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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.
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