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Sean is a seasoned cross-functional leader boasting more than two decades of progressive experience spanning Digital Strategy, Leadership Development, Operational Excellence, HR, HSE, and ESG. Throughout his career, Sean has spearheaded and actively participated in the acquisition and integration of over 50 companies, in addition to guiding two initial public offerings of oilfield services firms. Driven by a profound passion, Sean has skillfully merged the realms of Leadership Development and Operational Excellence. His primary emphasis lies in cultivating exceptional leaders and fostering high-performing teams that consistently surpass conventional benchmarks, delivering results that consistently exceed expectations.

Brian leads the multi cloud, connectivity, and Infrastructure consulting practices in the Americas for Digital Advisory and Innovation group. He has 25+ years of experience in telecommunications, infrastructure, datacenter, and Multicloud. Brian has been dedicated to the cloud space since 2010. Brian has led development of multiple service offerings or NTT including Software Security, Workload Protection, cloud FinOps, and network assessments. In addition, Brian has built several offerings around traditional datacenter assessments, migrations, and transformation workshops. Brian previously served several large organizations leading cloud & datacenter practices. Most recently, Brian led Worldwide Technology's global cloud practice. Prior to that, Brian led Huawei's Global Solutions Elite Team specializing in cloud adoption in South America, Middle East & Asia. Previous roles included progressive leadership responsibilities with Compuserve/UUNET, Frontier Communications, Earthlink Cloud & Dell/EMC. Brian holds a multitude of industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, Dell/EMC, VMware, AWS & Google.

Ira Winkler is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert who has worked to secure large names, such as Walmart, as its Chief Security Architect. He has received many prestigious industry awards, including the Hall of Fame award from the Information Systems Security Association, as well as several others. Ira keynotes events worldwide, and is frequently rated as a Top Rated Speaker. Only recently, he was announceded as Maryland Cybersecurity Champion of the Year, and his presentation at RSA this year was declared a top ranked session. He has authored more than 7 bestselling titles on cybersecurity and intelligence, with his most recent works titled, You Can Stop Stupid, Security Awareness for Dummies and Advanced Persistent Security. He is known in the industry for performing espionage simulations and developing cost-effective security programs.

Chuck Svoboda is the Senior Director of Cloud Services GTM, Americas, responsible for the sales go-to-market and adoption strategies for Red Hat Cloud Services, including OpenShift, application, and data cloud services. Chuck and his team ensure customer success by helping them focus on outcomes through applications without the toil of managing infrastructure or platforms.

As the Global Chief Architect Leader in the CTO Organization at Red Hat, Nadhan practices, leads and coordinates Red Hat’s chief architect efforts internally and externally, including building strategic C-level relationships with customers and partners as well as media, marketing, and speaking engagements that increase affinity for our solutions, architectural patterns, and emerging technologies. This includes the definition and evolution of consistent strategies, initiatives, and techniques across the global Red HatChiefs network to connect our customers, ecosystem of partners, field sales, marketing, engineering, and Office of the CTO teams. As part of the CTO Customer-led Open Innovation team, Chief Architects at Red Hat contribute to the technology vision and influence product and engineering decisions through aggregated strategic user feedback based on customer and partner engagements. Nadhan provides thought leadership on various concepts including Cloud, Quantum, Analytics and Edge Computing through multiple channels including industry conferences, Executive roundtables as well as customer specific Executive Briefing sessions. Nadhan is an IBM Quantum Senior Ambassador and is a Board Member at The HDF Group. He sits on the Advisory Boards for the Minnesota State University, Mankato and Governors State University and is a Corporate Mentor at Wayne State University.

With an extensive career spanning over 25 years in the software development industry, Jordan Milushev brings a wealth of experience as a dedicated Solution Architect and Analytics specialist. Throughout his journey, he has cultivated a deep understanding of Cloud Computing, Serverless architectures, Big Data, and Data Security. Jordan's commitment to continuous improvement is evident in his efforts to create tailored, scalable, and secure systems that align with organizations' needs. His proficiency in Analytics and Big Data enables him to distill meaningful insights from complex datasets, facilitating well-informed decision-making

Charity Wright is a threat intelligence consultant at Recorded Future. Charity has over 17 years of experience in the US intelligence community, including a career in the US Army and the National Security Agency (NSA), where she served as a Chinese Linguist and Intelligence Analyst. She has been analyzing cyber threats in the private sector since 2015, with a focus on Chinese state-sponsored threats, cybercrime, malign influence operations, and strategic intelligence. She has consulted on espionage and intelligence topics on C-SPAN, Bloomberg, NBC, CBS, and many more media outlets around the world. Charity lives near Dallas, Texas with her 2 kids and 3 dogs.

Sean is a seasoned cross-functional leader boasting more than two decades of progressive experience spanning Digital Strategy, Leadership Development, Operational Excellence, HR, HSE, and ESG. Throughout his career, Sean has spearheaded and actively participated in the acquisition and integration of over 50 companies, in addition to guiding two initial public offerings of oilfield services firms. Driven by a profound passion, Sean has skillfully merged the realms of Leadership Development and Operational Excellence. His primary emphasis lies in cultivating exceptional leaders and fostering high-performing teams that consistently surpass conventional benchmarks, delivering results that consistently exceed expectations.

Over Jeff’s 25 years in IT management, he has led various teams across multiple IT disciplines and projects. He has worked in multiple industries including: banking, retail, health care, hospitality and construction. He is a hands-on leader with excellent customer service and is a servant leader to his employees. He prides himself on drawing from his vast experience and expertise along with his strong core values, integrity and strong decision making. All of which have led to his adeptness at creating and growing his teams so that they are able to bring business value and positively impact the business strategy.