Edgar Perez Leading Cybersecurity Workshop for CEOs in NYC,

London, Dubai, Bangkok, Jakarta & Sydney

Edgar Perez brings Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop 2015, seminars in New York City,
London, Dubai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Sydney, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo that are specifically designed
for board members, senior executives and entrepreneurial business professionals looking for
new ways to gain and maintain competitive business advantage in one of the most critical
subjects for corporations and governments worldwide.
New York City, NY, USA (August 28, 2015) -- The
extramarital affair website Ashley Madison has been
served with a US $578 million lawsuit following a breach
that resulted in data concerning 39 million of its members
being leaked online, including usernames, messages and
email and home addresses. Furthermore, it was recently
disclosed by Gizmodo editor-in-chief Annalee Newitz that
most of the female accounts were fake. The official
numbers from the site showed that 31 million of the
accounts belonged to men while 5 million supposedly
were linked to females. However, Newitz found that
10,000 accounts were created with the
ashleymadison.com email, implying that they were test
subscriptions. Nine thousand of those 10,000 belonged to
women, while the remaining numbers were either
categorized as male or no gender specified.
Firms like Avid Dating Life and Avid Media, the Toronto-based companies that run Ashley Madison, now
begin to view cyber attacks as existential threats to their survival; ignoring cyber security issues can have
the most dangerous and lasting consequences for global and local corporations. They join now an ever
growing list of large companies that have suffered high-profile cyber security breaches that include
Adobe, ADP, E*Trade, Fidelity, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, Nasdaq, Neiman Marcus, Sony, Target
and Wal-mart.
Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop 2015 (http://www.cybersecurityboardroomworkshop.com), How
Boards of Directors and CXOs Can Build the Proper Foundation to Address Today's Information Security
Challenges, is specifically designed for boards of directors and CEOs of public and private firms looking
for new ways to gain and maintain their competitive advantages. Business executives with responsibility
for IT, finance, compliance, risk management and procurement as well as entrepreneurs and innovators
are welcome to add their points of view to the debate.
Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop 2015 is a must-attend forum for board members, CEOs, CFOs,
COOs and executive managers in New York City, London, Dubai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Sydney, Taipei,
Seoul and Tokyo who need to become more educated about cyber security in order to ask questions that
are strategic yet granular enough to address company specifics. Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop
2015 is targeted at corporate decision-makers for whom cybersecurity readiness is a relatively new yet
critically important area to be intelligently conversant about.
The presenter is a published author, business consultant for billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds
and Council Member at the Gerson Lehrman Group, with subject matter expertise in cybersecurity,

investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank Act) and market structure. Mr. Perez has presented
his workshops in cities around the world, including Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur,
Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He contributes to The New York Times and
China's International Finance News and Sina Finance.
ABOUT EDGAR PEREZ
Mr. Perez is the author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest
Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency
Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc.
(2011), Published in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat,
published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr. Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's Squawk on the Street,
Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box, FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell
and After the Bell, Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Espaol's Dinero, Sina Finance, BNN's
Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel
NewsAsia's Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been featured on
Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS
Futures, Tongxin Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN
Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International Finance News, hexun.com,
Finance.QQ.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian
Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econmico, FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online,
Oriental Daily News and Business Times.
Mr. Perez has been engaged to present to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv
National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC 2012 (Shanghai), U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, University of International Business
and Economics (Beijing), Hult International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New York),
among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global
conferences, including Cyber Security World Conference 2014 (New York), Inside Market Data 2013
(Chicago), Emerging Markets Investments Summit 2013 (Warsaw), CME Group's Global Financial
Leadership Conference 2012 (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business School's Venture Capital & Private
Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum
(London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).
Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a strategy consultant at
McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval
Finance. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de
Ingeniera, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and
a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in
Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez
resides in the New York City area with his wife Olga, son Edgar Felipe and daughter Svetlana Sofia.
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