Victor Badejo is a Cyber Security Manager in PwC’s Consulting practice based in Vancouver. He has over 5 years of experience helping retail, public sector and financial services clients develop and sustain their information security programs. Victor has been involved in cloud security assessments and implementations, security architecture and deployment of enterprise SIEM/SOC solutions for multiple organizations across Western Canada.

Victor currently serves as the certifications Director at ISACA Vancouver Chapter and an Advisory Board member at New York Tech Vancouver’s cybersecurity program. Victor has a Masters Degree in Information, Network and Computer Security and holds the CISSP and CISA designations.

Mike Burgener has worked in the high-tech sector for over 20 years working for both Fortune 100 and start-up SaaS companies before recently joining Vancity as Director of Information Security. His experience covers a broad spectrum including cloud and on-premise infrastructure and applications including servers, storage, networking, disaster recovery, physical datacenter builds, ERP implementations as well as all things security related including static and dynamic code analysis, threat modeling, security awareness training and Information Security regulatory compliance.

Kathleen, a former Chief Privacy Officer for one of Canada’s largest banks, is a Managing Director with PwC and leads the Canadian Privacy team. She is a seasoned leader and communicator with over 20 years’ leadership experience across several disciplines including Privacy/Compliance, Program Management and Marketing. She has led more than 100 initiatives focused on, among other things, regulatory change, business transformation, data analytics, process improvement, enhanced employee experience, data trust, and improved customer loyalty. Kathleen has a passion for aligning teams from disparate backgrounds on a common purpose that seeks to the optimum employee and customer experiences and striking the right risk balance.

Elson Kung is a governance, risk and compliance practitioner at HSBC, where he guides leaders to recognize, reduce, and avoid operational risk. Recently, he started Cactimo to provide cyber and related GRC advisory services. Elson has hands-on and leadership experience in risk and control monitoring, security incident and privacy breach management, operational risk management, assurance, Basel data maintenance, and SOX. He is an occasional guest speaker in media and industry events.

Before this, he worked in service and sales, business analysis, IT project management, and cyber security. He is a University of British Columbia graduate and holds professional designations in information systems audit and project management (CISA, PMP).

Alvin Madar is a Cyber Security Partner in PwC’s Vancouver office with over 21 years of experience in information security. Alvin has been involved in strategy development, solution architecture, threat and vulnerability management, and deployment of many enterprise solutions for multiple financial institutions across BC. He has been involved in a number of IT transformation projects and has worked as interim CISOs for a number of organizations, helping to develop their information security programs. Alvin is also a leading subject matter specialist in cyber incident response advisory, helping clients through breach preparedness, breach response and compromise assessments.

Stephen has a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineers from Cape Peninsular University South Africa. He also holds professional designations in Security Management, Intrusion Detection, Incident Response and Forensics from the SANS Institute. Stephen holds a MBA through SFU’s Beedie School of Business. His Information Security career began in the mid-nineties connecting corporations to the Internet. Prior to joining Coast Capital Savings Federal Credit Union as Director information Security in 2017, Stephen spent 20 years in the Telecom sector (Telus) where he held a variety of security leadership roles.

Maleena Singh works for PwC within the Cyber Forensics Investigations team, helping companies respond and remediate from cyber incidents, as well as working with companies to proactively prepare themselves against attacks. Prior to PwC, Maleena spent 23 years with the RCMP. The majority of her career was focused on fraud related investigations, before helping to create the Provincial Cyber Team in British Columbia. The last 4 years she was the team lead for the BC Cyber Team, working to assist cyber and cyber enabled investigations locally and internationally.