Kim DeCarlis

CMO, PerimeterX

Kim provides customer-focused marketing leadership in her role as CMO of PerimeterX. Prior to joining PerimeterX, she served as CMO of Gigamon, a provider of network traffic management solutions, and as CMO at Imperva, a provider of data and application security solutions. Before that, Kim led the worldwide marketing organization at BMC, served as the VP of corporate marketing at Citrix, and was SVP of product marketing at Information Resources, Inc., a provider of big data solutions to the CPG and retail industries. She is a frequent speaker at industry events on cyber security, B2B marketing and C-level engagement. Kim is a graduate of Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.

Derek E. Brink

Vice President and Research Fellow, Aberdeen Strategy & Research

Derek Brink joined Aberdeen in 2007 with more than 20 years of experience in high-tech strategy development and execution, corporate / business development, product management, and product marketing, including positions at RSA Security, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. He earned an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Applied Mathematics with highest honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

As adjunct faculty at Harvard University and Brandeis University, Derek also teaches graduate-level courses in cybersecurity risk quantification and cybersecurity leadership.