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Join us on Wednesday, February 17 8:30 am AEDT // Tuesday, February 16 1:30 pm PT, to learn first hand about UpGuard’s exciting new product announcements in the areas of Third-Party Risk Management and Data Leaks during the UpGuard Summit. The UpGuard Summit is our quarterly event bringing together leaders across different industries to discuss best cybersecurity practices.
In this event, our research team will unveil their latest findings on emerging threats in the information security industry. Our leadership team will also share UpGuard's priorities in 2021 after an incredible year of growth.
We are very thrilled to announce that our customers from the Australian Government (Dept of Finance), NSW Government (Transport for NSW), OVO (PT Visionet Internasional) and other organisations will be joining us to discuss how they manage their cybersecurity.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts on the cyber threat forefront, register for UpGuard Summit now!
Mike Baukes is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of UpGuard, a global cybersecurity company headquartered in Hobart, Australia. Prior to founding UpGuard in 2012, Mike worked in senior technology and M&A roles for financial institutions such as ANZ, Lloyds Banking Group, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, leading teams in technology and strategy. Mike also holds 6 cybersecurity patents. UpGuard protects hundreds of organizations, including NASA, the New York Stock Exchange, Accenture and HP. With an unrivalled track record, UpGuard is also renowned for discovering and securing a multitude of data breaches implicating institutions such as Facebook, Amazon, the Republican National Committee, the Dow Jones and Aggregate IQ.
Dan Bradbury
UpGuard
Dan Bradbury is UpGuard’s Chief Product Officer, responsible for the strategic direction and development of the UpGuard product. Dan is responsible for cultivating the suite of UpGuard products, overseeing the development and deployment of new features -- over 600 in just 2020 alone. Dan has over 20 years of experience working in tech - he started his career as a software engineer and has held leadership roles in various technology and financial services companies including Canon Research, AMP, ANZ, and St.George Bank. Dan was also responsible for overseeing the architecture of the payments platform at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Dan received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Psychology from Sydney University and his Masters in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
Greg Pollock
UpGuard
Greg Pollock is the VP of Product, Cyber Research for UpGuard. Greg is a product manager with vast experience supporting cross-functional teams. In his role at UpGuard, Greg oversees the execution of the CyberResearch product, managing the strategy, roadmap, and team dedicated to the success of this product. Greg believes that data should help us make informed decisions, not prevent us from making exciting ones. Greg has worked in product management roles at a variety of technology companies including Gaia Interactive and Shmoop, managing teams responsible for communicating clear requirements to Design, Engineering, and Marketing for the successful execution of product development. Greg received his Bachelor of Arts in English from James Madison University and Masters in Literature from UC, Santa Cruz.
Chris Vickery
UpGuard
Chris Vickery is the Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard. Chris has a stunning track record of discovering major data exposures, securing a total of nearly two billion sensitive records to date and preventing malicious data usage. He has been cited as a cybersecurity expert by The New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, BBC, LA Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. Some examples of his high profile data discoveries involve entities such as Aggregate IQ, Verizon, Viacom, the RNC, branches of the US Department of Defense, Tesla Motors, and many more.
Tulin Sevgin
UpGuard
Tulin Sevgin is UpGuard’s Director of Third Party Risk Management. As Director of Third Party Risk Management, Tulin helps customers understand their individual vendor risk profile and manages the process by which customers are provided customized reporting and analysis within the UpGuard product. Tulin has held various positions in the enterprise risk management and IT audit space with organizations such as Commonwealth Bank, Wesptac, Optiver and Deloitte. Tulin received her Bachelor of Technology, eBusiness from University of Wollongong.
Sandy Taylor
University of Southern California
Sandra Taylor is the Director of Information Security Governance, Risk & Compliance. She has 2 decades of experience across Information Technology, Information Security, Risk & Compliance across multiple industries. Her expertise includes building information security risk-based performance management programs, to demonstrate effectiveness strategy married with ROI on security investment, and to create, implement and direct third-party risk management programs. She is passionate about inspiring a security-minded culture by creating unique and interactive learning opportunities.
Murray Taylor
NSW Government (Transport for NSW)
Murray Taylor is the Associate Director, Cybersecurity Advisory & Solutions at Transport for NSW. He is a highly skilled technology and security consultant with more than 15 years’ experience across Cybersecurity strategy development, Cybersecurity roadmap and program development, enterprise-wide program delivery and performance improvement, and large-scale organisational transformation. Murray has delivered quantifiable reductions in operational and Cybersecurity risk, security capability uplift and integration for large-scale, complex, and blue-chip clients in a number of industry sectors.
Upul De Silva
NSW Government (Transport for NSW)
Upul De Silva is a Senior Technical Business Analyst in Transport for NSW Cyber Defence Portfolio and the UpGuard SME for implementation within the Transport cluster. He has over twenty years’ consulting experience in business transformation, systems integration and process re-engineering as a trusted business advisor. He has worked across a range of industries like Banking and Financial Services, Government, Regulatory, FMCG and Retail with organisations like Department of Justice, APCA, Westpac, Lion Nathan and Harvey Norman.
Tijo John
Australian Government (Dept. of Finance)
Tijo John is the IT Security Assurance Manager for GovCMS. Before joining the Dept. of Finance for Australian Government, he was providing IT Security support for a National Agency. He has 15 years of experience across software development and consulting, database design, project management and IT Security.
Gaurav Thorat
OVO (PT Visionet Internasional)
Gaurav Thorat is the Senior Engineering Manager - Information Security & IT at OVO, Indonesia. He is a leader in the Information Security space with proven experience in building security culture and teams from the ground up. In his career, he has worked across various industries such as IT, Manufacturing, Automobile, Telecom, Pharma, Government most recently FinTech. Gaurav is a community leader with ISACA at local chapters as well as ISACA international (HQ). He is passionate about building a safe & secure Cyberworld.
Myranda Heipel is UpGuard’s Director of People Operations. In this role, Myranda is focused on improving employee experience, engagement, and performance to support wider business goals. Myranda has spent most of her career working in people operations and recruitment roles at technology start-ups such as Airtasker and InDebted, connecting people to business objectives. As a Senior IT recruiter for Randstad, Myranda acted as a team lead, maintaining a full-cycle individual recruitment desk with full targets while managing an internal and outsourced recruiting team. Myranda received her Bachelor of Arts in Media, Information, and Technoculture from the University of Western Ontario
