Dave DeWalt
CEO and President,
McAfee, Inc.
Dave DeWalt will discuss McAfee’s future strategy and explain how the company continues to influence the direction of security and maintain
its role as the industry leader. DeWalt will address the latest trends in security and discuss how McAfee’s system of interlocking components and centralized management creates an optimized security architecture.
About Dave DeWalt
Dave DeWalt is Chief Executive Officer and President of McAfee, Inc. He joined McAfee in April, 2007. Prior to McAfee, DeWalt oversaw customer operations and sales at EMC Corporation. His responsibilities included channels, alliances and partners, product sales, global accounts, vertical programs, and field business operations. DeWalt also led EMC's content management and archiving software business.
Previously, DeWalt was executive vice president and president,
EMC Software Group. He was responsible for ESG's business, product, technology, and go-to-market strategies, for accelerating the integration of the EMC Documentum and EMC Legato sales teams, and for advancing EMC's evolution to a leading solutions-focused technology company. Prior to that, DeWalt was executive vice president, EMC Software Group, sharing responsibility for its leadership with executive vice president Mark Lewis since 2004. DeWalt joined EMC in 2003 when EMC acquired Documentum, the global leader in enterprise content management, where he served as president and CEO for more than two years. DeWalt led Documentum through nine consecutive
quarters of growth, five record revenue quarters, and four
successful acquisitions.
DeWalt has more-than 20 years in the technology industry-spanning engineering, product management, marketing, and sales management. Prior to joining Documentum, DeWalt was founding principal and vice president of Eventus Software. Following the 1998 acquisition of Eventus by Segue Software, DeWalt served as Segue's vice president of North American sales. Before Eventus, he was vice president of sales and marketing at Quest Software, and before that held various positions in sales management over six years at Oracle Corporation.
DeWalt was named one of the 25 most influential executives in high technology by the readers of the industry publication CRN. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.
George Kurtz,
Worldwide CTO and Executive Vice President,
McAfee, Inc.
George was recently promoted to Executive
Vice President and Worldwide Chief Technolgy Officer of McAfee. Previously he was senior vice president and general manager of McAfee's Risk
& Compliance Business Unit, where he was responsible for driving McAfee's worldwide growth in the Risk and Compliance segments.
Kurtz is an internationally recognized security executive who brings
to McAfee a unique combination of business acumen and security expertise. Prior to its acquisition by McAfee in 2004, Kurtz served as
the CEO of Foundstone, where he positioned the company for rapid growth as one of the premier "pure play" security solutions providers
in the industry.
Kurtz holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Seton Hall University.
He also holds several industry designations, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified
Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Kurtz also co-authored the best selling security book of
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.
Steve Redman
President, Asia Pacific,
McAfee
Steve Redman is the president of the Asia Pacific region for McAfee, Inc. Redman is responsible for all business operations for McAfee in the Asia Pacific region, including North Asia, South East Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to joining McAfee in January of 2008, Redman spent eight years at EMC, most recently as vice president of Asia Pacific. In this position, Redman had responsibility for the field operations of EMC Software Group across Asia Pacific and Japan. Before he became the region's vice president for EMC Software Group, Redman was managing director of EMC Australia and New Zealand. Prior to EMC,
Redman was general manager of Rockwell Electronic Commerce and held positions at Lucent Technologies and Fuji Xerox.
Redman holds a Diploma in A/C Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie University. He is also on the Nobel Laureates Advisory Board, and is an associate lecturer in the MBA program at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Marc Olesen
Senior Vice President & General Manager,
Content & Cloud Security,
McAfee inc.
Marc Olesen is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for the McAfee Content and Cloud Security business. Olesen leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for this area of the business, including McAfee's email and Web security and data
loss prevention products. The Content Security solutions span
on-premise software, gateway appliances and cloud-based
Security-as-a-Service offerings.
Olesen's extensive experience spans more than 20 years in software and services, including organizational leadership, profit and loss accountability, and solution management. Before joining McAfee in 2009, Olesen was the vice president of software-as-a-service at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he led the SaaS for IT management business, including all solution development, go-to-market, and
delivery functions.
Prior to joining HP, Olesen was the senior director of customer service for Qwest CyberSolutions (QCS), where he was responsible for global application management services. Before QCS, he was a technology consulting practice manager with BearingPoint. Olesen also held positions at Remedy and Oracle.
Olesen is a member of the Cloud Connect Advisory Board and has given keynote presentations at Computerworld's SaaScon, SIIA's All About the Cloud conference, the China Cloud Computing Congress and the Federation of Security Professionals.
Olesen has a master's degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor's degree in economics, both from Stanford University.
Rees Johnson,
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Network Defense,
McAfee Inc
Rees Johnson is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for the McAfee Network Security business. Johnson leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for this area of the company, including McAfee's firewall, intrusion prevention, network behavioral analysis (NBA), Network Access Control (NAC) and network threat response products.
Prior to this position, Johnson led worldwide product management and was responsible for directing and prioritizing McAfee R&D efforts. He has also led the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) security platform as vice president of system security and ePO product management. Johnson joined McAfee in 2003 through the acquisition of Entercept (HIPS), where he ran product management. He began his career at Accenture building enterprise applications for several of the world's largest telecommunication companies.
Johnson holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Business with majors in finance, strategic management, and information systems.
Stuart McClure
Senior Vice President & General Manager,
Risk & Compliance, McAfee, Inc.
Stuart McClure oversees the McAfee risk and compliance product line, including sales, engineering, product management, product marketing, strategy, quality assurance, and customer support.
Previously, McClure was responsible for the overall business operations and strategy for the McAfee Risk and Compliance Business Unit. Prior to McAfee, McClure was executive director of security services for Kaiser Permanente, a $34-billion healthcare organization, served as senior vice president of global threats and research at McAfee, where he led an elite global security threats team, and was founder, president, and chief technology officer of Foundstone, Inc. (now McAfee Foundstone), a product and consulting company empowering U.S. government agencies and Fortune Global 500 companies to continuously and measurably manage and mitigate risk.
Widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of security, McClure is today one of the industry's leading authorities in information security. He co-authored “Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,” which has been translated into more than 30 languages and is considered one of the definitive computer security books. A widely published and acclaimed security visionary, McClure has more than 22 years of technology and executive leadership with profound technical, operational, and financial experience.
McClure holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and holds numerous certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Network Engineer (CNE), and Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE).
Candace Worley,
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Endpoint Security, McAfee Inc
Candace Worley is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for the McAfee Endpoint Security business. Worley leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for this area of the business, including McAfee’s anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, Web security, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, network access control, application control, and encryption products.
Worley has been with McAfee since 2000 and has 17 years of cumulative enterprise product management technology experience. Before joining McAfee, she spent seven years with Mentor Graphics Corporation where she led a team of product managers responsible for electronic design automation and electronic component software.
Worley has a bachelor’s degree in management from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Marylhurst College (now Marylhurst University).
Dmitri Alperovitch,
Vice President, Threat Research,
McAfee, Inc.
Dmitri Alperovitch leads McAfee’s Internet
threat intelligence analysis, correlation, and visualization, as well as the development of
real-time, in-the-cloud Global Threat Intelligence services, such as TrustedSource and SiteAdvisor.
With more than a decade of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is a leading inventor of numerous patented and patent-pending technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, public-key and identity-based cryptography, and network intrusion detection and prevention. As a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity, cyber warfare, and cybersecurity, Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject matter expert with all levels of U.S. and international law enforcement on analysis, investigations, and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities and cyberthreats from terrorist and nation-state adversaries. He is frequently quoted as an expert source in national publications, including The Associated Press, NBC, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. Prior to joining McAfee, Alperovitch led the research team and the software-as-a-service business at Secure Computing. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at law enforcement, academic, and leading security industry conferences.
Alperovitch holds a master’s degree in information security and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, both from Georgia Institute
of Technology.