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AJ Esmailzadeh is founder and president of Private.Me and Private.Co, which create solutions that offer the most secure cloud storage in the world. He wanted to develop a solution where the end user is the only trusted party, not the cloud service providers, its employees, or worse yet, a hacker which under an unlikely circumstance, has gained control over the service provider’s system. The solutions are delivered via a revolutionary, patented cloud-based platform, which allows users to disperse data.

AJ is the Co-Founder & Vice President of EEMA Lighting Group, and President of Lumenton Lighting division. EEMA is based in Los Angeles, and serves North America. Since its inception, EEMA products have been installed in homes, public schools, universities and internationally-known hotels, including the Marriott, Hyatt, and City Center in Las Vegas.

AJ has many philanthropic interests, as well. He is the Chairman of the board for Angel Harvest, a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles feeding the needy. Since his involvement, the organization has delivered one million meals to the poor. He was also board member of Ohr Khaim Hashalom, a nonprofit organization that has provided 20+ housing to homeless families from the Rescue Mission. In addition, he serves as a board member of International Villas HOA, a Home Owners Association of 72 quadplex buildings.​

Jacques Kempin is an innovator and entrepreneur that lived in France before he moved back to the USA in 2012.

While he was still a student at a French University, he developed and showcased the first interactive program gathering the collections of Louvre Museum for the inauguration of the Grand Louvre in 1989. In the early 90s, as the CTO of a subsidiary of the France Telecom Group, he also implemented the Louvre first CD-ROM, the first Virtual Reality tour of the museum, and the Museum’s educational website. He co-created a collection of cultural programs for the Orsay Museum, Picasso, Rodin, Flemish painters, Mythology and the Châteaux of the Loire Valley among others.

Jacques Co-Founded VeePee in 2000, a Telecommunications Infrastructure (IaaS) and Cloud Solutions Service (SaaS) Provider offering a wide range of services tailored to market demand, in all critical fields of Information System: security, storage, IP telephony, groupware, video conferencing, cloud computing, secure transmission. At VeePee, he created three secure file sharing applications: “Post”, one of the first web-based solutions, “Transfer”, an FTP based solution with simplified advanced web administration, and “Box”, a Peer to Peer environment integrated with the Workflow of the Press and Media industry.

While in France, Jacques was also a teacher for Product Design, Development & Distribution at ENSAD (Decorative Arts), ENSBA (Beaux-Arts) and University of Paris V (René Descartes).In the United States, he is the founder and CEO of Synaptiks, where he helped numerous companies with strategic planning and corporate development.

Jacques is also a Partner at Zeno Capital, a Venture Capital and Private Equity company based in New York.

Paul Hershenson is the Co-Founder of Art & Logic, Inc. a 23-year-old, Los Angeles-based custom software development firm. Paul has grown Art & Logic from a three person operation into a company with 75 developers working from home offices throughout North America. Art & Logic has served over 900 clients in a wide range of industries, from within the Fortune 500 to innovative startups. Art & Logic clients include Apple, Google, Motorola, HP, Disney, NBC Universal, The Discovery Channel, Space X, and many more. During the early years of his career, Paul pioneered the digital audio editing techniques that are used in all professional music software products today.

Dr. Stahl is a pioneer in the field of information security, having entered the field in 1980. He began his career securing teleconferencing at the White House, databases inside Cheyenne Mountain and the communications network controlling our nuclear weapons arsenal. As President of Citadel Information Group, he brings this experience to business, government, and the not-for-profit community.

Dr. Stahl excels at helping his clients develop and implement information security management strategies consistent with their unique information security responsibilities, their business realities and their cultural circumstances. This unusual management capability was developed through a career filled with growth, innovation and achievement in the management of technology and its strategic integration into the organization. Dr. Stahl has honed his craft not only through his extensive experience in the management of information security but also through his experiences as (i) COO of an online management education and training company, (ii) a strategic management consultant specializing in business performance, (iii) a software engineer, (iv) a research scientist and even (v) a mathematics professor.

Dr. Stahl earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from The University of Michigan and spent nearly 15 years teaching university mathematics. Once an active researcher, Dr. Stahl has published more than a dozen papers in advanced mathematics and computer science. He has taught courses in information security, software engineering, project management and computer programming at several universities and colleges. He recently served on the faculty at the University of Southern California in the School of Engineering’s Information Technology Program.

A few highlights from Dr. Stahl’s information security portfolio:

• Co-founder of Citadel Information Group, providing information security management services to business, government, and the not-for-profit community so they might more effectively secure their critical information assets
• President, Los Angeles Chapter, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
• Invited-Member of White House Presidential Task Force, recommending government strategies to better secure private-sector computer and communications systems
• Invited-Member of National Information Security Study Group, supporting National Security Agency and Department of Commerce in determining national information security needs
• Led design teams prototyping first provably-secure firewall and first provable multilevel secure database management system
• Developed first formal general-purpose mathematically-sound information security model; co-developed Fundamental Equation of Information Security
• Information security author, including Information Security Management Handbook, 5th and 6th Editions
• Speaks regularly on information security management, conferences, seminars and workshops, both in the US and internationally
• Past-Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Continuity Insights and author of TechTalk column
• Advisory Board member of Information Technology Program at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

David Lam has 32 years of IT experience in positions of increasing responsibility, 27 of which include Information Security. David’s focus has been on securely managing information.

David is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ and has also achieved ITIL Foundations, CNE, MCSE, CCNA, CCDA and Network+ certifications. As someone with experience in information technology, information security, and physical security, David works to bring these disparate disciplines together into coherent and efficient practices.

David holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and while there was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has taught multiple college extension classes and has presented at numerous conferences on technology, information security and physical security. Adding to David’s leadership expertise, David has written a Leadership Book called The New IQ: Innovative Questions and is also a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach.

David provides new perspectives to his teammates while helping them to achieve governance and optimal usage of their technologies. David is currently Chair of the ISSA Los Angeles CISO Forum.

David has also been published multiple times for security, including in the ISSA Journal and on Tom’s IT Pro. He has written the Information Security chapters for the ASIS Protection of Assets Manual with Dr. Stan Stahl.

Most recently, Rob has been CEO for two venture funded startups and before that, led startups in the mobile space and in enterprise software. He has worked at seven companies with four of them sold and three still operating. He has a broad domain of expertise, having held leadership positions in products, marketing, and operations in five other companies. His academic credentials include a BA, BS, MS, and MBA degree and he is a Stanford alum. Rob is also an Executive in Residence at Quest Venture Partners.

In addition to his role as Chief Privacy Officer for Private.me, Timothy Toohey is also Partner and Head of Cyber, Privacy and Data Security Team at Morris Polich & Purdy LLP, which concentrates on data protection and privacy matters, complex litigation and intellectual property. Tim is the author of Understanding Privacy & Data Protection – What You Need to Know which was published by Thomson Reuters/Aspatore in 2014. He handles a wide range of privacy and data breach matters, including advice regarding the Federal Credit Reporting Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the US/EU Safe Harbor. He also deals with matters relating to cloud computing, and the privacy and security implications of “smart” devices and social media. Tim advises clients regarding California’s Song-Beverly Act, California Security Breach Notice requirements and international privacy and security issues, including compliance with European Union (E.U.) data protection and privacy directives.