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Naren Nachiappan is an entrepreneur who has built four global technology organizations over a thirty year career – two as a founder/co-founder (Proceler and Jivox), one as GM/VP of a startup division at a public company (Wind River), and one as an early (pre Series A) core team member (VenturCom). His most recent venture, Jivox, is a 200+ person profitable SaaS company in the Martech space. Through the course of his career Naren has conceptualized, developed and launched multiple product lines, closed multi-million dollar sales deals in the US and in Japan and EMEA, and was instrumental in raising over $50 million in institutional and private capital.

Naren holds a Bachelor’s with Honors from Harvard University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Gaston Mbonglou is a senior executive experienced in U.S and international markets, with a proven track record in business strategy, operations management and information technology. He has proven ability in business management and exceptional performance in helping organizations optimize productivity, efficiency and profitability by leveraging technology and business process improvement.

Gaston held multiple management and senior management positions at KPMG and BearingPoint, a global system integrator. He is a serial entrepreneur and has launched multiple startups during the last 10 years. Gaston is also a co-author of the “Accelerating Business Growth in Emerging Economies framework,” a strategy centered on capacity building through entrepreneurship programs, technology, business enablement and bilateral trade growth. The framework is geared toward governments of emerging economies to help them build the necessary capacities to create jobs, compete in the global economy and attract foreign investors.

Dr. Mustaque Ahamad is a professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also co-founded Pindrop Security and Codoxo and served as chief scientist of these companies.

Dr. Ahamad served as the director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) from 2004 to 2012. As director of GTISC, he led the development of several education and research initiatives, including a first of its kind MS degree in Cybersecurity.  Dr. Ahamad’s research interests include reliable distributed systems and cybersecurity. He has published extensively in these areas and also collaborated on a World Economic Forum project on cyber risk. He served as co-chair of MAAWG’s Voice and Telephony Abuse Special Interest Group.

Dr. Ahamad currently serves as director of the MS Cybersecurity degree program. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. He received his undergraduate degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.