A retired four-star Admiral with a distinguished 40-year career of military and strategic leadership, Admiral Fallon led U.S. and Allied forces in eight separate commands and played a leadership role in military and diplomatic matters at the highest levels of U.S. government. Former head of both U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command, he has worldwide experience in international security, political and commercial affairs. Through his military service, Admiral Fallon gained insight into the role of cyber security in protecting our nation’s most sensitive communications and critical assets. This experience helped shape his unique perspective and ongoing commitment to ensuring that government and enterprise can actively respond to today’s ever-evolving cyber threats.
Admiral Fallon currently owns his own consulting and advisory business, William J. Fallon & Associates, LLC, and is a partner at Tilwell Petroleum, LLC. Admiral Fallon was a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for International Studies, and serves as chair of the center’s advisory board. He is a board member at NovaSol, a Honolulu based technology company and the American Security Project.
Admiral Fallon is a distinguished Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses and is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Science Board. Admiral Fallon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Honorary Doctorate degree from Villanova University as well as a Master of Arts degree in international studies from Old Dominion University. He is a graduate of the Naval War College and the National War College.
Neal Creighton, Chief Executive Officer
Creighton has more than a decade of experience in IT system security, identity verification, Web authentication markets, and network security protection. As co-founder, president and CEO of GeoTrust, Creighton was responsible for providing the leadership, strategic direction and management for the company. [Read the full bio]
Mark Hatfield, Fairhaven Capital
Hatfield is a partner at Fairhaven Capital. He has served on the boards of Trust Digital and Xtranormal. Prior to joining the Fairhaven team, he was a managing director for Motorola Ventures where he led their West Coast operations. He was an investor and board representative of Amberpoint, BDNA, Danger (acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)), Foundstone (acquired by McAfee NYSE: MFE)), Lumidigm, Mesh Networks (acquired by Motorola NYSE: MOT)) and Skybitz.
Before Motorola Ventures, Mark spent three years in Chicago, where he headed up Motorola's Strategy & Business Development for the CIO and the IT organization. He has also held various corporate business development and IT roles at Bell Canada Enterprises and the Bank of Montreal. Mark holds a bachelor's degree from McMaster University and a master’s degree from York University.
Christopher Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Boies is partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he leads the firm's corporate practice, which he developed, and also serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
Since joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in 1998, Boies has represented a multitude of prominent corporate and individual clients including: several major energy companies, numerous international financial and investment groups, a variety of manufacturing and industrial concerns and public and private company boards of directors in a number of important transactional matters involving mergers and acquisitions advisory work, project and corporate finance matters, corporate governance advice and contract interpretation, construction and amendment issues.
Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Boies was an investment banking associate in the Project Finance group at Credit Suisse First Boston and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.
Alen Capalik, Founder and Chief Architect
Capalik believes that information security is an evolutionary arms race and that the key to victory is adaptability. While serving as network and security architect for banks, financial institutions and national exchanges, he realized that designing security systems to predict human behavior for network defense was a losing proposition. Capalik’s passion for meeting unconventional threats with unconventional technology led him to found NeuralIQ, a company dedicated to creating real-time systems that turn the collective intelligence of attackers into a resource that can be used against them. [Read the full bio]
Dmitri Alperovitch, Asymmetric Cyber Operations LLC
Dmitri Alperovitch is a renowned computer security researcher, thought-leader on cyber security policies and issues and president of Asymmetric Cyber Operations LLC. As former vice president of Threat Research at McAfee, he led the company’s Internet threat intelligence analysis, correlation and visualization.
With more than a decade of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of six patented and 16 patent-pending technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, Web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention.
As a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity, cyber espionage, cyber warfare and cyber security, Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject matter expert with all levels of U.S. and international policy makers, intelligence and law enforcement agencies on analysis, investigations and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities and cyber threats from terrorist and nation-state adversaries. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at military, intelligence, law-enforcement, academic and security industry conferences, and has published and given numerous thought-provoking talks on the contemporary issues in cyber security policy such as cyber deterrence doctrine, Chinese-sponsored cyber espionage and the use of cyber weapons on the future battlefield. Alperovitch is frequently quoted as a cyber policy and cyber security expert source in national publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Associated Press and Reuters.
In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT, groundbreaking cyber espionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names.
Prior to joining McAfee, Alperovitch led the research team and the Software-as-a-Service business at Secure Computing.
Alperovitch serves on the board of Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) Industry Advisory Board. In 2011, he was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security.
Alperovitch holds a master's degree in information security and a bachelor's degree in computer science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Alex Doll, Khosla Ventures
Alex Doll is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with a solid track record of building and leading high performance teams.
As co-founder and former chief operating officer of PGP Corporation, Doll worked closely with the chief executive officer to set the company’s strategy and drive operational goals across all business functions, leading the company’s evolution from inception to a global industry leader in encryption and data protection. Throughout his tenure with the organization, from founding to sale, Doll served as a member of its Board of Directors. Prior to serving as chief operating officer, Doll was promoted through three executive leadership roles of increasing responsibility at PGP Corporation. The company was purchased by Symantec in 2010. Doll is currently the entrepreneur in residence at Khosla Ventures.
Doll has served on the board of Alpha Card Systems, a reseller of security products and video surveillance systems. Prior to co-founding PGP Corporation, Doll was senior vice president of sales, business development and support at Embark, a Web-based recruitment and admissions software company. Previously, he was involved in the strategic planning and execution of corporate partnering and investment programs for PeopleSoft Inc., and he held various positions in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley, including the investment banking group at Robertson, Stephens & Co. and technology research at Dresdner RCM Capital Management.
Doll holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications systems engineering and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.