Bob has been involved in the information security industry since 1994.
He has held a number of leadership positions in product management,
sales, business development, marketing management and product
development. He is a frequent international speaker on the relationship
of business with Information Technology, cloud computing and security,
and has had numerous papers and articles published on these topics. He
also holds a United States Patent related to secure distributed
computing software.

Bob received a Master of Business
Administration degree in Organizational Change and Development from
Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer
Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Bob also holds a
certificate in strategic marketing planning from the Indiana University
Graduate School of Business. 

He is Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) by ISACA. 

He is a member of the Industry Advisory Boards for the Darwin Deason
Institute for Cybersecurity in the Lyle School of Engineering at
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (inaugural member), as
well as the Department of Computing Security at the Rochester Institute
of Technology in Rochester, New York (invited member).

Ran RAK Consulting in Rochester, New York from 1987-1989

Published The Emotionally Authentic Christian in 2007

Specialties: Security sales, channels, enablement, strategy, product management, market management, marketing, etc..

With over 25 years experience in security, compliance, and data loss prevention, Mr. Stone has focused the last seven years of his career specifically on endpoint security with the BigFix platform enabling his clients to implement effective endpoint management solutions. Prior to HCL and IBM, Mr. Stone held senior positions at TrendMicro, Reactivity, Proofpoint, Sun Microsystems, and Cobalt Networks.

Bob Gilbert's career spans more than 25 years in Silicon Valley where he has held leadership roles in product management and marketing at various technology companies. Most recently he was the Chief Evangelist at Riverbed where he was a member of the pioneering product team that launched Riverbed from a small start-up of less than 10 employees to a market leader with more than 3,000 employees and $1B in annual revenue.  Bob was first introduced to the world of cyber security as a teenager in the 80s when he hosted a BBS and had to develop his own terminal software to prevent Russian hackers from infiltrating his site being hosted from his parent’s home.

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