Dr. Zaki Qureshey –Nickname (Caliph-Net) an independent computer security and digital intelligence consultant specializing in Curbing Cyber Crimes & Cyber Terrorism and is the Founder and Chairman of E2 Labs- a Hyderabad based IT security provider, which has been credited with starting the first school of ethical hacking in Asia. A fountain of talent, Mr. Zaki Qureshey is a post graduate with numerous international certifications to his credit that include CCSA, CCNA, MCSE, NCQE, CNS and CFE (U.S) to name a few. He also underwent the SANS GIAC/ GCSW training during his initial years in the field of IT. An avid cyber Security expert with significant experience in information systems and information security.
He has done extensive research on Network Security concentrating on social engineering to detect hackers and he is an authority on network security. His illustrious career spanning over a decade has been enriched with key assignments at prominent national and international organizations that include Computer information Technology and Union Carbide to name a few. In the last few years, Qureshey has traveled extensively and has been on a virtual whistle-stop tour conducting workshops and Guest lecturing at prominent institutions across India and Abroad such as ISB, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Administrative Staff College of India, State and Central Government Departments, Law Enforcement Agencies, N.P.A, Universities and Multinational IT companies and Several Countries Internationally. He regularly prepares thought provoking training material for national and international workshops designed for IT behemoths, Business leaders, Government organizations and budding IT entrepreneurs in the Asia- Pacific region.
The school of ethical hacking that he helped set up is a first-of-its kind school in Asia that has gained immense popularity for its path breaking efforts in the field of information security and has been making headlines in national and international journals such as the RED - HERRING US, WASHINGTON DC, ASIA WALL STREET JOURNAL, BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, THE ECONOMIC TIMES AND THE TIMES OF INDIA. The appreciation that has been pouring in from all quarters across the globe are epitomized by more then 670+ articles in International media that have featured E2-Labs and its school of ethical hacking. Mr.Qureshey’s vision is to convert this school of ethical hacking into a world-class university that provides cutting edge knowledge and expertise in information security.
Qureshey has been a strong advocate of information Security as the key to a more secure world during these testing times when Business, Governments and organizations across the world have been facing huge IT threats that have at times threatened to destroy countries and commerce. He has helped establish a progressive IT enterprise that is in sync with the Demands of the 21st century and has been a harbinger of IT Security ever since its inception .He has been spearheading a Campaign for greater awareness on information security through Extensive workshops/seminars across the world and is credited with transforming IT security into a more visible and imperative need. His deeds and achievements will encourage new Entrepreneurs to follow suit and his bold vision of catapulting his company to the league of global IT powers apart from his Cherished dream of transforming Hyderabad into the next cyber Security capital of Asia is truly commendable.
In recognition of his technical expertise and esteem, and the Laurels that his company has come to acquire in the global IT arena, Zaki Qureshey has received many awards.
His distinctions are profiled below:
*Awarded in Global Advanced Management - Disruptive Innovation & Open Business Models in the changing Global Landscape in University of California, Berkely - U.S.A
*Awarded in Global Advanced Management - Disruptive Innovation & Open Business Models in the changing Global Landscape in University of California, Berkely - U.S.A
Mr. Inder P. Singh serves as Chief Executive Officer of NexTrends Inc. Mr. Singh serves as Advisor of Security First Corp. He served as Executive Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer of Visa International until April 2004.
He serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NexTrends Solutions Inc. He was co founder of Quintant. He served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of EXLServices. He served as Chief Operating Officer for Card Capture Services, the owner of the third largest ATM network in the U.S, and now a part of E-Trade. He has over 30 years experience in the Information Technology and Banking industry. Mr. Singh served in senior executive management positions in Technology and Business at Bank of America and Seafirst Bank. With Bank of America, he served as Executive Vice President of Consumer Banking Product and Delivery Support, Executive Vice President of Payments Strategy and Interstate Banking Support, and Executive Vice President of Global Wholesale Technology Services. He serves as an Executive Chairman of Point Inside, Inc. He serves as Director of TigerText, Inc. He serves as a Director of DataGuise, Inc. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Prodapt Solutions Private Limited. He served as Advisory Board Member of LifeLock, Inc. He served as Advisor of The 41st Parameter Inc. Mr. Singh holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington and a BSEE from Punjab University.
Mr.Vinod Dham is an inventor, entrepreneur, advisor, mentor, and venture capitalist. He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip , for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium processors from Intel.
He sits on the boards of many companies including promising startups funded through his India-based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, where he is the founding Managing Director
Mr.Vinod Dham’s accomplishment as the Father of Pentium and as an Indian-American technology pioneer from Silicon Valley, is being celebrated at a first-ever exhibition on South Asians in the National Museum of Natural History at the storied Smithsonian in Washington DC, highlighting Indian-Americans who have helped shape America.
Vinod was in-charge of developing the 586 or Pentium processor. He worked relentlessly on the project and the Pentium processor was a big hit in the market. Vinod Dham rose up the corporate ladder and reached the position of the Vice President of the Intel's Microprocessor Products Group. He quit Intel in 1995.
Thereafter, Vinod joined NexGen, a start-up firm as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) acquired NexGen in 1996, Vinod Dham looked after the development of AMD's famous K6 Processor, world's fastest personal computer microprocessor. Later on he quit AMD.
Vinod Dham was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm.
1. Former Director General in National Informatics Centre, Government of India.
2. Director General- Controller of Certifying Authorities.
He was Director, Geospatial Delhi Limited, Government of Delhi and the Director General- Controller of Certifying Authorities in Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.
He was chairman/member of several Advisory Committees of academic and research Institutions :e.g., Scientific Advisory Group of the Division of Publication & Information of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi; All India Board of Post-Graduate Education & Research in Engg. & Technology, AICTE; Special Committee of the School of Information Technology of the JNU; Expert Committee, Deptt. of Elect.Engg., IITDelhi; Board of Studies Advisory Committee of Applied Statistics, Surveys and Computing, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta; Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.
Fellow: National Academy of Sciences.
Fellow: The Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.
Chairman/Member: Project Review & Monitoring Committee, GOI; Core Group on Standards for e-Governance; Project Management Board of DRDO; Bio-Technology Informatics Systems(BTIS) Coordinators of Deptt. of Biotechnology; Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA); Indian National Sciences Academy, National IT Task Force; Task Force for India's Development as Knowledge Society; National Steering Group, Implementation of a Project on Encyclopedic Sanskrit Dictionary undertaken by the Deccan College, Pune.
Member, Executive Committee, Centre for Railway Information Systems(CRIS), Ministry of Railways, New Delhi.
Co-Chairman, India–Russia Working Group on Technology; India-Kazakhstan Working Group on Information Technology.
Member of the Sub-group on Information Sciences, Indo-US Joint Commission(1986).
Member of the Indian delegation to Ministerial Conference of the Global Information Society, Midrand, South Africa, 1996.
Received Skoch Challenger-2005 Award for “ICT Man of the Year”.
Received ORACLE e-Governance Award for “Leading the change” for implementation of e-Governance projects.
Received Special Achievements in GIS Awards "Making a Difference in
People's Lives" at the ESRI User Conference at San Diego, USA.
1. Former Director General of (Centre for Good Governance)
2. Former Director of eSeva
Graduation in Sciences from S.V. University ,Tirupati.
Post Graduation in Political Science
Ph.D. from Kakatiya University, Warangal.
IIM, Ahmedabad.
As Director of eSeva 2002-2004, created a World Class Organization in online service delivery to citizens. Rolled out the service to all Municipalities in the state. Advised the states of U.P; and Karnataka in creating similar systems. It is considered one of the best egovernance initiatives in the world. Was awarded a Golden Icon by the Government of India for this project and a medal at Computer World Honors( Search for New Heroes) at San Francisco both in 2003.
Government of India recognized me as a National Resource Person for Panchayat Raj.
Was selected to be a member of the Government of India Team which visited U.K; Switzerland and Malaysia for studying Local Governance in those countries in 2010.
As Commissioner of APARD (Andhra Pradesh Academy of Rural Development), trained 2.6 lakh Elected Representatives of Panchayat Raj bodies and employees every year which was a national record.
Anu is Strategic Advisor and Director to the Board at Templar Executives, a world class Cyber Security advisory company working at the highest levels in the public and private sectors. Prior to this, Anu was Business Area Leader at IBM with a history of working in financial services , IBM&'s public sector business and cross sector industries.
Additional roles and interests include:
Founder and Chair of Cyber Champions - see http://cyberchampions.org/
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (Livery Company)
Industry Vice-Chair of the DPA e-Crime and Cybersecurity Group
Alumni of Whitehall and Industry Group
Mateen is the founding partner of Bizhance, a strategic business and market growth firm providing advisory services to scalable businesses. He has over 15 years of entrepreneurial and professional experience and advises companies on business strategy, market growth, venture investing, board relationships, resource management and cross border partnerships.
He is active in Silicon Valley's ecosystem promoting entrepreneurial causes. He is passionate about capturing entrepreneurial successes and has done extensive research to inspire and empower emerging entrepreneurs. He contributed to the research by WEF and GSB Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
Mateen's interviewees include world's prominent Leaders, Entrepreneurs, VCs and C-Suite Executives. He actively engages with TiE, an organization renowned for fostering entrepreneurship globally. He passionately contributes to TiEcon - one of the largest entrepreneurial conferences has chaired its many programs - TiE50 - top global start-up awards, Media, Operations and Conference Interviewer in Silicon Valley and India.
He was part of the Leadership Team and Conference Interviewer of Global Entrepreneurship Program hosted by the Hoover Institute, Stanford University and the US State Department.
He was also part of the organizing team and Conference Interviewer for IIT Alumni
Global Leadership Conferences in the US.
Irfaan holds a Masters In Management from a top Management College - IRMA (1986-88). He has international experience as a General Manager of a Dubai group in diversified businesses. He holds powerful connects to the Business and Investment community in the Middle East. He has done major Business Re-organisation Consulting assignments for multi-million dollar companies in India. Apart from core consulting he has hand-held many investment assignments, he lends his Due-diligence expertise to a fund from USA. Irfaan is also a published creative writer and lends a range of Strategic & Management inputs to E2 Labs board..
Sanjeev drives the PAN India consulting activities and educational services for E2Labs. He has a 20 years’ of experience with an exposure to recruitment, education and the training industry in B2B. He was also associated with leading HR and Training consulting firms in India.
Mr. Theo J.J. Groothuizen has a Masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Delft University of Technology and also studied architecture at the same university. He worked for Royal Dutch Telecom for 6 years after which he started running his own professional design practice. He was co-founder of one of the leading Design firms in the Netherlands, Landmark Design for Public (1986), of which he became principle in 1994, and founder and CEO of Landmark Design for Public in Switzerland. He is CEO and principal of Groothuizen Beheer BV, a consultancy for international collaboration and innovation since 1987.
He is a former professor of Industrial Design Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea.
During his professional career as Industrial Designer he was executive board member of The World Design Organization WDO -formerly known as the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design- of the Dutch Designer Association (BNO) and convenor for the Bureau of European Designers Associations (BEDA).
Groothuizen is honorary member of BNO, Regional Advisor for ICSID and Fellow of Design for the World.
He lectured at several universities and was member of the external research advisory board of the faculty of Design, Engineering and Manufacturing of Delft University of Technology.
Accomplished senior level executive with extensive P&L responsibility, successful turnaround experience with underperforming business segments in India. Turnaround and change management expert, including strategic brand building, business development, sales and profit increases, by identifying market growth potential and executing the product and sales to exploit these opportunities.
High energy, confident communicator, motivator and negotiator who leads by example with a deep understanding of the financial and operational dynamics of various enterprises.Extensive new business development, licensing and sourcing success in the Far East and Europe and adept at dealing with customers, suppliers, investors and the board.
Vazeer is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL Service Manager (Service Delivery and Service Support) with Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Specialized in establishing Project Management and Project Delivery Offices with extensive experience in delivering IT Programs and Projects in Middle East and Indian Market. Delivered Projects to various Government and Private Sector companies across India and Saudi Arabia and joined e2-Labs as General Manager MENA Region to manage the engagements in Middle East and North Africa Region.
From an Hotelier, who has had a remarkable track record of over a decade in Hospitality Sales & Marketing, Brand Positioning, Direct Sales, Channel & Event Marketing with Effective Budget Management. I never thought that I would find myself another "Career Love" in Information Security, but I eventually did by discovering the distinct potential the Cyber Security Domain has.
Working in IT Security is truly a meaningful job, it is like a never ending puzzle where at no given point I can sit back and twiddle my thumbs and honestly say that there is nothing left to do. There’s an ever evolving threat landscape, evolving technologies, and new innovations that attempt to protect assets. Moreover it’s like a game that never has an end, where the challenge of playing is the goal.
Computer engineer by qualification and a tech savvy by behavior. Thorough cognizance on Networking,
Operating Systems and programming. I relish innovations in the field of cyber security. Well acquainted
with the regular Web technologies and advanced concepts associated with system networking.
Proficient with the processes associated with shell scripting, PHP, C++, Python and MySQL.
Consulting:
Perform sophisticated penetration examinations for the purpose of ascertaining the technical
weaknesses existing the computer systems and maintaining high level of security of the information that
is crucial for the business growth of the organization. Auditing the security posture of a network and
ensure that they comply to the standard compliances like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA and SOX.
Training:
The demand for ethical hackers has increased in today's era. Hacking is a versatile expertise in the
Computer domain. Blindly following footsteps of a hacker doesn’t make you one. My motto is to
develop quality hackers by blending hacking with innovation and knowledge.
Other interests:
Hacking and Anti forensics are my subjects of interests. Malware analysis and Exploit development are
at my crosshairs.
Chris Russo has been working as an independent consultant for 5 years, reporting serveral vulnerabilities in web application and websites including the Large Hadron Collider, Adobe, Microsoft, Plenty of Fish, E Harmonly & Pirate Bay before starting to work as Professional Penetration Tester at Argentina during the last year. He also developed tools for automatic and progressive analysis of web applications as support during security audits. He currently heads his own company in Buenos Aires, dedicated to provide corporate solutions in risk analysis, penetrations testing and security trainings.
