2022 Financial Services Cybersecurity Summit

Nick Economidis

Vice President, Crum & Forster

Economidis is a vice president in the professional liability department for Crum & Forster, responsible for eRisk, including cyber insurance products and technology errors and omissions. He has over 30 years of total underwriting experience and 20 years of experience underwriting cyber risk exposures. Prior to joining Crum & Forster, Economidis was an underwriter with Beazley from 2008 to 2018 and the vice president and product manager for media, technology and network security with AIG Executive Liability from 2001 to 2008.

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Fred Harris

Head of Cybersecurity Risk, Data Risk and IT Risk, Societe Generale

Fred Harris is the Head of Cybersecurity Risk, Data Risk and IT Risk at Société Générale Americas. Fred is an accomplished Technology Executive with more than 30 years of technology and cybersecurity experience in the financial services industry. Before joining SG, Fred was in a similar role at Bank of America and before that he was with Deloitte for 16 years in a variety of roles.

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Chris Holden

CISO, Crum & Forster

Chris Holden is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Crum & Forster, a leading national property, casualty and accident & health insurer with a large, diversified specialty platform. In his role, Chris is responsible for the day-to-day security of the organizations information systems and data while adhering to regulatory requirements. Chris started his career as a Forensics Analyst for Hewlett-Packard’s Global Cybersecurity team. While at HP he ran digital evidence collections for internal investigations related to e-discovery matters, breach incident response, HR and policy investigations. After leaving HP, Chris moved on to consulting roles where he worked on both incident response engagements as well as proactive services, helping build and assess security programs for globally recognized organizations. Chris received his Bachelor’s degree in Cyber & Information Security from Utica College of Syracuse University.

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Ax Sharma

Senior Security Researcher, Sonatype

Endorsed an Exceptional Talent ('a recognized leader') in technology by the British Government, Ax is a Security Researcher at Sonatype and Engineer who holds a passion for perpetual learning. His works and expert analyses have frequently been featured by leading media outlets like Fortune, The Register, TechRepublic, CSO Online, BleepingComputer, etc. Ax's expertise lies in security vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and software development. In his spare time, he loves exploiting vulnerabilities ethically and educating a wide range of audiences.

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Jason Cook

Technical Sales Director, Rubrik

As technical sales director, Cook is responsible for major accounts at Rubrik. He has been with the company for over four years and has experience in consulting, sales, project management and information technology.

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Gavin Hill

VP, Human Insights

Gavin Hill is the vice president of insights at HUMAN, where he is responsible for helping customers mitigate the risk of high-impact bot problems with HUMAN's unique insights and threat models. He has held leadership positions in product management, product marketing and marketing at Secureworks, Bitdefender, Bromium (HP), Venafi and Trend Micro. With 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, he has a broad range of knowledge, including email security, cloud security, encryption, PKI, keys and certificates, endpoint security, EDR, network traffic analytics, isolation, hypervisor security, sandboxing, and VDI security.

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Karen Boyer

VP of Financial Crimes and Fraud Intelligence, People’s United Bank

Karen Boyer has over 20 years of diverse banking experience with over 15 in the realm of Fraud. She is currently Vice President of Financial Crimes and Fraud Intelligence, at People’s United Bank, a regional bank in the Northeast with a network of nearly 400 retail locations in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. In this capacity, Karen is responsible for running teams of analysts and investigators, developing fraud detection and prevention strategies related to financial channels in and out of the organization, and managing the risk of the evolving real-time payment methods in the financial industry. Ms. Boyer has held various positions in the fraud umbrella with increasing responsibility and successfully developed key strategies and techniques to substantially reduce loss and protect new product releases as payments continue to digitize and deliver in real time. By her peers and organization, she is considered an expert in cybercrimes, sweetheart scams, phishing techniques, card cracking, ATO, and credential harvesting related to recruitment of money mules and cyber threat actors around the country. Karen is an active member of the ABA, ACFE, FS-ISAC and the IAFCI; obtaining her Certification in Cyber Crime Investigations, Certification in Financial Crime Investigations, as well as CFE. She holds a position on the ABA fraud advisory group, the ACFE fraud council, and many other fraud industry working groups.

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Claire Le Gal

SVP, Fraud Intelligence, Strategy & Cyber Products, Mastercard

Claire Le Gal currently is Senior Vice President, responsible for the Fraud Intelligence, Strategy and Cyber Products team in the Cyber & Intelligence Solutions division at Mastercard. In that role, she is responsible for a variety of global functions, including fraud reporting & analytics, cyber security solution development, and the execution of strategic initiatives to ensure that the integrity of the MasterCard payment systems is maintained as payment technologies evolve. Claire also chairs the MasterCard Global Fraud Advisory Council and the Mastercard Global Payment Integrity Coalition

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Dante A. Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy, Circle

Disparte works closely with the executive team of Risk Cooperative to ensure the organization meets its strategic objectives and continues to be regarded as an industry leader. He is also the chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle and previously served as a founding executive of the Diem Association. He recently completed a three-year term on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Advisory Council, serving on the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Subcommittee. He also serves on the board of the American Security Project, where he founded and chairs the Business Council, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium. Disparte is a frequent speaker and commentator on business and political issues shaping the world, and his views on risk, economic competitiveness and security issues are regularly featured in leading media and publications, such as Harvard Business Review, BBC, Forbes, and Diplomatic Courier, where he serves on the editorial advisory board. He is the co-author of the book "Global Risk Agility and Decision Making" and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.

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Ari Redbord

Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs

Ari Redbord is the Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. Prior to joining TRM, Ari was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury. In that position, Ari worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and other Treasury components to use sanctions and other regulatory tools effectively to safeguard the financial system from illicit use by terrorist financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, drug kingpins, and other rogue actors, including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela. In addition, Ari worked closely with regulators, the Hill and the interagency on issues related to the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies. Prior to Treasury, Ari was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for eleven years where he investigated and prosecuted terrorism, espionage, threat finance, cryptocurrency, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking cases.

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David Pollino

Former CISO, PNC Bank

David is an experienced security and risk executive with over 25 years of experience in information security, fraud prevention, and risk management. David has focused on financial services for 20 years and was the Chief Information Security Officer of Bank of the West and a Divisional CISO at PNC. David has held multiple leadership positions in Security and Fraud including Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and Charles Schwab. David has authored multiple books and whitepapers focused around Cyber Security and Fraud. David is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and frequently quoted in the media on security topics.

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AnnaLou Tirol

Deputy Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

AnnaLou Tirol is the deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. FinCEN’s mission is to safeguard the financial system from illicit use, combat money laundering and promote national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis and dissemination of financial intelligence. FinCEN serves as the administrator and primary regulator of the Bank Secrecy Act for bank and non-bank financial institutions, including emerging payments involving virtual currency, and is the U.S. financial intelligence unit. Tirol was previously associate director for FinCEN’s Strategic Operations Division, which designs and implements FinCEN’s strategic partnerships, coordinating stakeholder priorities and safeguarding access to FinCEN’s information, tools and resources. Prior to joining FinCEN in 2019, Tirol was acting chief of the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. She began her public service career with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California and served with the DOJ’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training as anti-corruption resident legal adviser in Serbia and resident legal adviser in Panama, focused on anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing. At Georgetown University Law Center, she teaches classes on advanced evidence.

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Bassam Khan

VP of Product Marketing, Gigamon

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Carole House

Director of Cybersecurity & Secure Digital Innovation at National Security Council, The White House

House is the Director of Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation for the National Security Council at The White House. House is an experienced cybersecurity and risk management professional with a demonstrated background in U.S. military intelligence within the federal, executive and legislative branches of government. She previously worked as a Presidential Management Fellow in the White House Office of Management and Budget's Cyber and National Security Unit. During her fellowship, she served on a detail supporting the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on cybersecurity, supply chain risk management, and critical infrastructure protection policy issues. House holds a BA in international affairs from the University of Georgia and an MA in security studies from Georgetown University.

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Rocco Grillo

Managing Director Global Cyber Risk & Incident Response Services, Alvarez & Marsal

Rocco Grillo currently serves as a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Disputes and Investigations Global Cyber Risk Services practice. He focuses on leading multi disciplinary teams who provide cyber risk and incident response services to clients globally. He has been a trusted partner of multiple government agencies, including the FBI and Secret Service, where his cyber expertise was instrumental in investigating and resolving a variety of cyber based crimes. Grillo's experience and understanding of commercial sector challenges and national security objectives have influenced the development of national policy in cybersecurity, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Prior to joining A&M, he held leadership positions at professional services organizations including Stroz Friedberg/Aon Cyber Solutions, where he served as the Global Leader of the firm's Cybersecurity Services. Prior to Aon Cyber Solutions, Grillo was a founding member of Protiviti Inc's Cybersecurity Practice where he led the development of the firm's Global Incident Response and Forensics Investigations Practice. He also assisted with the development of RedSiren Technologies, one of the first managed security services firm that evolved out of Carnegie Mellon. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility with Lucent Technologies and Bell companies. He is an affiliate board advisor for the Retail & Hospitality ISAC and has assisted with other thought leadership initiatives for the FS-ISAC; and assists in creating its annual Compromise Against Payments Systems (CAPS), the simulated industry cyberattack exercise.. He has served on the CLM Cyber Liability Council, the Board of Directors of the NY Metro ISSA Chapter, the IT Policy Compliance Group, and the (i 4) International Information Integrity Institute Research Steering Committee.

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Kevin Li

CISO, MUFG Securities Americas

Li has over 20 years of experience working at large global financial institutions. He is the CISO for MUFG Securities Americas, or MUSA, and leads the MUSA information security group that is responsible for information risk management, security operations and engineering, application security, and business continuity and disaster recovery for the broker dealer. Li ensures that the technology environment is secure and performs as expected to support the business and technology stakeholders, while constantly interfacing with the various lines of defense and regulators. Previously, he held leadership technology risk and audit roles at DTCC, Guggenheim Partners, and Apollo Global Management. Earlier in his career, he worked for Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, supporting their application development and infrastructure groups.

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Parthiv Shah

SVP & CISO, Signature Bank

Parthiv Shah is Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President at Signature Bank. Signature Bank manages over $107B of client assets. Parthiv has over twenty five years of experience in information technology and information security as a practitioner and leader of technology functions and information security functions for global financial services firms. Parthiv has helped design and implement an enterprise wide information security program for his current and past employer based on risk management best practices, global regulatory requirements e.g. SEC, FRB, FDIC, FSA, MAS etc. and CPMI-IOSCO, COBIT, ISO 27001 international standards and frameworks. Parthiv has numerous times actively presented at board meetings at his current and past employers. Parthiv has designed and implemented security program including IS strategy, IT/IS Risk framework, application security risk, Incident Response Process, SIEM management / event monitoring, Security Operations Center, policy management, vulnerability/patch management process, Threat Intelligence Processing & Indicator Of Compromise management, network/application penetration tests etc. at his current and past employer. He has managed and secured multiple trading floors, large data center operations and production support functions at his previous employer. Parthiv is a member of several industry leading organizations and related committees e.g. FS-ISAC, MBCA etc. where he provides active participation and thought leadership.

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Lisa Sotto

Managing Partner, Chair of Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Named in The National Law Journal's "100 Most Influential Lawyers," Sotto serves on Hunton & Williams' executive committee. Sotto was voted the world's leading privacy adviser by Computerworld magazine and has earned the highest honor by Chambers and Partners as a "Star" performer for privacy and data security. Recognized as a "leading lawyer" by The Legal 500 U.S., Sotto chairs the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Ethisphere Magazine's 2015 "Attorneys Who Matter," Crain's New York Business "Lawyer Goes into the Breach," SC Magazine's "Women of Influence," and as "The Queen of Breach" in the New York Super Lawyers Magazine. Sotto is the editor and lead author of Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook. She has represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, and has advised the Serbian government on global data protection law. Currently, Sotto is co-chair of the International Privacy Law Committee of the New York Bar Association, chair of the New York Privacy Officers' Forum, and is a former member of the board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

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James Dennehy

Special Agent-in-Charge for Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, FBI

Dennehy is the special agent in charge of the Intelligence and Surveillance Division of the New York Field Office. He most recently served as chief of staff to the executive assistant director of the National Security Branch at FBI Headquarters in Washington. Dennehy joined the FBI as a special agent in 2002 and was assigned to the New York Field Office to work counterintelligence cases. He held leadership roles on the SWAT team and was a crisis management coordinator. In 2013, he was promoted to supervisory special agent of the counterintelligence and counterproliferation squad in New York’s Hudson Valley and White Plains resident agencies. Dennehy also served as unit chief and then assistant section chief in the Counterproliferation Center at FBI Headquarters. In those roles, he guided the FBI’s efforts to combat attempts by foreign adversaries to obtain export-controlled, sensitive technologies related to weapons of mass destruction and missile, space and conventional weapons systems. In 2017, Dennehy became the assistant special agent in charge of crisis management, firearms, operations command, recruiting, private sector engagement, community outreach, and several other programs. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for seven years.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Danny Jenkins

CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker

Danny Jenkins is the CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Danny is a leading expert in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks, including many roles on red teams and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware, zero trust, and zero-day vulnerabilities. Before taking the reins at ThreatLocker, Danny co-founded MXSweep, a global provider of email and internet security SaaS applications based in Dublin, Ireland, that sold exclusively through the channel. MXSweep later went on to be sold to J2. Danny was also the CEO at Sirrustec, specializing in whitelabeled channel delivered email security. Sirrustec Sold to Censornet in 2014.

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