Peter is the Chief Defence Architect for Cisco Systems in the Asia Pacific region and has over twenty five years experience as a professional engineer in the fields of communications and software engineering. Peter's comprehensive knowledge comes from practical involvement in design, implementation and management of operational defence Communications and Information Systems and as a senior technical adviser to numerous defence and non-government projects.

Peter also worked in the Australian Defence Force's Network Operations Centre (NOC) responsible for the security, design, implementation and optimisation of the Defence wide area communications network, including tactical (remote) interface points.

Sachi is a professional with over 14 years of experience in Information Security, Privacy and Risk management. He has worked with organizations in matters involving information security compliance, computer forensics, penetration testing, fraud investigations, computer security incident response, and Lawful Interception/Monitoring.

He is currently the Chief Security Officer, Asia Pacific for BT. His responsibilities include ensuring compliance with all BT security policies; compliance with regulatory requirements; Security compliance of BT Global Sourcing partners; He also supports the commercial aspects via Bid security support, contract assurance audits and delivery of the security elements in customer contracts.

Prior to joining BT, Sachi worked for PwC. He was also earlier involved in the setting up of CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team).

Sachi holds the CISSP, CEH, CISA and PRINCE2 certifications. He is also a member of the Asia Crisis and Security Group.

Emmanuel is currently the Lead Architecture for Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security at SCB where he is accountable for all aspect of risk, compliance and security ranging from network security through to credit and market risk. He has over 13 years experience in the field of Information Security originally starting in network security operations. His previous roles have covered mergers and acquisitions, transformation, organisational integration and management and include organisations such Westpac Bank, National Australia Bank and IBM.

Uantchern is an entrepreneur with 25 years experience in corporate governance and risk consulting. He has helped organisations build risk management frameworks, improve business processes and secure their IT systems. He has a keen interest in the area of social media governance, and has spoken widely on this topic.

Uantchern, until recently, was a senior partner with Deloitte's where he was the Asia Pacific practice leader for enterprise risk services. He was also on the executive committee for Deloitte's global enterprise risk practice. Uantchern founded the Deloitte Asia Pacific Learning Boot Camp in 2006, which, over the years, has been instrumental in the professional training and development of hundreds of Deloitte staff and partners. Always having a passion for teaching, Uantchern is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Accounting, NUS Business School in Singapore. He teaches enterprise risk management at NUS and is developing an honours year module on risk management technology.

As an advocate of continuing education, Uantchern serves as a member on the Institute of Technical Education's Business Services Academic Advisory Committee. He also advises Shared Services for Charities on their training program for charities.

Uantchern currently volunteers as the President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Singapore. He also volunteers on the management committee of the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) as their Honorary Secretary.

Mark is a Director leading business development for Cisco's Healthcare vertical in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. A surgeon by training, Mark studied at the University of Cambridge and has worked in hospitals in London and across the UK.

Mark specialises in Healthcare IT strategy and consultancy and has extensive experience developing IT vision and strategy for healthcare customers across the world to help maximise impact and realise benefits deriving from technology investment. His particular areas of focus include mobile workforce enablement, new hospital design, and collaboration between healthcare providers.

He has overseen and programme managed large complex Healthcare IT engagements, particularly in the UK programme Connecting for Health and has significant experience in collaboration technologies and process optimisation.

Prior to his current role, Mark lead Cisco's Healthcare Advisory and Services practice for Latin America, Africa, Middle East, CEE and Russia. Before joining Cisco, Mark spent 8 years in Healthcare IT consultancy working for Accenture in projects across the globe.

Rush Carskadden is responsible for product management of Cisco's Security Applications. Prior to this role, he was responsible for product management of Cisco's Intrusion Prevention System, and has been with Cisco since 2004. Rush has been in the security industry since 1997, focusing on penetration testing, cryptography, policy consulting, secure datacenter design, managed services, and security technologies.

Colin Bradley is Chief Security Advisor and ANZ Channels Lead within Cisco's APAC Borderless Network Team. Colin is a twenty-year industry executive, of which the last fifteen have been spent predominantly in the IT security sector, with experience crossing business operations, marketing and sales positions. Prior to joining Cisco, Colin served in a variety of leadership positions with UK-based IT and security integration companies. He began his career with Harris Corporation and holds a B.A. Honours Degree in Business Studies. Colin represents Cisco on the Australian IT Security Expert Advisory Group, which is part of the TISN, whose invited membership is drawn from Government, Industry and Academia.

Simon Finn is based in Sydney, Australia, and is responsible for Security Architecture across Cisco Systems. His role is part of the consulting arm of the Cisco Security Programs Organization, an internally focused department responsible for developing programs and policies that support security efforts and align them with Cisco's business strategy.

Simon joined Cisco as a contractor in February 2000, and has since worked across all areas of Information Security. Simon took on a full time role as the lead for Network Security globally in May 2006.

In addition to his network security role, Simon is also the IP Telephony security expert in the CSPO organization, a web applications security architect, and has been involved in security incident response and management.

• VPN and Remote Access services
• Internet PoP architecture
• WAN Encryption

Prior to Simon joining Cisco he was an independent contractor with clients in many sectors including Government and Financial.

Domenic Seibold
Security Specialist, Cisco Borderless Networks, ANZ

Domenic Seibold is a Security Specialist at Cisco and has been with the company for 12 years. Recently, Domenic relocated from the United States to Australia.

Domenic is directly engaged in Public Sector Security Initiatives both at the state and federal level within Australia.

Domenic is actively involved with Cisco product teams on the next generation security strategy/solutions. He has been in the security industry over 16 years and is frequent speaker on security topics in Cisco and Industry events. Prior to joining Cisco, Domenic consulted on Security Policy and Architecture as well as performed risk assessment analysis and penetration testing for financial and retail organizations.

Thomas Lenzenhofer
Network Security Consulting Engineer, Cisco, APAC

Thomas Lenzenhofer has 18 years experience in Data Networking and Communications and is currently working as an Advanced Services Network Security Consulting Engineer in Cisco's WW Security Technology Practice in Cisco Systems Asia Pacific/Sydney. He is a CISSP/CCSP focusing on Security Technologies and Services.

In his current capacity, Thomas provides security consulting services to Service Provider and Enterprise clients in the Asia Pacific region. This role includes providing security deliverables as part of the PPDIOO lifecycle and are typically Security design and implementation as well as Security Architecture Review Consulting services. Thomas's large geographical coverage has given him a unique experience in working with customers from many different cultures and backgrounds, covering many countries in Europe, Asia as well as the US and ANZ. This special challenge has allowed him to quickly adapt to any situation and continue to ensure success and customer satisfaction.

His past roles in Cisco, including Senior Customer Support Engineer in Cisco Asia Pacific Technical Support Centre in Sydney Australia, has allowed him to gain insight into many different areas of Network Design and Support from being onsite with customers providing face to face consulting to troubleshooting highly complex problems over a telephone. Thomas has been a Networking Professional since 1992 working for a variety of networking companies in Europe prior to joining Cisco Australia in January 2000.

Qualifications
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Bernie has been in the ICT industry for over 25 years. He is currently the Cloud CTO at Cisco Asia Pacific, where he has been involved in a number of technical roles for the last fifteen years. Prior to Cisco, Bernie worked as an IT consultant in Europe and ANZ during which he advised enterprises and service providers on their network architectures. Bernie is an Electronic Engineer from Canada, where he started his career as a hardware design engineer and earned two patents for his innovative work. Bernie is also serving as the Chairman of the Asia Cloud Computing Association.

Rick has over 22 years experience in Information Technology (IT) in roles such as network engineer, network service manager, IT project manager, business analyst, and product manager. He has worked at the Cisco Networking Academy for almost two years and is currently the product manager for the CCNA Security and CCNP curricula.

Andy Gremett is the marketing manager for Data Center and Security certifications at Learning@Cisco, the corporate home of the Cisco IT certification program. He has extensive experience spanning several networking companies where he has held a variety of support, sales, and technical marketing positions for both enterprise and the service provider market segments. His current role includes working closely with exam, curriculum, and product management teams to develop the Learning@Cisco Data Center and Security offerings. Prior to joining Learning@Cisco, Gremett provided support for the Cisco Catalyst switching portfolio. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and an MBA from Saint Mary's College of California.