Melbourne Branch Committee

Branch Chair

Michael McKinnon

Michael McKinnon (CISSP, CCSP, MAISA) has 25 years of professional IT and information security industry experience. He is one of a small number of authorised (ISC)2 instructors in Australia, and as such dedicates his time to educating and coaching fellow members at CISSP training courses organised by AISA.

When Michael isn’t volunteering, he is busy working in a senior management role at Pure.Security (formerly HackLabs, PureHacking, and SecurusGlobal), working with a large team of penetration testers, security risk advisors, and a security operations center (SOC) - helping provide technical assurance and guidance to some of Australia's best-known brands.

With a deep technical background, Michael enjoys researching, writing and discussing a broad range of important topics on his personal blog, such as Cryptography, Risk management, Business Management for Cyber security Resilience, Security Automation & DevSecOps, and the emerging risks related to Cryptocurrencies.

Deputy Branch Chair

Chloe Hatzis

Chloe Hatzis has been a Member of the Melbourne Executive Committee for the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) since 2018 and has been active on the National Conference Committee.

Chloe is currently the Chief Operations Officer of ICTLC Australia. She is internationally experienced at implementing law and information security in business operations. Her experience includes cyber security strategy, international privacy and data protection law, information security management, corporate governance, and cyberlaw training for executive level management.

Chloe received the AISA 'Volunteer of the Year' award in 2018 and was nominated for ‘the One to Watch’ in the Australian Women in Security awards 2019. She has presented on privacy and security-related topics to students in Victoria, and through AISA has arranged various public events focusing on the integration of law and cyber security.

Committee Members

Tim Methot

Tim comes from a broad ICT background stemming over 30 years. His focus has been in testing networks, traffic generation, analytics, network design, penetration testing, and IT Security. Tim’s roles have been in management, sales, marketing, and consulting. He joined AISA and OWASP in 2014 and is working towards CISSP

Tim is a member of TITAB, has qualifications from Cisco, HP, Cert 4 in Training & Assesment, Engineering degree from Canada, and an MBA from Monash University.

Nilesh Nerurkar

Nilesh is a seasoned Security professional with global experience encompassing varied areas across IT Security landscape such as Manage Security Services, IT Audits, IT Risk Management, Compliance and IT Governance, Enterprise Security Architecture, Security Consulting and Security augmentation advisory. Nilesh is currently an Enterprise security architect at NAB and has over 16 years of experience in cyber security working in Australia, Asia, Europe & USA with various organizations in the public and private sectors in areas including, but not limited to: Banking and Financial institutions, telecommunications, IT Services & Consulting.

Nilesh holds Masters Degree in Management and is CISSP, CISA, CISM, ISO 27001 LA, CEH, CCNP, CCSA certified.

Kendal Watt

Kendal Watt currently represents a global leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence space and is based in Melbourne. He plays a pivotal role establishing the brand within the local market as well as educating customers on the role of CTI within a broader cybersecurity programme.
He has worked for both start-ups and in multinational corporation and has experience in Australia, the United Kingdom and Southern Africa. He has advised customers on wholistic cybersecurity strategy, governance, compliance as well as recommending the most appropriate tools and technology for their requirements.
Kendal recognises that fundamental changes and a different way of thinking about cyber security is required in order to get ahead of the cybersecurity threats and those perpetrating attacks against Governments, Businesses and Citizens.

Ryan Jukes

Ryan joined the Melbourne branch committee in January 2020.
Ryan is a senior consultant with Pure Security in Melbourne, where he is a core advisory team member specialising in the areas of Governance, Risk & Compliance.
He enjoys dissecting the regulatory landscape for both local and international clients. His strengths are in performing business continuity management activities and performing threat & risk assessments.

Ryan holds certifications from both ISC2 (CISSP) and ISACA (CRISC & CISA)

Nang Tip

Nang joined AISA Melbourne branch committee in 2017 and has over 15 years of ICT experience in both private and public sectors. Nang specialises in Cloud and Container applications security, penetration testing, governance, risk and compliance assessment of ICT systems.
Nang is currently an ICT Security Assistant Director at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and manages an applications security assurance team to ensure systems are implemented to safeguard the data and met the Australian Government Cyber Security Framework. Nang recent career highlights are the security leadership roles at the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Survey (https://bit.ly/2QOaKDx) and the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (https://bit.ly/2Davy0j) projects.
Nang holds a Master Degree in IT Management and is working towards her CISSP

Eswaree Sunassee

Eswaree holds 15 years consumer banking experience with seven years at middle management position and has worked as a Retail Bank Manager within three leading financial institutions in Mauritius. Since coming to Australia in 2018, she has been working is an academic leader and an Excellence Ambassador. Eswaree is passionate about challenging the status-quo over major and mundane things in life which triggered her interest in cybersecurity. She is now a cybersecurity enthusiast with particular interests in privacy, information security, governance, risk and compliance.

Eswaree holds a Masters of Cybersecurity and a Masters in Business Administration

Mohsin Sheikh

Mohsin joined AISA in December 2017 and soon after successfully volunteered to join the Melbourne branch as a volunteer. Mohsin is a valued member of the branch committee, attending and supporting events whilst growing his network of cyber security professionals. Mohsin's information security journey started as a programmer, moved to system design, implementation and administration, IT project management before leading to cyber security. Within cyber security, he has worked in roles including security operations, compliance and these days he's associated with NAB in a risk related role. Mohsin has specific interest in cloud and application security.