Rob Andersson

Mr. Anderson is the Go to Market Leader for the Cybersecurity and Biometrics Practice Area in IBM’s Global Business Services Defense and Intelligence (D&I) market. He is a known mobility subject matter expert within US Federal Agencies, DoD, and the Defense Industrial Base. Currently he is the Mobility Domain Architect for the Navy Marine Corps Intra net (NMCI), Next Generation (NGEN) Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT). His responsibility entails the entire Navy mobility ecosystem. He was the lead author of the Marine Corps Information Enterprise Strategy, the Marine Corps Private Cloud Computing Strategy, Bring Your Own Device Mobility Concept, the Marine Corps Commercial Mobile Device Strategy, Bring Your Own Device User Agreement, and the Corporately Owned Personally Enabled User Agreement. Mr. Anderson is a 2015 Federal 100 Award winner and retired from the Marine Corps as a Communications Officer in 2009 after serving over 25 years to include 5 combat tours: Operation Desert Storm / Desert Shield - Kuwait, Operation Restore Hope - Somalia, Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom I and III - Iraq. His entire government service has spanned over 32 years. 

Matthew Bohne

Matthew Bohne is the Vice President and Chief Product Security Officer for Honeywell Corporation. He is responsible for leading the product cybersecurity and privacy program and strategy for Honeywell. He leads a global team of talented cybersecurity & privacy professionals who use a secure by design and by default approach to enhance the security in the products Honeywell makes and sells to their customers. Matthew has more than 17 years of experience developing and leading global product cybersecurity programs and teams in the industrial, oil and gas, buildings, consumer, nuclear and pharmaceutical sectors. He is a sought-after speaker on cybersecurity and is active in the development of global cybersecurity standards for IoT, automation and industrial systems. 

Jacob Cox

Jacob H. Cox JR, Ph.D., CISSP, PMP, is the Lead Data Scientist for Army Capability Manager Cyber (ACM Cyber) and an Adjunct Professor at Augusta University’s School of Computer and Cyber Sciences. Previously, he served in the U.S. Army for over 21 years with assignments including Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), United States Military Academy (USMA) and Chief of Enterprise Operations at the Army’s Southwest Asia Cyber Center (SWACC), Kuwait. Jacob is a former Signal and Army Functional Area 24 (Telecommunications Engineer) Officer who spent his final years as a Cyber Operations Officer. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his current efforts seek to aid warfighters with understanding how events in cyberspace impact their unit’s mission. 

Rob Duggan

Rob leads Technology Risk Advisory Services for Earney & Company. He is a graduate of NC State and has over 20 years of audit and IT security experience including 10 years of international audit in over 25 countries for Fortune 1000 manufacturing and distribution companies. Rob has 4 years of experience leading IT Audit and Risk Advisory practice development for Top 10 Firms, and 7 years serving national healthcare organizations as Internal Audit and Compliance Officer. Rob enjoys performing Cybersecurity Assessments and business process improvement the most and personally works these and more complex process assurance work from the ground up. Rob is a CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, CISA, CISSP, and holds a Certificate in Healthcare Compliance. Rob is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity nationally & within the Wilmington professional community and serves on the Board of Advisors for UNCW’s CCDE. Rob grew up in New Bern, NC and enjoys free days boating and on the beach with his Red Boston Terrier, Tonto. Rob also enjoys spending time on a family farm in Georgia and supports the visual and performing arts. 

Adrianne George

Adrianne George is the CEO and President of MyCyberExec. She spent 15 years in federal service in a variety of analytical, liaison, and managerial roles. She was most recently the Acting Deputy Cyber Executive for Analytic Integration at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and previously served as the Director of Analysis for the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. Adrianne’s other career highlights included serving as Director for Counterterrorism for the National Security Council, deploying to Afghanistan, and multiple joint duty assignments with other federal agencies. Adrianne has an MA in Contemporary Transatlantic Studies from the University of Bath, UK and a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Brad Hayes

Dr. Brad Hayes is the Chief Technology Officer with the Project Ares team at Circadence and an Assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to joining the Project Ares team, he received his doctorate in Computer Science from the Yale Social Robotics Lab and performed postdoctoral research at the MIT Interactive Robotics Group, building technology to help democratize education by enabling robots to learn from and teach humans more effectively. Dr. Hayes is a recipient of CU Boulder’s 2021 “Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award”, has delivered talks at venues including TEDx, international academic conferences, and the TeachThought podcast, and has been featured by numerous media outlets including Cyber Defense Magazine, the BBC, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, c|net, the Washington Post, and ColoradoBiz magazine. 

Andrew Hoover

Andrew Hoover is a Senior Engineer and the team lead of the Resilience Engineering Team in the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. In this role, Hoover focuses on cybersecurity architecture, cyber resilience and critical infrastructure protection. Hoover is one of the primary architects of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and has been working with the DoD since 2018 to develop the model, training and other materials in support of the program. Hoover has 18 years of experience in the information technology field, holds a bachelor of science degree in information systems from UNCW as well numerous security-related certifications. 

Ron Lafond

 Ron Lafond is an acquisitions and research and development portfolio manager at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Risk Management Center, focused on developing requirements and solutions for cyber and physical risks to the nation’s critical infrastructure. Prior to joining CISA, Ron worked as a federal contractor in the broader Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) security and preparedness enterprise, providing support to CISA, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Among these roles, Ron ran a team of 50 FTEs providing GRC, Assessment & Authorization, and Information System Security Officer support at TSA, ensuring compliance with Federal information assurance requirements, relevant to today’s compliance panel discussion. Ron holds CISSP, PMP, and Certified Business Continuity Professional credentials, and received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and his M.S. in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Scott Lathrop

Scott D. Lathrop, Ph.D., CISSP, is an executive leader, researcher, educator, speaker, and mentor focused on technology at the intersection of AI/ML, cybersecurity, robotics, and information technology. Dr. Lathrop is currently the Director of Cyber Technology at Raytheon BBN Technologies and was previously a Vice President at Soar Technology. Before joining the civilian sector, Dr. Lathrop served 25+ years in the US Army, retiring as a Colonel and culminating his military career as the Director of Advanced Capability and Technology (J9) at the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). At USCYBERCOM he led the command’s research and development efforts while serving as the Chief Scientist and Technology officer for the Commander, USCYBERCOM/Director, NSA. His research interests include cybersecurity, AI/ML, and autonomous unmanned systems, publishing 30+ articles in those areas. Dr. Lathrop is a distinguished graduate from the United States Military Academy/West Point and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. 

Ed Lewis

Ed Lewis has more than 30 years’ experience in IT and Cybersecurity. He currently works as the Chief Security Architect/Technical Fellow at the Northrop Grumman (NG) Corporation. He has worked on a variety of projects including the overall security architecture, design, planning and subsequent implementation support for NGs Infrastructure systems under a variety of DOD projects. Prior to joining Northrop, Mr. Lewis worked as a Systems Engineering/Technical Advisor (SETA) supporting DOD/NSA/IC Customers across multiple program areas. Ed holds multiple cyber and cloud certifications, Masters Degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Loyola Baltimore and has co-authored several books on IT management with a focus on cybersecurity. 

Peter McClelland

Peter is an attorney and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US) who assists clients in a range of privacy, data security, cyber supply chain and technology matters. Prior to joining Ward and Smith, Peter worked as an in-house attorney for a North Carolina technology cybersecurity startup, where he managed all in-house legal affairs for strategic cyber risk management and data analytics. He also represented the company on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force. Peter also served as a resident-in-practice for the North Carolina Business Court.  

Jordan Pike

Jordan Pike is the Manager of Product Security at nCino where he focuses on enabling engineering teams to build secure world-class banking software. His main area of work is software analysis, web security, and the humans that build them. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @pikeje 

Albert Roethlisberger

With nearly 30 years of professional IT experience with a focus on network and security disciplines, Albert Roethlisberger is the N.C. Department of Information Technology’s chief information security officer at the N.C. Department of Transportation, where he has served since 2007. Roethlisberger has served in multiple roles throughout his tenure in North Carolina state government, including enterprise architecture, network and firewall services management as well as information security and risk management. Prior to joining North Carolina state government, he spent nearly 15 years supporting and leading IT disciplines. These included early commercial internet services development, database administration, applications development, product development, product engineering, network design and operations, enterprise architecture as well as information security and risk management. Roethlisberger earned a Bachelor of Arts in computer information systems from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and a Certified Government Chief Information Officer certification from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Geoff Stoker

Geoff is an Assistant Professor in the Congdon School at UNCW. Formerly, he worked at CYR3CON, a cybersecurity startup harnessing AI to provide an attacker-focused approach to predicting and preventing cyber-attacks and also served 24+ years in the U.S. Army including a four-year tour with the 82nd Airborne Division as the CISO, 15 months of which were spent in Afghanistan protecting coalition networks, and a three-year teaching stint at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point. He earned CS degrees from USMA (BS), the University of Virginia (MCS), and the University of Maryland, College Park (PhD). 

Hala Strohmier

Dr. Hala Strohmier joined the UNCW Department of Computer Science in August 2020. She received her Doctor of Engineering and MS degree in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University, Washington DC and received her BS degree in Business from Cairo University. Prior to joining UNCW, she was the founder and managing member of Strohmier Consulting llc, an award-winning engineering and information technology company based in Northern Virginia with operations in 9 states and focused on cybersecurity, governance, and risk management. Dr. Strohmier's research interests include applied research in the areas of cybersecurity, network security, AI, and engineering entrepreneurship.

William Wetherill

William is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with extensive training, background, and experience in various aspects of IT systems and applications. He has over 26 years of IT experience and has contributed to UNCW’s IT and campus community for over 10 years. He is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for UNCW.