Speakers

Angus Alderman, Information Security Officer, Boden

Angus is a senior Information Security and IT professional with over twenty years of experience delivering security and compliance to companies in a range of sectors including financial services, payments, and retail.
Leveraging his background from hands-on IT and security operations, Angus has taken companies through a transformative journey, enhancing their resilience... to meet the evolving regulatory landscape and cybersecurity threats.
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Zibby Kwecka, CISO, Arnold Clark

Zibby progressed from electronics, through advanced networking, and research in privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques, to helping secure some of the biggest organisations in banking, manufacturing, and the public sector. On this journey, Zibby has inspired further development of cryptographic solutions, assisted in forming one of the first CSOCs in the UK, designed... card data tokenisation solutions, and played a cameo role in securing a banking grade distributed ledger system. Recently UK Head of Information Security at Heineken, vCISO to many household names, now CISO at Arnold Clark, Zibby continues to collaborate with the cyber security industry and academia.more

Anil Kumar, Head of IT Security & Risk Function, Homebase

Anil Kumar heads up the IT Security and Risk function at Homebase, he has been working for the retailer since 2012. He started there as programme manager responsible for delivery programmes such as Payment Transformation, PCI Compliance, Website re-platforming, and Establishment of Information and Operational Security Capabilities.
Homebase was purchased by Wesfarmers... in 2016 and Anil was responsible for building its IT Security Team, Tooling, Governance, and Information Security and Risk Programme as these capabilities were not part of the acquisition.
He has a keen interest in learning from modern technologies, best practices, and upcoming techniques. Anil started his career as a consultant in the Postal/Manufacturing Industry, moving into the Defence sector before arriving at the retail sector.
Anil has been able to use his understanding of technology, business processes, and how it aligns with business strategy to provide balanced leadership and direction. He has a fantastic way of taking complex technical language and converting it into terminology that can be understood by the senior leadership.
He is also professionally qualified and holds ISACA CISA, CRISC, CISM, CDPSE, and PCI ISA certifications. Previously holding qualification in program management (Prince2 Practitioners and Agile Scrum Master), service delivery (ITIL Foundation), and GDPR (Certified Data Protection Officer). more

Regina Bluman, Cyber Security Advisor, Pinsent Masons

Regina Bluman is a Cyber Security Advisor at Pinsent Masons. Her focus is supporting organisations in maturing their cyber security posture and addressing their security risks in a pragmatic way. Previously, Regina has held roles in Deloitte, Algolia, and Kaspersky, amongst others, and has had experience working across a broad range of sectors. She is a CISSP, a SABSA... Chartered Security Architect, has been named one of the CSO Magazine’s CSO30.more

Nick Harris, Interim CISO, Holland & Barrett

Nick Harris spent 12 years in the Royal Air Force working across a variety of IT and cyber roles in the UK and overseas, before joining Deloitte's Cyber Risk Advisory practice. Split across the security operations centre architecture and governance, risk, and compliance teams, Nick worked at Oxford University Press as the Information Security and Data Privacy Manager... for its academic division, proactively advising and coaching, while building out an application security capability. Following OUP and while becoming an advisor for the South East Cyber Resilience Centre, he joined Oxford Nanopore Technologies to head up the InfoSec and Cyber Resilience team, building a training and awareness, data loss prevention, vulnerability management, and detection programmes as well as managing the SOC, risk, and certifications as ONT floated on the London Stock Exchange. Nick is currently the Interim CISO at Holland and Barrett with its mission to build and maintain the customers' trust and is a director of the Oxford Cyber Cluster.more

Puneet Ahuja, Cyber Analytics & Information Risk Manager, Holland & Barrett

Puneet Ahuja is the Cyber Analytics and Information Risk Manager at Holland & Barrett, bringing over 15 years of expertise in information security, risk management, compliance, and IT administration. He holds certifications including CISSP, CISM, AMBCI, and Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1), underscoring his commitment to excellence in cybersecurity. Puneet has played... a pivotal role in developing security policies, managing GDPR compliance, and building disaster recovery plans, earning accolades for his contributions to the field.
Colleagues describe Puneet as a calm and insightful professional with a knack for driving positive change. He is known for his technical acumen, particularly in risk assessment and incident response, and is a passionate advocate for cybersecurity awareness. He frequently shares insights at industry events and recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Comic Relief.more

Alban Tramard, Former CISO, THG

Alban Tramard is a cyber security professional with a data and engineering background. He has applied his skills across multiple industries, E-Commerce, web hosting, translation service, recycling, carbon offsetting, hospitality, manufacturing, travel, automotive. 

Ryan Nicholson, Head of Security & IT Risk Management, Clarks

With 15 years of experience via security management and leadership roles across financial services, social housing, care, and utilities, Ryan joined Clarks in 2022 to head up their security and IT risk management function.  He and his team are currently focused on various digital transformation and other initiatives to help ensure Clarks continues to move securely... towards its 200th birthday in 2025… and beyond.more

Andy Wilcox, Senior International Marketing Manager, Imprivata

Andy Wilcox, Senior International Marketing Manager, Imprivata is an experienced professional with over 17 years of experience managing and developing healthcare technology products and services for international healthcare markets. Based in the UK, Andy has held a range of Product Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development positions in industry-leading... healthcare technology companies in the UK, driving customer growth and adoption in markets across EMEA and APAC. Andy has worked at Imprivata for five years and has been instrumental in the development of Imprivata’s Digital Identity Framework.more

James King, Solutions Engineer, Imprivata

James works as a Solutions Engineer for Imprivata focussing on enterprise mobility solutions for both iOS and Android platforms. With over ten years of experience in the enterprise mobility, James has developed a deep understanding of mobile ecosystems and how to leverage them to enhance productivity and security for businesses. James is passionate about technology... and takes pride in his ability to create seamless and efficient shared mobile workflows for Imprivatas customers.more

Tim Ayling, VP EMEA Cyber Security Specialists, Thales

Tim Ayling currently serves as the VP EMEA Cyber Security Specialists at Thales.  With over 25 years’ experience in the cybersecurity industry, Tim began his career in System Engineering.  He began his leadership career when he established Entrust Inc. in Australia in 2003 and was made Vice-President Asia Pacific in 2006. Tim has held numerous leadership... roles in large cybersecurity vendors, including RSA Security, Imperva, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs and now Thales, as well as spending time in the cyber-security practise of KPMG. Tim holds an MSc in Secure E-Commerce and an MBA from the University of Warwick.more

Zac Warren, Chief Security Advisor, Tanium

Zac Warren is Senior Director of Cybersecurity Advisory in EMEA. Zac started his career in IT with a passion for cybersecurity and was a senior security analyst at a leading manufacturer of security platforms and later a cybersecurity architect and consultant for large system integrators. Zac has spent most of his career helping government agencies and several Fortune100... companies reorganize their security architectures, controls, policies, and procedures. Today, Zac is responsible for developing and supporting Tanium's cybersecurity business in EMEA. more

Rob Mukherjee, Director of Transformation, EveryCloud

As director of transformation at EveryCloud, Rob helps businesses modernise and simplify their security estate, ensuring it is fit-for-purpose for the challenges brought by the expanding complexity of the today’s enterprises, rapidly evolving consumer behaviours and ever-more sophisticated cyber threats.
Rob has been instrumental in driving transformation initiatives... across the retail sector, be that removing fraud and friction from online and in-store customer journeys - or ensuring secure and speedy connectivity to enable communication across geo-diverse locations, inventory status checks, card payment transactions, reliable guest wi-fi and so on.
In doing so, Rob always upholds a ‘no compromise’ approach to security and customer experience. We should never sacrifice one for the other – it has to be 10/10 on both!more