Charles Payne

Navigating the complexities of modern cybersecurity demands executive leadership with a comprehensive understanding of both technological advancements and financial implications. Charles Payne offers a distinctive perspective, leveraging over two decades of experience in capital markets investing to inform and enhance cybersecurity strategy.

As a seasoned leader, Charles uniquely bridges the gap between technical expertise and business realities. His deep financial acumen ensures that cybersecurity investments are strategically aligned with organizational objectives, maximizing ROI and minimizing financial risk in an evolving threat landscape.

Driven by the need for collaborative solutions, Charles established CISOevents™, an exclusive platform for CISOs, C-suite leaders, and industry experts to engage in strategic problem-solving and foster cybersecurity innovation. This initiative accelerates the development and adoption of critical security advancements.

Charles actively supports the future of emerging technologies as an Investor, identifying and funding promising startups with transformative potential. This commitment ensures the continuous evolution of solutions to meet emerging threats.

Charles Payne provides executive leaders with the strategic insights and innovative solutions necessary to build resilient and secure organizations in today's challenging environment. He is a driving force in fostering collaboration and investment for a more secure future.

CISO/CTO

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Who already knew this? …

It’s astonishing that people don’t understand social media’s purpose.

It’s not just for sharing personal moments.

Investigators use it to gather information about individuals of interest. During my time as an investigator in digital forensics, I employed this tool for this purpose. 

I don’t require your physical device to perform most of the tasks. The reason is you agreed to the Android or Apple phone EULA when you accepted the device. Then there is the application’s EULA. 🤯(Emoji humanly added)

TikTok’s forced sale of its US division made this more evident.

What happens if you stop using social media?

You probably won’t, but even if you don’t use the apps, they still collect data based on your interactions with other apps (including your location).

The TikTok privacy debate did not end with the US agreement. It has escalated. TikTok has updated its US Privacy Policy. It is now one of the most aggressive data collection regimes of any mainstream consumer platform.

It explicitly acknowledges the collection and processing of sensitive personal information under US state privacy laws. Named directly:
• Racial or ethnic origin.
• Religious or philosophical beliefs.
• Mental and physical health data.
• Sexual orientation.
• Transgender or nonbinary status.
• Citizenship or immigration status.
• Precise location data.

The policy goes further. 
TikTok is collecting far more than what users consciously share. 

Under the updated policy, it gathers what you provide, what it observes automatically, and what it receives from third parties. That includes account details and identity verification documents, private messages, drafts and unpublished content, AI prompts and interactions, clipboard content, purchase and payment data, contact lists and social graphs, and an extensive set of technical signals such as device identifiers, keystroke patterns, battery state, audio configurations, and activity tracked across devices.

This is not incidental data leakage. It is formalized, permitted, and documented.

Images and video are treated as analyzable environments. TikTok states that it "identifies objects and scenery, detects faces and other body parts, extracts spoken words, and collects metadata describing how, when, where, and by whom content was created." 
Post a photo near the Golden Gate Bridge and you are not just sharing a moment. You are generating structured data about place, time, environment, and your body, or body parts.

Photos and videos are not just content. They are raw material for computer vision, biometric analysis, and location inference. 

Tik Tok will use all of the collected data, and maintains the right to sell all of it to interested third parties, from vendors to the federal government. 

Leaders must act on this immdiately. Privacy policies are not background reading. They are power documents. When they change, accountability shifts with them.

If you are a user, a parent, a school, a youth facing organization, nonprofits, and public institutions that use TikTok as a communications channel, the update changes the governance calculus. 
Engagement is not a neutral act. It carries serious legal and ethical obligations tied to data protection, duty of care, and institutional risk.

The new policy deserves close reading. At this stage of platform power, and scale of data collection, policy literacy is a governance responsibility, not a personal preference.

Read the policy here: https://lnkd.in/ejbm8THx

Life’s lessons in a classical sense. 

Thanks Alexandr!

Venture Associate at GGW Ventures | Help startups get warm intros | Pitch Deck Expert and Startup Advisor

Your first startup has an 18% chance of success.

But failing won't fix your odds next time.

We love to romanticize failure in tech.
"Fail fast, fail often."

The data paints a different picture.

Founders who failed before only see a 20% success rate on round two.
That is a tiny 2% edge over a total rookie.

Contrast that with a previously successful founder:
They jump to a 30% win rate.

The reality is brutal:
📉 90% of startups eventually die.
📉 Only 15-21% make it from Seed to Series A.
📉 Less than 1% ever IPO.

This journey is designed to break you.

Great founders aren't great because they never fail.
They are great because they ignore the math.

They don't stop at the 20% bump.
They keep building until they become the outlier.

Resilience is the only metric that truly matters. 🚀

How many times did you fail before you succeeded?

Does anyone know what’s real and not Ai anymore?

The last option has an unlimited local and private use functionality.

Artificial intelligence & Marketing Expert

🚨 The Best Free AI Video Generators - 2026 🚨

You can now generate professional-quality AI videos completely free. Four platforms offer text-to-video and image-to-video capabilities that rival paid tools, with realistic physics, synchronized audio, and cinematic quality at zero cost.

Here's what makes each one different:

🎬 Grok Imagine (xAI)
Generates stylized 6-second clips with synced audio effects and music. Optimized for viral content, memes, and expressive animations with fast generation speeds.

Free tier: 20-60 generations/day (varies by region). Access through Grok apps or web with no waitlist.

🎬 Sora 2 (OpenAI)
Produces hyper-realistic videos up to 15 seconds with precise physics simulation and coherent motion. Includes full audio with dialogue, sound effects, and ambient sound for cinematic storytelling.

Free tier: 6-30 generations/day (recently reduced due to demand). Access via Sora app or web with rolling invites.

🎬 Meta AI
The only platform offering truly unlimited free generations with no daily caps. Creates versatile 5-second videos (extendable) with multiple style options and quick animations.

Unlimited generations. Available openly at meta.ai and through Meta apps with no waitlist required.

🎬 Wan 2.2 (Alibaba Tongyi Lab)
Delivers cinematic quality with complex motion handling. The only open-weights model with Apache 2.0 licensing, allowing unlimited local generation with complete privacy control.

Unlimited when self-hosted. Requires 8-24GB VRAM GPU for local installation. Web demo available on Hugging Face.

🔥 Why This Matters
Free AI video generation now matches paid platforms in quality. Creators, marketers, educators, and developers can produce film-quality content without subscriptions or technical expertise.

Wan 2.2's open-weights release is particularly disruptive: run unlimited generations locally with no cloud restrictions, no data privacy concerns, and full customization for developers.

Which one are you trying first?

Links - https://lnkd.in/g_gc6ppH

#AIVideo #FreeAITools #GrokImagine #Sora2 #MetaAI #Wan22 #AITools #VideoGeneration #ContentCreation #OpenAI #xAI #GenerativeAI #AIFilmmaking #TextToVideo #ImageToVideo

Malbek

Malbek puts an end to manual, disjointed contracting with an end-to-end contract lifecycle management solution for large enterprises and fast-growing businesses. Built on a secure, scalable platform, Malbek unites your team to increase top-line revenue, improve efficiency, and mitigate risk through unmatched agility.

VP, Growth Marketing

Sr. Director of Growth Marketing

Motility Software Solutions

Director, Marketing 

Conga

- Directed 3 Product Marketing Managers through a $715M acquisition and remote working during COVID-19. 
- Adopted a Product Marketing V2MOM to help drive organizational alignment with Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures.
- Developed a holistic vertical strategy and led the team to execute in HLS by tapping into Salesforce and our extensive partner ecosystem to understand the key details and impacts of each industry.
- Partnered with Sales, Sales Excellence, Content Marketing, and Product Management to create an all-new First Call Deck that allows sales reps to tailor their pitch by vertical and product. 
- Developed strategic thought leadership content to accelerate pipeline, increase customer adoption, and help buyers maximize purchasing decisions (e.g. TLP, Maturity Assessment tool, and other research papers).
- Collaborated with corporate marketing, PMM, and Product Management to define Conga 2.0 strategy.

Team Lead, Product Marketing

- Developed positioning, messaging, and competitive differentiation for 3 of Conga’s highest revenue-generating products.
- Collaborated with Product Management to document market feedback, distill key functionality to sales, ensure solutions and marketing plans align, support the roadmap, drive customer satisfaction with release enhancements, and ensure value-based pricing.
- Led cross-functional teams across Marketing, Sales, Product Management, Legal, Security, and Engineering to launch AI Analyze.
- Implemented new value-based pricing and packaging strategy that led to 20% faster sales cycles and doubled win rates.
- Orchestrated a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and accompanying ROI calculator that showcased the value of Conga CLM products - 282% ROI in less than 6 months.
- Refreshed messaging, positioning, and sales materials for the BI Toolbox, Conga’s new embedded analytics tool.
- Led Analyst Relations, briefings, and all commissioned research on a global scale fueling top placements in evaluations.
- Responsible for understanding market needs and feedback to fuel competitive intelligence for Sales and Marketing teams.

Product Marketing Manager, CLM and AI

- Led 2 campaign coordinators to drive $155K NNMRR and 100+ new customers for our CLM suite of products.
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage demand programs while staying within budget by measuring the effectiveness of multi-touch campaigns, methods, and associated ROI. 
- Developed content required to fuel marketing programs and drive demand. Consistent demand resulted in a 123% increase in leads and 329% increase in sales accepted opportunities. 
- Executed best-in-class demand strategy to launch two new products Conga Sign and Conga Contracts for Salesforce.
- Successfully migrated legacy web properties from 3 acquisitions while simultaneously attaining GDPR compliance for 250+ forms and onboarding ON24 for webinars.

Manager of Demand Generation

- Directed 2 Marketing Managers through an acquisition while maintaining pipeline, producing events, managing RFPs, building the product marketing function, and assembling a social media strategy. 
- Key decision maker in pivoting to the Salesforce market while orchestrating the launch of SalesConnect. SalesConnect was later used as a framework to build Contracts for Salesforce.
- Assembled a social media strategy resulting in a 460% growth on LinkedIn, 331% growth on Twitter, and 116% growth on Facebook. 
- Successfully planned, organized, and implemented Novatus’ inaugural user conference staying within a tight budget. This foundation led to an acquisition by Conga and is now the cornerstone of the event strategy. Current conferences have a $2M budget, hold over 450 attendees, and are hosted in the US, London, and Sydney annually to engage customers and drive NNMRR.
- Launched a marketing automation platform, GoToWebinar, Salesforce campaign tracking, and PPC agency.

Marketing Manager

- Spearheaded the overhaul of Novatus corporate website, brand, and social media channels. 
- Designed and developed the Novatus 2.0 website using a responsive Bootstrap theme.
- Built and implemented an organic SEO strategy that included keyword strategy, navigation updates, added search functionality, and easier to find content. 
- Web strategy resulted in a 30% reduction in bounce rate, increase in overall sessions, increase in average time spent viewing pages, and a jump from page 5 to page 1 in organic rankings.
- Created various forms of collateral, eBooks, whitepapers, booth graphics, and other brand assets.

Graphic Designer and Web Designer

Wildfox Design

- Provided consultative marketing services with a unique combination of creativity, development, and content writing.
- Created simple, elegant, and intuitive user interfaces.
- Effectively contributed to marketing strategy, digital campaigns, branding, pricing and packaging, SEO, SEM, persona work, and positioning exercises for dozens of SMB’s in the local Central Florida area.
- Created graphics to be utilized in all forms of media (print, website, slide presentations, banners, and events).
- Partnered with local IT companies to create a mutually beneficial referral program.

Marketing Consultant and Developer

University of Central Florida

- Led development efforts for one of the top 100 engineering schools in the nation.
- Coded, designed, and maintained 10+ departmental websites including CECS, EECS, ECE, CS, MSE, eli2, MOMRG, and staff websites. 
- Coded an automatic pull of news/events/defenses from a database for display across the college.
- Built a graduate pre-screening application to help drive more students to apply for graduate school with waived application fees.
- Launched and supported the Engineering Leadership Institute (eli2) to help students discover the confidence to create, innovate, and collaborate to deliver world-changing solutions.

Web Developer, CECS & EECS

Led 6 labs each semester and taught 50 higher education students proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and HTML. Subjects included CGS 1060: Introduction to Computer Science and CGS 2100: Computer Fundamentals for Business.

Teaching Assistant

Victoria's Secret

Lead team of cashiers to build customer loyalty by opening Angel cards, converting customer relationships, and providing a speedy checkout process. Consistently provided a captivating and branded customer experience that built loyalty while enabling consistent sales and profit growth. Communicated effectively with direct management, sales leadership, and associates. Reinforced store strategy to minimize shrink in one of the highest-grossing stores of the district.

Sales Associate 

CLM Marketing Leader • PMM Maven • Growth Guru • B2B SaaSy Mermaid 🧜🏼‍♀️

Elizabeth is a business executive with a passion for cultivating market presence and launching innovative products to meet market demands. With nearly 14 years of Marketing experience and 7 years specializing in CLM, she brings a proven track record of building high-performing teams with visionary and action-oriented leadership. 

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