2026 Co-chairs

Christopher Buse
Old Republic International

Mary Diner
UnitedHealth Group
2026 Think Tank

Vincent Aimutis
Federated Insurance

Lisa Baez
Progressive Leasing

Craig Byrkit
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

Marc Child
Great River Energy

Sean Costigan
NATO Defense Education Enhancement Program

Tim Crothers
CounterMeasure Security

Daniel Cunningham
Health Partners

Kumar Dasani
B. Braun Medical Inc.

Loren Dealy Mahler
National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Phil Englert
Health-ISAC, Inc.

Chris Gabbard
CISA

Michelle Greeley
Solera Health

Tim Herman
InfraGard Minnesota Members Alliance

Paul Hershberger
nVent

John Israel
MNIT

Bill James
Navy League of the United States

Peter Kapelanski
Medtronic

Lindsey Konerza
University of Minnesota

Mamady Konneh
WeNetworkNow

Patrick Kooiker
Securian Financial

David LaBelle
Federal Reserve

Phyllis Lee
Center for Internet Security

Kristine Livingston
Sunrise Banks

Jennifer Lotze
IT Audit Labs

Eileen Manning
Cyber Security Summit

Tina Meeker
Old Republic International

Jerrod Montoya
Truvantis

Brian Morgan
Minnesota National Guard

Michael Nghiem
Edward Jones Information Security

David Notch
Castlelake

Eric Ong
Donaldson

Nicole Pruden
ECMECC

Dan Rieken
American Systems

Shawn Riley
BisBlox

Mark Ritchie
U.S. Army

Eric Roeske
Minnesota State Patrol

Michael Rogers
Hormel

Scott Singer
CyberNINES

Justin Smith
EcoLab

Rachel Soanes
Sportech

Tony Taylor
Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Stacy Tietjen
St. Thomas School of Law

Shayla Treadwell
Lumen Technologies

Paul Veeneman
MN ISSA

Nikki Weis
Air National Guard

Bob Weiss
ISC2 Twin Cities

Troy Wilkinson
YL Ventures













