INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE

Tim McKnight is Head, Global Security Unit in the Global Finance & Administration at SAP SE. Prior to SAP, he was Chief Information Security Officer for Thomson Reuters and GE. He has served in various IT Security leadership roles at Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and Cisco Systems. Tim began his career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation as lead investigator of all National Infrastructure Protection Center matters, including high-tech crimes, corporate espionage, foreign counterintelligence and telecommunications fraud. In addition to his membership on the ISA Board, he is also a member of the Board of Advisors for Amazon Web Services (AWS), ClearSky Security and Tenable.

Niall P. Brennan is the Global Security Liaison Officer at SAP. In this capacity, he leads relationships with government security services, legislative and regulatory bodies, public-private partnerships, non-governmental organizations, and industry trade councils to address issues related to industry security and resilience, threat mitigation, reputation management, regulatory compliance, and legislative advocacy. He has over 30 years of experience in a variety of legal, advisory, security, and investigative roles in both the public and private sectors.

An attorney by education and training, Niall began his professional life as a commercial litigator in private practice. In 1996, he joined the FBI, where he spent 22-years in multiple operational and managerial capacities across all investigative and investigative support programs, including transnational organized crime, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber and intelligence. In his last position with the FBI, Niall led the office in the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France for over 5 years. He retired from the FBI in 2018 and joined PwC as a Director in the Cybersecurity & Privacy practice where he led client engagements focused on cyber incident response and mitigation, resiliency-building and organizational transformation.

Elena Kvochko, Chief Trust Officer, SAP

Elena currently serves as Chief Trust Officer at SAP. Her team spans four continents, 30+ countries and supports 450.000 SAP customers on matters regarding privacy and security of SAP applications and platforms.

Prior to this position, she served as Senior Vice-President and Technology Executive focusing on global security at Bank of America. Previously, she worked as a divisional Chief Information Officer at Barclays Bank in New York. Her focus was on delivering the highest degree of privacy and security of all customers and employees globally.

She served as an affiliate fellow at Harvard Law School. She was part of the G7 Women in Business. Her published work appeared in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, featured in the Wall Street Journal, the White House cybersecurity report, The New York Times, and multiple industry media.

She has invented patent-pending technologies in cybersecurity, privacy, and secure financial technologies (with 30+ pending patents named a top inventor at Bank of America). Elena serves as Adjunct Professor at Cornell University.