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Executive Team
AJ SARKAR
FOUNDER & CEO
AJ is an Official member of the Forbes Technology Council, and the Founder and Chairman of ICCG, a 501c (6) non-profit, established to improve local competitiveness in a global economy. AJ is a serial Entrepreneur who successfully founded and sold a BPM (Business Process Management) software company, and also successfully established an IT consulting company. AJ has his MS in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India, and resides in San Diego, CA.
AJ SARKAR
FOUNDER & CEO
AJ is an Official member of the Forbes Technology Council, and the Founder and Chairman of ICCG, a 501c (6) non-profit, established to improve local competitiveness in a global economy. AJ is a serial Entrepreneur who successfully founded and sold a BPM (Business Process Management) software company, and also successfully established an IT consulting company. AJ has his MS in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India, and resides in San Diego, CA.
ANDREW BEAGLEY
CHIEF RISK OFFICER
Andrew has held Chief Risk & Compliance Officer positions at Mercer, Oliver Wyman and Citi. He has supervised global teams and managed regulatory relationships across multiple jurisdictions. He is an award-winning film maker, bringing to life complex corporate compliance and ethics issues on the big screen. He received his Law Degree from London Guildhall University.
ED MERRITT
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Ed was CFO and Treasurer for Deluxe Corporation in Minneapolis. Deluxe is a multi-billion public corporation that provides professional financial services for companies. Prior to this, he was the VP of Corporate Development, Treasury, and Investor Relations for Digital River. Ed has his MBA from UT, Dallas, and his BBA from the University of North Dakota.
ED MERRITT
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Ed was CFO and Treasurer for Deluxe Corporation in Minneapolis. Deluxe is a multi-billion public corporation that provides professional financial services for companies. Prior to this, he was the VP of Corporate Development, Treasury, and Investor Relations for Digital River. Ed has his MBA from UT, Dallas, and his BBA from the University of North Dakota.
DAN WILDER
CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER
Dan has 30+ Years of leadership experience in Global Cyber Security, Enterprise GRC, Advanced Zero Trust Architecture, & SOAR. He’s a Trusted Strategic Advisor working with Global CxO’s and their; Cyber Security Risk Profile Management covering – Legal, Statutory, & Regulatory Compliance. His accomplishments include; Cyber Security Architecture with SDN / ZTA Designs, Operations, & Management of Brand Protections to advance Operational & IT Security / Risk Control Governance / Process Agility & Automations within Enterprise Risk Remediation / Mitigation Management.
EVAN DONALDSON
VP OF SOLUTIONS
Evan has a background in building and managing high-performance teams. Evan was the Regional Managing Director of Eastridge Infotech prior to joining RiskOpsAI™. Evan has provided outsourced technical professional services resources, as well as top-tier staffing and hiring expertise and management consulting through a company he started, Talentry. Evan did his BA work at the University of San Diego, and his graduate work at San Diego State University.
EVAN DONALDSON
VP OF SOLUTIONS
Evan has a background in building and managing high-performance teams. Evan was the Regional Managing Director of Eastridge Infotech prior to joining RiskOpsAI™. Evan has provided outsourced technical professional services resources, as well as top-tier staffing and hiring expertise and management consulting through a company he started, Talentry. Evan did his BA work at the University of San Diego, and his graduate work at San Diego State University.
DR MARTY TREVINO
CHIEF SCIENTIST
Dr. Trevino is a Technology Executive and Decision-Scientist working to alter the sensory experience of Data Informed Decision-Making through the use of Visual Analytics, 3 Dimensional Visualizations and the incorporation of the Neuroscience, Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology of Decision-Making. Previously, Dr. Trevino served as a US Intelligence Officer and Senior Technical Director at the National Security Agency (NSA). He holds a Bachelor’s, two Master’s, and a Doctoral degree in addition to various certifications.
Advisory Board
Charles Tango
CISO, SYSCO
Charles is the Chief Information Security Officer with the global food leader Sysco. Charles has a track record in digital transformation, emergent technology, and IT risk. Prior to Sysco, Charles served in the CISO role at Altria and Sterling National Bank, and he was the SVP of Global Operational Risk Management Strategy at Citi. Charles serves as an Advisory Board Member to IBM Security and the Richmond Technology Council.
Reema Poddar
President & CEO, Diagnostic & Pathway Information, Philips
Reema Poddar is a respected thought leader – a highly experienced technology executive and authority on data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud services, IoT and IIoT. Her successes include setting product and technology strategy, building and delivering commercially viable innovative product & services offering, accelerating digital & cultural transformations, enhancing customer experiences, and delivering great results & increased revenue in the digital market.
She has great experience working in startups, mid-size companies and large enterprises. She has joined as the President & CEO, Diagnostic & Pathway Information, Philips and prior to that she was the EVP & Chief Product Officer of Teradata. She is honored with numerous Business, Technology, and Leadership awards.
Poddar holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Physics.
Philip Quade
Advisor & Former Global CISO
Phil is a member of a number of external Enterprise, start-up, and Government Boards, and a venture capital firm. He appears regularly in NBC, CNBC, Forbes, USA Today, Washington Post, and other outlets, and is the author of The Digital Big Bang (Wiley Publishing, 2019). Phil is married with three children.
Phil recently served as the Chief Information Security Officer of the world’s largest cybersecurity company, advised business and government executives worldwide, and helped grow shareholder value by ~10x during that time.
Prior to that, he was a long-time executive of the National Security Agency, with diverse assignments such as the creation and execution of highly disruptive technical and operational worldwide capabilities within the guidelines of the President, Congress, and Courts; formation and execution of forward-leaning national security strategies and policies at the White House, and; day-to-day operations of the national security organization responsible for the worldwide protection of classified information, generation of nuclear command & control codes, and production of the nation’s and our allies’ cryptographic keys. Other assignments included US Cyber Command; the US Senate; the Director of National Intelligence, and a special CIA/Pentagon joint center.
Marene Allison
Retired Chief Information Security for Johnson & Johnson
Marene Allison retired Chief Information Security Officer for Johnson & Johnson, has had over 30 years of corporate risk and security responsibilities that have included not only J&J but also Medco Health Solutions, as their Chief Security Officer. Head of Global Security for Avaya communications where she worked on securing the World Cup Network in Korea and Japan in 2002 and Vice President of Loss Prevention and Safety for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Before joining the corporate world, she served as a Special Agent in the FBI.
Marene is a graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the first class of women and served in the Army as a Military Police Officer. She has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services appointed by the Secretary of Defense and the Overseas Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State.
She served on the Health ISAC Board of Directors and is a founding member of West Point Women and currently serves as their President. She is an advisor to CISA/DHS on national resiliency. She and her husband operate an organic blueberry farm and are currently the largest producers of organic berries in Madison County Florida.
Felix Sterling
Chief Legal Officer, Trend Micro
Felix has been an Innovative legal and business executive leading the Legal, Policy and Compliance teams at Trend Micro — a $1.7B revenue public internet security company with 7000+ employees in 65 countries — for the last 10 years. Prior to that, he was the VP and Associate General Counsel at VeriSign for 8 years, as well as previously being an Associate of Technology Transactions and Litigation at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Felix has a BA from UC Santa Cruz; Executive Finance from Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Executive Education from Harvard Business School; and a JD from UC Davis School of Law.
Nicolas Herman
Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Canada
Nicolas Herman is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Microsoft Canada. In this role he provides financial leadership to the subsidiary, drives shareholder value and plays a critical role in key strategic growth and profitability initiatives as well as the organization’s efforts to maintain a fully compliant culture.
Prior to his current role, Nicolas was the CFO of Latin America, leading the Finance organization across 8 subsidiaries and 23 sales locations.
With over 19 years working with Microsoft, he has held roles such as the US Public Sector Finance Director, Microsoft Spain’s CFO, and Regional Controller for the Middle East and Africa. In every role, he has helped organizations transform, grow, and deliver on Microsoft’s mission around the world.
Nicolas began his career with Ernst & Young in France and in the United Kingdom, where he was in charge of Audits for IT, Communication and manufacturing companies. He holds a Bachelor degree in Management from Ecole des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC, France) and a Masters degree in Accountancy (Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Comptables et Financières, France).
Mark Webber
US Managing Partner, Fieldfisher
Mark Webber is Fieldfisher’s US Managing Partner and a leading European lawyer and English solicitor. He is one of a few leading EU/UK privacy and technology specialists based full time in Silicon Valley. With over 22 years of experience, Mark is recognized as an expert in the Data Privacy & Protection and Information Technology chapters of Who’s Who Legal: Data 2021.
He is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) training faculty and holds and regularly trains the CIPP(e) European data certification. He co-authored the UK chapter of Global Security and Privacy Law published by Wolters Kluwer.
Mark is a Foreign Legal Consultant registered with the State Bar of California.
Michael Gregoris
Chief Financial Officer, Kraft Heinz Canada
Michael Gregoris is the CFO of Kraft Heinz Canada and Coffee North America, and in his role oversees FP&A, Strategic Planning, Revenue Management, Corporate and Trade Finance for the division.
Prior to Kraft Heinz, Michael held increasing senior roles at Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB-InBev), including CFO of Labatt Breweries of Canada, and Global Finance VP of FP&A. Prior to AB-InBev, Michael worked in Consulting at Accenture. He has also served on the boards of Brewers Retail Inc (“The Beer Store”), Brewers Distribution Ltd and Lime Connect.
With over 15 years of professional experience, Michael has successfully led transformational and strategic initiatives including M&A, integration and synergy capture, process change management and implementation of efficiency projects. He holds an Honours Degree in Engineering from the University of Toronto, and he is a Six Sigma Green Belt.
Megan Cristina
Chief Privacy Officer, Slack
Megan Cristina is the VP and CPO at Slack. Prior to that, she was the Director of Trust and Safety at Twitter and held a Sr. management role at Yahoo! for many years.
Megan has a BS from Santa Clara University, as well as CIPP/CIPM/and FIP certifications.
Stuart Lee
Chief Privacy Officer, VMware
Stuart is the Chief Privacy Officer at virtualization giant VMware. Prior to this, he served as a Privacy and Data Protection Specialist Leader at Deloitte, working globally across technology, retail, government, and manufacturing sectors; helping clients to navigate complex data privacy and cyber security challenges.
Stuart has his BA from Flagler College, a Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), holds CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and CIPP/M certifications, and is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Chandra McCormack
Chief Financial Officer
Chandra most recently served as CFO for Acosta, a private-equity backed full-service sales and marketing B2B/B2C agency with 30K employees and 2500 clients, managing both the physical grocery shelf and e-commerce digital shelf for top consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and consumer electronics (CE) companies in the US, Canada, and Europe. In her role, Chandra led financial diligence and deal-modeling, completing four strategic acquisitions as part of its turnaround. She also led a rationalization plan of 100 systems to ten, while incorporating SAAS, AI, cyber and cloud solutions and managing Acosta’s strategic growth algorithm.
Prior to Acosta, Chandra served in CFO roles in diverse industries including transportation, retail-restaurant, and CPG, including 13 years with Dean Foods Company while the company grew from $300M to $12B. She was involved with all aspects of SEC reporting including risk factors, MDA, and financial disclosures as an Officer. Her last five years at Dean Foods, she served as VP Finance for Dean’s $900M ice cream business. She has also led due diligence of two private CPG companies sold to private equity, led supply chain/procurement, worked in management consulting and retail banking, and expanded mid-market companies to multi-state.
Chandra is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and earned her MBA (with an emphasis in IT) from Univ of Texas, Arlington. She has been honored with multiple awards, including CFO of the Year from the Dallas Business Journal, Top Women in Grocery 2021 Executive award from Progressive Grocer, awards from the National and Texas Diversity Council (Power 50, Most Powerful & Influential Women, and Top 15 Businesswomen Awards), and 2021 and 2022 D CEO Dallas 500.
Gerald Smith
VP of Privacy, CUEBIQ
Gerald Smith has built Global Privacy programs from infancy and bare structure to fully functioning, robust data protection programs that span the globe. Currently the VP of Privacy at Cuebiq, Gerald has held Data Protection and Privacy roles with Asurion, GM Financial, and others.
Gerald has a BA in Economics from UNC, Chapel Hill, a JD from Chapman University School of Law, and an EMBA. Gerald holds FIP, CIPM, and CIPP certifications.
Shalini Urankar
VP & CFO, Iron Mountain
Prior to Iron Mountain, Shalini was COO at Demeter Technologies, where she led Business Development and Customer Acquisition. At Demeter, Shalini worked on commercializing Demeter’s flagship product, a precision agriculture application, which leveraged AI/ML and drone technology to provide insights on farm health and crop breeding.
Before joining the executive team at Demeter, Shalini worked at P&G in Finance & Strategy for over 10 years on mega brands such as Pampers, Always, Cascade & Febreze. At P&G, she led P&L management, product & retail strategy and cost innovation. Prior to P&G, she worked in Investment Banking at Credit Suisse and Technology/Product Development at Intel Corporation and LSI Logic.
Outside of work, Shalini leads important initiatives to drive social and community impact. Her volunteer leadership includes serving on the Board of Intel Involved, P&G United Way’s campaign, Greater Boston Food Bank and SOLV (watershed rehabilitation in NW Oregon). She currently serves on the Board of RiskOpsAI™, Cambridge Volunteer Clearinghouse and FEI Boston Chapter.
She holds an M.B.A. from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Jaisinh Dhembre
Global Executive
Global executive and seasoned professional with close to 25 years of experience in leading high-performing and cross-functional teams that are focused on achieving the targeted business outcomes. Proven success across multiple areas (business, technology, finance and digital transformation, leadership, stakeholder management and people development) coupled with broad international experience across various domains.
Setup, matured and scaled advisory practices for multiple consulting organizations. Expertise in strategy, enterprise architecture, business and technology optimization, digital transformation, program management, people development and practice management. Led several complex, multi-year, multi-million dollar strategy, design and transformation initiatives. Industry experience spans across various sectors including life sciences, manufacturing, banking and financial services, private equity, consumer goods, hospitality, transportation, and non-profit organizations.
Exposed to the diverse professional, personal and cultural environments while living and working in different countries such as US, Canada, UK, Uruguay, Brazil, Singapore, and India. A strong leader that puts premium on empowering people to achieve goals, building a positive culture, process excellence and effective communication.
Client organizations worked with include US Govt. Organizations, GE Group, RCI, TAM Airlines, Delphi, Singapore Airlines, JPMC, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, National Grid, Comcast, World Bank Group, Honeywell, Marriott International Inc., Morgan Stanley, Medtronic, Allegis Group, TIG, Laureate, JM Family, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Boys & Girls Club, Baxter, Caterpillar, NCR Corp and many more.
