Adam Moloney CFO & Net Zero Champion, Blancco

Adam was chief financial officer of AIM-quoted Eckoh plc (“Eckoh”), a leading provider of customer service and secure payment technology solutions for contact centers until 2017. He had been with Eckoh since 2003 and was appointed chief financial officer in 2005. During Adam’s time there, he managed the negotiation and integration of various significant acquisitions in the UK and US, as well as the opening of a US subsidiary.

Prior to Eckoh, Adam held senior positions in the finance functions of a number of privately owned companies.

Andrew Bax Senior Manager, Climate & Sustainability (ESG Advisory), Deloitte LLP

Andrew is responsible for sustainability performance management and measurement at Deloitte, helping organizations to drive, monitor and communicate their sustainability journey. As an accountant, he is particularly focused on helping organizations with driving and measuring value creation through circular economy initiatives.

As well as working across a range of industries, he has advised members of parliament, government and international bodies like the United Nations, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization. For example, he led and managed the UK parliamentary inquiry on ‘E-waste and the Circular economy’ for the Environmental Audit Committee – a cross-party group of MPs.

Fredrik Forslund Director, International Data Sanitization Consortium & VP, Blancco

As Vice President and General Manager of International Sales, Fredrik brings over 20 years of experience in IT security. This includes most recently leading Blancco’s data center and cloud erasure initiatives and before that, founding SafeIT, a security software company focusing on encryption and selective data erasure.

With a keen eye for streamlining corporate IT security efficiencies and maintaining compliance with data privacy legislation, he is regarded as a thought leader among customers and partners.

Jari Salomaa Principal Consultant, Data Security and Data Privacy

Jari has previously worked as Senior Director at ServiceNow Platform team and Director of Platform Product Management at Salesforce as well number of other product management leadership positions at high growth companies. Jari’s expertise in SaaS, building great user experiences while achieving best in class security and compliance is now focused on Blancco data erasure products and working with Blancco product roadmap for enterprise use cases. He is based in San Francisco, California serving customers around the world.

Jim Alkove Chief Executive Officer, Roanoke Data Security Corporation

Jim Alkove is the Chief Executive Officer of Roanoke Data Security Corporation, a startup focused on helping enterprises identify and remediate their access control risk. Previously, Jim served as the Chief Trust Officer for Salesforce for 5 years. Prior to Salesforce Jim led Product Engineering and Security at Nest, a division of Google. Before Nest, Jim wrapped up a 17 year career at Microsoft leading Enterprise and Security for Windows 10, the fastest adopted commercial Windows release in the company’s history.

Jon Melon President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Blancco

A seasoned executive with more than two decades of sales leadership, Jon joined Blancco in 2022 to spearhead sales strategies that strengthen Blancco’s presence worldwide. He is responsible for directing the company’s sales, marketing, and field operations activities across the globe, and has a particular emphasis on modernizing Blancco’s channel program within highly regulated industries—where data protection is especially critical.

Jon’s focus on talent development, technology value, and sales innovation have positioned him as a leader in cultivating top-performing teams and accelerating company growth. His accomplishments include transforming Sonatype’s go-to-market activities within the DevOps and application security markets, as well as building and scaling a multi-billion-dollar business unit at NetApp—a global data storage and management enterprise that doubled in size during Jon’s 12 years of leading sales. He’s also held executive roles at Copan Systems and Akamai Technologies.

Maurice Uenuma Vice President and General Manager, Blancco

Maurice Uenuma is Vice President and General Manager of Blancco Americas. Prior to joining Blancco he served as VP, Federal & Enterprise, at Tripwire and Vice President at the Center for Internet Security (CIS). He formerly served as Workforce Management co-chair of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group at NIST. Earlier, Maurice held leadership roles at Perot Systems and Dell, and served for nine years as an infantry and special operations officer in the United States Marine Corps. Maurice holds a Master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and is a GIAC-certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP).

Monica Kuroki CMT Sustainability Industry Lead, UKI, Accenture

Monica Kuroki is the Communications, Media & Entertainment, and Technology (CMT) Sustainability lead at Accenture across UKI supporting clients and ecosystem partners, working across Accenture’s offering to help clients create value and impact. She is responsible for integrating sustainability into all CMT client work and ensuring the responsible business agenda is articulated in Accenture’s thought leadership and innovation.

Monica achieved distinguished honours as both the Alvis G. Turner Jr. Fellow and Richard Hazen Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during her graduate environmental engineering coursework, following her environmental engineering studies at Cornell University. She has completed the INSEAD executive program.

Ramanan Thevarajan Global Head: Digital Infrastructure, Network & Metaverse Alliances at Tata Consultancy Services

Ramanan is a seasoned business leader in the Information Technology industry, for over 26 years with Tata Consultancy Services who has handled a variety of Functional and General Management roles across Americas, EMEA & APJ. Collaborative teamwork, diligence, and passion to work with people has helped Ramanan to build a strong track record of performance, credibility, and trust as a leader. In all his leadership roles he has been privileged to have committed to nurturing talent, creativity and enable skills in people.

In this current role as the Global Head of Digital Infrastructure, Network & Metaverse Partnerships, Ramanan is responsible for leading 200+ global partnerships for Tata Consultancy Services.

Key leadership roles he has performed in the past:

• Country Manager & Regional Head of Middle East
• Head of Global Cisco Alliances Business Unit
• Regional Sales Manager of SMB Products-India
• Head of Alliances-Europe

Ramanan’s passion is to amplify & mentor the power of global partnerships to the world & play a significant role in shaping the Metaverse and Sustainability industry to help reduce carbon emission. Ramanan is an MBA graduate from Madras University & is also an Aresty Scholar of Wharton School of Executive Education and holds certification from Harvard Business School on Strategy & Innovation. He is also certified by HaaS School of Business on Advanced Executive Presence. Ramanan lives in Austin, Texas with his family

Richard Stiennon Data Security Author

Richard Stiennon is a renowned industry analyst. He has held executive roles with Gartner, Webroot Software, Fortinet, and Blancco Technology Group. As Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco he worked with standards bodies to modernize data erasure requirements for enterprise and IT asset disposition facilities. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Responsible Recycling standard.

Stiennon has written six books including Surviving Cyberwar (Rowman&Littlefield), and Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence, There Will be Cyberwar, Security Yearbook 2020: A Complete History and Directory of the IT Security Industry, and Curmudgeon: How to Succeed as an Industry Analyst. He has a BS in Aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and an MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London.

Russ Ernst Chief Technology Officer, Blancco

As chief technology officer at Blancco Technology Group, Russ Ernst is responsible for defining, driving, and executing product strategy across the entire Blancco data erasure, device diagnostics, and mobile lifecycle solutions suite. Russ is a regular speaker at IT and data security industry conferences, where he addresses data lifecycle management, end-of-life IT management, and data sanitization best practices. He also provides expertise on how organizations can reach their sustainability goals and fuel the circular economy by harnessing secure disposal processes.

With over twenty years of experience managing ITAD and enterprise technology product development, Russ is regularly sought for comment. You can find his insights in Recycling Today, Security Boulevard, Data Center Knowledge, Business Insider, and The Fast Mode, and in the upcoming book, Net Zeros and Ones: How Data Erasure Promotes Sustainability, Privacy, and Security.