Speaker Bio
Blair has 30+ years of IT cybersecurity sales, channel, marketing and business development experience starting as Symantec’s 1st Canadian employee. Blair continuously expanded his cybersecurity and cryptographic expertise with several start-ups including Chrysalis-ITS (Thales), Titus, InfoSec Global, Crypto4A and since September 2019, is happily back with his data protection colleagues within Thales’ Global Technology Alliances team, inclusive of the Quantum Cryptography portfolio. He is an avid presenter, start-up consultant and IT industry contributor (including the CFDIR PQC Working Group). Blair holds an Hons.BA from the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.