ICASI - Key Persons


Aaron Kaplan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Alexander Jäger - CFO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Chairman

Alexandre Dulaunoy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • CIRCL

Andrea Dufkova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Art Manion

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Audrey Mnisi Mireku

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Baiba Kaskina

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Membership Committee

Booz Allen Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the HP Software Security Response Team

Brian DeWyngaert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • CISA

Carlos Alvarez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Initial
  • ICANN
  • Strategy & Governance

Carlos Leonardo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • External Outreach and Communications
Carlos Leonardo has been dedicated over the last 10+ years to improving the state of the cyber ecosystem in the Dominican Republic. Since 2009, Carlos has been part of the cybercrime unit of the National Police of the Dominican Republic as digital forensic analysis, cybercrime investigator and responsible for the 24/7 Network against cybercrime. In the legislative and regulatory framework of cybersecurity and cybercrimes, he was part of the technical committees for the creation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy and the establishment of the National Cybersecurity Center and it's National CSIRT. Also the draft bill to amend the cybercrime law and draft the cybersecurity and the personal data protection bills. He led the team that created from scratch the Dominican Republic's National CSIRT, establishing the procedural and operational bases for the development and improvement of the cybersecurity posture of the Dominican Republic. He has been instrumental in helping the Dominican Republic create sectorial teams to exchange information and indicators on incidents between the government and public and private critical infrastructure organizations. Carlos has supported many other governments and regional organizations around the world in establishing national incident response capabilities and creating channels for regional cooperation and sharing of best practices. Carlos' involvement in the incident response community over the years has included presentations at various forums and participation in committees and working groups of international organizations such as FIRST, OAS CICTE, GFCE, Interpol and EUCybernet. Through his regional leadership, he has been a key player in building capacity and supporting the region's CSIRTs to motivate and assist them in meeting the controls required to enter the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) thus expanding the participating teams and countries in the region.

Chris Gibson - CFO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Chairman
  • Executive Director
Chris brings a wealth of relevant and up-to-date experience in setting up and managing CERTs at the very highest levels of the worldwide Information and Cyber Security community. Chris spent over 12 years working in the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) whilst at Citigroup and, for 10 years, was part of the leadership of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST); 2 as Chair. Within FIRST he implemented the Fellowship program. This was created to fund CERTs from UN-designated "Least Developed Countries" (LDCs) allowing them both to join FIRST and attend conferences and training. Chris joined the UK's Cabinet Office, in 2013, to build, launch and lead the UK's first formally chartered national CERT - CERT-UK. When CERT-UK was subsumed, in 2016, into the UK's National Cyber Security Centre he left and joined Close Brothers as Chief Information Security Officer in November 2016, moved to Orwell Group as CISO in Jul 2018. Chris joined FIRST as it's Executive Director in May 2019. Chris' experience has allowed him to work with colleagues from both inside some of the world's largest global financial institutions with the complexities that brings and also with colleagues from the incident response community, with members ranging from Microsoft and Oracle through to the national CERTs of Azerbaijan and Indonesia.

Cristine Hoepers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Damir (Gaus) Rajnovic - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Member of the Initial
  • Panasonic CSIRT EU

Dan Grove - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO

Dave Schwartzburg CISCO

Job Titles:
  • US Stepped Down As Board Member and Chair in February 2022

Derrick Scholl - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Desirée Sacher-Boldewin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Don Stikvoort

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Dr. Serge Droz - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Liaison
  • Member of the Board of Directors of FIRST
  • Policy
  • Senior IT - Security Expert
Serge Droz is a senior IT-Security expert and seasoned incident responder. After more than twenty years work in different CSIRTs he now works as a senior adviser for the Swiss FDFA. He studied physics at ETH Zurich and the University of Alberta, Canada and holds a PhD in theoretical astrophysics. He has worked in private industry and academia in Switzerland and Canada in different security roles as well as at the national CERT in Switzerland. Serge is a member of the board of directors of FIRST (Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams), the premier organisation of recognised global leaders in incident response. In this role he actively participates in discussion relating to cyber security at various policy bodies, in particular related to norm building. Serge is an active speaker and a regular trainer for CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) courses around the world.

George Theall

Job Titles:
  • Tenable Network Security

Graciela Martinez Giordano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Jacomo Piccolini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

James Lord

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Jason Keirstead

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Jean-Robert Hountomey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Member of the Membership Committee
  • Liaison

Jeroen van der Ham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Jim Duncan - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO

Jonathan Spring

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • CISA

Justin Novak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Klaus-Peter Kossakowski - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Koichiro "Sparky" Komiyama

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • JPCERT / CC

Laurie Tyzenhaus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • CERT / CC

Maarten Van

Job Titles:
  • Horenbeeck ( Chair ) Zendesk, US

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Job Titles:
  • Horenbeeck ( Chair ) Zendesk, US

Margrete Raaum - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Mark Graff - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Masato Terada

Job Titles:
  • Information - Technology Promotion Agency Japan

Michael Hausding - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Michael Murray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the HP Software Security Response Team
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Miguel Sanchez - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO

Mike Caudill - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Moira West-Brown - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Nadia Yousef

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Membership

Neil Long - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Olivier Caleff - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors

Peter Allor - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO

Peter Lowe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Roger Safian - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO

Rohit Srivastwa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Membership Committee

Ron Gula

Job Titles:
  • Tenable Network Security

Shawn Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • NVIDIA

Sherif Hashem - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Membership Committee
  • Visiting Computer Science Professor at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, US

Steve Adegbite - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Sudhanshu Shekhar Sharma - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Tadashi Yamagishi

Job Titles:
  • Information - Technology Promotion Agency Japan

Tanyette Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the HP Software Security Response Team

Thomas Schreck - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Initial
  • Liaison

Todd A. Shell

Job Titles:
  • Department of the

Tom Millar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • CISA

Tracy Bills - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Membership Committee
  • Events

Trey Darley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Accenture

Vilius Benetis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • NRD CIRT

Vinay Bansal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Cisco Systems

Warren Kumari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Initial
  • Google

Wietse Venema - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Yukako Uchida

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Education & Training
  • Manager of Global Coordination Division at Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
Yukako Uchida is the Manager of Global Coordination Division at Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC). She is responsible for international collaboration activities with overseas Cyber Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), mainly in the Asia Pacific region. She has participated in several international CSIRT communities including Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) for about 10 years. She joined the FIRST Board of Directors in 2021.Yukako has participated in the FIRST community through the following activities: Supported the organising team for Osaka TC in 2018 Attended TCs and Regional Symposia held in Shanghai, Muscat, Málaga and Bilbao Organised a panel session at 2020 Annual Conference (virtual) on regional CSIRT communities Assisted in Japanese translation of several FIRST documents (TLP v2, EthicsfIRST etc.) Involved in multiple membership applications as a sponsor for teams in Japan and other countries Actively communicate with local FIRST members to keep them updated about the latest FIRST activities Since appointed as a board member in 2021, Yukako has been engaged in the following board activities: Organised the Incident Response Hall of Fame program for 2022 and 2023 Annual Conference Lead the training programs and engagements Organise FIRST-APCERT Symposium for Asia-Pacific Region Participate in the diversity and inclusion discussions