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Our Board

Meet our board of directors driving our mission. 
Abdel Fane

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

Emily Stamm

VICE CHAIR

Emily is a senior consultant in cybersecurity and quantum computing at EY. She has experience in cryptography and mathematics research and a degree from Vassar College. Emily co-founded CSNP because she is passionate about security awareness, accessibility, and diversity.

 

At CSNP, she has acted as many roles including President, Vice President, Outreach Director, Marketing Director, U.S. West Director.

Andrea Kim

Andrea Kim

BOARD MEMBER

Andrea is a cybersecurity analyst at Yello. 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

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

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.

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