Edgar
Perez brings Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop 2015, seminars in New
York City, London, Dubai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Sydney, Taipei, Seoul and
Tokyo that are specifically designed for board members, senior
executives and entrepreneurial business professionals looking for new
ways to gain and maintain competitive business advantage in one of
the most critical subjects for corporations and governments
worldwide.
New
York City, NY, USA (August 28, 2015) -- The extramarital affair
website Ashley Madison has been served with a US $578 million lawsuit
following a breach that resulted in data concerning 39 million of its
members being leaked online, including usernames, messages and email
and home addresses. Furthermore, it was recently disclosed by Gizmodo
editor-in-chief Annalee Newitz that most of the female accounts were
fake. The official numbers from the site showed that 31 million of
the accounts belonged to men while 5 million supposedly were linked
to females. However, Newitz found that 10,000 accounts were created
with the ashleymadison.com email, implying that they were test
subscriptions. Nine thousand of those 10,000 belonged to women, while
the remaining numbers were either categorized as male or no gender
specified.
Firms
like Avid Dating Life and Avid Media, the Toronto-based companies
that run Ashley Madison, now begin to view cyber attacks as
existential threats to their survival; ignoring cyber security issues
can have the most dangerous and lasting consequences for global and
local corporations. They join now an ever growing list of large
companies that have suffered high-profile cyber security breaches
that include Adobe, ADP, E*Trade, Fidelity, Home Depot, JPMorgan
Chase, Nasdaq, Neiman Marcus, Sony, Target and Wal-mart.
Cybersecurity
Boardroom Workshop 2015
(http://www.cybersecurityboardroomworkshop.com),
How Boards of Directors and CXOs Can Build the Proper Foundation to
Address Today's Information Security Challenges, is specifically
designed for boards of directors and CEOs of public and private firms
looking for new ways to gain and maintain their competitive
advantages. Business executives with responsibility for IT, finance,
compliance, risk management and procurement as well as entrepreneurs
and innovators are welcome to add their points of view to the debate.
Cybersecurity
Boardroom Workshop 2015 is a must-attend forum for board members,
CEOs, CFOs, COOs and executive managers in New York City, London,
Dubai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Sydney, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo who need to
become more educated about cyber security in order to ask questions
that are strategic yet granular enough to address company specifics.
Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop 2015 is targeted at corporate
decision-makers for whom cybersecurity readiness is a relatively new
yet critically important area to be intelligently conversant about.
The
presenter is a published author, business consultant for
billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds and Council Member at
the Gerson Lehrman Group, with subject matter expertise in
cybersecurity, investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank
Act) and market structure. Mr. Perez has presented his workshops in
cities around the world, including Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala
Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He
contributes to The New York Times and China's International Finance
News and Sina Finance.
ABOUT
EDGAR PEREZ
Mr.
Perez is the author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall
of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013),
and The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency
Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World,
published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in
Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi
Super Kilat, published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Sina Finance,
BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com,
Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business Tonight and
Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been featured
on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc,
AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin Securities,
ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN
Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International Finance
News, hexun.com, Finance.QQ.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times,
The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney
Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal
Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.
Mr.
Perez has been engaged to present to the Council on Foreign
Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev),
Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC 2012 (Shanghai), U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore,
Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences at New York University, University of International Business
and Economics (Beijing), Hult International Business School
(Shanghai) and Pace University (New York), among other public and
private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number
of global conferences, including Cyber Security World Conference 2014
(New York), Inside Market Data 2013 (Chicago), Emerging Markets
Investments Summit 2013 (Warsaw), CME Group's Global Financial
Leadership Conference 2012 (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional
Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis
Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia
(London).
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.
Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance.
Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of
Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master
of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York,
with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York
City area with his wife Olga, son Edgar Felipe and daughter Svetlana
Sofia.
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