About The Speaker

Marlene DeHart
Marlene Dehart brings over 20 years of high-impact cybersecurity leadership, guiding enterprise-scale security engineering, global risk management, and strategic architecture in banking, financial services, product development, and critical infrastructure. She's orchestrated security integrations across more than 40 worldwide mergers and acquisitions and served as a key technical investigator in billion-dollar intellectual property litigation. A retired member of the US Air Force Reserves in Space and Cyber operations, Marlene combines proven expertise with forward-thinking vision. Holding an MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency and CISSP certification, she specializes in securing Web3 and decentralized systems, bridging legacy governance with tomorrow's innovations