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Johna Till Johnson is the CEO & Founder of Nemertes Research, an 18-year old research-advisory firm specializing in the business impact of emerging technologies. Ms. Johnson spearheads Nemertes’ security and risk management practice, where she works with Fortune 200 financial services, manufacturing, utility, and other leading organizations.

Ms. Johnson’s career in information security began more than 25 years ago when, as a young engineer, she developed security products for Mosler Security Systems. In the early 1990s, she ran the lab-testing program at Data Communications Magazine, which uncovered vulnerabilities in the then-novel RSA two-factor authentication system. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Johnson ran the Global Networking Strategies Service at the META Group, which included META’s security and risk management offering. Subsequently, she served as the Chief Technology Officer overseeing the security practice for Greenwich Technology Corp., a global consulting and engineering firm that developed and implemented leading-edge security architectures for financial services firms and other global organizations.

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With many years of experience deploying business continuity and risk management platforms globally, Rich Cooper oversees customer success and business development for large, global accounts.

Rich has more than 20 years of experience in the business continuity and risk management marketplace, running programs and implementing software in both Europe and North America for some of the world’s largest organizations. He has an MBCI certification from the Business Continuity Institute.

While not at work, life in the Cooper Household revolves around soccer. This proud father of three sons who all play soccer has a U.S. National Coaching License. Rich also passionately supports Corazon alongside LA Galaxy and Adidas, which is a charity that puts on a soccer tournament for underprivileged kids from seven communities in Tijuana, Mexico.

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Paul is a Principal Solutions Architect at Weaveworks, where he provides pre- and post-sales technical expertise. Paul comes from the big data world and machine learning world, having spent seven years at MapR. Paul has served as Senior Operations Engineer for Unami, a startup founded to deliver on the promise of interactive TV for consumers, and was Systems Manager for Spiral Universe, a company providing school administration software as a service. He has also held senior support engineer positions at Sun Microsystems, as well as enterprise account technical management positions for both Netscape and FileNet. Earlier in his career, Paul worked in financial application development for Applix, IBM Service Bureau, and Ticketron.

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Zak is the CIO of CRISIL, and is responsible for driving the company’s global technology road map, product development, technology infrastructure and alliances. He is driving the implementation of micro-services, cloud and digitally-led technology models while also focusing on digitalization of content and enhancing CRISIL’s automation journey by harnessing machine learning and natural language processing. He is also leading innovation in risk management solutions, AI/ML and Cloud to help CRISIL clients accelerate their digital transformations.

An acknowledged expert in managing large scale technology transformations, he also leads the Technology Lab set-up that aims to partner with external fintechs and technology firms to ccollaborate with businesses on innovation.

Zak has held executive level leadership roles within technology across application engineering, DevOps, Blockchain, technology support/architecture/engineering. Zak maintains a deep background across compute, databases, automation, cloud technology, service management and applications at some of the largest financial institutions.

Before joining CRISIL, Zak was the Global Head of IT Infrastructure and Operations at S&P Global Ratings. Prior to that he was with BNYMellon where he was leading Data Platforms, Distributed Compute / Cloud and Information Life Cycle Management services. Prior to BNYMellon, his experience spans working at large financial institutions such as Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers leading Infrastructure Engineering and various operation services.