Yaron Gamburg is a Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies of Tel Aviv University.

Gamburg joined the Israel Foreign Service in 1999 and held diplomatic positions in France, Russia, and the United States. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles.

Originally from Ukraine, he immigrated to Israel at the age of 17 and completed his academic degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gamburg is fluent in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and French.

Janet Pucino is an experienced Information Technology (IT) advisor, leadership specialist and author. She has held numerous senior level positions throughout her 30-year technology career and developed a keen focus for optimizing IT investments and leading organizations through change. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University. Janet is passionate about leadership development within organizations, particularly for women, and served multiple terms as a member of the Leadership committees for the University of Chicago Booth Advisory Council and Northern Illinois University Foundation Board of Directors. Janet’s leadership and industry experience includes:

CIO, Vanguard Logistics – Global Ocean Logistics company specializing in LCL shipments

CIO, Prolacta Bioscience – Bioscience company specializing in nutritional products for neonatal ICUs

CEO, Deep Canyon Media – Consulting firm specializing in leadership development and CIO services

IT Governance Officer, VP Office of the CIO, VP Worldwide Application Development and Director of Enterprise Architecture and Planning, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. – A leading global film, television, and animation entertainment company

CTO, Art Center College of Design – Renowned transdisciplinary design college specializing in transportation, product, graphic, and digital design

Terry R. O’Neill founded his financial services enterprise in 1978, over four decades ago, specializing in the engineering of corporate employee benefit planning, executive benefit planning, and business succession planning for organizations. The enterprise designed comprehensive financial and wealth creation strategies, developed estate and retirement planning concepts along with multi-generational estate and wealth conservation strategies for families and individuals. He monetized the firm in 2017.

Over those four decades, Mr. O’Neill served on four major financial association boards: 3 domestic and 1 international. In addition, he was nominated to be an advisor to the Federal Open Market Committee, was an advisor to the Small Business Council of America, was an Associate Member of the Milken Institute and formerly a Member of Roubini Global Economics. Mr. O’Neill has advised two California Governors on economic and business issues. He has served on committees that have advised the U. S. Treasury and Congress on numerous financial topics.

He authored The Life Insurance Kit (1993: Dearborn Financial Publishing), and has written for numerous publications in the financial industry including Financial Services Week, Employee Benefit Plan Review and The National Underwriter. Mr. O’Neill has appeared frequently as a guest on television and radio to discuss the economic ramifications of issues in healthcare, employee benefits and retirement planning and was profiled in Leadership Magazine and the Orange County Register. He has spoken regularly on economic and financial topics at national conferences.

Since 2017, Mr. O’Neill has been working exclusively on special economic and financial consulting projects.

Opal Singleton Hendershot is the President and CEO of Million Kids, a

501(c)3 organization dedicated to keeping kids safe from predators. She is one of the leading voices for combating human trafficking, social media exploitation and the impact of advanced technologies on child sex crimes.

Million Kids serves as the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force (RCAHT) and works with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department through a Department of Justice Grant. Opal has completed tens of thousands of hours of research over the past ten years on those subjects and dealt with real cases making her an expert on human trafficking crimes and online social media exploitation of minors.

With her expertise, Opal has educated and trained more than 500,000 government and individual leaders as the keynote speaker and workshop presenter on labor trafficking, adult and child sex trafficking, foreign national trafficking, gang trafficking, advanced technologies used in sex crimes, sextortion and social media exploitation, crypto currency and money laundering, the Dark Net and bulletproof hosting, and CSAM (child sexual abuse materials). She often appears on television and radio talk shows across the United States.

Opal is the author of two books. Seduced: The Grooming of America’s Teenagers (2015) examines real cases to illustrate how predators use social media and online gaming to access, groom, recruit and exploit teenagers into sex trafficking, sextortion and exploitation. The second book, Societal Shift: A World Without Borders... A Home Without Walls (2019), takes a look at the impact of over six billion people coming together through 5G High Speed Internet creating a momentous societal shift. The book explores the technology transformation that changes crime and crime solving including artificial intelligence, mass audience live streaming, global digital currency, geo location software, and encryption, Opal is a lecturer and subject matter expert for the National Education Safety and Security Initiative in UCLA’S Center for Public Health and Disasters. Opal is also an Instructor at USC Price Safe Communities Institute and former co-instructor at the USC School of Social Work for the Los Angeles Police Department LEAD program and is an instructor at Los Angeles Fire Leadership Training Academy. Opal has completed the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation Instructor Course and served on the Peace Officers Standardized Training panel to develop the training curriculum on human trafficking for law enforcement in California.

Opal hosts a radio show on KTIE 590 AM called “Exploited: Crimes and Technology” every Saturday at 3:00 PM throughout Southern California. She also presents a regular Million Kids Insider Alert video and post for her subscribers featuring breaking news and expert case analysis.

Simply stated: Opal cares deeply about the safety of young people and their families.

DR. FRANK QUIAMBAO is the Director of the National Education Security Institute at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. Prior to his current position, Dr. Quiambao was the Director of Safe Communities Institute (formerly DCI) in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Quiambao served ten years in homeland security at the state and federal level—first, in the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), formerly the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security. In this capacity, he worked in the area of critical infrastructure protection and the countering of violent extremism.

Dr. Quiambao also developed partnerships with business, educational institutions and faith-based communities to promote emergency preparedness. More recently he was assigned as a DHS loaned executive attached to the U.S. Secret Service heading the National Education Security Initiative. Before his involvement in homeland security, Dr. Quiambao spent 35 years in higher education. He has held numerous faculty and administrative positions with the California State University and Community Colleges.

During his career, Dr. Quiambao served as president of two colleges. While in higher education, he worked extensively with education and training programs for law enforcement, fire technology and emergency medical services. Dr. Quiambao was appointed by the State Chancellor to chair the California Community Colleges Homeland Security Task Force and chaired the curriculum committee for the International Leadership Program in Counter-Terrorism at USC.