Andy Brown currently serves as CEO of Sand Hill East, LLC, which provides strategic management, advice and marketing services to emerging companies. Mr. Brown is also a member of the boards of directors of Guidewire inc. a public traded company in the PNC insurance business, Zscaler, Inc., a publicly traded company providing cloud security services, Pure Storage, Inc., a publicly traded software-defined data storage solutions company, Digital Asset, a company providing solutions in the DeFi and Digital Ledger workflow world, Moogsoft, a next generation AI-Operations company, Skyhive, a company providing Digital Reskilling & Education.

He is also CEO and co-owner of Biz Tectonics LLC, a privately held consulting company. From September 2010 to October 2013, Mr. Brown served as Group Chief Technology Officer of UBS, an investment bank. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served in a variety of executive management and leadership roles at a variety of leading banking companies including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. Mr. Brown holds a BSc Honors Degree in Chemical Physics from University College London.

As chief executive officer and founder of Illumio, Andrew is responsible for the overall strategy and vision of the company. With deep expertise in segmentation, network security and regulatory and compliance management, Andrew is a frequent participant in panels, articles and podcasts for leading industry events and publications. Goldman Sachs has named Andrew as one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” each year since 2015 as part of its Builders & Innovators program.

Prior to Illumio, Andrew was President and head of Worldwide Field Operations at Cymtec, a leader in the Intrusion Detection market. Andrew graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BSBA in Finance, and he is a National Council member of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the university.

Aamer has over 20 years of experience in technology adoption, product, and strategy. He has strong expertise in launching new products, customer acquisition, and driving technology integrations. Aamer is currently working on Cisco’s next-generation security solutions. Previously, he has led product management for branch firewalls, cloud-delivered security (SASE), mid-mile optimization, zero trust security, multi-cloud connectivity, IoT platforms, video optimization, and routing across various vendors. With 25+ patents, he is a former Cisco Distinguished TME, 2xCCIE, and Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker.

Dhawal Sharma is responsible for driving Zscaler’s overall AI security strategy, including product management, AI partnership ecosystem, and go-to-market for the AI security businesses. He is also responsible for strategic product initiatives around inorganic growth and corporate development opportunities for Zscaler’s business, including M&A and venture investments in emerging businesses.

Dhawal has been at Zscaler since 2012 and has been instrumental in building Zscaler’s flagship products, including Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA). In recent years, he has been leading Zscaler’s product strategy for the Zero Trust Exchange platform and introduced many new innovations such as Zscaler Digital Experience, Zero Trust Branch, and Zero Trust Cloud, among others. Dhawal has also led early go-to-market initiatives for various new product lines at Zscaler as a General Manager, growing them into successful businesses and making them an integral part of the Zscaler growth engine.

Prior to joining Zscaler, Dhawal brings diverse experience in the AI, Security, Networking, and Enterprise Architecture space. He has worked in product management roles at Actiance and HCL-Cisco and was also part of a startup team in India that introduced cloud-based managed UTM services for enterprises. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree specializing in Computer Science and an MBA degree, and multiple patents in the security space.”