Blair Canavan

Thales

Blair has 35+ years of cybersecurity sales, marketing and business development expertise. Blair’s cyber and crypto career began with Symantec followed by Chrysalis-ITS (Thales), Titus (Fortra), Black Duck (Synopsys), InfoSec Global (Keyfactor) and Crypto4A. Blair was recruited back to Thales’ Global Technology Alliances team in 2019, tasked with the expansion and curation of the PKI and Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) portfolio.  He is an avid presenter, webinar host and global PQC industry contributor, including the CFDIR PQC WG and founder of Thales’ PQC Palooza event held during the RSA Conference. Blair resides in Kelowna, BC, Canada and holds an Hons.BA Co-op from the University of Waterloo and Business Option from Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.