As CrowdStrike’s Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations, Adam Meyers leads the Threat Intelligence line of business for the company. Adam directs a geographically dispersed team of cyber threat experts tracking criminal, state-sponsored and nationalist cyber adversary groups across the globe and producing actionable intelligence to protect customers. He oversees the development and deployment of AI, machine learning, reverse engineering, natural language processing and other technologies to detect suspicious and malicious cyber behavior and stop increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Adam’s work in combining human intelligence and intelligence derived from technology continues to transform cybersecurity. Adam works closely with other departments within CrowdStrike to ensure the smooth and speedy integration of intelligence into CrowdStrike’s entire lineup of products and services. His team brings unprecedented insights into the activities of cyber threat actors, providing strategic and technical guidance to Fortune 100 businesses, major financial institutions, key government agencies and CrowdStrike customers. SC Magazine recently honored CrowdStrike’s record of achievement under Adam with the 2019 Trust Award for Best Threat Intelligence Technology. Almost every week, you will see Adam commenting on recent cyber threats and cyberattacks in leading broadcast, print and online media.

For over 18 years, Cristian Rodriguez has been a trusted advisor to cybersecurity leaders across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, academics, and federal, state and local agencies. Cristian has brought expertise and assistance to both the technical and business challenges that executives face when investing in new cyber technologies (e.g., EDR, DLP and IDP), and more importantly, when implementing new policies around their investments. As part of the initial 130 employees, Cristian has been a mainstay at CrowdStrike for the past 8 years, contributing to various white papers on mapping to compliance standards such as NIST, PCI and HIPAA, and leading an initiative to assist with securing local government and healthcare facility systems with turnkey deployment models. Previous roles include field and consulting system engineering titles at the likes of Optiv, Websense (Forcepoint) Zimperium, and CrowdStrike.