Steering Committee
Bruce Coffing, CISO, City of Chicago
Laszlo Gonc, Founder, Next Era Transformation Group
Dr. John Johnson, Founder/President/CISO, Docent Institute
Dimitra N. Kane, Sr. Business Architect HCSC / BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois
Dr. Fred Kwong, CISO, DeVry University
Adam Lewis, Deputy CISO, Alliant Credit Union
Michael Phillips, Founding Partner vSEC LLC
Ramona Ratiu, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
Conferences
Ravi Bhatarai, CISO, Pritzker Group
Wynona Lam, Youth Coordinator, PAABC
Sam Moyer, Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer
Rahul Patel, Director of Cybersecurity, Office of Cook County Clerk
Kasi Paturi, President, PAABC
Dr. Devi Prasad V. Potluri, Associate Provost, CSU
Ray Trygstad, Assoc Chair, Industry Prof of Information Technology & Management, IIT
Richard Warner, Faculty Director, Center for Law and Computers, Chicago Kent College of Law
Advisors
Collin Canright, Canright Communications
Gregg Friedman, Security Advisor at Brush Cyber
Tina Hauri, President, Bradford Garrett Group, Inc.
Wayne Johnson, Chicago CISO of the Year Award Founder
Walter Lefmann, Board of Director, Docent Institute, CISO (Retired)
John Mirkovic, Deputy Clerk – Public Policy at Office of the Cook County Clerk
Steve Moscarelli, Regional Sales Director: Illinois & Wisconsin, Illumio
Sean O’Kelly, CEO, Meetings & Events International
Mark Ramshaw, Information Security & Risk Manager at Weber-Stephen Products LLC
Peter Tapling, Managing Director, PTap Advisory, LLC
Ron Williamson, CISO
Tellis Williams, CISO, The Dream Exchange