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Bill McHenry

Former Managing Director & Head of Critical Systems, JP Morgan Chase

Nabeel Mahmood

Co-Founder
Nomad Futurist Foundation

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and the need to develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. He believes strongly in simplification, with a purpose. Nabeel brings 18 plus years of experience leading large-scale global technology organizations through seasons of explosive growth via M&A, global expansion, implementing new business models and technology innovation. His expertise includes leading organizations through transformation changes, connecting IT to the needs of the business, technology innovation, Big Data, Cloud, ERP, IoT, Mobility and Data Centers. He brings a unique blend of experiences spanning the entire breadth of technology from Grid to Chip. At, heart he’s a true technologist and futurist, he is a proven strategist, winsome communicator and leader with extraordinary vision and operational expertise within very large, complex organizations. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned by emerging technologies. He serves on multiple boards and is an advisor to CIOs and CEO across a number of industries.

Dr. Sandra Bell

Head of Resilience Consulting (Europe)
Sungard Availability Services

A risk and resilience professional with over 30 years’ experience of the design and management of strategic, business friendly security, continuity and risk solutions in public and private sectors. Experience ranges from: the management of security and the protection of data within the UK’s main business process outsourcer to the financial and government sectors; to the protection of the largest part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure. Main achievements include:  Advisor to UK Government on the creation of the National Security Strategy and the National Information Assurance Strategy.  Chairman of the British Standards Institute’s committee on Societal Security Management looking after risk management, business continuity, asset management and PCI standards at both the national and international level. Tenure of this role included looking after the fundamentals of the international standard on business continuity ISO22301.  Developed, implemented and operated enterprise wide risk and compliance capabilities within a number of organisations allowing them to: manage compliance obligations; offer trustworthy, robust and cost effective solutions; and significantly reduce financial and reputation losses  Incident commander for a number large scale incidents including DDoS attacks and severe flooding incidents.  Delivered comprehensive security solutions at three Olympic Venues including Team USA’s High Performance Training Centre and the China Central Television’s UK operation. All three venues enjoyed a security incident free Olympics despite hosting Michelle Obama, the US Basketball team and visits by several Heads of State.  Identified the injury mechanism associated with explosive blast and patented a material system that now forms the basis of all modern bomb disposal equipment.

Chris Butler

Principal Consultant
Sungard Availability Services

Chris has worked as a consultant in Resilience and Security since retiring from military service in 2012. Initially working in high-hazard industries, notably the UK’s nuclear sector, he specialises in helping Board-level Executives to improve and develop their leadership in a crisis, with a focus on cyber risk. Chris also helps our clients develop their strategies and frameworks for organisational and operational resilience Since joining Sungard Availability Services in 2016, Chris has worked with customers in finance, insurance, healthcare, not-for- profit and automotive sectors. He is a fluent French speaker who has a number of clients in Sweden, France, Belgium and Luxembourg, in addition to clients in the UK. Representative Consulting Engagements  Crisis Management executive leadership development − Design and delivery of Masterclasses in crisis management and leadership for Boards − Planning and execution of dynamic crisis exercises for executive leadership and senior management teams  Cyber Risk and Resilience Assessments − High level review of governance, risk and security of the global IT network in a major US FMCG corporation − Executive cyber resilience and security capability development including cyber exercises  Business Continuity Management − The full spectrum of Business Continuity consulting across a range of sectors − Programme and project management of complex Business Continuity assignments in Healthcare, Not-for-Profit, Financial Services, Insurance sectors − Information communications technology readiness for business continuity for a major UK transport company (public sector)

Fabrizio Grena

Managing Director, London
Goldman Sachs

Fabrizio is a member of the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) Real Estate Group. The team focuses on investing in a range of asset- backed opportunities, including sub- performing and non-performing portfolios of consumer, residential, and commercial real estate loans; portfolios of real estate assets; and hybrid, junior and structured equity financing. He is responsible for evaluating, underwriting and executing new acquisitions. Fabrizio joined Goldman Sachs as an executive director in 2011 and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Fabrizio worked in the special situations unit at Deutsche Bank. Before that, he worked on the principal structured finance desk at Merrill Lynch. Fabrizio serves on the supervisory board of Robyg. Fabrizio earned a bachelor's degree in Economics and Finance from the Bocconi University in Milan in 2003.

Arun Shenoy

Senior VP, Sales & Marketing
Serverfarm

Arun Shenoy is responsible for developing the success of Serverfarm’s data center colocation and InCommand Services business globally. He joined Serverfarm from Schneider Electric where he was Vice President of the IT and Data Center business in the UK & Ireland. Arun has previously worked at major companies including Intel, ABB, IBM and Romonet in general management, sales and marketing roles with over 20 years in software, services and technology markets.

Amy Daniell

Director, Hyperscale Team - Global Data Center (EMEA)
NTT Ltd

With nearly a decade in the industry, Amy spent the early part of her career delivering data centre builds for industry leading clients such as Dell, IBM, Ericsson and Vodafone. She then joined AECOM in early 2014 to drive mission critical engineering across EMEA and APAC. Her unique insight drove AECOM to become an industry thought leader and partner of choice for many global corporations and smaller niche data center operators. Amy has now joined NTT as Director in the Hyperscale team to continue NTT’s successful relationships and delivery for many of the household names in the Data Centre industry.

John Gravett

Head of Real Estate Management
Cluttons

John provides strategic advice to TMT portfolios and specialised advice in telecommunications strategy, network roll-out and estate management. As a skilled international real estate manager, John has extensive experience in the development and implementation of real estate solutions at both a local and international level.