Training Review Board

Daniel Cuthbert is the Global Head of Security Research for Banco Santander. With a career spanning over 20 years on both the offensive and defensive side, he's seen the evolution of hacking from a small groups of curious minds to organized criminal networks and nation state we see today. He is the original co-author of the OWASP Testing Guide, released in 2003 and now the co-author of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS).

Sam Davison is a Security, Privacy, and Trust & Safety leader. She is currently the Head of Security and Privacy Engineering at Etsy, helping keep commerce human, secure, and privacy preserving. Davison has held leadership roles at the Krebs Stamos Group, Robinhood, Lyft, Snap Inc., and Uber where she led efforts with a particular emphasis on behavioral engineering, offensive security, and trust & safety. Before working in Silicon Valley, she conducted extensive research on the efficacy of security engagement and co-led a consulting firm that built behavioral-based programs for 15+ Fortune 500 companies. Davison has volunteered throughout her career, lending her expertise to victims of online harassment and election protection efforts.

Gabrielle Hempel is renowned for her expertise in Cloud Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Critical Infrastructure Security, and Network Detection and Response (NDR). With an MS in Cybersecurity and Global Affairs from NYU, she has contributed significantly to the field, including a distinguished thesis on Critical Infrastructure Security. Named an 'Emerging Leader' by the National Security Innovation Network in 2022, Gabrielle is also a prominent speaker at industry-leading conferences like BlackHat and DefCon. Her thought leadership is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and media outlets. This fall, Gabrielle will be embarking on a new journey as a 1L at Purdue University Law School focusing on technology law, aiming to bridge her technical expertise with legal acumen. Committed to service, she volunteers with the Marine Corp Cyber Auxiliary and serves in crucial roles within the cybersecurity community, including the NOC at global BlackHat conferences and as a Briefings Review Board member for Black Hat MEA, continually fostering advancements in cybersecurity.

Andrew MacPherson has been working in infosec for over a decade, most predominately at Paterva where he worked on building Maltego for 10+ years. He holds a bachelors in Information Science and hails from sunny South Africa. He has spoken at many different conferences including Blackhat, DEF CON and ZaCon as well as having taught more than 16 different Black Hat courses. He enjoys cat memes and punk rock.

Maria Markstedter is the founder and CEO of Azeria Labs, a company that provides training services to some of the world's top tech companies and law enforcement agencies. In addition, Maria is the author of the book "Arm Assembly Internals and Reverse Engineering - Blue Fox Edition", published in May 2023. With a Bachelor's degree in Corporate Security and a Master's degree in Enterprise Security, Maria has held key positions in various startups, including her role as the Chief Product Officer for Arm virtualization startup Corellium. In 2018, Maria was honored as a Forbes "30 under 30" in technology and has since been featured in Vogue Business Magazine. Her expertise in Arm reverse engineering and binary exploitation earned her the title of Forbes Person of the Year in Cybersecurity 2020. Maria has collaborated with Arm on exploit mitigation research in Cambridge and continues to empower security researchers and developers globally to effectively attack and defend Arm-based software.

Matteo Memelli (a.k.a. ryujin) is an information security professional with over 15 years of experience in researching and exploiting vulnerabilities. Matteo is currently with Amazon Web Services as a Senior Security Engineer, where he spends his days fuzzing network protocols, firmwares and application software that make up the AWS network infrastructure.

Specialized in binary exploitation and reverse engineering, Matteo has spent more than a decade of his career also developing cutting edge infosec educational content for Offensive Security. He has delivered courses for not only BlackHat, but for private clients as well. While working with Offensive Security, Matteo was the original architect of the "Advanced Windows Exploitation" course, as well as the "Offensive Security Certified Expert" and "Offensive Security Exploitation Expert" certifications. He also conducted a number of security assessments against mature and hardened targets; developing 0-day exploits and logical attack chains against metropolitan law enforcement departments, foreign central banks, and other non-traditional commercial clients.

Jonathan Squire is a Principal Security Engineer working on infrastructure security for a well-known cloud computing company. Previously Jonathan has held similar roles in publishing and media as well as telecommunications. With over 25 years in the security industry, Jonathan's expertise covers a wide range of skills including security architecture, incident response, attack and defense techniques, reverse engineering, and extreme curiosity in how everything works. While working at his day job, Jonathan is credited with accomplishments that include developing an Information Security model for the enterprise, designing and implementing a system for automated network micro segmentation, architecting a secure, centralized credit card processing solution, and guiding the design of the security infrastructure deployed throughout many customer facing properties. Mr. Squire is also responsible for providing direction in governance and industry best practices. In his spare time, Jonathan is known to enjoy disassembling, abusing, and reassembling any piece of technology to understand all of its capabilities. Jonathan has presented on many of these creations and the flaws that allowed the security to be bypassed at conferences including Black Hat.

Etienne Stalmans is a Security Architect and engineer. These days he spends his time finding ways to secure multi-cloud environments and improve Open Source security. With a keen interest in protocol reversing and discovering ways to exploit logic flaws, he has found numerous bugs in products such as Outlook, Postgres, Git, Docker and the underlying languages such as Ruby and Golang. He has presented at numerous security conferences and was a frequent BlackHat trainer.

Veronica is a researcher and intelligence analyst from Argentina. Her research strongly focuses on helping people. She specializes in malware network traffic analysis, threat intelligence, and profiling of attackers. She is currently the director of the Civilsphere project at the Czech Technical University, dedicated to protecting civil organizations and individuals from targeted attacks. She's also the project leader at the Stratosphere Laboratory, a research group at the Czech Technical University dedicated to studying and researching at the intersection of cybersecurity, machine learning, and helping others. She co-founded the MatesLab hackerspace and the Independent Fund for Women in Tech. She has presented her research at international conferences such as BlackHat, EkoParty, Botconf, Virus Bulletin, Deepsec, and others.