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Gene Kim
Dwayne Melançon

Gene Kim
Tripwire, Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
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Bio
Gene Kim is the CTO of Tripwire, Inc. and co-founder of the IT Process Institute. He is currently actively working on a series of cross-industry projects to capture and codify how "best in class" organizations have IT operations, security, audit, management, and governance working together to solve common objectives. Gene co-chaired the "Generally Accepted IT Principles Summit" with the Institute of Internal Auditors in July 2005 to help codify how to create reasonable IT audit scope for SOX-404. In 2004, he co-wrote the Visible Ops Handbook, codifying how to successfully transform IT organizations from "good to great." In 2003, he co-chaired two conferences with SANS and the Software Engineering Institute, and was named by InfoWorld as one of the "Four Up and Coming CTOs to Watch." Gene is certified on both IT management and audit processes, possessing both ITIL Foundations and CISA certifications.

Prior Speaking Experience:
Co-chair, SANS technical workshop called Auditable Security Controls That Work
Co-chair, Best In Class Security And Operations Roundtable (BIC-SORT)
Frequent speaker at national and regional itSMF, ISACA, ISSA, and IIA events.

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Dwayne Melançon
Tripwire, Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
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Bio
Dwayne Melançon joined Tripwire in 2000 and serves as Tripwire's Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, where he leads the company's strategic partnerships and alliances. In previous positions at the company, Dwayne was vice president of Professional Services and Support, Information Systems, and Marketing.

Prior to joining Tripwire, Dwayne was Vice President of Operations for DirectWeb, Inc., where he was responsible for product management, logistics, electronic supplier integration, customer support, information systems, infrastructure development, and other business operations. Before DirectWeb, he ran Pan-European Support for Symantec Corporation, managed support for several of Symantec's leading product lines, and spearheaded the development of tools and processes. In other positions, Dwayne was responsible for Symantec's global Web presence, program management for Symantec's encryption products, and functional integration for mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Symantec, Dwayne spent eight years at Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. where he created an award-winning global support organization, was a software developer, and directed the company's software and hardware Quality Assurance teams.

Prior Speaking Experience:
eFinance World Conference
Frequent speaker at national and regional itSMF, ISACA, ISSA, and IIA events.

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