Virtual Series – Leading Through Change – Women in Cyber Security

Kimberley St. Pierre – Director of Strategic Accounts, Tanium @Tanium, and Vice President @ ISACA Vancouver

Kimberley St. Pierre has worked in IT & Business Development for over 20 years.  She has worked for Canadian technology giants TELUS and Bell, and also has experience working for the world’s largest cybersecurity companies.  Kimberley has a strong desire to build and maintain trusted long term business relationships.  She is making meaningful contributions to her customers and business partners by showing them how to effectively leverage technology to accomplish their strategic goals.  She has specialized in cybersecurity for the last four years and has become completely addicted to the field as global cyber risks continue to rise as does the talent shortage.

Her desire to give back to her community has lead to a number of board director roles for NFP organizations over 15 years, including her current role as Vice President of ISACA Vancouver, and she is also a member of the Government of B.C.’s Provincial Security Advisory Council.  Kimberley is very passionate about mentoring, connecting, and inspiring people. Outside of her professional life, she is an avid equestrian and an amateur competitive showjumper.

Venetia Verdicchio – Director, IT – Rival Technologies | @RivalTechCo

Venetia is an Information Security professional in the Market Research Industry. In her current role as Director, IT Security she leads security, compliance and privacy efforts for Rival Technology’s insight platform. Prior to joining Rival, Verdicchio led information security and compliance at Hyperwallet, a Vancouver-based fintech company acquired by PayPal in 2018. Her specialization is governance, risk, and compliance with a focus on data protection and audits, including SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001. Venetia is a graduate of the University of British Columba (BA) and holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University.

Dominic Vogel – Founder and Chief Strategist, Cyber SC | @cyberdotsc

As Founder & Chief Strategist at CyberSC, Dominic Vogel holds a proven track record within cybersecurity across a multitude of industries (financial services, logistics, transportation, healthcare, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure). Dominic actively participates in the Vancouver security community and is a well-respected cybersecurity expert for Global BC, CKNW980, News1130, and the Vancouver Sun. Dominic is highly regarded as a cybersecurity thought leader and was recently appointed to the BC Provincial Cyber Security Advisory Committee.

Dominic has performed his cyber comedian routine for BrightTALK Security Summits, MISA Spring Conference, Cyber Security Summit West, Blancco Security Days, NYIT Cyber Security Symposium, Calgary Cyber Security Congress, Youth Achieving Success, Delta Chamber of Commerce, Vancouver Enterprise Forum, Vancouver SecSIG, Vancouver ISACA, BC Aware Day, Launch Academy, Startup Canada (Startup Chats), World Mining Summit, ISACA CSX North America, Business-in-Vancouver Digital Privacy & Security Series, RSA Conference, and InfoSec World.

Dominic focuses much of his energy on providing strategic security leadership to technology start-ups and small/midsize businesses to proactively solve their cyber risk challenges. He strives to provide practical cybersecurity advice to his clients and actively turning the security consulting world upside down.