US Financial Services Evangelist, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Sweeney is the US financial services evangelist of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and is entrusted with cultivating innovative technology solutions in cyber security, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance for buy- and sell-side professionals worldwide. For more than 20 years, Sweeney has leveraged emerging and state-of-the-art software and services to empower and transform investment operations as well as control risks. He has served as chief information officer and chief technology officer for a number of marquee-name banks, hedge funds and Wall Street firms. Prior to joining BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, he served as chief information officer of compliance and legal technology for global financial services conglomerate Citi. From 2008 to 2012, he was director of research technology for Bridgewater Associates, the largest global hedge fund by assets with $160 billion. In addition to serving in senior roles for several technology boutiques, Sweeney also was CTO of HSBC. He is a graduate of Manhattan College and earned his master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California.
The promise of the introduction of EMV into the U.S. is that it will significantly reduce third party fraud and card-not-present fraud. But fraud is like energy - it doesn't get created or destroyed, it simply is transformed. We therefore know from experience that thieves and fraudsters will not simply give up in the...
US Financial Services Evangelist, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Sweeney is the US financial services evangelist of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and is entrusted with cultivating innovative technology solutions in cyber security, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance for buy- and sell-side professionals worldwide. For more than 20 years, Sweeney has leveraged emerging and state-of-the-art software and services to empower and transform investment operations as well as control risks. He has served as chief information officer and chief technology officer for a number of marquee-name banks, hedge funds and Wall Street firms. Prior to joining BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, he served as chief information officer of compliance and legal technology for global financial services conglomerate Citi. From 2008 to 2012, he was director of research technology for Bridgewater Associates, the largest global hedge fund by assets with $160 billion. In addition to serving in senior roles for several technology boutiques, Sweeney also was CTO of HSBC. He is a graduate of Manhattan College and earned his master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California.
Taylor grew up in the convenience store industry. In the family business of 87 stores, Gray gained experience in all phases of convenience store and chain retail operations.
Taylor has been involved on a variety of projects, including heading global product management for three of the world's largest retail petroleum equipment and systems suppliers and Vice President of Research & Technology for the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). He managed product portfolios that included payment platforms for EMV migration markets from Malaysia to Canada, as well as mobile/RFID payments initiatives. Gray also established NACS' card payments program and currently serves over 1,500 stores, doing 100m transactions annually. Taylor is currently consulting with NACS (www.nacsonline.com) on card payment policy and serves as Executive Director for Conexxus (www.conexxus.org), a Washington-based non-profit focused on interoperability, card payment policy and data security issues.
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