Fernando is a Principal Analyst on the Information Security team, based in Toronto. He has broad experience in security architecture, particularly network security for enterprise environments. He currently focuses on covering vendors and industry events in the endpoint security and cloud security spaces. Prior to joining 451 Research, Fernando worked in pre-sales and delivery roles with vArmour, RSA, SilverTail, Crossbeam and Hewlett-Packard. His areas of interest include security economics (particularly behavior economics), data science and network security. Fernando holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and several industry certifications.

Andy, VP, CrowdStrike Store, is responsible for creating a curated marketplace of partner applications that directly leverage CrowdStrike’s telemetry. He works across the security ecosystem to find joint solutions that solve customer security problems. Andy’s roles require him to have a broad understanding of the current and future security ecosystem. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, he was VP, Business and Corporate Development, for Palo Alto Networks. Andy’s primary business development focus was coordinating partnerships with public cloud providers and the partners for the Palo Alto Networks Cortex ecosystem. As the leader of the Corporate Development team, he was also responsible for M&A as well as strategic investments. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Andy worked at Barracuda Networks and led the Business and Corporate Development function. While at Seagate Technology, he held numerous roles across multiple organizations, including Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Product Management and Market Analytics. Andy began his career on Wall Street, working for both buyside and sellside organizations including Morgan Stanley and Owenoke Capital Management. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in both Economics and Psychology from Emory University.