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Justin Acquaro serves as the Chief Information Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads the company’s global IT strategy and operations, ensuring the alignment of technology with business goals to drive innovation, security and growth. With a proven track record of building high-performing teams and implementing transformative technology solutions, Mr. Acquaro plays a key role in shaping CrowdStrike’s secure, scalable infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape.
 

Mr. Acquaro joined CrowdStrike as Chief Information Security Officer in May 2023, where he built high-performing teams and systems that help surface risk and defend against threats to both CrowdStrike and its customers.
 

Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he held key security roles in large enterprise organizations, including Chief Information Security Officer for Evernorth, a $140B health tech and services business under Cigna, and Global Chief Information & Product Cyber Officer for General Electric. With over 20 years of experience defending against nation-state-driven cyberattacks, Mr. Acquaro was also a member of CrowdStrike’s Customer Advisory Board, making him intimately familiar with the company's mission, culture and cutting-edge approach to cybersecurity.
 

Mr. Acquaro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Dowling College and a Master’s degree in Information Security from James Madison University. 

Adam Meyers serves as CrowdStrike's Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations and is one of the company's longest-tenured leaders, having joined in 2011 to build the intelligence framework that now underpins the Falcon platform. Mr. Meyers leads one of the most advanced intelligence organizations in the private sector – Counter Adversary Operations comprises more than 500 analysts, threat hunters, linguists, reverse engineers, AI researchers, and geopolitical experts operating across a global footprint. Drawing on prior experience at the U.S. State Department, Mr. Meyers built Counter Adversary Operations around a foundational conviction: organizations don't have a malware problem, they have an adversary problem.

Counter Adversary Operations’s intelligence flows directly into the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. The team tracks criminal, state-sponsored, and nationalist cyber adversary groups across the globe, producing adversary insights and actionable intelligence to protect enterprises, major financial institutions, and critical government agencies worldwide. A world-renowned intelligence expert, Mr. Meyers frequently briefs senior U.S. government officials, the House Intelligence Committee, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, allied governments, and boards of the world's most influential organizations. He is regularly interviewed on adversary threats across major broadcast, print, and online media, frequently speaks at leading industry events, and is the co-host of the Adversary Universe podcast, a biweekly show on the latest adversary trends and techniques. In 2025, Mr. Meyers was named to the CyberScoop 50, and SC Magazine recognized CrowdStrike with its Best Threat Intelligence Technology award.

Experience

• Director, Intelligence, CrowdStrike

• Director, Cyber Security Intelligence, SRA International

• Founding Member, Cyber Threat Intelligence Alliance (CTIA)

Education

• B.A. in Political Science and Computer Science, George Washington University

Bartley Richardson serves as Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads the company's AI strategy, advancing its structural data advantage into more autonomous, deterministic security outcomes on the path to Security AGI. He drives innovation across Charlotte AI, the agentic SOC, and AI Detection and Response (AIDR), extending CrowdStrike's leadership in AI-native cybersecurity.
 

Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Dr. Richardson served as Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA, where he led engineering for agentic AI, cybersecurity AI, and AI infrastructure, focused on solving large-scale data challenges and transforming data into AI-driven security outcomes. He led the development of foundational technologies for AI agents, including NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit, the AI-Q research assistant, and the Morpheus cybersecurity library, enabling organizations to operationalize AI at scale. Earlier in his career, he served as a technical lead on multiple DARPA research projects.
 

He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering with a focus on artificial intelligence.

Mathias Bücherl held various positions in the area of Cyber Security at Deutsche Telekom AG in Germany, Singapore and Mexico from 2013 to 2020. He had a leading role in building the international Cyber Security business, portfolio and operation in EMEA, APAC and Americas.

From 2020 to 2023 Mathias Bücherl was overseeing the Cyber Security Business Unit with P&L responsibility, focusing on Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security Operation at Axians in Switzerland and Czech Republic.

Since 1st March 2023, Mathias Bücherl serves as the Group CISO of Heidelberg Materials, directing the global efforts to shape and execute the Cyber Security and Resilience strategy.  

Complementing his professional duties, Mathias Bücherl is lecturing at universities in the field of Cyber Security.

Scott is a product leader and innovator in identity with over a decade of experience as both an entrepreneur and practitioner in large-scale organizations. Currently serving as General Manager of Continuous Identity at CrowdStrike, Scott leads the company's identity security strategy at one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity platforms.
 

Scott joined CrowdStrike through their acquisition of SGNL, where he was CEO and Co-Founder. Prior to SGNL, Scott was the CEO, CPO, and Co-Founder of Bitium, an Identity and Access Management company that was acquired by Google. As a Product Lead at Google, he founded an internal team to standardize authorization to customer and consumer data.
 

Scott's career spans the full arc of identity — from building and scaling identity startups to driving enterprise identity innovation at global technology leaders — making him a uniquely positioned voice on the future of identity security.

As Chief Global Professional Services Officer, Thomas Etheridge oversees CrowdStrike's entire Professional and Managed Services portfolio, including Incident Response and Forensics Investigative Services, Technical Assessment Services, Cyber Advisory Services, Training, the CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed services offerings and CrowdStrike Falcon® Overwatch™ managed threat hunting offerings.
 

Etheridge brings to this role more than 30 years of management consulting and software services leadership expertise in cybersecurity with industry-leading companies. Etheridge has deep experience building world-class sales and delivery teams, global services channel programs and customer/partner training programs, as well as developing strategies for delivering impactful, product adoption-driving solutions with some of the world’s largest companies and government agencies. He is frequently sought after as a spokesperson on topics related to security trends, incident response, security best practices and more.

Experience

• Services Leadership – CrowdStrike

• VP Global Services – Imperva

• VP Global Security Services – Hewlett-Packard (ArcSight acquisition)

• VP Global Services & Support – Aveksa (acquired by RSA)

• VP Global Security Services – Broadcom (Netegrity acquisition)

• KPMG Consulting

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Northeastern University

Jud Welle, a former federal cyber and national security prosecutor, is a partner at Goodwin who counsels companies on matters at the intersection of technology and legal risk.
 

Jud focuses his practice on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, including governance, risk management, incident preparedness and response, crisis management and communications, government investigations, regulatory defense and compliance, and litigation.

Amjad Hussain serves as Chief Resilience Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads resilience efforts across the company. With more than 25 years of experience driving engineering and operational excellence at global technology leaders, Mr. Hussain plays a key role in the company’s efforts to advance cybersecurity resilience both internally and externally.

Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Mr. Hussain served as Chief Technology Officer at Vanilla, where he led R&D across engineering, product, design, AI, security, and IT. He previously served as director and general manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), including running teams in Amazon EC2, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CloudFormation. Before AWS, Mr. Hussain held various engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, including Azure, Windows Server, and Bing.

Experience

• Chief Technology Officer – Vanilla

• Director and General Manager – Amazon Web Services

• Senior Engineering Leadership – Microsoft

Education

• BSc, Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Aaron Charfoos serves as co-chair of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Group in the firm’s Chicago office. He is a Chambers-ranked accomplished cybersecurity, privacy, class action and data protection trial lawyer. Aaron has litigated a variety of privacy and cybersecurity cases including data breach class actions, Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and other pixel and third-party tracking technology cases. Aaron also advises his clients on the intersection of artificial intelligence, data privacy and cybersecurity, including data governance and bias issues.
 

He has also guided his clients through numerous data breaches, including breaches involving tens of millions of impacted individuals. Aaron often defends clients in regulatory investigations brought by various U.S. regulators, states attorneys general and international regulatory bodies.
 

Building on this knowledge of post-breach risks, Aaron helps companies in numerous industries — including healthcare, financial services, technology and consumer products — to develop global privacy and data security programs. This includes compliance with the SEC’s new rules for public company reporting related to cybersecurity, EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and other worldwide privacy regimes.

Aaron has been recognized multiple times in Chambers and The Best Lawyers in America for privacy and data security law and in Illinois Super Lawyers for IP litigation. Aaron also works to incorporate responsible AI tools and practices to deliver superior results more efficiently for his clients.

Accolades

• 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management, Lawdragon (2026)

• Privacy & Data Security: Litigation Nationwide, Chambers USA (2025)

• Cyber Law Including Data Privacy and Data Protection, The Legal 500 USA (2022)

• Quoted “Biden’s Cybersecurity Order Likely To Reach Beyond Gov’t”, Law360 (May 14, 2021)

Education

• Northwestern University Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2002

• Northwestern University, B.A. (with honors), 1997