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Accenture

Accenture Security is a leading provider of end-to-end cybersecurity services, including strategy, protection, resilience and industry-specific cyber services. We bring security innovation, coupled with global scale and a worldwide delivery capability through our network of Cyber Fusion Centers. Helped by our team of highly skilled professionals, we enable clients to innovate safely, build cyber resilience and grow with confidence. Visit us at accenture.com/security.

Ambassadors
  • Bob Bruns
    CISO
Champions
  • Sarah Juergens
    Security Delivery Associate Director
  • Liz Tatulis
    Security Consulting Manager
Aflac

Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL), a Fortune 500 company, has helped provide financial protection and peace of mind for nearly seven decades to millions of policyholders and customers through its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., Aflac is the No. 1 provider of supplemental health insurance products. In Japan, Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of cancer and medical insurance in terms of policies in force. The company takes pride in being there for its policyholders when they need us most, as well as being included in the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for 19 consecutive years (2025) and Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for 24 years (2025). In addition, the company became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2021 and has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (2024) for 11 years.

Ambassadors
  • Tera Ladner
    Deputy Global Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • Courtney Buchanan
    VP, Information Risk Management & Governance
  • Casie Williams
    Senior Manager, Global Security Program Governance & Awareness
AIG

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization with operations in approximately 80 countries and jurisdictions. We provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to support our clients in business and in life.

AIG is committed to helping individuals, businesses and communities prepare for and respond to times of uncertainty. Whether serving those facing natural disasters or millions striving for a financially secure retirement, we have the specialist expertise to help clients better manage risk.

Ambassadors
  • Christine Furlong
    Head of IT Business Operations, Information Security Office
Champions
  • Anjani Gupta
    Associate II, IT Business Management, Information Security Office-Governance and Engagement
  • Lauren Kohistani
    ISO Stakeholder Engagement and Response Specialist
Ally

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) is a financial services company with the nation’s largest all-digital bank and an industry-leading auto financing business, driven by a mission to “Do It Right” and be a relentless ally for customers and communities. The company serves more than 11 million customers through a full range of online banking services (including deposits, mortgage, point-of-sale personal lending, and credit card products) and securities brokerage and investment advisory services. The company also includes a robust corporate finance business that offers capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies, as well as auto financing and insurance offerings. For more information, please visit our website and follow us @allyfinancial.

For more information and disclosures about Ally, visit https://www.ally.com/#disclosures.

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Ambassadors
  • Donna Hart
    Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • Francis Betancourt
    Director of Compliance for Consumer and Commercial Banking (C&CB)
  • Kimberly Dunn
    Director of Cyber Security Business Office and Awareness
Altria Group

Altria Group holds diversified positions across tobacco and cannabis. Through our wholly-owned subsidiaries and strategic investments in other companies, we seek to provide category-leading choices to adult consumers, while returning maximum value to shareholders through dividends and growth. Altria’s companies have been the undisputed market leaders in the U.S. tobacco industry for decades. We take pride in delivering superior products and brand experiences to millions of satisfied adult tobacco consumers every day. But the world around us is changing, and our company is changing too — for the better. Today, we are Moving Beyond Smoking™, working to transform our business and our industry by taking action to transition millions of adult smokers away from cigarettes to potentially less harmful alternatives. While we’re working with urgency to achieve our Vision, we are also pursuing new opportunities for long-term, sustainable growth. We believe the capabilities we’ve built over decades of leadership in the nicotine space equip us to excel in other categories as well. As we pursue new avenues for growth, we will build from our strengths and be guided by our Purpose.

Ambassadors
  • Chas Heng
    Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • Christine Thornhill
    Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology
American Family Insurance

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, American Family Insurance has been serving customers since 1927. We inspire, protect and restore dreams through our insurance products, exceptional service from our agency owners and employees, community investment and creative partnerships to address societal challenges. We act on our belief in diversity and inclusion by constantly evolving to meet customer needs and preferences. American Family Insurance Group is the nation’s 12th-largest property/casualty insurance group, ranking No. 301 on the Fortune 500 list. The group sells American Family-brand products, primarily through exclusive agency owners in 19 states. The American Family Insurance Group also includes CONNECT, powered by American Family Insurance, The General, Homesite and Main Street America Insurance. Across these companies the group has nearly 13,000 employees nationwide.

Ambassadors
  • Jonathan Hughes
    Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • LaShaun Allen
    IT Security Manager – Identity Access Management Operations
  • Julie Livingston
    Senior Manager
  • Kelley Manley
    Senior Manager, Cybersecurity
Avanade

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Every day, our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.

We have been recognized, together with our parent Accenture, as Microsoft’s Global SI Partner of the Year more than any other company. With the most Microsoft certifications (60,000+) and 18 (out of 18) Gold-level Microsoft competencies, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses grow and solve their toughest challenges.

We are a people first company, committed to providing an inclusive workplace where employees feel comfortable being their authentic selves. As a responsible business, we are building a sustainable world and helping young people from underrepresented communities fulfill their potential.

Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at www.avanade.com.

Ambassadors
  • Bob Bruns
    CISO
Champions
  • Gina Wheel
    Global Vendor Risk Compliance Lead
BlackRock

BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.

Ambassadors
  • Stephen Scharf
    CISO
Champions
  • Manjot Bhatti
    Senior Associate
Bloomberg

Bloomberg is building the world’s most trusted information source and community for financial professionals.

As a global information and technology company, we use our dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems. Our customers around the world rely on us to deliver accurate, real-time business and market information that helps them make important financial decisions.

Ambassadors
  • Jason Rouse
    Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • Ely Richardson
    Senior Team Lead Security Operations Center
  • Priti Ved
    Senior Security Engineer
Booking Holdings Inc.

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world’s leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through five primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visit BookingHoldings.com and follow us on X @BookingHoldings.

Ambassadors
  • Devon Bryan
    Booking Holdings Chief Security Officer
Champions
  • Valentina Bonsi
    Booking Holdings Director of Cybersecurity
  • Marnie Wilking
    Booking.com Chief Security Officer
Booz Allen

At Booz Allen, we approach cybersecurity as a business-enabling function that empowers our clients to fulfill their missions. Our client work includes protecting facilities that produce lifesaving healthcare solutions, securing the next generation of global manufacturing, protecting global financial infrastructure, and securing energy production from nuclear power plants to hydroelectric dams. As organizations execute digital transformations, attacks and consequential threats are expanding and evolving. We bring seasoned practitioners and elite cyber tradecraft to immediately deliver value to clients. We protect our client’s entire business because successful security is never a siloed function. Our approach is refined based on decades of providing cyber services to the most sophisticated global enterprises, government agencies, and national missions. At Booz Allen, we are true cyber practitioners with over 5,000 cyber-focused experts, collectively holding nearly 10,000 certifications and the expertise to build and manage cybersecurity solutions at the edge. Through our adversary insight, an innovative approach, and an understanding of advanced threats and vulnerabilities, we deliver confidence in your enterprise security.

Ambassadors
  • Nicole Monteforte
    Senior Vice President – Global Commercial
Champions
  • Melissa Copp
    Principal, Booz Allen Global Commercial
  • Suzanne Hawthorne
    Account Executive, Booz Allen Global Commercial
  • Emily Helmke
    Vice President, Booz Allen Global Commercial
Bristol Myers Squibb

Bristol Myers Squibb is a leading global biopharma company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious diseases in areas including oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular, fibrosis and neuroscience. Our employees work every day to transform patients’ lives through science.

Ambassadors
  • Sydney Klein
    Chief Information Security Officer
Champions
  • Aparna Bhalivade
    Information Security Officer
Carnegie Mellon University Information Networking Institute (INI)

The Information Networking Institute (INI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) educates and develops engineers through technical, interdisciplinary master’s degree programs in information networking, security and mobile, as well as AI and IoT engineering that incorporate business and policy perspectives across two program locations: Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley. Established in 1989 in response to a demand from industry for professionals skilled in both computer science and engineering, the INI has evolved over the past three decades to become an integral part of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering. The university has received three designations as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C): Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R), Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), and Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO), the latter two of which are designated through the INI’s M.S. in Information Security (MSIS) program. Taught by world-class faculty, the INI’s rigorous technical curriculum incorporates business and policy perspectives. Through flexible, interdisciplinary curricula, INI students can customize their program experiences to help them realize their career aspirations. Beyond the rich academic experience, the INI’s vibrant meta curriculum offers distinct opportunities outside of the classroom to help tackle problems, pilot new ideas and develop solutions for industry and government. The INI has more than 2,800 alumni that have gone on to serve high-powered companies, tech start-ups, and government agencies — always returning to their home away from home at the INI to recruit, mentor, and inspire current students to follow their path to success.

Ambassadors
  • Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis
    Director, INI
Champions
  • Sari Smith
    Sr. Director of Strategic Operations
CIBC

CIBC is a leading North American financial institution with 13 million personal banking, business, public sector and institutional clients. Across Personal and Business Banking, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets businesses, CIBC offers a full range of advice, solutions and services through its leading digital banking network and locations across Canada, with offices in the United States and around the world.

Ambassadors
  • Keith Gordon
    Executive Vice-President, Chief Security Officer
Champions
  • Sahir Nasser
    Senior Director, Strategy & Delivery – Client Account Management
  • Blossom Noronha
    Senior Director
Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet and we are focused on security as a strategic enabler now more than ever.

Our solutions provide unmatched protection. The Cisco Secure Advantage encompasses:

6,500+ endpoint security customers | 15M+ protected endpoints | 70K AMP ecosystem customers | 100M DNS security customers | 200B DNS requests inspected daily | 500K+ authentications per month 6.8B threats blocked daily | 2.2 trillion artifacts analyzed daily – more than any vendor.

Learn more at trust.cisco.com

Ambassadors
  • Noelle Warburton
    Senior Director, Security and Trust Communications at Cisco
Champions
  • Christina van Fosson
    Marketing Manager
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $217.5 billion in assets as of December 31st, 2024. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. More information is available at www.citizensbank.com or visit us on TwitterLinkedIn or Facebook.

Ambassadors
  • Lindsay Herring
    IT Security Director, SVP
Champions
  • Lea Thorpe
    Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, VP
CME Group

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. We enable clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest ratesequity indexesforeign exchange energyagricultural products and metals. We meet uncertainty and volatility with confidence and clarity, across the trading lifecycle and around the world.

Ambassadors
  • Dan Manley
    CISO
Champions
  • Monica Perelmuter
    Senior Director Enterprise Risk Management
  • Jennifer Sinars
    Manager Technology Controls & Compliance
  • Allyson Zoller
    Senior Director IT Controls and Compliance
Comcast Corporation

Comcast is a global media and technology company. From the  connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Visit https://corporate.comcast.com/ for more information.

Ambassadors
  • Noopur Davis
    Global CISO, Comcast & Chief Product Privacy Officer, Comcast Cable
Champions
  • Cathy Beech
    Business Information Security Officer
  • Sylvia Layton
    Director, Information Security
Cranium AI

Cranium AI is a cybersecurity company focused on AI security and governance. It helps organizations protect AI models from threats, ensure compliance, and manage AI risk. Cranium provides visibility into AI pipelines, detects vulnerabilities, and integrates security best practices to safeguard AI-driven systems across industries.

Ambassadors
  • Betsy Walker
    Senior Vice President of Marketing
Champions
  • Nicola Mershon
    Event Marketing Manager
CVS Health

CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We help people navigate the health care system—and their personal health care—by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Ambassadors
  • Soleil Dolce
    AVP, Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Champions
  • Farzaneh Poorjabar
    Director, Security Data Analytics
  • Jeannette Rosario
    Executive Director, Cybersecurity Governance
Discover Financial Services

Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) is a digital banking and payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services. Since its inception in 1986, the company has become one of the largest card issuers in the United States. The company issues the Discover® card, America’s cash rewards pioneer, and offers personal loans, home loans, checking and savings accounts and certificates of deposit through its banking business. It operates the Discover Global Network® comprised of Discover Network, with millions of merchants and cash access locations; PULSE®, one of the nation’s leading ATM/debit networks; and Diners Club International®, a global payments network with acceptance around the world. For more information, visit our website at www.discover.com/company.

Ambassadors
  • Carla Murphy
    VP, Risk Programs
Champions
  • Rosie Holub
  • Jami Salas
    Lead Communications Strategy & Events Specialist
DTCC

With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion. Its depository provides custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually.

To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook, and Instagram.

Ambassadors
  • Priya Bangarashettara
    Director, Operations and Technology Risk Governance
Champions
  • Mai Nguyen
    Associate Director, Emerging Cybersecurity & Innovation
Dycom Industries, Inc.

Dycom Industries, Inc. is a leading provider of specialty contracting services to the telecommunications infrastructure and utility industries throughout the United States. Dycom is made up of more than 40 operating companies that serve a diverse customer base across 49 states from hundreds of field offices.

Ambassadors
  • Simone Williams
    Sr. Dir Enterprise Security & Risk Services
Champions
  • Val Guzman Meglis
    Manager – Security Engineering
  • Kelli Thies
    Manager – IT End User Services
Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them to save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and innovate. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Ambassadors
  • Amy Higbee
    SVP, Governance, Risk and Compliance
Champions
  • Rachel Siqueira
    Director of Information Security Design & Delivery