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Make the room think differently about cyber & AI governance.

CNC speakers bring Board, C-Suite, national-security, public-policy, critical-infrastructure and capital-markets perspective to the decisions senior leaders are already being forced to make.

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CNC Executive Speakers

Credibility from the rooms where technology risk becomes an enterprise decision.

Marcus Marc Sachs and Andrzej Cetnarski, Cyber Nation Central executive speakers
Camera leftMarcus (Marc) Sachs
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Andrzej Cetnarski

Chairman, CEO & Founder

Founder/CEO and Board/C-Suite cyber & AI governance leader connecting technology risk to accountability, capital allocation, national security, public policy and enterprise value.

For nearly two decades, Andrzej Cetnarski has served in Chairman and CEO roles, beginning at age 32, building and leading companies across technology, investment and operating environments; his background also includes paid U.S. Congressional staff service, capital-markets and operating roles, and senior technology-security/public-policy appointments. Since June 2023, he has served on the Advisory Council of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue; from October 2023 through January 2025 he chaired its Cyber Defense Advisory Council; and in 2024 he served as a Global Tech Security Commission Member, Cyber & Data.

His work and speaking have brought him before senior corporate, government, policy, academic, Board/C-Suite and investor audiences across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Selected authority

  • Harvard Kennedy School MPA — cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security and disruptive-technology policy.
  • Wharton MBA — Finance and Entrepreneurial Management; Penn/Lauder MA — Asian and European Affairs.
  • RSA Conference 2023 — Speaker & Panel Chair on Board-down cyber governance.
  • Capital-markets and operating experience spanning the Mitsubishi UFJ lineage, HSBC Financial Sponsors, UBS and McMaster-Carr.

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Marcus (Marc) Sachs

Board Director | Former Chief Security Officer

Cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure leader whose experience spans the U.S. Army, White House/DHS cyber policy, NERC and senior private-sector security leadership — bringing deep operational and policy perspective to cyber resilience and infrastructure risk.

His career includes 20 years in the U.S. Army; service on the National Security Council staff and the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board; service as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s first Cyber Program Director; senior cyber leadership at NERC and other institutions; and current service as Senior Vice President & Chief Engineer at the Center for Internet Security.

Selected authority

  • Military, national-security and federal cyber-policy leadership.
  • Critical-infrastructure security and NERC executive experience.
  • Former Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center and co-author of information-security books.
  • Current RSAC speaking record spanning Board-down governance and cyber-informed engineering.

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Featured Speaking Proof

Selected authority in the rooms that matter.

Andrzej Cetnarski · 2023

RSA Conference

Speaker & Panel Chair - "How to Create a Breach-Deterrent Culture of Cybersecurity, From Board Down," presented to 1,000+ CEOs, Board leaders and CISOs. RSA Conference 2023 drew more than 40,000 attendees.

Andrzej Cetnarski · 2023

SafeBreach Validate Summit

Panelist / Speaker - "How to Cyber-Proof Your Board & Senior Management Against the Looming SEC Cyber Regulations," before a Fortune 50 CISO audience.

Andrzej Cetnarski · 2021

International Cybersecurity Innovation Summit

Co-Chair; opened the content program before nearly 1,000 private-, government- and non-government-sector leaders and introduced Singapore Commissioner of Cybersecurity and Cyber Security Agency Chief Executive David Koh for the Opening Keynote; chaired the AI/public-private cybersecurity-innovation roundtable with Nand Mulchandani, Apoorv Saxena and David Shoresh; and delivered closing remarks. The summit featured 115 international thought leaders from four continents, including 23 Flag and General Officers.

Marc Sachs · 2026

RSA Conference

“What the Enigma Machine Teaches OT Security Professionals.” ↗

Marc Sachs · 2025

RSA Conference

“Application of Cyber-Informed Engineering to Municipal Utility Security.” ↗

Marc Sachs · 2026

U.S. Space & Rocket Center AI Symposium

“AI Symposium 2026 - Marcus Sachs.” ↗

Selected institutional engagements

Representative rooms, institutions and audiences.

A selected record spanning Board/C-Suite, private-capital and institutional-investor audiences, alongside national-security, policy and technology forums.

Selected press & independent coverage

Independent coverage of the work.

Selected third-party coverage of Board and executive cybersecurity-governance work and related institutional forums.

Selected executive conversations

Board and leadership conversations.

A small set of long-form conversations on Board-level cyber governance, executive risk and resilience.

FROM THE ROOM TO INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE

Turn the live governance question into repeatable practice.

When a speaking engagement surfaces a live governance decision, CNC may move into a Governance Decision Lab, Executive Governance Simulation or Enterprise Governance Cohort.

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Tell us who will be in the room, what they are confronting and what you want them to think, decide or do differently when they leave. CNC will recommend the right speaker, format and focus.