

Shaun Walsh, AKA “The Marketing Buddha,” is a long-time student and practitioner of marketing, seeking a balance between storytelling, technology, and market/audience development. He has held various executive and senior management positions in marketing, sales, engineering, alliances, and corporate development at Cylance (now BlackBerry), Security Scorecard, Emulex (now Broadcom), and NetApp. He has helped develop numerous start-ups that have achieved successful exits, including IPOs (Overland Data, JNI) and M&A deals with (Emuelx, Cylance, and Igneous). Mr. Walsh is an active industry speaker (RSA, BlackHat, InfoSec, SNIA, FS-ISAC), media/podcasts contributor (Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CRN, MSSP World), and founding editor of The Cyber Report. I love lifting heavy things for CrossFit and strongman competitions, waiting for Comic Con, trying to design the perfect omelet, or rolling on the mat. Mr. Walsh holds a BS in Management from Pepperdine University.