Mr. Brown has over 17 years’ experience in information technology security and controls. His specialization is large internal controls attestation and readiness engagements for Service Organization Control (SOC1, SOC2, and SOC3) for which he is the signing partner and audits of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR). Mr. Brown primarily serves the cloud provider marketplace. He has over 10 years’ experience with internal controls attestation and readiness for several cloud provider clients, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services in the areas of software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service. Mr. Brown frequently speaks at IT Security, Cloud, and other industry conferences on the topic of Cloud Security and Assurance.

Alison coordinates and manages Connecticut’s statewide effort to promote a culture of continuous improvement through the Office of Policy and Management (OPM). In this capacity, she guides and supports state agencies in using process improvement tools such as Lean to become more efficient, work together, improve services to state residents, and enable staff at all levels to be involved in decision making. With the help of a fourteen-member Steering Committee, including representation from all programmatic areas of government, Alison arranges for trainings, data collection and reporting, Kaizen facilitation, and interagency support and collaboration to achieve results. She also works on various special projects at the request of the Secretary of OPM.
Alison joined Connecticut state service in 2010, when she was an analyst in the state budget office. Prior to her time in Connecticut, Alison held positions with the City of Springfield, MA and the state of New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and a Master of Public Administration both from the University at Albany, and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Originally hailing from Long Island, she now resides in Southington, CT.
For more information on Connecticut’s Lean journey, please visit www.ct.gov/leanct

John Gelinne is a Managing Director in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services and is a part of the Resilient practice that helps clients prepare, respond and recover from cyber incidents. John joined Deloitte after retiring from the U.S. Navy after 30 years of service. He is responsible for Cyber Incident Response, Cyber War Gaming and building technical resilience services that allow organizations to rapidly adapt and respond to dynamic changes, disruptions, or threats.
Prior to coming to Deloitte, John was a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy and held command at various levels including USS Hurricane (PC3), USS Kauffman (FFG59) and Commodore, Destroyer Squadron Twenty Two. Ashore, he served on the Joint Staff, Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), where he was responsible for continuity of information technology operations for the National Military Command Center prior to and during the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. John’s last tour in the Navy was Chief of Staff for Admiral Mike Rogers, who is now Director of the National Security Agency. During this tour, he played a pivotal role in planning and executing the operational response to an advanced persistent threat to the Navy’s unclassified network.
John has been published in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Deloitte Review, Dark Reading and the Wall Street CIO Journal on topics ranging from building cyber resilience to cyber wargaming. He was also co-author of Deloitte’s recent Beneath the Surface of a Cyber Attack, a study where he describes the hidden costs associated with a cyber breach. He has spoken at numerous conferences including the Heath Information and Management Society, American Petroleum Institute, HITRUST Conference, Federal EDiscovery Symposium, Disaster Recovery Institute, and a number of other cyber symposiums.

Todd Glanzer is a Senior Manager in the Cyber Risk Services practice of Deloitte & Touché. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in conducting cyber security operations and building risk management strategies across demanding technology environments. As a leader in our Resilient practice, Todd helps clients build technical resilience services to prepare for and respond to dynamic cyber risk changes, disruptions, or threats.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Todd completed a distinguished military career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He served as the principal advisor to the Air Force Chief Information Officer leading the Air Force’s cyber workforce development for over 54,000 cyber professionals, and also held senior operational positions at the National Security Agency and the Air Force cyber headquarters for operating and defending its global enterprise network. Todd is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and member of the Information Systems Security Association.

Christopher is an Agile Evangelist with 20+ years experience in IT and 17+ years experience in the Agile space. His focus has been on developing trusting partnerships between business and IT and bringing forth the best Agile methods to support the partnership needs. Agile delivery experience includes RUP, LSS, Lean, Kanban, and SCRUM in singleton and scaling efforts.
Christopher is a passionate leader who enjoys seeing success and recognition for his teams and clients. He strives to learn more and works to generate creative solutions to complex problems.

Kevin Mergruen is the regional director of public sector, education and healthcare at Information Builders. With over 30 years of software industry experience, Mr. Mergruen has held management positions in product development, sales, and marketing.
The solutions his team supports address the vertical sector needs for enterprise system integration and operational business intelligence, enhancing overall efficiency, modernization of legacy systems, and improved quality of care. Mr. Mergruen is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and executive briefings.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mergruen was in charge of the company’s ERP Solution Division. His previous experience includes SAP America where he was the North American director of SAP’s Business Information Warehouse, as well as positions at Informix, Cognos, and Britton Lee.
Mr. Mergruen graduated from Hofstra University with a dual degree in finance and computer science.

Jorge is passionate about bridging the gap between IT and Business to create highly effective agile teams that can adopt to the exponential change in technology and customer needs. He has over 18 years of experience working for large organizations as well as startups where he has set up agile centers of excellence as well as delivery teams. His approach is to work with both the senior executive leadership and team members to create lasting organizational change. As a leader and change agent, Jorge specializes in Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), agile collaboration space, and agile tools. He serves as an agile coach, consultant, agile trainer, trusted adviser, and other leadership roles as needed to support effective organizational change and performance.

Preston Read joined Sensity Systems in 2014, three years prior to the firm’s acquisition by Verizon Communications. He led Sensity’s go-to-market activities with alliance partner Cisco Systems, and he currently serves as Senior Director for External Affairs for Verizon’s Smart Communities and Venues group. A longtime resident of Washington DC, Preston has over 25 years of smart community innovation experience as a local government manager, consultant, and trade association executive. He has worked for venture backed startups since 2008.

Robert (Bob) Schwarm, Chief Information Officer at The Metropolitan District, leads the company’s Information Systems, Geographical Information Systems and Information Security functions. Prior to the MDC, Schwarm worked for Hartford Healthcare, where he held a variety of positions of various responsibilities, including most recently as the CTO and Director of IT Strategy. He has also worked for Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and Federal Agencies and is a former US Marine Corps Sargent.
Bob received his BS in Networking Technology locally at CCSU and is a CISSP.

With more than 20 years of experience in the Cyber Security industry, Ellen leads ForeScout’s Public Sector and Global Government Systems Engineering team and is responsible for designing customized security solutions for Department of Defense, Intel and Civilian Agencies as well as State and Local Governments. Prior to joining ForeScout, Ellen was a network architect and security advisor with iPass, UUNet and Worldcomm. Ellen earned a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Rollins College and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Mr. Bob Vuong’s is a Managing Director of Deloitte’s Cloud Service Line and his primary objective is to help mature the cloud service offerings within the organization and support commercial, and state and local customers with their adoption of the cloud.
Mr. Vuong has extensive experience with full project life-cycle implementations utilizing established and emerging technologies in various roles including account manager, program manager, solutions architect, systems integrator, systems engineer, and subject matter expert. Mr. Vuong has skills in managing and monitoring enterprise level, multiple million dollar programs to include maintaining schedules, budgets, and reports. Previously, as the Vice President for Day1 Solutions, Mr. Vuong was chartered in developing and standardizing consulting practices for all customers in assessing, designing, and implementing their cloud strategy and vision. Areas of support include, but are not limited to cloud architecture reviews, cloud migration, hybrid designs, cloud best practices:
Over 17 years of experience directly related to architecture, installation, configuration and support of best-of-breed IT solutions and technologies.
Held multiple senior executive roles within highly aggressive IT organizations.
Experienced in the full lifecycle of IT projects, from initial conception through design, prototyping, testing, implementation, training, and maintenance.
Expert in the guidance, governance and implementation of on-premise and cloud based IT technology and solutions to support commercial and Public Sector clients.
Chartered with the development of multiple organizational verticals.

Leonard came to the state in July 2014 and is currently the Director of Unified Communications for DAS – Bureau of Enterprise Systems and Technology (BEST). The DAS-BEST Unified Communications division provides support for the following: Desktop computers – including deployment and maintenance, Mobile devices – including mobile email access, Telecommunications services – including deployment of the state’s new Enterprise VoIP communications system, Collaboration services – including enterprise instant messaging, and Video teleconferencing.
Leonard has a Masters Degree in Management of Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and resides in Berlin, Connecticut with his wife and 13-year old son.

Bob Zapotocky is an Application Sales Manager with AT&T’s Global Public Sector- Government, Education Solutions organization. Bob is responsible for AT&T’s Unified Communications, Cloud Collaboration and IP Transformation Strategy and Technical Support for our State and Local Government, and Education customers in states east of the Mississippi River. In his years supporting this market, Bob has shared industry trends, critical analysis and strategic insights in presentations for a number of organizations including the International Telecommunications Professional Exchange (IPTX), Tennessee Educational Technology Association (TETA), Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) and The University System of Georgia Board of Regents, and Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware Association for Distance Learning (PADLA). He has also participated in and provided content for podcasts, whitepapers and articles published by various industry trade and media outlets.
Bob has 19 years of experience with AT&T in a variety of positions supporting enterprise and public sector clients in their efforts to lead IP transformation within their organizations. He holds an MBA from Suffolk University and is an Alumnus of The Emerging Leaders Program with the Center for Collaborative Leadership at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.