higher education and healthcare customers. Current conversations with IT and business leaders typically include the design and implementation of a hybrid cloud strategy to enable their company’s current objectives with Dell Technologies’ leading portfolio of offerings. Justin has a passion for creating a winning culture that paints a clear vision of success, provides training to be successful and develops his organization to achieve what is possible. These ingredients provide a place that will allow his team to accomplish its goals, a culture that employees are proud of and an organization that outsiders want to join. Justin serves on two employee resource groups at Dell Technologies. He is active in the Future Women of Sales group and is the executive co-chairman of the Pride Group. As a member of Future Women of Sales, Justin can further his passion of mentorship through the development of young female professionals entering the workforce for the first time. As the co-chairman of the Pride Group, Justin works to bring education and awareness of the LGBTQ community within the company and around the world. A lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, Justin graduated from St. Joseph’s University and lives with his wife and two boys in Wayne, Pa.

and enterprise computing, making him an ideal leader to drive VMware’s networking and security strategy. Prior to joining VMware, Tom was CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in 2011. Gillis started Bracket with a vision to reimagine enterprise computing. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was vice president and general manager of the security technology group at Cisco Systems. This technology group included the business units responsible for Cisco's entire network and content security product portfolio, including firewalls, IPS, VPN, and email security and web security gateways. Prior to Cisco, Tom was vice president of marketing and part of the founding team of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Before that, he held the position of vice president and general manager at iBEAM Broadcasting, an internet startup that went public on Nasdaq. He has also worked at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group, and Raytheon. Tom received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Tufts, a master’s in electrical engineering from Northwestern and an MBA from Harvard.

He was previously president of Mirum, a global marketing agency operating in 25 countries with close to 3,000 employees. He spent nearly two decades building, running and (eventually) selling his agency to WPP, one of the world’s most valuable marketing and communications holding companies. Currently, Mitch is an adviser and investor in many businesses and charitable organizations in the fields of artificial intelligence, smart audio/voice, marketing technology, financial technology and blockchain. He sits on the advisory board for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, Inovia Capital’s early-stage fund and HubSpot’s INBOUND conference, and is a trustee of the Westmount Public Library in Quebec. Mitch is also a popular business book author. His first book, Six Pixels of Separation, named after his successful blog and podcast, is a business and marketing bestseller. His second book, Ctrl Alt Delete, was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Amazon.

supplier diversity spending initiatives. Malek is the architect of CDW’s diverse supply chain, which today is defined as more than 1,100 suppliers that serve the needs of and offer solutions to CDW and its customers. CDW has facilitated more than $14 billion of direct and indirect spending with small, minority-owned firms since 2007. She is a member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, a board member of the Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council, a member of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, National Veteran-Owned Business Association and tech:SCALE, sharing her guidance and best practices on inclusive business strategies. Malek serves as an executive board member to the nonprofit SheTek in New York City, which focuses on women and young girls participating in science, technology, engineering and math. In 2020, Malek was named one of the Top 25 Women in Power Impacting Diversity. Under Malek’s leadership, CDW was inducted into the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable in 2020.

He has held security positions responsible for engineering and architecture, penetration testing and incident response, as well as numerous CISO-level positions. In his role as chief security technologist for Sirius, a CDW Company, Jeremiah is charged with evaluating current and emerging security technologies to ensure that clients can effectively address their cybersecurity challenges.

For the past 5 years, Brian has worked in various security-related roles focusing on identity, threat protection, incident response and threat intelligence. In his current role, he works with the Microsoft global partner solutions team helping managed partners that are focused on building managed services leveraging the power of Microsoft security services, threat intelligence and human intelligence. Brian has over 25 years of experience working across all aspects of identity, cloud infrastructure, networking, platform architecture and security.