Our Authors

Mark has over 30 years of experience in the mobile and technology industries. Having previously been CEO of several successful VC and private equity-backed companies. Mark brings a deep understanding of building sustainable growth in the technology industry.

Mark Loveless is a Senior Security Researcher at GitLab. His past employers have included startups, large corporations, hardware and software vendors, and even a government think tank. He has spoken at numerous security and hacker conferences worldwide on security and privacy topics, including Black Hat, DEF CON, ShmooCon, RSA, AusCERT, SANS among others. He has been quoted in television, online, and print media outlets as a security expert, including CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, and many others. He loves blogging, performing death metal, ghost hunting, and is an ordained minister.

• MARK PECEN serves as COO of ISARA Corporation, a world leader in quantum-safe cryptographic solutions for governments and original equipment manufacturers
• Chairman and founding member of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) Working Group for Quantum Safe Cryptography (Cyber QSC) in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE
• 35+ years in ICT R&D and standardization management.  Retired senior executive of BlackBerry, Ltd. and founded the Advanced Technology Research Centre - helped to develop a significant portion of BlackBerry’s wireless and networking patent portfolio.  Previously awarded title of Distinguished Innovator and Science Advisory Board member at Motorola for significant contributions to wireless technology and global standards.
• Served on over 20 governance and advisory boards for both public and private companies in Canada, Europe and the U.S. and is currently serving on Canadian university governance boards for the University of Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing and Wilfred Laurier University Lazaridis Institute for Business and Economics, as well as Nova Lvx Capital in Geneva, Switzerland and others
• Advisor to the European Commission on ICT R&D and technology standardization and various agencies of the Canadian government
• Named as inventor on more than 100 fundamental patents in wireless communication, networking and computing, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Mark has 20 years experience as a technology sales professional and leader. He started his career at IBM and held progressive positions within Technology. Currently, as Country Manager at Okta, Mark is leading Okta’s hyper-growth market-leading Workforce and Customer Identity Platform to market in Canada and has built out the team and strategy for the Country.

Mark Webb-Johnson is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Network Box. It is Mark’s technical genius that drives the cybersecurity innovation at Network Box. He and his team constantly come up with the solutions that keeps Network Box ahead of the rest. Over the years, Mark has taken on numerous projects and extremely difficult technology problems, and always come up with an elegant solution. It is hardly any wonder he won the Lord Hailsham Prize for Computer Science.

Martin Jakobsen is the Managing Director of Cybanetix and brings over 20 years of experience delivering NOC and SOC services to a wide range of customers. At Cybanetix, Martin has overseen the company’s growth into a trusted MDR specialist supporting clients across multiple sectors, including large-scale enterprises and public sector organisations. Martin remains focused on expanding Cybanetix’s capabilities and its use of advanced, AI-enabled security operations to deliver practical, intelligence-driven services.

Prior to Cybanetix, Martin served as Managing Director of Capita Cyber Security and holds board positions at KonsensIT A/S and CapMon A/S, contributing his expertise in governance and strategic growth.

He has played a central role in the design and build of some of the UK’s largest government networks and has provided outsourced security operations to multinational enterprises. His combination of technical expertise and leadership has enabled organisations to strengthen their defences and run more resilient security operations.

Matt Donato is the co-founder and managing partner of HuntSource. Based in Charlotte, NC, HuntSource provides comprehensive talent recruiting services for companies and professionals in the cyber security, data intelligence, and analytics markets. The company accelerates, streamlines, and simplifies the hiring process for companies and professionals in all three of these industries. The company’s capabilities include performing direct hires and executive searches, retained searches, and various staffing solutions.

Matt has 15 years of experience in the recruiting profession.
A few quotes about his beliefs and the company:

I believe the world is facing a major crisis defending corporate and governmental assets. Not only from a technology and governance perspective, but also from a people perspective, there are not nearly enough qualified cyber security professionals in place to defend and prevent these threats from escalating.

I believe this business exists to help organizations and individual professionals solve this talent problem. Helping companies find qualified cyber security talent faster and easier, and showing them how to be trained and re-skilled effectively and efficiently, is an important business to be in.

Highly experienced technical leader with a proven track record over 25 years of delivering advanced network solutions to meet demanding customer requirements and timescales.

Working at the leading edge of Cloud, Security, CPaaS, UCaaS, SDN/NFV & Unified Communications – trusted advisor to both partners and end customers, educating and supporting the adoption of secure cloud solutions within the Enterprise and Service Provider space.

Transitioning from an existing known architecture to a new model - be it UC, Cloud services or a fully virtualised model based around NFV can be a daunting prospect.

Matt Lindley is the Chief Innovation & Information Security Officer at NINJIO, a leading cybersecurity awareness training and human risk management platform. Matt leads NINJIO’s cybersecurity team and AI innovation projects. Previously, he was the CEO and Principal Consultant at REIN Cybersecurity, which focused on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). He has also served as the Director of Security Services at Cal Net Technology Group and the virtual CIO at Convergence Networks.

Matt is an authority on IT, cybersecurity, GRC, and operational maturity whose expert insights have been published in media outlets spanning cybersecurity and many other relevant verticals. His byline has appeared in a wide range of cybersecurity and tech publications, including Dark Reading, Cyber Defense Magazine, Innovation & Tech Today, Spiceworks, Security Magazine, Cybersecurity Insiders, Security Boulevard, U.S. Cybersecurity Magazine, Information Week, and Cyber Protection Magazine. Matt has also published extensively in outlets serving specific industry verticals, such as InsuranceNewsNet, Business Traveler, Manufacturing.net, and Carrier Management.

Matt is a leading security analyst whose research and expertise cover AI strategy and transformation, emerging cyberthreats, behavioral psychology, social engineering, and organizational resilience. Matt has over a decade and a half of experience as both a practitioner and a thought leader in cybersecurity, and he is particularly focused on human risk management—a core pillar of cybersecurity at a time when the human element is implicated in the majority of breaches.

A veteran IT industry executive, keynote speaker and author, Matt has been helping organisations achieve cyber-resilience for over 18 years in varied roles at Microsoft, Sophos, Rapid7, and now Gartner Leader, Exabeam, where he heads up their EMEA Security Engineering teams.  

 As an ex-actor who ‘luckily fell into IT’, Matt is passionate about engaging and enthusing the next generation of cyber-defenders – whether they realise that’s what they are or not. 

Matthew Margetts is Director of Sales and Marketing at Smarter Technologies. His background includes working for blue-chip companies such as AppNexus, AOL/ Verizon, and Microsoft in the UK, Far East and Australia.

Maya Lahav is a trained criminologist from Oxford University and the lead researcher of the Human Exploitation Vertical at the technology company, ActiveFence. On a day-to-day basis, Maya collaborates with numerous tech companies, providing insights and mitigation strategies on human trafficking risks and malicious content. Additionally, Maya shares her knowledge and expertise on trust and safety matters through her role as a lecturer at several universities, where she teaches courses on the concept of evil in the context of online criminal behavior.