Dan Bowden is Marsh’s Global Business Chief Information Security Officer. He’s been with the firm for over four years. Dan is in his fifth CISO role, running for 13 years. Dan’s previous CISO roles were with Marsh Risk, Sentara Healthcare, and the University of Utah. Dan has over 30 years cybersecurity and technology experience in the insurance, healthcare, higher education, financial, retail and military industries. Dan’s professional interests along-side cybersecurity, include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and identity proofing. Dan’s personal interests focus on his family, faith and outdoor activities.
Leslie leads Mimecast’s global cybersecurity strategy as CISO, including threat intelligence, risk management, and detection and response, while ensuring regulatory compliance to protect Mimecast’s more than 42,000 global customers. With over 25 years of cybersecurity experience, he is known for driving innovative security strategies and building resilient, high-performing teams. He joined Mimecast from Klaviyo, where he served as SVP and CISO and helped scale the company to $1.3 billion in revenue, strengthen its security posture, and lead its security function through IPO. Before that, he was SVP and CISO at Nuance Communications, joining after a major malware attack to lead an accelerated security transformation that helped position the company as one of Microsoft’s largest acquisitions.
Earlier in his career, Leslie held senior security leadership roles at SAP Concur and SuccessFactors as VP and CISO, served as CTO at SOS Security, and held senior positions at IBM and ACS (acquired by Xerox); he has also served on Google’s CISO Cloud Advisory Board. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Texas Tech University.
Dr. Brett Stone-Gross is the Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Zscaler. He has over 20 years of experience tracking sophisticated malware threats and leading technical research teams. Brett has authored dozens of publications and presented at top cybersecurity conferences. His work has led to the disruption of numerous large-scale criminal operations in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies. Some of these operations have included GameOver Zeus, Kelihos, Dridex, Qakbot, and SmokeLoader.
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