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Egress Tony Pepper
Co-founder & CEO
Datastax Chet Kapoor
Chairman & CEO
www.egress.com
www.datastax.com
Source 1 Solutions Inc
www.source1solutions.com
RISCLARITY
www.risclarity.com
greenONE Holdings Inc
www.idrinkbeverages.com
Trulioo
www.trulioo.com
Tempered Networks
www.temperednetworks.com
Aircastle Limited
www.aircastle.com
CyberX
www.cyberx-labs.com
Darktrace
www.darktrace.com
Reservations.com
www.reservations.com
Robert Hessel, CEO
Rick Higgins
CEO & Founder
Neil Fineman, CEO
Stephen Ufford, CEO
Jeff Hussey
President & CEO
Michael Inglese, CEO
Omer Schneider
Co-founder & CEO
Nicole Eagan, Co-CEO
Yatin Patel
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder of Egress, Tony Pepper currently serves as CEO, overseeing
all aspects of business growth and innovation. Prior to Egress, Tony
held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec
Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies. A frequent
technology and industry speaker, Tony holds a Bachelor of Politics degree,
a Software Engineering Master’s and is a certified BCS Fellow.
Chet Kapoor is the Chairman and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer
of DataStax. He is a proven leader and innovator in the tech industry
with more than 20 years in leadership at innovative software and cloud
companies, including Google, IBM, BEA Systems, WebMethods, and NeXT.
Robert Hessel is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Source 1 Solutions. With over 20 years of experience in business
management, he has developed a worldwide business network, served
in the US Navy and has travelled extensively.
Creative engineer, entrepreneur, thought leader and financial software
expert to the nation’s wealthiest families seeking to leverage leadership
and entrepreneurial experience to increase the prosperity of individuals,
families and organizations. Rick Higgins co-founded WealthTouch in
2001 and is credited with creating the groundbreaking technology that
serves as the foundation for the firm.
Neil Fineman is a long time Vegas local whose company GreenONE
Holdings, is shaking up the beverages and nutraceutical marketplaces.
Neil is betting that the science behind his latest creation, is going to
change the face of nutrition and hydration for the next 50 years. Neil is
the creator of iDrink water; the world’s first nano-nutrient beverage on
consumer shelves.
In 2011, Stephen Ufford launched Trulioo to help build a layer of trust and
safety online, and with the mission to provide access to financial services to
the billions of unbanked individuals around the globe.
Jeff Hussey is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tempered
Networks, the pioneer of the Airwall. As an accomplished entrepreneur
and business leader with a proven track record in the networking and
security markets, Hussey also founded F5 Networks, the global leader
in application delivery and an S&P500 listed company.
Michael Inglese serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Aircastle. He was
previously the Chief Financial Officer of Aircastle. Mr. Inglese served as
Chief Financial Officer of PanAmSat Holding Corporation from June 2000
until the closing of PanAmSat’s.
Omer Schneider is the Co-founder and also serves as the Chief Executive
Officer of CyberX. Prior to co-founding CyberX, Mr. Omer Schneider led
a blue team cybersecurity unit tasked with protecting critical national
infrastructure, where he headed day-to-day cybersecurity operations
and managed the development and acquisition of security technologies.
Nicole Eagan is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Darktrace. Her extensive career
spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-stage growth companies.
Named ‘Cybersecurity CEO of the Year 2019’ (Global CEO Excellence Awards)
and one of HMG’s ‘Top 100 Technology Executives to Watch’ in 2019, Nicole
has introduced disruptive machine learning to enterprises of all sizes.
Yatin Patel is a co-founder and Chief Executive officer of Reservations.
com. He has over 20 years of successful internet technology/e-commerce
business experience as an entrepreneur, designer, founder, investor, and
operator; focused most significantly in the hospitality industry.