Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Michael Cousins, PhD, is chief analytics officer at Lumeris.

Fred Schutt is an associate with the firm’s litigation and insurance practices.

As Sumo Logic’s vice president of security and compliance, George Gerchow brings 18 years of information technology and systems management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines. His expertise informs the security, compliance and operational status of complex, heterogeneous, virtual and cloud computing environments. George is one of the original founders of the VMware Center for Policy and Compliance and the coauthor of “Center for Internet Security Quick Start Cloud Infrastructure Benchmark v1.0.0.” He is also a faculty member for IANS, the Institute of Applied Network Security.

Michael DeSiato, CPA, CFP, CExP is a tax partner in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office of Cherry Bekaert LLP, where he provides proactive tax planning to those in the construction industry and specializes in helping business owners plan for the successful exit from their businesses. He is also is one of the founding members of the Miami-Dade Chapter of the CFMA.

Scott Ruch is a senior software engineer at Sparta Systems.

Rohit Sethi is chief operations officer aat the Toronto-based information security company Security Compass.

Angel Grant is a director at RSA's fraud and risk intelligence unit.

Nathan Sykes is a technology and business writer from Pittsburgh, PA. You can find more articles by him at his blog, Finding an Outlet.

Kelly Stirman is the vice president of strategy at Dremio. In this capacity, he oversees the planning, development and execution of Dremio’s strategic initiatives that are centered on messaging, brand awareness, customer satisfaction and business development. Previously he was VP of strategy at MongoDB where he worked closely with customers, partners, and the open source community. For more than 15 years he has worked at the forefront of database technologies. Prior to MongoDB, Kelly served in executive and leadership roles at Hadapt, MarkLogic, PeopleSoft, GE, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

By Kostas Tzoumas, co-founder and CEO of data Artisans and one of the original creators of Apache Flink. He is the co-author of Introduction to Apache Flink: Stream Processing for Real Time and Beyond.