Michael Brown, Clerk
Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Retired), President, Spinnaker Security LLC

Michael Brown, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Retired) is the Founder and President, Spinnaker Security LLC, a cybersecurity consulting business focused on understanding, identifying and mitigating business risks associated with cybersecurity. Additionally, Brown brings executive leadership, including crisis management, from both public and private sector experiences. Just prior to this position, he was President, RSA Federal LLC and Vice President/General Manager Global Public Sector of RSA Security LLC. Responsibilities also included RSA Information Technology, Security and Enterprise Risk Management portfolios. RSA is part of Dell Technologies and formerly of EMC.

Brown joined RSA after a career of more than 31 years in the United States Navy. During his career, he had significant leadership positions within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security regarding cybersecurity. Brown’s last position on active duty was as the Director, Cybersecurity Coordination for DHS where he was responsible for increasing interdepartmental collaboration in strategic planning for the Nation’s cybersecurity, mutual support for cybersecurity capabilities development, and synchronization of current operational cybersecurity mission activities for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. He also served as DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity and Communications, Acting Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity and Communications and as the Assistant Deputy Director Joint Interagency Task Force for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Brown’s naval career included numerous staff, afloat and joint positions. He also had various leadership positions, including command of the Naval Information Warfare Activity.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, he also has a Master of Science in Systems Engineering (Electronic Warfare) from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Master of Arts in National and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and was a designated Acquisition Professional.

 

Greg Dracon, Treasurer 
Partner, .406 Ventures

Greg joined .406 in 2007 and is involved in all aspects of the investing and portfolio management process. He brings 22 years of venture investing and technology operating and management experience. Prior to joining .406, Greg was a Vice President of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage venture and small to mid-sized growth technology companies. At Core, Greg focused on cybersecurity, digital media, technology-enabled services and wireless applications. Before becoming a venture investor, Greg spent over a decade as an operator within the high tech industry and held various operating and management roles in worldwide sales, business development, product distribution and digital signal processing applications.

Greg received his MBA, with majors in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his BS in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

 

William Guenther, Chairman of the Board
Chairman, CEO & Founder, MassInsight Global Partnerships

Mass Insight is a Boston-based consulting and research firm that creates competitive advantage through policy and partnerships of industry, universities and government. The firm’s focus on opportunities for pre-competitive, large scale technology R+D centers and collaborationsmshaped its Massachusetts Technology Road Map completed with Battelle in 2004 and the IT, Communications and Defense (ITCD) sector study produced with McKinsey & Co. in 2008. The Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) grew out of recommendations by an Advisory Committee for the Mass Insight/McKinsey IT sector study. Mass Insight has guided the ACSC from business planning and a small-scale technical pilot to a successful launch as an independent self-governing nonprofit in 2011. The Center’s current membership includes 25 major industry, non-profit and government partners. The ACSC takes advantage of the New
England region's unparalleled university, industrial and research resources to develop next- generation strategies for protecting large scale public and private IT infrastructure. Guenther chairs the ACSC Board, and Mass Insight provides ongoing strategy development and administrative support.

Guenther was also senior strategy consultant and founder of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit leader in math and science education reform in the Commonwealth and working nationally on school turnaround strategies and district transformation. 

He is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University Law School.

 

Joel Jacobs
Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer, The MITRE Corporation

Mr. Joel Jacobs is vice president, chief information officer (CIO), and chief security officer (CSO) of The MITRE Corporation. As CIO/CSO, Mr. Jacobs is responsible for advancing information technology (IT) services, infrastructure operations, and the innovative use of information technologies that enable MITRE staff to effectively serve the company's government sponsors. He leads the Enterprise Computing, Information, and Security organization, which provides comprehensive information technology, knowledge management, enterprise technical computing, information security, and global security services to the corporation.

As CSO, Mr. Jacobs oversees the integration and coordination among information security, global security services, and information systems. He sits on the board for the Advanced Cyber Security Center.

Under Mr. Jacobs’ leadership, MITRE has drawn recognition for its innovative IT practices and for its outstanding work environment for technology professionals from publications including Innovation Week, Computerworld, and CIO Magazine. The company has been among North American Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award winner in 2009, 2011, 2015, and 2016. Also in 2016, MITRE was named to the InformationWeek Elite 100 list, which recognizes organizations for innovative applications of business technology. In 2017, MITRE placed second in the InformationWeek IT Excellence in Infrastructure awards program, and its corporate IT help desk received HDI's prestigious Team Excellence Award, which recognizes the team that has set and achieved the highest standards of excellence in customer service.

Mr. Jacobs was honored as a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader in 2011 and as a Boston Business Journal/Mass High Tech CIO of the Year in 2012. In 2015, STEMconnector® named Mr. Jacobs among its 100 CIO/CTO Leaders in STEM in recognition of MITRE’s dedication to supporting STEM initiatives. He was also a 2015 Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award winner. 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and natural science from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, he completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.

 

Janet Levesque
Senior Vice President of Systems, Risk and Security, Mimecast

Janet Levesque joined Mimecast in 2018 as Senior Vice President of Systems, Risk and Security. In this role, she is responsible for global oversight of the internal technology application, security, infrastructure and risk teams, making sure security and technology is everyone’s business.

Janet brings more than 25 years of progressive leadership experience in technical audit, information technology, security and risk management domains. Most recently, Janet served as the Chief Information Security Officer at RSA the security division of Dell/EMC. In this role she spearheaded the enterprise information security program and was responsible for maintaining a global risk strategy to determine acceptable levels of risk for the enterprise. 
Prior to that, she established the information security and compliance program at Aspect Software. She also designed and built the information security program to support initial SOX, and PCI compliance mandates at Circles, a Sodexo company for almost 7 years and wore several hats at an internet grocery delivery service during the dot com boom. Janet’s foundational years were spent in public accounting at Arthur Andersen assisting clients in financial services, consumer products, retail, and high technology industries to improve business performance by managing risks associated with the deployment and use of technology.

She graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts/Economics.  Over the years she obtained her Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designations.

 

David E. Luzzi, PhD., MBA
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President of the Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA, Northeastern University 

David E. Luzzi is Vice President for the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA (ICBM) and the Senior Vice Provost for Research. He is the Chairman of the Board of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, LLC and the former Dean of Engineering. He is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

As a professor, Luzzi has extensive teaching and research experience in materials, nanoscience, and atomic level structure and processes. His research program executed projects for the Army, Navy, Air Force, NATO, National Science Foundation, NASA, the European Union, and other international, federal and state agencies and corporations. He is a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology (BE, Nuclear and Thermonuclear Energy, 1980), Northwestern University (PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, 1986), the Institute for Defense Analyses Defense Science Study Group (1997) and the Wharton School of Business (MBA, 2007) where he was a Palmer Scholar. He has authored over 130 publications and patents on nanoscale phenomena, instrumentation, and materials, cited in over 6,000 publications. Two companies were spun out of Luzzi’s research lab. 

Luzzi has been awarded the US Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the George Heilmeier Award for Research Innovation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Advanced Cyber Security Center and was a recent member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Cyber Supply Chain Risk. He was a Science and Technology Fellow with the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group and a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, including as Science and Technology Chair.

 

John McKenna
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Liberty Mutual 

John is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Liberty Mutual Insurance.  He has enterprise-wide responsibility for Liberty Mutual’s global information security strategies and programs.  

John joined Liberty Mutual in 1979.  His career in Information Technology has included assignments as a software developer, data base analyst, program manager of enterprise data strategies and strategic development initiatives, Market CIO, and VP of IT Strategy and Planning.
 
John holds a B.S. degree from the University of New Hampshire.

 

 

Kenneth Montgomery, Vice Chairman of the Board
First Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Kenneth C. Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is responsible for the Bank’s financial and U.S. Treasury services, information technology, regional outreach and community development, strategic planning, human resources, corporate support, and administrative activities.
In a national capacity, Montgomery is the Secure Payment Strategy Leader responsible for the Federal Reserve System’s effort to reduce fraud risk and advance the safety, security, and resiliency of the U.S. payment system. As part of this initiative, he chairs the Federal Reserve’s Secure Payments Task Force, comprising more than 200
external payment industry stakeholders.

Montgomery also directs financial management strategies and operations as function director for the Federal Reserve System’s Financial Support Office. He serves on the Fed’s Financial Services Policy Committee, which sets the strategic direction for the evolving U.S. payment system, and he is a former chair and current member of the Federal Reserve’s Conference of First Vice Presidents.

Prior to joining the Boston Fed in 2011, Montgomery was executive vice president and Federal Reserve System chief technology officer based out of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In this role, he presided over a broad swath of information technology functions that guide and support technology groups at Regional Banks across the Federal Reserve System. His responsibilities included business consulting, technology and strategic planning and standards development, information security policy and risk management, high-intensity solutions engineering, and overall national program management.

Montgomery’s Fed career began at the New York Fed in 1983. Montgomery, originally from Kearny, New Jersey, received a bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University and M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He serves as chair of the Boston Private Industry Council - Boston’s Workforce Development Board; is an executive committee member of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. He serves as vice chairman of the Advanced Cyber Security Center, a nonprofit consortium made up of industry, university, and government organizations.

 

Christopher Perretta
Chief Information and Operations Officer, MUFG Americas Holding Corp. 

Christopher (Chris) Perretta serves as MUFG’s  Chief Information and Operations Officer for the Americas, Chris leads the bank’s technology, program management and Corporate Data Security functions.as well as the Bank’s Core Banking replacement program. In this capacity he serves on the U.S. Executive Committee of BTMU U.S. Holdings as well as a series of Management Committees.
 
Prior to joining BTMU, Chris served as Chief Information Officer for State Street Corp, where he was responsible for all aspects of State Street’s information technology businesses and activities worldwide. Before State Street he spent 11 years at GE Capital in a variety of roles within the technology organization, spending his last eight serving as Chief Information Officer.

Mr. Perretta has been an Independent Board Director at Netscout Systems since 2012 as well as sitting on the board of the Advanced Cyber Security Center.

Chris holds an BS in Electrical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University an MSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Syracuse University.  He is also a graduate of the General Electric Edison Engineering Program 1981 and a recipient of Six Sigma Black Belt Certification 2003.  His achievements have been recognized by being named CIO Magazine’s  “CIO Hall of Fame” inductee 2015, and being awarded the  MIT Innovation Leadership Award and CIO of the Year from Boston Business Magazine both in 2014.

 

Thomas Quinn
Head of Enterprise Security and Chief Information Security Officer, T. Rowe Price

Tom Quinn is Head of Enterprise Security for T. Rowe Price and serves as the firm’s Chief Information Security Officer. Before joining T. Rowe Price, he was Managing Director and Technology Controls Officer for JPMC Consumer and Community Banking. Previously, Tom was Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer for BNY Mellon and Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer for State Street Corporation. He also managed both Infrastructure and Application Security teams at Goldman Sachs. Tom earned a B.A. in Political Science from Old Dominion University and a M.S. in Information Technology Management from Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

 

Joel Schwartz
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global New Business Development EMC (retired) 

Joel Schwartz is the retired Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global New Business Development at EMC Corporation. In that role, Schwartz initiated EMC's R&D efforts in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Singapore and Mexico as well as numerous investments/acquisitions in Israeli companies and joint ventures in China. Earlier at EMC, Schwartz headed the Clariion Storage Division and later the Supply Chain and Procurement functions as well as all Hardware Engineering. Schwartz joined EMC in 1999 where he was the Senior VP and GM of the Clariion Storage Division as well as VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

Schwartz is an advisor or board member/ observer to numerous startups and venture funds in Boston and New York. He is a former Board of Trustees member of Mass Ventures, a state of Massachusetts venture capital organization. Schwartz is a Board Member of the business schools at Worcester Polytech and Brandeis University. He is also the Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Globalization at Case Western Reserve University. Schwartz is a member and Treasurer of the Finca Vigia Foundation, a non-profit organization working to preserve Hemingway's legacy in Cuba.

 

Antoine Shagoury
Executive Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer, State Street Corporation

Antoine Shagoury is an executive vice president and global chief information officer (CIO). Mr. Shagoury has enterprise-wide responsibility for advancing and developing our technology strategy around achieving a truly digital enterprise. He manages all of State Street’s information technology and enterprise data activities, directly supporting operations in 27 countries covering all major investment centers. He is also a member of State Street’s Management Committee, the company’s most senior strategy and policy-making team.

Prior to joining State Street in 2015, Antoine spent five years with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) where he was the group chief operating officer and chief information officer. He had global responsibility for all operations and technology across capital markets, information and data services, and post trade. Mr. Shagoury was also chief information officer at the New York Stock Exchange/American Stock Exchange where he led the development of the exchange’s trading systems as well as managed trading and floor operations. Before that, he served as chief technology officer at Instinet and held a variety of technology leadership positions from the trading floors to technical operations. 

Antoine holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.Jack Wilson
President Emeritus, The University of Massachusetts & Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies & Innovation.

 

Christopher Zannetos, Co-Founder and CEO, Covered Security

 

 

 

Counsel: Colin Zick, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP