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Andrew Conte
Director Information Technology and Security Officer
Home Box Office (HBO)

Andrew Conte, Director Information Technology and Security Officer, HBO has been responsible for the enterprise information security program at HBO. HBO, a New York City-based wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., is the world’s premium television channel. Mr. Conte uses a holistic, process-based approach to managing enterprise risk through the development of comprehensive business solutions. HIs responsibilities include information assurance, governance, compliance, secure infrastructure design, policy development and enforcement, disaster recovery, intrusion detection, network and system hardening, firewall design and implementation, IT audit and evaluation, and security assessments. He has over eight years of hands-on and consulting experience within the Information Security discipline. Prior to this position, Mr. Conte was Director Information Technology at CNBC and NBC. He is a CISM, CISA, CISSP and a CPA and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting with an Executive MBA in Information Systems.

Paul Sforza
Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Treasury Department

Paul is a seasoned technology executive with greater than 22 years of retail banking and IT experience. In his current role, Paul is responsible for leading technology innovation within the US Treasury Department including key technology strategies (i.e., Identity Management, Hardware Virtualization, Application Hosting, Business Analytics, Application Integration and SOA). Comprised of twelve bureaus, Paul is responsible for overarching IT Strategy across the US Treasury Department infrastructure that manages a debt portfolio of over $8 trillion dollars and processes daily cash transactions in excess of $58 billion dollars. Previously, he was a Vice President with JP Morgan Chase and Company responsible for defining key strategies, architectures and resulting implementation plans for extremely large IT portfolios (between $250 million to $1 billion dollars in annual IT spend). While at JPMorgan his areas of focus included everything from IT Portfolio Management, Platform Consolidation, Channel Integration, and Emerging Technology to Architecture Process Re-engineering and IT Solution development.

Paul Simmonds
Chief Information Security Officer
AstraZeneca

Paul’s varied career has included Electronic Countermeasures, Theatre & TV Lighting, designing North Sea Oil control systems, Network management for JET (Nuclear Fusion Research) and setting up a number of commercial (charitable) radio stations. He joined AstraZeneca in July 2008 following a six years as the CISO of ICI; prior to ICI he was Head of Information Security with a high security European web hosting company and before that spent seven years with Motorola, as global information security manager. Paul has a degree in Electronic Engineering and a City & Guilds in Radio Communication. Paul was awarded Chief Security Officer of the year at the 2005 SC Magazine European Awards and is listed in both the 2004 & 2005 global top 50 most powerful people in networking, by the US publication Network World. Paul co-founded and sits on the management board of the Jericho Forum and the Executive Advisory Board of ISSA UK. He also is a British Canoe Union Level 3 Kayak Coach.

Randolph Smith CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP
Manager, Information Security
United Parcel Service

Randolph Smith is an information systems security professional who is responsible for United Parcel Service's enterprise security policy, strategy and architecture. Mr. Smith has served UPS in many capacities during a career spanning thirty-five years. He has managed highly visible projects in industrial engineering, line operations, information services, and telecommunications. Mr. Smith’s extensive involvement in the practice of information security at UPS includes: The establishment of a permanent enterprise information security policy process (Mr. Smith was the principal co-author of the entire body of enterprise-wide information security policies and the charter for the executive review process; the enhancement of the standard systems development life cycle methodology to include information security risk analysis and mitigation; the analysis and design of systems to monitor access to customer data in order to detect inappropriate behavior; and the establishment of the UPS Privacy Policy. Mr. Smith was the principal co-author of the policy that was made available to the public in April 1999. In 2002, Mr. Smith was recognized by IDG’s Computerworld as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders. The award honors individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through technology.


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