Our Board
Meet our board of directors driving our mission.
Abdel Sy Fane
CHAIR
Abdel is a senior staff engineer at Grail and has a master’s in Cyber Forensics & Security from Illinois Institute of Technology. Abdel founded the professional group Chicago CyberSecurity to meet the growing demand of security professionals with accessible cybersecurity education.
At CSNP, he has acted as many roles including President, CBO, CFO, Marketing Director, Chicago Chapter President, U.S. Midwest Director, and Business Development Vice President.
Emily Stamm
VICE CHAIR
Emily Stamm has experience in quantum machine learning engineering and consulting, cryptography research and engineering at Allstate, and number theory research with publications. Emily enjoys public speaking on topics in mathematics, cryptography, and quantum computing.
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At CSNP, she has acted as many roles including President, Vice President, Outreach Director, and Marketing Director.
Andrea Kim
BOARD MEMBER
Andrea is a Cyber Security & Compliance Analyst at Whisker Labs. Andrea co-founded CSNP because she is passionate about increasing accessibility in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity interests include Application Security, Mobile/IoT Security and Malware Analysis. Multi-pet owner and rescue volunteer.
At CSNP, she has acted as many roles including Outreach Director, Accessibility Director, and Chicago Outreach Vice President.
Advisors
Meet the experts providing guidance and helping us achieve our goals.
Sarah Foster
BOARD ADVISOR
Sarah is a territory sales manager at Palo Alto Networks. Sarah has 10 years of experience working in the security field and the startup community. Her role focuses on growing CSNP's member base, attracting sponsorships, and developing vehicles to allow our international community to collaborate together.
Paul Lanzi
BOARD ADVISOR
Paul is the co-founder and COO of Remediant. He previously managed mobile and web-focused full-stack enterprise software development and UX teams at Genentech, Roche and Gilead Sciences. Paul earned his BS with Honors in Computer Science at UC Davis and has held a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute since 2005. Through the work of the CSNP, Paul hopes that we can both address the diversity gap in Information Security practitioner population and raise the general level of awareness on privacy and information security topics.