Dora Gomez

James Bernard

Vice President/Investments, Stifel

James Bernard currently serves as a Vice President/Investments with Stifel and an active Secure Member of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter, (affiliated with the FBI), as well as an active member in ISACA and OWASP. He is a mentor for iQ4's centralized applied learning platform as a subject matter expert on The Insider Threat, helping students in the Cyber Security programs at Brooklyn College, SUNY Albany and CUNY. Bernard has 25 years of experience in financial services as a New York City-based financial advisor to high net-worth individuals, retirement plans, and corporations, analyzing market trends and managing all aspects of goals-based wealth planning and asset management through a comprehensive full service platform. Governance, Risk and Compliance training includes risk, fraud and ethics issues, anti-money laundering, OFAC & Economic Sanctions, as well as cyber security best practices and risk mitigation approaches, among others.

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Paul Ferrillo

Partner and Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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Dora Gomez

Board Director, NY Metro InfraGard and HTCIA

Dora Gomez is a Director on the Boards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI). She is additionally the current Northeast Chapter President for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of their International Board of Directors. She actively manages and plans the chapter meetings and conferences for these organizations and is part of the steering committee for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and spent most of her career in the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Most recently she was a Divisional Director of Internal Controls at Wolters Kluwer.

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Kenneth Citarella

Senior Managing Director of Investigations, Guidepost

Kenneth C. Citarella currently serves as a senior managing director for the Investigations and Cyber Forensics practice. He joined Guidepost Solutions in 2010 as a project manager to investigate fraudulent claims for the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in its administration of the $20 billion BP compensation fund. In that capacity, Citarella supervised 300 professionals, including more than 200 field investigators. He also manages several of the integrity monitorship projects Guidepost Solutions performs for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Using a team of attorneys, forensic accountants and investigators, Guidepost Solutions monitors all aspects of major public works construction projects to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. Prior to joining Guidepost Solutions, Citarella worked with a commercial litigation law firm and the Corporate Investigations Division of Prudential. Citarella had a distinguished 28-year career as a white-collar and computer crime prosecutor in the Westchester County, New York District Attorney's Office, which he concluded as Deputy Chief of the Investigations Division. He prosecuted investment frauds, larcenies, embezzlements, anti-trust violations, public corruption, forgeries and many other economic crimes.

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Rodrigo Figueroa

Head of Fraud Risk Management Oversight, PayPal

Rodrigo Figueroa currently serves as a Senior Director at PayPal, charged with heading the Fraud Risk Management initiative. He has more than 18 years of experience in Risk Management and 23 years in Financial Services. Figueroa joined PayPal recently to implement a second line of defense and oversight program for fraud risk management. Previously Rodrigo was the Global Head of Fraud Oversight for Citibank Consumer Banking.

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Dora Gomez

Board Director, NY Metro InfraGard and HTCIA

Dora Gomez is a Director on the Boards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI). She is additionally the current Northeast Chapter President for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of their International Board of Directors. She actively manages and plans the chapter meetings and conferences for these organizations and is part of the steering committee for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and spent most of her career in the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Most recently she was a Divisional Director of Internal Controls at Wolters Kluwer.

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Kenneth (KC) Carnes

CISO, New York Power Authority

As the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at New York Power Authority, Kenneth Carnes is charged with to ensuring the secure future of integrated power systems, to meet the needs of the largest state-owned utility. He has experience supporting all verticals of electric operations from the perspectives of security, information & operational technology. Carnes is passionate about information sharing, and building partnerships to enable understanding of emerging threats in this fast changing industry and is also involved in various security organizations and industry groups. Carnes currently serves as the National Sector Chief of Energy with InfraGard.

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John Checco

Senior VP, Global Information Security Innovation Group, Bank of America

John Checco has been an active contributor to the Strategic Advisory & Content Committee of the WSTA (Wall Street Technology Association) since 1997, member of InfraGard's NY Metro Chapter since 2003, member in several other security organizations (ASIS, ISSA and OWASP), and was co-founder and chair for the NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference in 2014 and 2015. In his current position as Senior VP for Bank of America's Global Information Security Innovation Group, he is helping establish the multi-firm Financial Systemic Analysis & Resiliency Center (FSARC) through the DHS Loaned Executive Program. Prior to his current position, Checco served as Senior Information Security and Risk Advisor for Bloomberg L.P. where he introduced the BISO role to their various lines of business. He is founder of Checco Services Inc., an information security consulting firm that also patented the award-winning bioChec

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Dora Gomez

Board Director, NY Metro InfraGard and HTCIA

Dora Gomez is a Director on the Boards of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI). She is additionally the current Northeast Chapter President for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of their International Board of Directors. She actively manages and plans the chapter meetings and conferences for these organizations and is part of the steering committee for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference. Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and spent most of her career in the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Anti-Fraud, Risk Management and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Most recently she was a Divisional Director of Internal Controls at Wolters Kluwer.

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Tonguc Yaman

CIO, SOMOS

Tonguç Yaman is a leader in health informatics and cultural change management. He is passionate about adapting IT to the needs of healthcare providers and their patients. Through his diverse career, Yaman has led global initiatives in finance, IT, and healthcare. He currently serves as the first Chief Information Officer of SOMOS, a network of New York City physicians, specialists, community-based organizations and other providers who deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in a comprehensive, coordinated, and accessible manner to individuals and families participating in the Medicaid program. Prior to joining SOMOS, he served as the Deputy CIO of Bellevue Hospital, the largest public hospital in New York City.

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