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Carmen Best will retire as Chief of the Seattle, Wash. Police Department (SPD) on September 2, 2020. As Police Chief, Best managed 1,400 police officers and was in charge of maintaining court-ordered reform to limit excessive police use-of-force and improve relationships with the local community.

Rebecca Morgan is the Chief of Insider Threat Division at the Center for Development of Security Excellence, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

Tyne Truong is an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) National Security, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation/Export Control Investigations Division.

As the CISO-in-Residence of YL Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm, Sounil Yu provides entrepreneurs first-hand insights into product development, customer needs and how global enterprises evaluate cybersecurity vendors and their solutions pre- and post-investment.

Since being named FedEx CISO in January of 2018, Gene Sun has been guided by the principle that the most important factor in any cybersecurity program is trust.

Joyce Hunter is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a nonprofit cybersecurity and technology think tank. There, she is responsible for building and executing ICIT's mission of improving national security, increasing public and private sector cyber resiliency, and modernizing critical infrastructures.

As Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Kurt John is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of cybersecurity strategy in Siemens’ largest market, the U.S. In this role, he oversees the coordination of cybersecurity for the enterprise’s products, solutions, services and infrastructure utilized to deliver value to Siemens USA’s customers.

Paul Lanois is Director of Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy at Fieldfisher, a European law firm with practices in many of the world’s dynamic sectors. Lanois provides guidance on information governance, data protection, privacy, cybersecurity and digitalization.

Eric Sean Clay is Chief Security Officer at CoxHealth, a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Springfield, Mo., that comprises six hospitals and primary and specialty care providers in more than 80 clinics.

For the past 12 years, Margaret Levine has been VP of Corporate Security at Bridgestone Americas, a leader in tire and rubber technologies, in Nashville, Tenn.