David Fairman
CIO & CSO APAC
Netskope

David Fairman is an experienced CIO/CSO/CISO, strategic advisor, investor and coach. David has extensive experience in the global financial services sector. David is currently the APAC CIO for Netskope helping customers manage their digital and cyber risk programs in addition to working across industry with the aim of making the digital economy a safer place to do business. Furthermore, David is a Partner and CISO-in residence at SixThirty Ventures, driving innovation and helping build great technology companies. Previously, David was the Chief Security Officer (CSO) at NAB owning all aspects of Physical Security, Fraud, Investigations, and Cyber Security. Prior to NAB, he was the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Royal Bank of Canada. David has been a senior leader at JP Morgan Chase and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

David was raised and educated in Australia where he received his Bachelor of Information Technology in Software Engineering and Data Communications. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Project Management. David began his career in Information Security while serving in the Royal Australian Air Force and has held a variety of roles in technology and cyber in the critical infrastructure sector.

David holds a number of positions on boards of directors for various cyber and fraud tech companies and was a founding member of the Security Advisor Alliance (www.securityadvisoralliance.org), and the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (https://cctx.ca). During his tenure at NAB, David was the Chair for the Board of Directors for the Australian Financial Crimes Exchange and spear headed the formation of a taskforce in partnership with the Australian Government to detect and disrupt cyber-crime impacting Australia.

Recently, David has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Australian Professionals, named as one of the Top 10 CISOs to Know, and recognized as a thought leader as profiled by K-Logix here. David co-authored Cyber Risk (2016), co-edited Fintech: Growth and Deregulation (2018), published by Risk Books, and was the Technical Editor for Zero Trust Journey Across the Digital Estate (2022), published by CRC Press.

David is passionate about education. He has held Adjunct Professorships at both the University of New York and the University of Toronto and is currently working with Deakin University in Australia.

Marie Collins
Former Virtual CIO
Pinnacle Midlands Health Network

Marie has a diverse industry background working across ICT, banking, utilities and event companies, holding executive and senior leadership roles in both large and medium organisations.

She has been accountable for leading a variety of portfolios including: strategy development, business planning, strategic portfolio management, information technology, digital transformation, continuous improvement, productivity, analytics, product development and operations.

Nancy Taneja
CISO - Primary Health Sector
Te Whatu Ora

Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand recently welcomed a new primary health Chief Information Security Officer to it’s cyber security portfolio/team. Nancy Taneja is the country’s first dedicated primary health cyber security leader.

She joins the team from THINK Hauora where she was instrumental in dealing with cyber- attacks and leading out mitigation plans. Taneja brings an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing primary healthcare providers. She built the IT security operations for THINK Hauora from the ground up.

The Primary care CISO (P-CISO) is responsible for information security across the primary health sector. This includes leading the creation of security strategies, policies, governance, capabilities, and ensuring compliance to the Health Information Security framework. Taneja is a trusted advisor to the primary sector executives as well as ensuring there are active strategies in place to manage cybersecurity risks.

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.