The voices on stage at Predict 2025 aren’t just talking about the future, they’re building it. From Recorded Future leadership to customers and community experts, get ready to hear from the trailblazers shaping intelligence today. The full speaker lineup is coming soon, and it’s one you won’t want to miss.
Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, Inc. and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He advises a series of start up companies. Earlier Ahlberg was the president
of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX) for $195M. Spotfire was founded based on his ground-breaking research on information visualization. Dr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology, worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, and has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities - as well as published & lectured in computer science, cybersecurity, psychology, linguistics, biology, and chemistry. He has five granted software patents, and multiple pending.
Dr. Ahlberg was named among the World's Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation in 2002. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Jamie Zajac has over 10 years of experience in security and data protection roles and is currently the Chief of Product at Recorded Future. Jamie holds a B.S. in Meteorology and Computer Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
Kalpana is an accomplished marketing and strategy leader with 15+ years of experience working in cybersecurity, technology and management consulting across US, Australia, Singapore and India.
She currently leads product marketing for Recorded Future which includes product marketing, solution marketing, technical marketing, competitive intelligence, and industry Analyst Relations. She focuses on understanding the market, customer problems, and technology to develop impactful positioning and messaging to drive revenue growth. Prior to joining Recorded Future, Kalpana led the Customer Identity product marketing team at Okta where she helped companies accelerate digital transformation and secure their customer data through identity.
Prior to focusing on product marketing, Kalpana spent a number of years in strategy and corporate development where she helped leadership and board make strategic investment decisions. She also spent time meeting start-ups across every area of cybersecurity and has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and what makes a product work and scale in the crowded security market.
Kalpana has a bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Delhi and MBA from IIT, Delhi.
Michelle McCluer is a recognized global cybersecurity leader with deep expertise in intelligence operations, crisis response, and cyber resilience. As Vice President of Global Fusion and Intelligence at Mastercard, she leads a worldwide network of Fusion Centers and intelligence capabilities, including Mastercard’s Global Fusion Center, Crisis Management program, Threatcasting Lab, European and Asia-Pacific Cyber Resilience
Centers, Advanced Threat Operations, and the Mastercard Intelligence Center.
Michelle’s work focuses on integrating advanced threat intelligence into operational security models to protect critical infrastructure and ensure business continuity across global networks. She has been instrumental in scaling Mastercard’s intelligence capabilities and aligning them with regulatory requirements and threat landscapes across
regions.
At the forefront of cyber defense strategy, Michelle actively engages with government partners and international security organizations to strengthen global threat-sharing frameworks. Her forward-leaning leadership is also shaping the future of cyber through innovation in fusion center models and the strategic use of predictive intelligence. Michelle is an Aspen Rising Leaders Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a passionate advocate for cyber policy, workforce development, and digital safety. She is also the author of Sam and Molly Stay Safe While Gaming, a children's book promoting online safety and digital literacy.
Staffan Truvé is the co-founder and CTO of Recorded Future. He has co-founded over 15 software companies, including visualization pioneer Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) and Appgate (now Cryptzone) for network security. Staffan holds a PhD in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology. He has been a visiting Fulbright Scholar at MIT. His research interests include threat intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and information visualization. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Dan Erickson is the Senior Director of Information Security and Compliance at Total Wine. Dan oversees all Information Security operations and engineering as well as direct oversight of the compliance and privacy programs ensuring consumer data is protected and compliant with all current regulatory requirements. In addition to Total Wine, Dan also sits on the Customer Advisory Board for Expel. Prior to Total Wine, Dan held positions at Bryn Mawr Trust as the SVP of Security and Third-Party Risk Management and various consulting roles at KPMG, Grant Thornton, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Colin Mahony is the newly appointed CEO of Recorded Future. He joined the company in 2023 to continue the company’s rapid growth as the leading global provider of Threat Intelligence solutions.. Colin joined Recorded Future because he fervently believes in the company’s mission to “Secure our World with Intelligence” leveraging the company’s unique Intelligence Cloud and risk mitigation and remediation capabilities. Colin is passionate about this mission and the tremendous impact it has on customers, partners, and their communities. Colin has been in the analytics and data intelligence market for over twenty years operating in both early stage start-up environments and large global companies. He has also been a venture capitalist and board member of private and public companies.
Lincoln works as CTI lead at Deloitte Global. He has over a decade of experience helping organizations understand the threats they face and make informed, risk based decisions.
Corey is a military veteran and leader in Cyber Security with 14 years of experience, 14 industry accredited certifications, and a profound passion for all facets of Cyber Security. His diverse experience encompasses leading blue and red teams, executive advisory positions, incident response, security engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and risk management. Beyond his professional pursuits, he indulges in hobbies such as mentorship, public speaking, attending conferences, conquering IT certifications, and experimenting with AI. A fun fact: Corey once hacked a drone and took over its controls!
With over 30 years of cybersecurity experience across multiple disciplines, Mr. Klein Keane has build and let multiple threat intelligence programs that delivered measureable value in order to withstand budgetar and executive scrutiny. Justin has worked across multiple verticals in both an advisory and in-house capacity. Justin currently leads CSL Behring's cyber threat intelligence program.
Adam has been with JPMorgan Chase for nearly three years, where he represents the firm during third-party cyber incidents and develops large-scale risk analytics. Prior to joining JPMC, he accumulated over 20 years of experience with the federal government, working on diverse projects in circuit board design, software development, cybersecurity analysis, and cyber operations. He was once voted by his peers as Most Likely to Make a Spreadsheet "Just In Case."
Sanjay Kumar is a Threat Intelligence Manager at Landis+Gyr and a PhD researcher in Cybersecurity and Networking at the University of Jyväskylä, specializing in hybrid machine learning–based threat detection. He has over a decade of global experience in threat intelligence, detection engineering, and adversary tracking, having worked at several international organizations, and he currently serves as Chair of IEEE Finland Young Professionals. Sanjay is an active speaker at international cybersecurity conferences and has earned numerous awards recognizing his contributions to the field.
Marie Brattberg is Chief Strategy Officer at Recorded Future where she works across all functional departments to develop, communicate, and oversee execution of the overall company strategy. Marie has been with Recorded Future since 2013 and before that, she’s spent 10 years in the high tech domain founding and growing startups in Silicon Valley, New York, and Stockholm. Today she advises a number of European based startups and serves on a few Board of Directors of local tech companies. Marie has a degree in Systems and Information Science from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. She’s also a Y-Combinator alumni.
Steve Range is a Director of Mastercard’s security operations with expertise in managing and optimizing enterprise security tools to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats.
With 17 years of experience gained from working at the largest public and private organizations, he leads cross-functional teams in deploying technologies and strategies that strengthen organizational resilience and ensure continuous protection of Mastercard’s infrastructure.
Patrick Davey presides over Mastercard Corporate Security's Threat Emulation effort. Much of Mr. Davey's professional focus lies on the conversation of Cyber Threat Intelligence into improved security controls.
With 13 years of Cyber Security experience in both the public and private sector, Mr. Davey is dedicated to bridging the gap between talking about Cyber Threat Intelligence and actioning that intelligence.
Professor Chris Miller is an expert on international politics, economics, and technology.
He is the author, of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, a book that explains how computer chips have made the modern world—and how the U.S. and China are struggling for control over this fundamental technology.
A handful of companies control the manufacturing of all the world’s semiconductors, giving them a chokehold over the computing power on which everything from the biggest data centers to the tiniest Internet- of-Things devices depend.
The future of computing, the book argues, will be determined by who controls the ability to produce the world’s most advanced chips. Chip War won Financial Times' Best Business Book of the Year award in 2022 and the prestigious Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations in 2023. It was described by The New York Times as a “a nonfiction thriller.”
Miller serves as professor of international history at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and co-director of the school’s Russia and Eurasia Program.
He also serves as nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a leading think tank, where he researches and writes on trends in international politics. He is also a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm that advises some of the world’s largest hedge funds, venture capital firms, asset managers, and corporations.
Professor Miller’s previous books explored major trends in politics and economics that shaped the contemporary world. His book Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia explores the origins of Vladimir Putin’s rule over Russia and the economic impact Putin has had. Miller’s book We Shall Be Masters examines major shifts in geopolitics in Europe and Asia over the past three centuries, exploring the rise and fall of prior empires and how this legacy shapes Russia and China today.
Miller’s first book, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy examined the collapse of the Soviet Union and global demise of socialism. Professor Miller frequently writes for newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and many others. He has published academic articles in leading journals of international politics and economics.
He has previously served as Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy.
He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in history from Harvard University.
Adam Janofsky is the founding editor-in-chief of The Record from Recorded Future News. He previously was the cybersecurity and privacy reporter for Protocol, and prior to that covered cybersecurity, AI, and other emerging technology for The Wall Street Journal.
Jack Watson is a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Global Payments with over six years of experience specializing in intelligence collection, OSINT, and Dark Web insights. He previously served as a Cyber Systems Engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, collaborating with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Jack holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Appalachian State University, is pursuing an M.S. in Information Security Engineering from the SANS Technology Institute, and is passionate about inspiring future cybersecurity professionals through teaching and guest lectures.
Colin Ahern was appointed by Governor Kathy Hochul in June 2022 as New York’s first Chief Cyber Officer. In this role, he led the development of the state’s first ever cybersecurity strategy and leads cross-agency efforts to protect New York State from cyber threats.
Prior to joining state service, Colin served as First Deputy Director of New
York City Cyber Command and Acting Chief Information Security Officer of New York City. Colin worked in cybersecurity in financial services before joining New York City government. Colin began his career in the Army, enlisting in the reserves after 9/11 and later served on active duty as an Army officer where he deployed twice to Afghanistan. He was
promoted to multiple leadership roles and ended his Army career as company commander in the Army Cyber Brigade, where he oversaw the creation of a specialized cyberspace operations organization. His military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Knowlton Award.
Colin has taught at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. His academic and professional writing has been widely published, including by the Advanced Computing Systems Association, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Washington Post. Colin received a bachelor's degree from Tulane University and a Master of Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business.
Colin lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn.
