, before its acquisition by Motorola. From 2000 to 2006, Jay founded and led CipherTrust, the industry’s first email security gateway, before its merger with Secure Computing. He also founded and led CoreHarbor, a managed ecommerce solution, before it was acquired by USi/AT&T. In 1996, Jay founded and led his first company, SecureIT, the first pure-play Internet security service, before it was acquired by VeriSign in 1998.
Featured
Speakers

Carlos Cong
Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology Services
PAYCHEX

Jon Meyer
Chief Technology Officer
CAPTRUST

Brett James
Global Infrastructure Design Manager
BECHTEL

Steven Williams
Security Advisor
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Alexis Lopez
Director Network Strategy and Operations
OMNICOM MEDIA GROUP

Ben Jenkins
Director of Information Security
JABIL

Andrew Stanton
Network Security Engineer
KOCH INDUSTRIES

Steve Williams
CISO
NTT DATA

Kenneth Reddick
Director of Network Engineering
FANNIE MAE

Alla Nasser
Chief Architect
BP

Matthew Pearson
Sr. Network Security Engineer
AMERICAN TOWER

Paul Collinge
Senior Program Manager
MICROSOFT

Rob Mello
Head of Strategy and Transformation
ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES

Henry Ku
Sr. Director IT Infrastructure
Ciena

Phil Quinless
Network Engineer
Ciena

Matt Ramberg
VP of Information Security
Sanmina

Aaron Edwards
Field CTO
CloudGenix

Derek Granath
VP of Product Marketing
Silver Peak

Martyn Ditchburn
Director of Datacentre Services
Informa

Ramnath Shenai
Sr. Technical Product Manager
VMware

Robert McDougall
SVP, Information Technology
Cushman and Wakefield

Manoj Apte, Ph.D.
Chief Strategy Officer
ZSCALER

Patrick Foxhoven
CIO & VP Emerging Technologies
ZSCALER

Stan Lowe
Global CISO
ZSCALER

Micheline Nijmeh
CMO
ZSCALER

Amit Sinha, Ph.D.
President of R&D, Operations & Customer Service, CTO
ZSCALER

Yogi Chandiramani
VP, Sales Engineering
ZSCALER

Bill Lapp
VP, Customer Success
ZSCALER

Steve House
SVP, Product Management
ZSCALER

Misha Kuperman
SVP, Cloud Ecosystem
ZSCALER

Lisa Lorenzin
Director, Transformation Strategy
ZSCALER

Haggai Polak
VP, Product Management
ZSCALER

Pete Amirkhan
VP and GM Americas
Zscaler

Dhawal Sharma
Senior Director, Product Management
ZSCALER

Naresh Kumar
Director, Product Management
ZSCALER

Dan Shelton
Director, Transformation Strategy
ZSCALER

Steve Grossenbacher
Head of Product Marketing (ZIA)
ZSCALER

Chris Hines
Head of Product Marketing (ZPA/Zscaler App)
ZSCALER

Dhwanit Shah
Principal Product Manager (ZPA)
ZSCALER

Kunal Shah
Principal Product Manager
ZSCALER

Priyanka Pani
Sr. Product Manager (UI/UX)
ZSCALER

Pooja Deshmukh
Sr. Product Manager
ZSCALER
