Mr. Moore began his career developing the foundation of his operational and technical skills during his 15 years of military service with the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Community.

He continued his passion for protecting information and creating sound cyber risk practices when he transitioned to the private sector, as a consultant with KPMG providing security services for various public, private, and governmental institutions and subsequently assumed a senior leadership role with the Royal Bank of Scotland - Americas leading the institution’s regulatory and data protection programs and building the Cyber Intelligence and Cyber Risk program.

Prior to founding CyberSix, Mr. Moore served as the Managing Director of Global Cyber Risk Services at Alvarez and Marsal and as the Chief Information Security Officer at New York Life Insurance Company. In these roles, he implemented an agile and transformational Information security program that fostered an integrated “Intelligence and Risk” culture and program, providing executive management with a business focused view of the company’s cyber risks landscape. As part of the “Intelligence and Risk” program, he was accountable for leading and collaborating with a group of cross-functional executives in enhancing the company’s overall cyber and operational risk management capabilities. He was responsible for leading complex technical and operational mitigation efforts associated with the company’s threat landscape and regulatory matters.

Mr. Moore has served on numerous industry and client advisory boards and has been an Adjunct Professor at Salve Regina University and at Northeastern University Graduate Information Assurance programs. In addition to his University lectures, Mr. Moore is frequently a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and a contributing author of Information Security books and articles. Mr. Moore earned a masters in information assurance from Norwich University. Currently, he sits on two academic advisory boards and few advisory boards for cybersecurity technologies.

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Mr. Sparks is an IT Executive with more than 20 years of experience leading and managing risk for organizations in multiple industries, to include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biomedical manufacturing, software and hardware development, and financial services. Most recently, he served as the Chief Information Security Officer for AgFirst Farm Credit Bank providing information security for the main financial institution and 21 partner banks from New York to Puerto Rico.

Working for companies, such as AgFirst Farm Credit Bank and Citizens Financial Group, Mr. Sparks spearheaded the design, architecture, implementation, and establishment of security infrastructure and risk governance frameworks, translating complex security and compliance requirements and emerging threats while identifying cost-effective technologies to address future issues. Within these large financial institutions, Mr. Sparks worked closely with C-level executives and Board Members to share critical data and facilitate support for strategic technology enhancements. He provided pragmatic solutions to allow executive management not to be risk adverse, but rather take smart risks to engender growth. Operationally, Mr. Sparks has a demonstrated history of building scalable and flexible programs and frameworks which can adapt quickly to new challenges and strategic direction.

Mr. Sparks has served on numerous industry advisory boards and regulatory panels, to include being appointed as the cybersecurity risk advisor on the Farm Credit Council Risk Advisory Panel. He has also been a key or co-speaker within multiple industries over the past fifteen years. Prior to beginning his information security and risk management career, Mr. Sparks served 12 years of military service with the U.S. Marine Corps as a tank commander; and continues to be active in many Veteran communities. Mr. Sparks earned a masters in information assurance from Northeastern University and holds a Certified Information Security Manager certification.

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Mike is a confident and an ambitious “doer”; decision-maker, a self-starter who can delegate responsibility and authority when necessary. Having a distinctly low level of interest in details which are not pertinent to the goal, Mike will delegate them whenever possible, relying on persuasion, rather than close follow-up, to assure completion of such work. Venturesome and rather freewheeling, Mike is uninhibited in expressing and acting on his own ideas without very much concern for traditional, established policies. Skillful at “selling” ideas to others; determined and persistent in expressing and acting on them.

At ease and self-assured with groups or in making new contacts, Mike is gregarious and extraverted, has a compelling impact on people, and is always “selling” in a general sense. Mike learns and reacts quickly and functions at a faster-than-average pace. Able to adapt quickly to change and variety in the work, he'll become impatient and less effective if required to work with repetitive routines and details or to do structured work under close supervision.

Mike proactively connects quickly to others; open and sharing. Builds and leverages relationships to get work done. Technology and Cyber within the streets of New York City. Michael is championing business development for TrapX Security globally while he continues to build pipeline for the sales origination within the north eastern region of the Americas. Michael spends most of his days educating CISO’s on the concept of Early Breach Detection with DeceptionGrid’s.

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More recently, Marc has been a highly sought consultant/contractor for several leading banks, manufacturing, and retail companies who were seeking to meet their regulatory obligations while executing on digital transformation and technological advancements to maximize financial returns in today’s digital economy.

In addition to the private sector accomplishments mentioned above, Marc has also been a key contributor and leader in various government/private sector critical infrastructure protection partnerships including as a Board Director of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) for almost a decade, a key founder and contributor to the US Secret Service's Electronic Crimes Task Force, numerous national security protection efforts with DHS and the FBI, ranging from counter- terrorism and cyber warfare to leading and participating on several leading public/private industry committees such as being the first elected Chairman of the nation’s FS-ISAC Insurance Risk Council and Industry liaison with DHS Office of Bombing Prevention/Counter-terrorism.

Marc has a Bachelor of Arts with Cum-Laude honors in Pre-Law, Certification in Information Security Management (CISM), and a variety of specialized training in security and risk management.

Marc has published several peer-reviewed white-papers on numerous diverse topics ranging from security, technology, privacy, & risk management that are commonly referenced and studied at Universities, industry text books, and organizations including SANS and CERT.

Additionally, he has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and industry organizations, received industry recognition and awards for the programs he and his teams have implemented, and is commonly referred to by his peers as a mentor, trusted advisor, and pioneering servant-based team-focused leader who believes and implements the team-of-team collaboration model, aliquet.

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Sean is the Founder, CEO & Managing Partner at Silicon Alley Advisers.

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