Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert in data protection solutions, bringing over a decade of industry and technology experience in this area to Voltage Security. His expertise spans data protection, security infrastructures, cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, and the PCI standards both for the commercial and government sectors. He has worked on numerous global security projects with Fortune 500 firms in the United States and globally.

At Voltage, Sudeep serves in the position of Vice President of Solution Architecture, with responsibility over designing solutions for some of Voltage's largest customers in the end-to-end data protection portfolio. This includes email, file and document encryption, as well as the protection of sensitive data in databases, applications and payments systems. Prior to this, he was part of the Sales Engineering team at RSA Security where he designed technical solutions for some of its largest customers.

Sudeep holds a B. E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics Engineering from the Shivaji University, India.

Balaji Ganesan is part of the enterprise security team at Hortonworks, where he is leading and executing the vision to bring comprehensive enterprise security into Apache Hadoop. He came to Hortonworks through its acquisition of his security startup, XA Secure. As the Senior Director of Enterprise Security and Strategy, he is responsible to bring together top big data and security talent, build enterprise-grade products, and redefine how data security and governance are viewed within and across the Hadoop ecosystem.

Peter Bernstein is a seasoned writer and professional with deep experience in the communications and IT industries. As a top-level industry analyst, Peter has keynoted major technology events and has been cited numerous times by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Communications Week, among other publications.