Jeff Schmidt
Executive Global Head of Business Continuity, Security and Governance, BT Global Services
As Executive Global Head of Business Continuity, Security and Governance at BT Global Services, Jeff Schmidt is responsible for every aspect of the security-related products and services BT offers its clients, from overall business strategy, through market research and solution design to delivery and support.
Jeff has more than 25 years of experience in leadership positions in the information technology business, including periods spent at leading companies such as Home Savings of America (now a part of JPMorgan Chase), Lucent, the California State Automobile Association (AAA), Paramount Pictures and InCode Telecom Group (which has since become part of Ericsson).
Jeff joined BT when it acquired INS in 2007.
Martin Brown
General Manager Security Technology & Strategy, BT
Martin is an effective and knowledgeable individual with over twenty year’s commercial and technical IT Security experience delivering innovative products and services through market leading security vendors, service providers and telecoms whilst living in the UK and in Silicon Valley, USA.
Martin is recognized as a leading thinker in BT Security and provides the leadership and guidance to all areas of the BT Security Operations team, and others, as GM Security Strategy and Technology, defining the operational future for BT Security Operations services and infrastructure. Throughout his career, Martin has had first hand experience supporting the technical and commercial needs of numerous verticals and sizes of organization.
Martin continues to apply and extrapolate this knowledge across a wide number of issues, diverse challenges and new scenarios to reduce risk and quickly improve situations whilst remaining informed of current trends and threats in the security arena. He considers himself to be a “Technology Funalist” as he enjoys working in all aspects of computing and security.
Toby Weir-Jones
Head of Portfolio Marketing, BT Assure
Toby is responsible for the market-driven strategies in support of the BT Assure portfolio, part of the Business Continuity, Security, and Governance business unit within BT Global Services. In this role, his team provides a full range of services to other constituents within BT, including the product management group, the PR organization, the analyst relations team, and the senior leadership. Information takes the form of awareness-building (about both the portfolio and the broader security issues affecting the industry) and explicit campaigns designed to capture and leverage raw market opportunities. In addition, the group assimilates data from various external and internal sources to give feedback to the development teams in terms of market trends which should be considered as part of the overall strategic roadmap for the portfolio. Toby’s involvement in the cyber security field began in 1995 with his initial work in cryptography and security policy, and he has been involved in a number of technical and strategic roles since then. He joined BT in 2006 by way of its acquisition of Counterpane Internet Security, which Toby helped start in 1999. Toby is a named inventor for six patents and holds a BA Cum Laude in Engineering Ethics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He also holds two MBA degrees: one from Cornell and the other from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Paul Kearney
Chief Security Researcher
Paul Kearney is Chief Security Researcher in the Security Futures Practice, BT Innovate & Design. He joined BT in 1997 having previously worked in the personal electronics and defence aerospace industries. Paul has worked in information security and business continuity research since 2001. Active in the research community beyond BT, he has played a leading role in several European collaborative research projects and various working groups and programme committees. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (MInstISP), and holds the Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI). He holds several security certifications, including CISSP, CEH, and was a CHECK Team member for 5yrs. He contributes as part of CREST’s operating committee, in addition to the UK Cyber Security Challenge consortium.
Rob Jamison
Network Intelligence Manager, BT
Rob Jamison, one of the founding employees of BT Counterpane, is currently Manager of Network Intelligence. He has spent more than nine years in both the top tier of Security Operations escalations and correlation algorithm design. While maintaining vital feedback between real-world operational security incidents and the development cycle to better identify and isolate those incidents, Rob works on a daily basis to keep up with the latest threats and ensure that the BT monitoring solution is adept at identifying attacks and compromises on BT’s customers’ networks.
Jill Knesek
Chief Security Officer, BT Global Services
As Chief Security Officer, Jill Knesek is responsible for all BT security matters, including security policy and compliance, business continuity management, incident management, physical security and network and systems security. Jill has an extensive background in cyber security. Prior to BT, she served as a special agent for the FBI, assigned to the Computer Crime Squad in the Los Angeles field office and was involved in several high-profile cases, including the infamous Kevin Mitnick and Mafiaboy trials. Knesek also was the case agent for the first FBI undercover operation that infiltrated the hacker community, which was instrumental in providing support to the National Infrastructure and Protection Center during the Kosovo bombings. Jill has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Texas A & M University and has spent more than 15 years working in the computer and security field. She also has a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification as well as a CISM (Certified Information Security Manager).
Tara Savage
Senior Marketing Manager, BT Global Services
As a senior marketing manager with BT Global Services, Tara Savage has more 14 years experience developing and overseeing the Global Security Marketing portfolio within BT. She has been responsible for a number of key strategic security campaigns as well as coordinating a series of global training programs. Tara currently coordinates BT’s liaison with external security market analysts, ensuring that BT is recognized as a leading security provider.
Jim Tiller
Vice President Security Professional Services, BT Global Services
Jim Tiller is Vice President of Security Professional Services in North America for BT Global Services. An internationally recognized security expert, Tiller oversees a broad information security practice for BT, working with customers in the development of comprehensive security programs targeted at risk optimization and business enablement. He has more than 16 years of information security experience and has an accomplished record of innovation, including an unprecedented #1 worldwide information security rating from the NSA. Tiller is the author of numerous publications including two books, “Technical Guide to IPSec VPNs” and “The Ethical Hack.” He has also contributed to the “Official (ISC)² Guide to the CBK,” as well as to the “Information Security Management Handbook” for the last seven years. Based on his time at Bell Labs, Tiller holds three patent applications that detail methods and technology concerning security policy and management, and a patent on security infrastructure that is now an ITU-T x.805 standard. Tiller regularly speaks for global organizations, government and industry events and has been interviewed by leading publications, including Network World, Information Security Magazine and Microsoft Security 360. He holds several security certifications, including CISSP, CISA, CISM, and NSA, and is a member of ISSA, Infragard, and ISACA.
Karl Smith
Head of Cyber Security Assurance Services
Karl Smith is responsible for the delivery of the Cyber portfolio within GS Professional Services, which includes the Cyber Defence Quickstart and Security Assurance Services (Ethical Hacking/Penetration Testing) including CHECK and CREST.
With over 15yrs experience in Information Security within BT undertaking various roles past and current including; System & Network administration, Global Security Architect, Security Consultancy, Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Testing, R&D around cyber-security in order to understand new threat vectors to protect BT and our customers. He is currently participating in the development of BT Defensive & Proactive Cyber Security Services within the GS portfolio.
Chris Pickles
Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets
Chris’s role includes ensuring that BT is fully aware of new challenges facing the financial services industry globally; and communicating our understanding of how these challenges, structural changes and new regulatory requirements impact our customers’ businesses and their use of BT’s services. His remit covers all aspects of the financial services industry globally.
Chris has over 37 years of experience in technology-based solutions across the financial sector internationally, and he has worked in many different roles including as Secretary-General of the European Association of Securities Dealers, based in Brussels; Head of Exchange Products at Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt; and as an international manager with Reuters in London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Chris represents BT actively in a number of financial industry associations and standards bodies. He is a member of the Global Steering Committee of FIX Protocol Ltd; a member of the Executive Committee of SIIA/FISD, the global association for the financial information sector; and he also chairs the international MiFID Forum that addresses the business and technology impacts of new market regulations. Chris speaks at many conferences around the world and contributes to a wide number of industry publications internationally.
Dr Robert Ghanea-Hercock
Chief Research Scientist, BT
Dr Robert Ghanea-Hercock is currently a Chief Research Scientist in the British Telecommunications Security Research Practice. He has many years experience in managing security research projects in the UK, and was theme leader for networks and security in the UK MOD information fusion Defence Technology Centre.
He chairs an international workshop on adaptive cyber defence, and has over thirty international publications in AI and security concepts, in addition to filed twelve patents. His latest book is on the theme of resilience and cohesion in social systems: (“Cohesion – The Making of Society”, available from Amazon.)
Professionally he is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, and at the Said Business School in Oxford University, and an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College. He has also served for several years as an independent technical expert for the UK Defence Science Advisory Council (DSAC), and was a Business Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.
Ray Stanton
Executive Vice President of Professional Services, BT Global Services.
Ray has responsibility for BT’s professional services worldwide, ranging where applicable from consultancy, through design, to build and run.
Ray has worked in communications, information technology and security for more than 27 years. Prior to taking on his present role, he was Executive Global Head of BT’s Business Continuity, Security and Governance Capability Unit (BCS&G) – the person responsible for the four Global Chief Security Officers (CSOs) who manage risk and security posture in BT’s principal businesses.
An experienced and recognised practitioner, particularly in the use and implementation of standards such as ISO27001 and incident management procedures, Ray remains an advisor to the BT Security Board.
Ray is currently contributing to projects including ‘Risk in a Hyperconnected World’, a World Economic Forum project that’s exploring opportunities for coordinated actions to protect networked communications and the future growth in the online networked economy.
Sushila Nair
Security specialist, BT
Prior to her position at BT, she was a technical director for 11 years, responsible for delivering professional services to financial institutes. Sushila holds an honors degree in Engineering and has twenty year’s experience in computing infrastructure, business and security and has worked in a number of diverse areas — telecommunications, risk analysis, credit card fraud, and has served as a legal expert witness. She has developed security baselines for large multinationals and has created training programs for global and government organizations. Sushila worked with the insurance industry in Europe and America on methods of quantifying risk for e-insurance based on ISO27001. She has worked globally in Asia, America and Europe, gaining experience in a diverse number of industries and cultures, including creating the first banking group in Malaysia focused on using cell phones as secondary authentication devices for banking transactions. She has published numerous articles in the computing press, has been featured in the European broadsheets, and has spoken at Microsoft TechED, TechMentor, The Windows Show, FinSec and many other global technical events on diverse subjects ranging from Java & NC’s to security baselines. Sushila is a qualified lead auditor in BS 17799, CISA, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PCI QSA.
