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Confirmed Speakers

Morning Speaker, Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Rachel Wilson is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Chief Data Officer. Her team of security professionals is responsible for protecting all sensitive client data from any type of theft, loss or compromise. She also oversees the resilience of Wealth Management’s critical infrastructure and the continuity of core business processes at times of turbulence. Additionally, Rachel supervises the client fraud risk program, which institutes technical and business controls to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of client funds. As a senior subject matter expert, Rachel regularly advises Wealth Management leadership and clients on the cyber threat landscape and mitigation strategies.

From 2017-2020, Rachel served as the first-ever Head of Wealth Management Cybersecurity. In this role, Rachel advised senior business and technology leaders on a range of cybersecurity issues, including secure code development standards, secure network architecture, vendor relationships, advanced persistent threat (APT) detection and mobile security. Her team drove innovation for new cybersecurity and authentication technology in the pursuit of protecting the integrity and confidentiality of firm and client data. In 2019, Rachel was recognized by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as part of the MAKERS Class, a program that honors women who serve as groundbreakers, innovators and advocates. She was also named one of the Top Women in WealthTech 2020 by ThinkAdvisor.

Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Rachel spent 15 years at the National Security Agency (NSA), where she held several key senior executive-level leadership positions. Between 2008 and 2010, she ran NSA’s counterterrorism operations and led a global enterprise in detecting and disrupting terrorist plotting against the U.S. and its allies. Between 2010 and 2012, Rachel served as NSA’s Chief of Operations in the U.K., working out of the U.S. Embassy in London. In this role, she worked with U.K. intelligence services to counter terrorist and cyber threats to the 2012 Olympics. Returning to the U.S. in 2012, Rachel spent nearly five years leading NSA’s cyber exploitation operations as the Deputy and then Chief of the Remote Operations Center within NSA’s Tailored Access Operations. In this capacity, she led the planning and execution of thousands of cyber exploitation operations against a wide array of foreign intelligence, military and cyber targets, and served as the committing official for many of NSA’s highest risk and most important intelligence gathering activities.

Lunch Speaker, Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Robert Gaskamp began his law enforcement career in 1985 and he retired from the FBI in 2019. He has served as a rural sheriff's deputy, a major metropolitan police officer, an FBI Agent in Selma, Alabama, Brownsville, Texas, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Farmington, New Mexico, Glenwood Springs, Colorado and Bryan/College Station, Texas. He has also been assigned to the FBI/CIA National Counterterrorism Center and the FBI Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU-1). Upon retirement from the FBI, he accepted his current position as Corporate Security Director for a group of family-owned corporations in the energy sector, financial sector, transportation sector, agriculture sector and recreation sector. The corporations have assets in ten states. Robert and his wife, Monica, live in Casper, Wyoming and have a dau ghter who lives in Texas.

Confirmed Session Topics (more to be added):

- TTP Treasure Hunt: Mining VXUG for Red Team Tactics
- Disrupting the Silence: Crowdsourcing OSINT to Bring the Missing Home
- Cyber Escape: A Breakout Box
- Best Practices for Records Management, Retention, and Data Cleanup
- Trends in the Power Industry

Confirmed Speakers

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