Cynthia Kaiser is a senior cyber and national security executive with two decades of experience protecting the nation from complex threats across the globe. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, leading policy, intelligence, and partnerships to support victims and disrupt cyber adversaries. During her FBI tenure, she also served as a member of the Cyber Safety Review Board and as a daily intelligence briefer to senior White House officials in two administrations.

Today, Cynthia leads the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, driving threat research and collaborating across sectors to detect, disrupt, and defeat ransomware. Widely recognized as a leading cyber executive by organizations like The Cyber Guild, FedScoop, CyberScoop, WashingtonExec, and GovCIO, Cynthia is most proud of the teams she has built and the critical systems and communities their work helps protect.

Maggie McDaniel brings to Halcyon 20 years of intelligence experience in the public and private sectors. Most recently from Recorded Future where she built and lead Insikt Group, Recorded Future's threat intelligence and security research group. Over those 8 years, Maggie built a global team and expanded breadth of coverage to meet the needs of a growing customer base. Prior to that she worked in Fidelity Investment's Enterprise Cyber Security first in threat intelligence and later penetration testing and red teaming operations where she gained a deep understanding of threat intelligence applications in various security contexts. Maggie honed her intelligence tradecraft as a strategic weapons analyst at the US Central Intelligence Agency where she served for over a decade.

Meredith Burkart is a cyber and national security leader with fifteen years of experience in cyber policy and intelligence and cyber policy. She previously served as the FBI Chief of Cyber Policy, as well as the first Director of Operations and Incident Response at the Office of the National Cyber Director. Prior to this experience, she was an FBI Cyber intelligence analyst. She also teaches cyber intelligence at Georgetown University.

Now as the Senior Director for Government Affairs at the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, she pursues public policy solutions to stop ransomware and protect cybercrime victims. She is building a global hub of practical policy research and reliable consensus building towards a holistic, whole-of-society approach to defeat ransomware threats.

Researcher, author, award-winning publisher and producer. Previously a freelance security journalist leading headline-making investigations that included the Symantec NAV source code leak, the mass compromise of US government agency account credentials, hacktivist Th3j35t3r's Libyan psy-ops campaign and denial-of-service attack that took down WikiLeaks, the Heartland breach and more.

Erika Totaro is a cyber threat intelligence researcher with over six years of experience in tracking sophisticated criminal adversaries conducting malware activity. Erika previously worked as a Security Intelligence Engineer at Amazon Web Services where she conducted investigations into both financially motived and nation state threat actors. Prior to this experience, Erika served as a Malware Analyst at the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA).Currently as a Ransomware Intelligence Analyst, Erika drives collection and analysis for the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center. She is curating an intelligence hub to drive collaborative research across the industry and ultimately lead to coordinated disruption of ransomware threat actors.