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Co-Founder of The Millennium Alliance Joins Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)

NEW YORK – January 20, 2022 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, has had the privilege over the past eight years of collaborating with many of the most accomplished C-Suite executives from across the globe. Millennium is excited to announce that its Co-Founder Alex Sobol is one of the newest members of the prestigious Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), where he will have the ability to build relationships with even more of the world’s top leaders. With over 30,000 members across 142 countries, totaling $9 trillion in combined revenue from YPO member-run companies, the opportunities to network with and share ideas with such an extraordinary leadership community are endless.

“I am really excited about joining YPO and being a part of the NJ chapter. Even in the few short months that I have been a member, I have met so many great people and participated in some very innovative events. Very much looking forward to what’s to come in the future and plan to contribute in a positive way.” – Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance.

The entire Millennium Alliance team looks forward to following Alex’s journey as he continues to expand his perspectives and elevate his leadership. This will only help the organization as they prepare for a year full of growth and expansion, to put themselves in a position to top their most successful year in company history in 2022.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT YPO

YPO is the global leadership community of more than 30,000 chief executives in 142 countries who are driven by the belief that the world needs better leaders. Each of our members have achieved significant leadership success at a young age. Combined, they lead businesses and organizations contributing $9 trillion in annual revenue. YPO members become better leaders and better people through peer learning and exceptional experiences in an inclusive community of open sharing and trust.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis, decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online thinktank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in Austin, TX.

Building upon its award-winning conference and executive education businesses, today, The Millennium Alliance continues to stay connected with its C-Suite Members and partners through intimate In-Person and Virtual Assemblies, industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, and by providing exclusive industry insights from the nation’s leading academics, business leaders, and technology providers via our 50+ annual events and The Digital Diary Content Platform, as well as the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series.

#MillenniumLive on CDN Tech Space and Protection of Security Threats with Fastly

#MillenniumLive welcomes Sean Leach, the Chief Product Architect at Fastly. Sean sits down with Millennium to discuss some of the most serious security threats that organizations face today and where the most critical gaps in organizations’ security architectures are found. Sean discusses how Fastly focuses on understanding the latest threats, how they are being used, and how those threats relate to their product, customers, and their network.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About Fastly

Sujeet Bambawale, CISO of 7-Eleven, Returns to Keynote Our Upcoming CISO Assembly!

After an excellent keynote address in 2021, The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce Sujeet Bambawale is back by popular demand and will return as keynote speaker for the upcoming Transformational CISO Virtual Assembly taking place on March 8-9, 2022. Bambawale has proven himself to be a cybersecurity trailblazer as CISO of the iconic 7-Eleven brand. Before working with 7-Eleven, he led Security Engineering with Symantec, worked on the enterprise architecture & strategy team with NetApp, and spent over 10 years leading Intuit’s information security & compliance team. Click here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Sujeet Bambawale

Sujeet Bambawale tells us that it is an honor and a privilege to serve as the Chief Information Security Officer of an iconic global brand that has a deep, cherished, always-on connection into communities everywhere. Information Security at 7-Eleven focuses on maintaining and enhancing an industry-leading, comprehensive and cohesive security fabric around the business value drivers in a customer-obsessed manner. The 7-Eleven Information Security organization brings together the various technical domains within Information Security with the force multipliers of Governance, Risk and Compliance as well as Data Protection to facilitate unified accountability and expedient action.

Bambawale went to 7-Eleven from Symantec’s Consumer Business Division where he had the honor of driving a global security engineering portfolio. Prior to joining Symantec via the LifeLock acquisition, he spent 5 years at NetApp, and over 10 years with Intuit, after working with the information security and risk management teams at Ernst & Young and KMPG. He has been responsible for leading key security initiatives that helped integrate security into the culture of the company and extend the brand into global markets. He led NetApp’s ISO27001 recertification, spoke at NetApp’s conferences in Berlin and Tokyo and was the recipient of Intuit’s Innovation Award. At Ernst & Young and KPMG, he was responsible for developing risk mitigation strategies primarily for Fortune 500 clients in the financial and technology sector.

His focus is on maturing the organization’s security posture by driving execution to a well-socialized and accepted security strategy that benefits internal and external stakeholders through a pragmatic mix of building cross-organizational relationships and developing people managers. He has a Masters degree in Electronics Engineering and am a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) as well as Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT). Most recently, he was fortunate to learn about organizational leadership at global scale, with a focus on innovation and cybersecurity, from his professors and colleagues at the Haas Business School in UC Berkeley.

#MillenniumLive on Automation in Healthcare RCM with AKASA

#MillenniumLive welcomes Benjamin Beadle-Ryby, Co-Founder and Vice President at AKASA. Ben joins us to chat about the challenges of healthcare RCM, the growing importance of resource optimization, and how AKASA’s unique technology is using automation to drive the future of high-quality patient care.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About AKASA

#MillenniumLive on Assessing Digital Risk with CybelAngel

#MillenniumLive welcomes Todd Carroll, CISO and Vice President of Cyber Operations at CybelAngel. We take a look at assessing digital risk and how best to manage it, how ransomware continues to be a major threat to many companies, and the ways CybelAngel protects clients from ransomware and supply chain attacks.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About CybelAngel

CybelAngel is the world-leading digital risk protection platform that detects and resolves external threats before these wreak havoc. Because more data is being shared, processed, or stored outside the firewall on cloud services, open databases, and connected devices, the digital risk to enterprises has never been greater. Organizations worldwide rely on CybelAngel to discover, monitor and resolve external threats across all layers of the Internet, keeping their critical assets, brand, and reputation secure. To learn more, visit CybelAngel.com.

#MillenniumLive on The Technology That’s Leading Innovation with Gerri Martin-Flickinger

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Starbucks sits down with Millennium to discuss what’s happening at Starbucks, the technology that’s leading innovation, and goals for next year. As CTO, Gerri is responsible for technology strategies and teams that enable Starbucks to connect with its customers worldwide.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About Gerri Martin-Flickinger

As executive vice president and CTO, Gerri Martin-Flickinger leads the global technology organization at Starbucks. She is the passionate leader behind the technology strategy that plays a critical part in propelling the Starbucks Mission forward—empowering partners and delighting customers, globally.

Upon joining Starbucks in 2015, Gerri led Starbucks Technology through a transformation into a best-in-class retail technology organization. Her globally respected team of technologists develops and enables industry-leading innovations including mobile order and pay, voice ordering, and social gifting. Her leadership helped establish a world-class data and analytics platform, enabling one of the first large-scale machine learning and personalization systems, Deep Brew. She and her team also modernized key business-critical platforms, unlocking iterative innovations at scale such as workforce management, supply chain planning, and store operation improvements. Her Starbucks Technology teams are known for their thought leadership; deep partnership with business teams; inspired use of emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, AR/VR, and IoT automation; and well-architected, secure solutions.

Prior to joining Starbucks, Gerri was senior vice president and CIO at Adobe, where she led portions of their technology transformation to a cloud-based, subscription-services business. Before Adobe, she served as CIO of Verisign, MacAfee, and Network Associates and held numerous senior leadership roles at Chevron, where she began her career. Her breadth of experiences equips Gerri with broad technology industry insights and deep cybersecurity experience.

In 2015, the Silicon Valley Business Journal Bay Area awarded Gerri with the Judges’ Choice award for her role in Adobe’s successful shift to a cloud-services company. She was also identified as a 2015 CIO Leader by HMG Strategy.

Gerri currently sits on the Charles Schwab Board of Directors and serves as a member of Arizona State University’s Fulton School of Engineering Advisory Board, Sierra Ventures CIO Advisory Board, and the Wall Street Journal CIO Network. Her prior appointments include the Tableau Board of Directors from 2018 to 2019, before its acquisition by Salesforce.

Gerri holds a BS in computer science from Washington State University with honors.

#MillenniumLive on Solving The Problems of Today’s Marketers with AiAdvertising

#MillenniumLive is excited to welcome Kevin Myers, Chief Product & Marketing Officer, at AiAdvertising. Kevin shares how AiAdvertising and the AiPlatform are solving the problems for today’s marketers, the rapidly advancing technology that gives AiA the advantage in the marketplace, and why now is the perfect time to leverage their unique solution.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About AiAdvertising

AiAdvertising believes the future of marketing leadership is gaining the ability to predict what works prior to any advertising investment. In that, AiAdvertising offers a proprietary advertising software platform powered by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). This comprehensive platform allows marketers to leverage the latest technology to develop, manage, and implement digital advertising campaigns more effectively.

Services of the platform include: data hygiene & organization, persona development, predictive creative, look-a-like audience curation, omni-channel activation, and performance management. This provides marketers more accountability, transparency, predictions, and validation of advertising’s contribution to the organization’s financial results.

AiAdvertising is empowering visionary marketers to activate data, predict what works, and eliminate guesswork to generate unprecedented personalization, conversion, and growth.

#MillenniumLive on Implementing Emerging Technologies with Jose Arrieta

Jose Arrieta, the former Chief Information Officer and Interim Chief Data Officer of HHS and last week’s keynote speaker, joins #MillenniumLive to discuss a variety of topics, including stories from his upbringing, the direction of crypto, and the innovation and projects he led at HHS.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About Jose Arrieta

In his role as the former Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer of HHS, Arrieta admits that failing and pivoting was ultimately the key to the successes he and his team had. His office successfully defended the HHS network against multiple large-scale nation-state cyber-attacks. He led an effort to create a public-private key, distributed ledger infrastructure to establish digital identities for individuals across the United States that was never adopted as a solution. He built and led the implementation of the first blockchain-based solution for lowering licensing costs and decreasing the time of the procurement process in the Federal Government that saved over $100M dollars. Jose currently works with Federal customers evaluating and valuing venture-backed technology start-ups. He is also working with commercial customers bringing IoT solutions to supply chain and manufacturing processes in the energy and agricultural sectors. He currently sits on a few boards and advises technology startups and he recently launched a new IoT start-up focused on securing distributed solutions. To stay sharp, he created and teaches the first blockchain and cryptocurrency course at Johns Hopkins University as well as entrepreneurial finance. Jose currently lives in San Diego.

Healthcare IoT Security Operations Maturity: A Rationalized Approach to a New Normal

Contributed by Medigate

Abstract
IoT cybersecurity management products are a key enabler of connected health. The global solution market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28% over the next three years, and the healthcare sector is projected to experience the highest rate of growth.1 Not surprisingly, healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are rapidly investing in these solutions, as they address the operational challenges to scalable, safe delivery. Interestingly, however, the adoption is occurring despite how hospital cultures still lag in their understanding of the real stakes and the capabilities that enable a desirable future state. This paper suggests that a more simplified approach to modernizing healthcare security operations is warranted. It suggests that a renewed focus on foundational enhancements presents a more rational path to maturity. The “blocking and tackling” sports analogy comes to mind, as only teams that effectively execute at this level can successfully move to the next.

Introduction
The explosion in connected health is driving a revolution in care delivery. To safely support this transformation, a blend of positive and negative pressures are driving HDOs to invest in security operations maturity. On the positive side, the shift to value-based reimbursement is in lockstep with the journey. And because healthcare operations research has never been well-funded, HDOs are learning that their investments in maturity are easily cost-justified. On the negative side, protections against cyber risk are rapidly becoming a matter of compliance. And, the COVID-19 pandemic has served as yet another catalyst, as it has created a perfect storm for adversaries. The volume of attacks following the first lockdown was staggering. Through June of 2021, 93% more ransomware attacks have been carried out than in the same period last year. The surge has given rise to “triple extortion” techniques whereby attackers, in addition to seeking payment from the HDO, also coerce payments from patients and business partners.

Read the full report here

About Medigate

Connect with Confidence

Securing the clinical environment requires a new security strategy and coordinated approach as IT, OT, IoT, and physical systems converge and the threat of bad actors exploiting vulnerabilities across new and old infrastructure is increasing.

IT also requires detailed knowledge of each and every medical device, its proprietary protocols, and a comprehensive understanding of medical workflows. In a network with hundreds of different device types, thousands of devices from different manufacturers, and a mix of protocols and operational parameters it can be overwhelming to protect.

Healthcare needs a solution that covers the entire risk spectrum they face while ensuring the usability of these devices without compromising security requires a specialized approach for healthcare.

Medigate gives you the confidence to see, secure, and manage all of the devices connected to your network and turn the associated data into a powerful resource. It means the end of any compromise between security and usability – put simply, it allows you to connect with confidence. Go here for more information.

Understanding Data Strategy and the Data Lifecycle

For organizations, implementing a good data strategy can be a pretty big task. According to Dataversity, only 30% of companies have a clear organizational data strategy. Data strategy as defined by Gartner is a highly dynamic process employed to support the acquisition, organization, analysis, and delivery of data in support of business objectives. Organizations wanting to move towards a more data-driven culture can do so by starting with a data strategy. Having a data strategy is the foundation to all things data in your company. Dataversity lists some characteristics of a strong data strategy:

A strong Data Management vision
A strong business case/reason.
Guiding principles, values, and management perspectives
Well-considered goals for the data assets under management
Metrics and measurements of success
Short-term and long-term program objectives
Suitably designed and understood roles and responsibilities

Overall, a good data strategy is one that unites departments throughout the organization and aligns them to meet business goals. Without strong analytics capabilities, a data strategy can not survive on it’s own. Garter provided an Analytic Ascendancy Model that shows the goal of moving from descriptive analytics to prescriptive analytics and by creating decisions using foresight instead of hindsight.

Understanding the seven data lifecycle stages is also important when implementing a data strategy:

Plan: The company creates a roadmap based on an organization’s Data Strategy to guide data activities through the other lifecycle stages.
Design & Enable: An organization purchases or develops a data solution and deploys it.
Create/Obtain: A business inputs data in the system.
Store/Maintain: The firm keeps the data in one or more systems to retrieve for usage. In addition, it performs maintenance on the data to keep it business-ready.
Use: A company does something with the data to complete business objectives.
Enhance: An organization makes its data more findable.
Dispose of: A firm purges the data from its data systems.

To implement your strategy across the data lifecycle Dataversity recommends building a data culture, measuring and testing data activities, focusing on interoperability, and aligning your data lifecycle activities through business use cases.