Markus Braendle
Division Cyber Security Manager, Power Systems Division, ABB
Markus is globally responsible for all aspects of cyber security within ABB's Power Systems division.  He heads the Power Systems Security Council which defines, develops, and implements the security strategy for all products and systems within the Power Systems division.  Markus is an active member of several security standardization efforts and working groups, e.g., IEEE PSRC H13, Cigre B5.38, ICSJWG or NIST SmartGrid CSCTG, and a recognized member in the industrial control system security community.

Eric Byres
CTO, Byres Security
For the past decade, Eric has provided research and consulting services to government security agencies and major energy companies on cyber protection for critical infrastructures.  He is also the chair of the ISA SP-99 Security Technologies Working Group and is the Canadian representative for IEC TC65/WG10 standards effort for the protection of industrial facilities from cyber attack.  Eric is recognized as a leading expert in the field of SCADA and industrial security.  As founder of the BCIT Critical Infrastructure Security Centre, he shaped it into one of North America's leading academic facilities in the field of SCADA cyber security, culminating in a SANS Institute Security Leadership Award in 2006.  Eric has testified to the US Congress on the “Security of Industrial Control Systems in National Critical Infrastructures” and has received numerous awards from the IEEE, ISA, and SANS for his research on security solutions.

Eric Cosman
Engineering Solutions IT Consultant, Dow Chemical
Eric’s responsibilities include system architecture definition and design, technology management, and integration planning for manufacturing systems globally.  He has held positions in process engineering, process systems software development, telecommunications, IT operations, automation architecture, and consulting.  Eric represents Dow and the chemical industry on various standards committees, industry focus groups and advisory panels.  He has been a contributor to the work of the ISA95 committee and currently serves as the co-chairman of the ISA99 committee on industrial automation systems security.  He also sponsors a Chemical Sector Cyber Security Program team focused on industrial control systems cyber security and was one of the authors of the Chemical Sector Cyber Security strategy for the US.

Daryl Dulaney
President and CEO, Siemens Industry
Daryl is responsible for all business activity and executive management of Siemens Industry which is comprised of five divisions including Industry Solutions, Drive Technologies, Industry Automation, Building Technologies, and Mobility. As a member of the board of directors, he oversees all business activities of the Industry Sector in the US, which includes OSRAM Sylvania, PLM Software, Water Technologies, and Siemens Industry. Additionally, Daryl is Division CEO for Building Technologies, a provider of energy and environmental solutions, building controls and fire safety and security systems. After his appointment to CEO in 2005, he guided the restructuring of the Building Technologies Division, including the successful implementation of cost containment and business process optimization strategies.

Andrew Ginter
Chief Security Officer, Industrial Defender
Andrew has more than 25 years managing and developing process control systems, data communication systems, and security systems.  Prior to Industrial Defender, he held various technical management roles at Agilent and Hewlett-Packard.  Andrew holds an Information Systems Professional (ISP) accreditation from the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2).

Tom Good
Senior Control System Consultant, DuPont
Tom has 28 years experience with systems integration activities in the areas of engineering, electrical, instruments, and control systems.  For the past 6 years his emphasis has been on the security of industrial automation and control systems.  He currently leads DuPont’s internal process control security initiatives and compliance to DHS CFATS regulations.  Tom is active in industry associations, including Chairman and major author of ANSI/ISA–99.02.01–2009 (Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems - Establishing an Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security Program), major author of ANSI/ISA—TR99.00.02—2004 (Integrating Electronic Security into the Manufacturing and Control Systems Environment), and member of the Program Steering Team for the Chemical Sector Cyber Security Program.

Bradford Hegrat
Principal Security Consultant, Rockwell Automation
Brad is a seasoned industry professional of 15 years, who's primary focus is the U.S. critical infrastructure and manufacturing environments.  As a founding member and technical leader of the Rockwell Automation Network & Security Services (NSS) team - a vendor neutral consultancy focused on ICS, DCS and SCADA security established 2004 – he is responsible for providing infrastructure and security guidance for all asset owners.  With customers in the power, water & wastewater, food & beverage, home & healthcare, petro & chemical, oil & gas, mining & metals, OEMs, pharmaceuticals, pulp & paper, etc., he uses his IT security background to foster next generation infrastructure opportunities, to include wireless services, virtualization, and cloud computing services, as well as other complex and industry-leading managed services for the critical infrastructure sector.

Dennis Inverso
Principal Consultant, Electrical & Instrument Control Systems Group, DuPont Engineering
Dennis is a Principal Consultant and Alliance Manager in the DuPont Electrical & Instrument Control Systems group.  His background has mostly been project engineering and control systems related, working in all project activities from requirements definition through and including startup and commissioning.  Dennis is a Six Sigma Green Belt, with more than 40 years’ experience in positions of increasing responsibility and is the company’s resource in process control technology.  Dennis also has experience in manufacturing execution systems, including SAP implementation experience in warehouse management and supply chain integration.  Dennis has served on many national and international standards committees and is a recipient of the prestigious DuPont Engineering Excellence Award.

Thomas Lange
Director Modeling & Simulation, Global Capability Organization R&D, Procter & Gamble
Tom leads P&G’s modeling and simulation efforts ranging from computational chemistry, computer aided engineering (CAE) to process, reliability, and supply chain analysis.  He joined Procter & Gamble in 1978 as a Product Technical Engineer and has spent his nearly 30 year career modeling and simulating products and production systems.  In 1994, Tom was recognized with a PRISM award (Professional Recognition of Individual Sustained Mastery), P&G's highest technical recognition award for engineering.  In 1998, he was appointed Associate Director for Computer Aided Engineering in Baby Care, and Reliability Engineering responsibilities for all P&G paper goods including Always, Charmin, and Bounty. In 2004, he was appointed Director, Modeling & Simulation in Corporate R&D.  In 2008 he was named Director, Modeling & Simulation Global Capability Organization, R&D.

Rick Lichtenfels
Deputy Director Control Systems Security Program, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security
Rick has over 12 years of engineering and management experience within both the public and private sectors, working at GTE Government Systems as a network modeling engineer and later at Booz Allen Hamilton as an associate.  Prior to his current position, Rick spent the previous four years at the DHS’ National Communications System (NCS) where he led the NCS’ Modeling, Analysis and Technology Assessment branch.  In this role, he developed the NCS’ Internet analysis capability and led efforts to model the effectiveness of various priority services mechanisms within carrier networks.

Miles McQueen
Principal Investigator, Cyber Security R&D Department, Idaho National Laboratory
Miles has held a variety of leadership roles at INL and has also been Director of the University of Idaho’s Computer Science Program at the Idaho Falls Center for Higher Education.  With well over 20 peer-reviewed scientific publications, Miles is currently leading research teams investigating cyber threat attack propagation and consequence modeling for multiple infrastructure simulation efforts.  Previously, he investigated novel, first of a kind, 0Day vulnerability estimation techniques.  Before the 0Day research, Miles led research teams in the investigation of security metrics, attack graphs, and attack surfaces in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University Computer Science faculty.  Miles has been invited, and has served, on a variety of national level security working groups providing assessments of the current state of the art in cyber security, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses in foundational principles, and identifying promising directions for future research and development.

Bob Mick
Vice President, Emerging Technologies, ARC
Bob’s focus areas include architectures and emerging technologies, enterprise and product integration, IT and infrastructure, enterprise networks, security, portals, e-commerce, standardization, and standards.  Before joining ARC, he was Vice President of Software Development at Nematron Corporation where he managed the definition, development, and support of production management, HMI, SCADA, and PC-based control products for both the process and discrete industries. Previously he managed development and served on the Board of Directors for Intec Controls Corporation, while creating and marketing HMI/SCADA and distributed systems.  Before joining Intec, Bob contributed to the development of Foxboro products and was technical leader for large system integrations projects in the oil and munitions industries.  He started his career at Goodyear Atomic Corporation where he held several management positions in operations analysis, process and instrumentation development, and process engineering related to Uranium Enrichment.

Keith Nosbusch
Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation
Keith was appointed CEO in February 2004.  He is also the chairman of the company’s board of directors.  Prior to this appointment, Keith served as President of Rockwell Automation Control Systems and an officer of the corporation, positions he held since November 1998. He previously served as Sr. Vice President for the Control and Information Group, where he was responsible for the launching of LogixTM, Rockwell Automation’s premier integrated control and information platform.  Keith's career began in 1974 when he joined Allen-Bradley as an application engineer, and since then he has had numerous positions of increasing responsibility.

Ernest Rakaczky
Program Manager, Control System Cyber Security, Invensys Operations Management
Ernie has played an active role within the process control arena for over 32 years with the past 7 years fully dedicated in addressing the cyber security requirements for process control systems and raising the overall protection of our global infrastructures.  Currently he has the responsibility to ensure a clear understanding and focus on cyber security requirements within all IOM product strategies at Invensys.  As each product strategy is defined, consideration of current regulatory requirements, industry best practices and requirements that IOM clients are specifying within their procurement processes are addressed.  Additionally, Ernie participates in the efforts underway at ISA within SP99, Automation Federation, NIST-SMART GRID, within ICSJWG from DHS, MSMUG and plays an active role in the various security initiatives with DOE, DHS, INL, NRC, NPRA, IAEA, and SANDIA.

Kevyn Renner
Senior Technology Consultant, Chevron
Kevyn has a chemical engineering background with more than 20 years combined experience in process design and operations, advanced control and instrument systems, vertical industry marketing, and information systems with companies including PetroCorp, Mobil Oil, Foxboro, Emerson and Sun Microsystems.  Kevyn is presently focused on the integral use of refining system automation and petroleum downstream enterprise information, within an interoperable infrastructure, to drive enhanced value from the downstream petroleum value chain.

Werner Setzwein
Vice President Automation & Electrical Engineering, BASF
Werner has been with BASF for over 20 years.  He is responsible for the technical expertise of automation and electrical engineering for BASF projects worldwide.  This includes all areas of process control, automation technology, process analytical technology, field device technologies, and electrical technologies.  Werner began his business career as a design engineer, commissioning engineer, and construction manager for power plants. He has over 30 years of experience in project engineering and project execution.

Steven Sonnenberg
President, Emerson Process Management & Executive Vice President, Emerson
Steve leads Emerson’s process management business.  He was appointed as Emerson Executive Vice President and the Business Leader of Emerson Process Management in October 2008.  Steve joined Emerson in 1979 as a marketing analyst with its Brooks Instrument division.  His career progressed rapidly as he assumed a number of marketing and general management positions in Germany, London, and Asia Pacific.  In 2000, Steve was appointed President of Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific, and in 2002 he was appointed President of Emerson’s Rosemount division.  During his tenure, he has also been responsible for several Emerson acquisitions including Rosemount TankRadar (formerly Saab Marine), Mobrey, Damcos, and Metran.

Keith Stouffer
Senior Mechanical Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keith's focus is on control system security.  He is co-leader of the NIST Industrial Control Systems Security Project, working jointly with the NIST Computer Security Division in cooperation with the public and private sector community, to develop specific guidance on the application of NIST security standards and guidelines to industrial control systems.  A major effort of the project has been the update of NIST Special Publication 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems, to provide guidance on appropriate safeguards and countermeasures for federal agencies that own, operate, or maintain industrial control systems.  Keith is also the lead author of Special Publication 800-82 Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security, which provides guidance for the public and private sectors on how to secure industrial control systems while addressing their unique performance, reliability and safety requirements.

Maryrose Sylvester
President and CEO, GE Intelligent Platforms
Maryrose has been President and CEO since February 2006.  Prior to her current role, she was President of GE Quartz, which develops, manufactures, markets, and sells fused quartz and boron nitride products for semi-conductor, lighting, electronic, fiber optic and industrial applications.  She was named President of GE Quartz in May 2002 and a GE Company Officer in December that same year.  Maryrose started her GE career in 1987 working for GE Lighting’s Sourcing organization.  She progressed through various positions of increasing scope and complexity, including Manager of Worldwide Direct Materials for GE Lighting Worldwide Sourcing, Director of Sourcing for GE Lighting Europe, General Manager of Worldwide Sourcing, General Manager of High Intensity Discharge Products, and President and CEO for GE Lighting Systems.

Tyler Williams
President & CEO, Wurldtech
Tyler is co-founder of Wurldtech, a cyber security testing and certification company founded in 2007.  He is a recognized thought leader in critical infrastructure protection, industrial cyber security, and cyber terrorism from a business perspective with a focus on security for high-availability process automation and control networks.  Tyler is a technical member of the ISA SP99 industrial cyber security standard, a technical member of the ISA compliance institute, and a cyber security subject matter expert for the WIB Plant Security Working Group.