Alexandria Hodgson is a Senior Solutions Product Marketing Manager at Okta specializing in Zero Trust. Alexandria has spent the majority of her career in Cybersecurity, focusing on the ways in which organizations can better leverage their people, processes, and technologies to address the ever evolving threat landscape.

Ryan Darst is Torq’s Director of Security Automation, where his team takes common use-cases and turn them into easy-to-use templates in the Torq template library. Ryan has almost 30 years of experience across the cybersecurity space, including experience working in both financial and healthcare environments. Over the past decade, he has assisted customers in solving complex security challenges, as well as delivering automated solutions in cloud, network, and other security technologies.

Matt Wilson is the Vice President of Product Management at Netography. Over his 25+ year career, Matt has held senior technology leadership positions across numerous industries including Neustar, Verisign, and Prolexic Technologies. With a rich background in innovation and go-to-market strategies, Matt has been a critical leader in helping many companies conceptualize solutions from the customer lens and drive them to market with significant impact.

Michael is responsible for driving innovation and growth in the Technology and Developer Customer Market. His role as General Manager of this customer market concentrates on leading the content, platform, customer success, sales and marketing teams to deliver compelling experiences to our customers.

Prior to Skillsoft, Michael led the council member organization at GLG, focused on growing GLG’s network of professional experts. Before that, Michael spent over a decade at Gartner, where he led several business units serving technology providers, chief information officers, professional services firms, technology investors, digital marketers, and small & medium businesses. He also led Gartner’s corporate marketing and corporate development organizations. Prior to Gartner, Michael spent 4 years at McKinsey serving high-tech, telecom, and pharmaceutical clients on a variety of strategic issues.

Michael began his career as a research physicist, leading fundamental R&D efforts in semiconductor nanotechnology at IBM, Philips Electronics, and Bell Laboratories. Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, and his Ph.D. from MIT.

Sarai Fernandez is an educator, specializing in Computer Science and Cybersecurity content. She is responsible for Codecademy Cybersecurity content roadmaps and manages teams of Curriculum Developers, Content Contributors, and Subject Matter Experts to create Cybersecurity content. She also leads research around current Cybersecurity trends for up-to-date Cybersecurity content offerings and future roadmaps. Prior to Codecademy, Sarai created Java, Cloud, and Cybersecurity content for Udacity and lectured at Stanford University. Her experience in EdTech and traditional education has helped her gain insight into how to effectively teach consumer and enterprise audiences.

Guillaume Ross is an experienced cybersecurity practitioner and leader currently serving as Head of Security at Fleet Device Management, a provider of open source security and IT management software.  Guillaume's mission is to secure organizations, clouds, products and more, by refusing to implement the same things that have been tried and failed thousands of times already.

While Fleet and his previous few gigs were startups, he learned security in the enterprise world and remains allergic to useless so-called-best-practices.