ABOUT

Before founding the Cyber Defense Labs, he was an executive officer and head of the cybersecurity division at Soliton Systems. Along with Dr. Rattray, he provided cyber tabletop exercise workshops to the Japanese government, but decided to start a company to provide hands-on exercises aimed at improving cyber capabilities, especially cadre of red team. He has over 20 years of experience working at Soliton Systems, but resigned once and worked as a new business manager and chief researcher at Cisco Systems and the Disaster Information Research Institute, respectively. He has been involved in the network business since before the commercial Internet began and has experience launching several large projects. As a university student, he visited East Berlin and had the experience of seeing the Berlin Wall from both the east and west sides. Director of Japan Cyber Crime Control Center. Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology with a degree in applied physics and Master of Science. He grew up Saku-city in Nagano.

Dr. Nobuo Kamata is the founder and chairman of Soliton Systems. For over 40 years since its founding, he has grown the company. Today, Soliton Systems has established a solid position as a domestic vendor of IT security and as a developer and provider of systems that transmit images and sounds through various lines. The start of these businesses was the success of the LAN business that began in 1984, and he is one of the pioneers of the network business in Japan. Prior to founding Soliton Systems, he had five years of experience at Intel's Japan operations as an application researcher, product marketing, and training manager. His experience of exchanging opinions with Robert Noyce, the greats of the semiconductor business and co-founder of Intel, greatly influenced his subsequent founding. He graduated from the graduated school at Tokyo Institute of Technology with a Master degree in applied physics and obtained Ph. D in solid-state physics.

Dr. Greg Rattray is Partner and Founder of Next Peak LLC, a cybersecurity & risk management firm. Previously, Greg was at JP Morgan Chase as the Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and headed the Global Cyber Partnership team responsible for cybersecurity policy advocacy with industry partners, government agencies and global organizations. In that role, Dr. Rattray drove numerous industry initiatives including the Financial Systemic Analysis & Resilience Center (FSARC), a private-public initiative to address systemic cyber risks, the Coalition to Reduce Cyber Risk, Sheltered Harbor and the Financial Sector Cybersecurity Profile. Greg retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Colonel in 2007. He served as Director for Cybersecurity in the White House and commanded the Operations Group of the AF Information Warfare Center. An operational cyber thought leader, Greg established the concepts of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and Operational Collaboration.
Dr. Rattray has a B.S. degree from the USAF Academy, a M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He authored Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace. He is a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct senior research professor at School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and serves as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Patrick Dempsey is the founder of Cyber Risk Group LLC, a cybersecurity consulting company supporting private, public and government clients globally. Patrick brings more than 25 years of IT and Information Security leadership to every client engagement and has provided strategic and operational guidance and leadership to hundreds of organizations. Prior to founding the Cyber Risk Group, Patrick's experiences include: Chief Information Security Officer and VP of High Tech Investigations in two, large financial services organizations; Executive Director of two national cyber security programs within the US DoD and allied countries; Assistant Vice President for Cyber Risk Control within the insurance industry where he assessed and helped improve the information security programs for hundreds of SMBs and Fortune 100 organizations across all critical infrastructure sectors; a FBI Special Agent investigating cyber crimes in more than a dozen countries; Technical Director for CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon University supporting US DoD, DHS, and DOJ cyber programs; and multiple adjunct professor roles teaching cybersecurity at three universities.

Mr. Satoshi Maeda joined the Japan Defense Agency in 1983, and for the past 40 years has been involved mainly in national security, defense, and foreign policy at the Ministry of Defense, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Police Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and other ministries and agencies. His major positions in the Japanese Government include First Secretary for Security Affairs in the Japanese Embassy in Washington DC, Director of the Administrative Coordination Division of the Ministry of Defense(MOD), Director General for Public Affairs of MOD, Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister, Director General of the Defense Policy Bureau of MOD and Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary (and Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Secretariat and Director of the National Center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity). He retired in December 2024 after he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Qatar, Middle East. During his tenure as Director General of the Defense Policy Bureau of the MOD (about 3 years) and Director of NISC (about 2 years), he was deeply involved in the government's cybersecurity policy and has a great deal of knowledge especially about Active Cybersecurity. He graduated from University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law. Born in Kyoto, Japan.