Craig Bowman is Vice President, Verizon’s Advanced Solutions Division; providing strategy and engineering support for secure cloud initiatives in the Public Sector. Craig speaks internationally on the subject of cyber security and has briefed congressional offices, senators, Olympic Committees and international defense leaders. Verizon is currently considered the most knowledgeable source of cyber-security incidents worldwide through the publishing of the internationally recognized DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Report).
Prior to Verizon, Craig led the Defense and International Security Division of Adobe Systems, a Fortune 500 software and cloud software provider. In that capacity, Craig helped to engineer secure content delivery systems for the most rugged security environments.
In his earlier years, Craig was a software cyber security engineer for the Defense and National Security Industry where he penetrated, tested, built and deployed secure software applications, remotely managed secure IT environments, and deployed and managed secure telecommunication solutions.

Dr. Brennan-Tonetta is responsible for the creation and implementation of economic development initiatives at Rutgers University. She provides administrative oversight for the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute – the university’s advanced computing center, led the development of the Rutgers' Corporate Engagement Plan, and is leading the establishment of the Innovation Park@Rutgers – a 30 acre research park on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. Peggy also leads the university’s impact metrics program for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. She served as co-leader of the Rutgers University Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Planning effort and was a co-founder of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance, among other responsibilities. In addition, she has administrative responsibility for the Rutgers EcoComplex, an award-winning clean energy innovation center and the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, in which she led the development, organization, and strategic direction of this internationally recognized food business incubator. She holds a BS in Economics, MS in Applied Economics and PhD in Planning and Public Policy, all from Rutgers University.

A career educator, technology leader and Chief Information Officer at New Jersey’s largest private and second largest public universities for the past twenty years, Dr. Edward Chapel’s commitment to active collaboration with industry partners, peer organizations and the NJEdge membership serves as a key driver in the advancement of operational effectiveness and strategic objectives of its member organizations. With a focus on enabling digital technologies, he ensures each client solution is value-based, future-focused and engineered to deliver an end-user experience that is unsurpassed. In addition to overseeing the delivery of a high performing network and ecosystem of purpose-built technology assets and applications, his dedication to NJEdge’s shared services consortium approach and advancing professional development through the NJEdge Communities of Practice enables New Jersey’s education, healthcare, governmental and corporate enterprises to thrive and grow. Dr. Chapel earned his Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Sociology from New York University as well as a Baccalaureate degree in American Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Samuel Conn, Ph.D. has over 35 years of combined military, professional, industry, and academic experience in the field of technology and information systems. Building on his extensive private sector experience, Conn began work in higher education in 2001 with a focus on information technology management, administrative and educational technologies, e-Learning networks, and online program construction and management. His service to academe includes Regis University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virgina Tech), Georgia Military College, and Southern Polytechnic State University where he served as Computer Information Systems Chair and Graduate Faculty, Chief Technology Officer for the Oracle Virtual Laboratory and Academic Research Network, Director of Distance and Distributed Learning, Vice President for Information Technology and Online Learning, and Chief Information Officer. Conn is currently Executive Vice President for Finance, Administration and Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at State University of New York Empire State College. He holds an undergraduate (BSci) degree in Business Administration, a graduate (MSci) degree in Computer Information Systems, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Information Systems. Conn is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and a distinguished member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Sciences. He is widely published in the field of Information Systems, Educational Technology, e-Learning networks, cyberlearning, system development methodologies, and epistemic belief research. Conn is married with two daughters, Samantha and Stevie, and he and his wife, Beverly, are relocated to New Jersey to begin his role as President of NJEDge.Net in September, 2016.

Michael Ferrell is the East Region Principal Security Solutions Architect for CenturyLink. His background includes security consulting with several federal, state and local government agencies as well as Fortune 100 companies, assisting their C-level teams with privacy and security issues, technologies and compliance. He has over 14 years of security experience including (6) years of cloud security experience and (8) years as a Security and Private Consultant for large companies across several verticals. Michael also has experience in managed security including DDoS, firewalls and threat management. He holds multiple security certifications and is a published author and speaker on security. 

Mr. Fisk is a Partner in IBM Digital for Global Business Services focused on the Public Service Industry. Mr. Fisk has over twenty-five years of experience in executive consulting, release management, project management, software development, and technical leadership roles.
As leader of IBM’s Public Service Blockchain initiatives (#blockchain) he is working with federal/state governments, higher education institutions, as well as citizen advocates in order to address dilemmas with the current roadblocks which reduce value and prevent trust, transparency, and accountability in today’s business networks.
In combination with Blockchain capabilities, Mr. Fisk is leveraging Design Thinking, Cognitive Process Design, Personalization, and technologies such as IoT and Analytics in order to re-imagine how Public Services organizations will work in the future to support the full lifecycle of business network interactions – especially those involving the constituents of government (#CitizenCentricGov).

Mike Geraghty, Director of New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC), the State’s Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO), was named to this position in July 2016.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Geraghty served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Chief Information Officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Vice President of High Technology Investigations at Prudential Financial. Previously, Mr. Geraghty served 12 years with the New Jersey State Police, where he led the formation and development of the High Technology Crimes Investigation Unit.
Mr. Geraghty has lectured extensively throughout the world on the topic of cybersecurity, high tech investigations and computer forensics, providing technical and investigative assistance to law enforcement agencies both domestically and internationally, including the FBI, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, Naval Intelligence, New Scotland Yard, and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Service. He has provided expert testimony before congress and in federal, state, and international courts on computer crime investigations and forensics. Geraghty is also a past president of the Northeast Chapter of the High Technology Crimes Investigation Association and has held leadership roles in the National Strategic Policy Council on Cyber and Electronic Crime.
Mr. Geraghty earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Thomas Edison State College. He is married with three children and resides in Union County, NJ.

Tom has 25 years of health-care and information-technology experience in a variety of arenas and roles. Today, he heads Healthcare Delivery Systems Innovation at NJII and serves as senior executive director of its Innovation Lab (iLab). He has been instrumental in forging partnerships and securing grants, including the GPTN grant, to help New Jersey hospitals and doctors make the vital switch to Performance Based Payments. Tom’s past professional positions include senior vice president of administration and CEO at Meadowlands Hospital, senior vice president and COO of the population management software company HealthEC, and founder of HealthecITi NJ, a six-competing-hospitals health-information exchange in the greater Newark area.

Dr. Rashmi Jain joined the Feliciano School of Business as Department Chair and Professor of Information Management and Business Analytics. Professor Jain received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in technology management from Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Jain is a prolific scholar and her research interests intersect systems architecture and design, systems integration, big data and business analytics, and business process analysis and management.
Professor Jain is skilled and committed teacher and has been invited to lecture internationally at Keio University and Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan, Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology (OCIT) in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, among others. Professor Jain also brings deep insight and credibility on the complexities and dynamics of today’s marketplace. Earlier in her career, Professor Jain worked with Accenture, a leading IT consulting company. At Accenture, Dr. Jain consulted for Fortune 100 companies in energy, telecom, utilities and financial services sectors.

Paul is the Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi responsible for the leading technology trend mastery and evangelism, client executive advocacy, and external delivery of the Hitachi vision and strategy especially related to Digital Transformation and Social Innovation. Additionally, Paul contributes to field enablement of Data Intelligence and Analytics, interprets and translates complex technology trends including Cloud, Mobility, Governance, and Information Management; and represents Americas in the Global Technology Office, the Hitachi LTD R&D division. In his role of trusted advisor to the CIO community, Paul’s explicit goal is to ensure clients’ problems are solved and opportunities realized.
Prior to joining Hitachi, and for the past 20 years as a client, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers. Paul is a frequent speaker at technology and industry events as well as a reoccurring lecturer at various higher educational institutions on topics ranging from IT leadership to Business Analytics/Internet of Things. Paul also serves as a member of The IT Media Group’s advisory board and the Trusted Advisory Board providing guidance on compelling issues and topics for CIOs and the vendors that serve them, ensuring that the company remains relevant and valuable to both communities.

Dr. Shreekanth Mandayam is the Vice President for Research and the Executive Director of the South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University. He is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and was the Chair of the ECE Department at Rowan University from 2006-2011. He has held Sabbatical appointments as a Research Consultant for GE-Global Research, John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore, India, and as a Research Associate for The National Academies, at NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Dr. Mandayam received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics Engineering in 1990 from Bangalore University, India. He received his M.S. degree (Electrical Engineering) in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications and Signal Processing) in 1996 from Iowa State University.
Dr. Mandayam’s research expertise is in the area of imaging, image processing, multi-sensor data fusion, advanced visualization and virtual reality. He directs research in the Virtual Reality Center in the South Jersey Tech Park, which supports research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, US Navy, US Economic Development Administration, US Department of Energy, American Cancer Society, ExxonMobil, Elekta AB, etc.
Dr. Mandayam has taught courses in Digital Image Processing, Electrical Communications Systems and Artificial Neural Networks.
Dr. Mandayam is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He was the Student Activities Chair for IEEE-Region 2 (Eastern United States) from 2004-2008. He currently serves on the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, the Scientific Advisory Council of the University City Science Center and has served as the Vice President of Conferences for the IEEE Systems Council (2015-2016), Vice President for Publications (2011-2012) and Vice President of Finance (2009-2010) for the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society.

Carolyn Laffan Miller is Sr. Manager and Sr. Executive Briefer of the Global Executive Briefing Program at Avaya, focusing on digital transformation and customer engagement management. Avaya has been supporting the State of NJ and government accounts for many years, enabling a higher level of engagement to improve efficiency, helping reduce costs and simplify management for next-generation engagement and collaboration.
Carolyn leads the New York Executive Briefing Center, leveraging her background in engineering, solution consulting and management roles at Avaya, Lucent and AT&T to reinvent the engagement experience and customer journey, address customer business challenges and drive better business models.
Customers are asking for the perfect experience, enabling them to use any device and any media—mobile, web, SMS, chat, phone—of their choice, at any moment. At the same time, teams need to manage and effectively utilize resources. By capturing all interaction data, we can preserve context throughout the customer journey, pair customers with the right agents and resources, at the right cost, giving agents the right knowledge—so there’s no need to ask customers to repeat themselves. This opens the ability to get real-time, fully meshed insights into what’s going on with your customers and constituents, manage engagement across any device or channel, capitalize on big data and break down the silos around traditional analytics tools.
Carolyn received her B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and MBA in Marketing and Finance from NYU Stern School of Business.

Amy McIlvaine has spent her entire career focused on improving the public sector experience. Throughout her career, Amy’s efforts in the software industry have been focused on delivering transformative solutions to governments in the state and local space. Prior to AT&T, Amy was on the public sector sales teams at Current powered by GE, Dell Software Group, SciQuest, Salesforce.com, LRN, EMC and Oracle. Her range of experience includes delivering enterprise on-premise, managed services, cloud, SaaS, PaaS and now sensor enabled IoT solutions. Prior to working with these leading technology firms, Amy worked in management consulting at both Ernst & Young and Accenture helping state and local governments become high performing organizations. She started her career in the public sector working for the City of Philadelphia and the State of New York. Amy earned her BA at Boston College and MPA from New York University. In her spare time, Amy enjoys skiing, golfing, swimming and especially the Jersey Shore. Amy lives in the Philadelphia suburbs and reports to Jori Mendel.

Molly A. O’Neill joined CGI in 2009 and currently serves as Vice President and State and Local Industry Lead. In this capacity, she leads the state and local industry on growth and thought leadership activities across the U.S. Prior to her current role at CGI, she was a Vice President in CGI Federal in the Strategic Operations Group. She also serves as a subject matter expert in the energy and environmental sector across global CGI.
Previously, Ms. O’Neill was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Assistant Administrator and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Assistant Administrator, she led the Toxic Release Inventory Program and development of EPA’s Report on the Environment. In her role at as CIO, she was responsible for the Agency’s information technology, data collection and exchange, information technology policies, enterprise architecture, and information security and privacy programs. She served as an Executive Committee member of the Federal CIO Council. In recognition of her leadership in the federal government, Ms. O’Neill received many awards including the 2008 Government Computer News Government IT Executive of the Year Award and the prestigious 2009 Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Eagle award.
Ms. O’Neill is an elected Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration and serves as a Strategic Advisor for Government Executives with the Partnership for Public Service. She is an author and frequent speaker at both technology and environmental venues and has testified before Congress multiple times. She is active in the government technology community. In 2013, she was recognized by the American Council for Technology (ACT) - Industry Advisory Council (IAC), a non-profit, public-private partnership dedicated to improving government through the application of information technology, for her leadership developing recommendations on technology improvements to the new Administration.

George Park joined Commvault 6yrs ago and has worked primarily in the Systems Engineering Organization.
Prior to coming to Commvault George worked in partner consulting focused on Virtualization, Storage, Data Protection & Governance. Before entering the partner space he worked in Enterprise computing as an IT Architect as well as in Senior Management capacities concentrating on networking, telecommunications, storage, virtualization, IT security, Governance and Global Infrastructure.

William Sanders is the Director of Cloud Platform Services and Business Development for Oracle Public Sector. He has an extensive background in State government, serving for 4 years as Deputy Chief of Staff to a Kansas Governor, and 4 years as the Kansas Labor Agency CIO, Operations Chief, and Unemployment Insurance Program Director. William spent the past 14 years as private sector technology project executive and business solution specialist focused on statewide program modernization implementing both rapid application development and big bang project methodologies. Now he focuses on helping government agencies modernize through cloud infrastructure and platform as a service strategies.

Amy draws on her background in delivering technology solutions for government and her experience leading the Gov2Go product division for digital government provider NIC, to communicate about how major shifts in technology are changing customer expectations.

As the CTO of RSA’s Public Sector practice, Mr. Schmalz assists organizations in understanding their security architecture needs and helps develop solutions that help protect their critical infrastructure. Mr. Schmalz comes to RSA after a long and distinguished tenure working for the National Security Agency as a cryptographic mathematician. Mr. Schmalz is a highly sought-out speaker on critical IT security topics ranging from standards compliance to cryptography. In addition to his work with RSA, Mr. Schmalz serves several IT security standards bodies in leadership roles. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbus University and a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from Southern Methodist University.

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).