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Meet the International Speaker Panel – 5th CISO 360 Americas 2025
Eduardo Jany is the Chief Security Officer – SVP Global Safety and Security for a major global media organization providing security and safety management and leadership for more than ten subsidiary organizations. He is also a respected security and safety consultant and has led award winning units in physical security, protective operations, travel, crisis management and event security efforts covering more than 25,000 people at over 190 offices worldwide through innovative strategies and processes. Eduardo has a special passion and drive for events and has planned and led in numerous security and dignitary protection operations for major events including the FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games, the Boston Pops 4th of July Spectacular, political conventions and well known summits and conferences.
Eduardo retired from law enforcement as a Captain after more than 25 years of police service in Florida, Minnesota and Washington State. He held command and supervisory assignments in patrol, SWAT, canine, narcotics and mounted units. He also retired as a Colonel from the United States Marine Corps having served 33 years of combined active and reserve duty in Anti-Terrorism, Investigations, Reconnaissance, Special Operations and Infantry assignments as well as prior service in the U.S. Army Special Forces.
He received a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin Platteville and attended the University of Minnesota for undergraduate studies. He was a Senior Executive Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and completed the Kennedy School National and International Security Senior Executive Program, the National Defense University Reserve Components National Security Program, and is a graduate of the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the FBI DSEA and Graduate Academy. He is the Chairman emeritus of the Overseas Security Advisory Council Latin America CIC, the USVI Public Safety Support Foundation and is a member of the Boards of the FDR Four Freedoms Park and the Citizen’s Crime Commission of NYC.
Eduardo is active in several philanthropic organizations including American Corporate Partners, Theater of War and others.
A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Eduardo immigrated with his family to the United States in 1968, was naturalized a U.S. Citizen and speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish. In his spare time he enjoys family time, weight training, triathlon, motorcycling, and fixed and rotary wing aviation.
Co-Founder and CTO of Knostic, the world’s first provider of need-to- know based access controls for LLM-based Enterprise AI, Sounil is the creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad. Previously, he was Bank of America’s Chief Security Scientist and the CISO at JupiterOne. He is a FAIR Institute Board Member and a GMU National Security Institute fellow.
Scott has over 30 years of experience in technology, beginning with classified electronic and software engineering roles supporting programs for the United States Navy. After joining Verizon in 1992, Scott gained increasing responsibility designing, operating, and protecting large global telecommunications network. He has worked in several disciplines around the world, including a multi-year stint in Europe where he ran a global solutioning organization for Verizon. Scott’s experience in cybersecurity began over 25 years ago when firewalls and VPNs became part of modern networking services. In the last 10 years, he has held several cybersecurity leadership roles that included running a global cybersecurity architect team for Verizon. This team consulted to some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. After retiring from Verizon, he launched a new career as a cybersecurity consultant helping companies build resilient and secure infrastructures to protect their business. Scott currently consults for Acalvio Technologies where he is an evangelist for cyber deception and is passionate about the broad range of use cases it supports. Through his consulting company, he is also working as Virtual CISO, building GRC programs for companies so they can better defend against today’s advanced cyber threats. Scott has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in business administration and a number of industry certifications in leadership, security, and networking.
Jake Bernardes is a seasoned CISO with extensive experience spanning technical consultancy, advisory roles, and executive leadership. Throughout his career, Jake has worked and lived across the globe, amassing deep insights into building and scaling security programs for growth-stage and enterprise organizations alike. A proven expert in developing robust security and IT functions, Jake equally specializes in driving go-to-market strategies for security-focused products, particularly for international companies expanding into the U.S. market. His holistic approach to cybersecurity enables businesses to align their security posture with operational and strategic goals, ensuring resilience in today’s evolving threat landscape. Jake’s dedication to innovation and his practical understanding of security challenges make him a trusted partner to companies navigating complex regulatory environments and seeking scalable security solutions. He was an early adopter of many GRC solutions and have served in multiple customer advisory boards prior to joining Anecdotes, where he continues to lead with a vision of empowering organizations through smarter, data-driven compliance management.
Meredith Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Emergent Risk International, LLC, which empowers companies to understand and address the impact of geopolitical events on their business. The company specializes in addressing risks and opportunities in emerging markets, political and security risk, and building strategic risk intelligence programs for multi-national companies and organizations. ERI provides consulting, training and advice to some of the largest multi-national companies in the US. Ms. Wilson serves as a political risk and intelligence advisor to executive management and government and has more than 20 years experience in international environments, the energy sector, major corporations and the US intelligence community. Before founding Emergent Risk International, Ms. Wilson worked at the Pentagon for the US Defense Intelligence Agency. In 2007 she moved to the private sector to build a strategic intelligence program at ConocoPhillips. Subsequently she worked in regulatory affairs before moving on to Kosmos Energy to develop a political risk program. She served as a business intelligence advisor to the National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology and provides briefings to executives and members of the USG and US military. She is a cofounder of the Private Sector Intelligence Council (PSIC), a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for International Risk and Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP), and an Advisory Board member for the Southeastern Analysts’ Roundtable. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and a Masters Degree in History. Ms. Wilson has lived and worked in Australia, the UK, Ireland, Vietnam and Malaysia. She also has extensive experience working in the Middle East and Africa. She is available for speaking engagements related to geopolitical events and utilizing intelligence to build better business strategy.
David K. Young is President of the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED). Previously, David was Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Analytica and responsible for the company’s global strategy and business operations. Founded in 1975, Oxford Analytica is a leading geopolitical and macroeconomic analysis and advisory firm working with a range of governments, multilateral organizations, and multinational companies to navigate critical global issues impacting businesses, governments, and society.
Prior to his time at Oxford Analytica, David was a management consultant at Atos where he advised senior executives on how best to achieve their business objectives by leveraging emerging technologies and a Director at an international charity. He has co-founded a cloud-based, mobile payment company and a boutique due diligence firm, advises multiple early-stage and not-for-profit organizations and continues to speak at prominent international conferences. David has a deep knowledge and appreciation of the work of CED through being a Trustee over the course of the last decade.
David graduated with a BA in government from The College of William and Mary, a MA in international security from the University of London, and a MBA from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Coming from a background in cyber risk specialising in supply chain security, Haydn quickly recognised the huge process issues, sunk cost, lost opportunities, and valuable business hours wasted by clients and suppliers alike, all trying to run disparate supply chain assurance programmes in a mutually exclusive way. This led Haydn to co-found Risk Ledger, the technology platform that combines a security governance platform with a secure social network. Haydn’s team is innovating and pushing mutual supply chain assurance and security governance into the twenty second century.
Forbes List 30 Under 30 – Manufacturing & Industry
Winner of the 2019 Cyber Den Award sponsored by the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre
Winner of the 2019 Most Innovative Cyber Company Award sponsored by TechUK.
Indy Dhiman is a cyber and information security professional with extensive experience developing enterprise strategies and managing diverse security initiatives. In her most recent role as senior security architect at American health-insurance company Humana, Ms Dhiman chairs the council for AI due diligence and data security, and has implemented a comprehensive data and AI security programme, overseeing a global team. She has also held senior roles at defence company Raytheon Technologies, heating and air-conditioning firm Carrier, insurance provider Talcott Resolution and telecommunications and media firm Rogers Communications.
As Head of Global Intelligence & Security Programs, Ned oversees all aspects of security for Transocean, a world leader in ultra-deep water and harsh environment offshore drilling. Closely supporting senior leadership, Ned is tasked with proactively mitigating geopolitical and security risks to operations worldwide. Prior to Transocean, as Geopolitical Risk Manager at American Airlines, Ned designed and implemented the geopolitical risk and security intelligence program. Ned has also served in a variety of leadership positions within the US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC).Ned previously worked at Royal Dutch Shell, the Inter-American Development Bank, the US Congress, and Morgan Stanley. Ned received his B.A. in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal and his M.A. in International Affairs from American University in Washington, DC. He also studied at the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. His graduate coursework focused on European energy security and Islamic extremist terrorism in Europe. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French.
Patrick Kane is Senior Director Security for Atlas Air, a US airline conducting cargo and public/private passenger operations worldwide. Patrick is heavily focused on developing and implementing mitigation measures to support a highly mobile global workforce and multiple travelers, to include pre-travel risk assessments, coordinating secure transportation and journey management, assessing hotel and transportation options.
Patrick currently serves as the Chair of the ASIS International Santa Barbara Ventura Chapter #21 and is the President of the Corporate Executive Protection Leadership Council (CEPLC). He recently spearheaded the creation of a Travel Risk Working Group within ASIS International. Patrick is also the past Chair and Chair Emeritus of the OSAC Aviation Security Working Group. He has over 20 years of experience working in private sector corporate security; most of that time focused on international operations and has personal experience on the ground in more than 70 countries.
Since 1996 Patrick has been a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) in good standing under the auspices of ASIS International. He received an International Executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain in 2004. Prior to entering the private sector, Patrick served as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps. He welcomes questions, comments and suggestions and he can be reached at patrick.kane@atlasair.com or patrick.kane.cpp@gmail.com .
Steve Hill is an independent strategic adviser, helping Boards to navigate geopolitics, national security and cybersecurity challenges. Steve served as the Group CISO at Credit Suisse and deputy Group CISO at UBS until August 2024. His previous appointments at Credit Suisse included Global Head of Operational Resilience and Group Head of Technology, Cyber and Third Party Risk.
Steve served in the British Government for over thirty years, including as Deputy Director in the National Security Secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office, with responsibility for aspects of cybersecurity policy. For over thirty years, Steve worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a variety of National Security roles with a focus on transnational threats including terrorism and weapons proliferation. He served overseas in Vienna, Washington, Dubai, Kabul and New York. Steve is a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College, London. He sits on several global advisory boards including those of Dell Technologies, Venari and Twine.
More than two decades of professional experience in information management and governance, with particular focus on information security, risk management and assurance for large multilateral public sector organizations with global presence. Actively contributing to inter-organizational working groups for establishing policies, standards, and guidelines in the area of information security, personal data protection, awareness programs, risk analysis and metrics. Conducting research in cryptography, data protection regulation, and risk management. I’ve started professional career in information technology in the year of the release of Mosaic Web browser, Intel Pentium CPU, Microsoft Windows NT, Debian Linux, Doom computer game… Since the Internet bubble, teaching computer science and telecommunications courses as adjunct faculty at Computer Science Department of Webster University in Geneva. Actively contributing to academic program advancement as a member of the Scientific Committee for Advanced Studies in Information Security at the Department of Management Studies of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Geneva. Advocating advancement in information security as an author in journals and as a speaker at professional conferences.
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