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Raj Rajamani

Chief Product Officer, CrowdStrike

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Raj Rajamani

Chief Product Officer, CrowdStrike

Raj Rajamani leads CrowdStrike’s product organization and is responsible for driving CrowdStrike’s market-defining innovation, as well as the company’s near- and long-term product vision and roadmap.
Rajamani joined CrowdStrike as the company’s Chief Product Officer for its data, identity, cloud and endpoint (DICE) product lines in January 2023 before being promoted to overall Head of Products in July 2023. A near 20-year cybersecurity and SaaS veteran, Rajamani has held product leadership roles at high-growth companies like Cylance, Marketo and McAfee. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he was Chief Product Officer at SentinelOne.

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Dr. Dorren Schmitt

Senior Director Technology Engineering, The Weather Channel

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Dr. Dorren Schmitt

Senior Director Technology Engineering, The Weather Channel

Dorren brings more than 30 years of experience in IT. For over twenty years, she has led engineering initiatives in high-performance computer clusters, virtualization, enterprise application, data migration, AI initiatives, and transforming key applications to the public cloud at The Weather Channel. Her teams are responsible for the server, network, storage, and security infrastructure across the public and private cloud, and AI initiatives across the enterprise. Dorren is leading initiatives to retire legacy applications or move them to a public cloud or SaaS application and redefining the corporate digital transformation strategy.
Dorren has been the Board Chair for TAG DevOps society for the last four years and served on the board for eight years. She has been on the Advisory Board of Gwinnett Technical College for the CS department for 5 years, the Technology Board for Holy Cross High School in New Orleans, LA for 20+ years and the St. Joseph Academy in Baton Rouge, LA for 20 years. Dorren mentors rising Junior and Seniors high school girls in Sandy Springs, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge who are interested in STEM careers.
Dorren holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Secondary Education, M.ED in Curriculum and Instruction, M.A. in Applied Statistics, and a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics. Dorren has received various honors and awards during her career; including the first recipient of The Weather Company Leadership Award (2013 Q1), The Weather Channel Storm Award nominee 2005, 2009, 2011, and 2019 Woman of the Year for Women in Technology.

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Sheetal Venkatesh

Senior Director Product Management, Cohesity

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Sheetal Venkatesh

Senior Director Product Management, Cohesity

Sheetal Venkatesh heads product management for the Data Security product line at Cohesity. He is a seasoned product leader with 20+ years of experience, with a good mix of storage/availability and cybersecurity experience (with stints at Veritas, Symantec, Broadcom and Confluera, an early stage startup). During his time at Veritas, Sheetal specialized in storage management products for storage arrays, FC switches and filers. Later, as a Cybersecurity PM leader, Sheetal led a variety of products across endpoint security, risk/compliance, data center security, data security, cloud security (IaaS and SaaS) and XDR. Sheetal has worn many hats—spanning engineering, SE, business development and product management—but will gladly admit he is an engineer at heart! Outside of work, Sheetal is an avid hiker, an amateur triathlete and a hopeless movie buff.

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Jed Wallace

Staff Technologist, Cohesity

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Jed Wallace

Staff Technologist, Cohesity

Jed has spent the last 20+ years progressing through his career at medium to large scale enterprises, primarily in the financial services and state/local governments.

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Dale Dr. Z Zabriskie

Field Chief Information Security Officer, Cohesity

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Dale Dr. Z Zabriskie

Field Chief Information Security Officer, Cohesity

Known for his ability to communicate both technically and conceptually, Dale “Dr. Z” Zabriskie is responsible for articulating Cohesity’s security strategy. He is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and certified in Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK).
In his 30-plus-year career, Dr. Z has advised major healthcare, public sector, finance, retail, entertainment, and manufacturing organizations in over fifty countries. He has also been a popular moderator and participant in numerous industry panels. His expertise is supported by career experience in information technology, regulatory compliance, research and development, marketing, and sales.
Before joining Cohesity, Dr. Z was the Global Evangelist for Symantec for over 16 years. Prior companies include Proofpoint, Veritas, SunGard, and IBM.

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