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Thank you. Hello, I am Sloan Macus, and I am a principal in Pricewaterhouse-Cupers' cyber risk and regulatory practice, and I lead our Microsoft Cyber Alliance.

Okay. practice and I lead our Microsoft Cyber Alliance. I really didn't have any idea about what I wanted to be.

It was more about what I wanted to do.

So I've always had a fascination with math and solving problems.

And I've had this almost nonlinear view, even before I knew what nonlinear math was, and I can look back on it and see that my life I saw as variables, and I was

looking for ways to solve for them. I can move forward if I solve for one variable and maybe I needed to take

a couple of steps back and re-solve to move forward. But I always had this sense that I would be

able to do something that would be around solving problem.

Growing up, I actually had friends of all different sorts.

I really enjoyed nerding out with my friends who are willing to hack their way onto the mainframe on our local university campus.

But I was just as comfortable in the fact that I was quite athletic and I was an athlete.

I found my way to connect with lots of different people.

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