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Daniel Ayala (@buddhake) is the Chief Security & Trust Officer at Dotmatics, providers of technology solutions for scientific R&D. Throughout his nearly 30 year career, he has led security, privacy and compliance organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education, research and library organisations around the world, and both writes and speaks regularly on the topics of security, privacy, data ethics, and compliance. Daniel is a co-founder of Distilling Security, and co-host of The Great Security Debate and is the co-founder and co-host of MentorCore.

Erik Wille is the Chief Information Security Officer for Cabinetworks Group.  He is passionate about transforming security into a game changing business differentiator driving risk centric results in a complex environment while empowering employees to make sound risk decisions in and out of the office.

Prior to joining Cabinetworks Group, Erik was the global CISO for American Axle & Manufacturing and Head of Information Security for Penske Automotive Group where he had the opportunity to build a global information security program from the ground up. 

Erik is the VP and Treasurer for the Detroit CSA chapter, Co-Host on the Great Security Debate Podcast, holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Information Assurance from Walsh College, is working on his Executive MBA at the University of Michigan, and is certified as a CISSP, GPEN, GWAPT and CCSK.

Erik a co-founder of Distilling Security, and co-host of The Great Security Debate.

Brian Schneble is a co-founder of Distilling Security, and co-host of The Great Security Debate.