President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
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Wendy Butler is responsible for handling investigations relating to matters of fraud, which may include investigations involving regulatory compliance, sales misconduct, conflict of interest, ethics, privacy, elder financial exploitation, identity theft and other matters relating to improper conduct. These investigations may involve account holders, employees, third party entities, vendors, sales agents and third party brokers. She is responsible for uncovering schemes and determining the cause and effect relationships. Her investigations cover products enterprise wide, such as, Life Policies, Annuities, Retirement Plans and Brokerage Accounts. She also assists in the development and training of other internal and external Investigators. In her prior role as a Senior Manager of Investigations at Equitable (AXA Equitable) she conducted similar investigations and held various roles during her 19 year tenure. In both her roles, she has worked with various external entities which resulted in the recovery of funds to The Company through restitution and as well as the conviction of subjects.
President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
VP, Head of Fraud Prevention & Investigations , Apple Bank
Kristen Santos is responsible for the overall administration and management of retail fraud risk and fraud mitigation. In her role, she provides guidance and direction to the branch network and works with related departments to ensure proper operational and internal controls are in place.
Prior career roles include Vice President of Deutsche Bank's Anti-Financial Crime Investigations for the Americas, where she implemented the US Identity Theft Program and provided oversight on complex internal and external financial crime investigations, and as the Director of the FCIU for Sterling National Bank, where she assisted the BSA Officer in building a holistic Financial Crimes Compliance Program and overseeing security, transaction monitoring and investigations.
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.
Paul Ferrillo currently serves as a partner and shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He focuses his practice on cybersecurity corporate governance issues, complex securities and business litigation, and internal investigations. Ferrillo assists clients with governance, disclosure, and regulatory matters relating to their cybersecurity postures and the regulatory requirements which govern them. He represents public companies and their directors and officers in shareholder class and derivative actions, as well as in internal investigations. In particular, Ferrillo has coordinated numerous internal investigations on behalf of audit committees and special committees, and handled the defense of securities class actions alleging accounting irregularities and/or financial fraud.
President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
SSA Kachhia-Patel has over 14 years of experience as an FBI Special Agent. During his first seven years, SSA Kachhia-Patel handled foreign counterinlliegence and insider threat matters. SSA Kachhia-Patel, intimately worked Operation Ghost Stories and was responsible for the arrest of the Russian Illegal Anna Chapman. Over the last seven years, SSA Kachhia-Patel has focused his efforts on nation state hacking efforts through field work and program management from FBI Headquarters. Notably, SSA Kachhia-Patel helped to manage large intrusions including the Sony Pictures destructive malware attack and healthcare PII intrusions to name a few. Currently, SSA Kachhia-Patel manages a team investigating nation state sponsored computer network exploitation and attacks.
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.
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.
President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
Supervisory Special Agent FBI - New York Division C-3, Financial Institution Related Fraud
Christopher S. Delzotto is a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) New York Field Office. SSA Delzotto currently oversees a Financial Crimes squad, where the investigations focus on bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Prior to this assignment, SSA Delzotto was assigned to FBI - Headquarters, where he managed money laundering investigations for 12 FBI Field Offices composing the south central region of the U.S. SSA Delzotto spent the first seven years of his FBI career investigating Securities and Corporate Fraud matters. SSA Delzotto was the lead investigator in the following cases of note, including: U.S. vs. Martin Shkreli, U.S. vs. Howard Leventhal, and U.S. versus Bruce Bagley, to name a few.
SSA Delzotto holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance, a M.B.A, and is CAMS certified.
President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
Vinnie Piserchio is a Senior Investigator with New York Life Insurance company. He and members of his team are responsible for investigating all suspicions of Fraud involving Agents, Employees, Clients and Third Parties. Mr. Piserchio has participated in and conducted many complex investigations into suspicions and allegations of Life Insurance and Financial Fraud.
Vinnie has a background in Law Enforcement where he enjoyed assignments in Special Investigations, Narcotics, Traffic and Patrol. He rose through the ranks to the rank of Captain of Police, headed up the Patrol Division and Support Services and managed up to 110 Sworn and Civilian Personnel.
VP, Head of Fraud Prevention & Investigations , Apple Bank
Kristen Santos is responsible for the overall administration and management of retail fraud risk and fraud mitigation. In her role, she provides guidance and direction to the branch network and works with related departments to ensure proper operational and internal controls are in place.
Prior career roles include Vice President of Deutsche Bank's Anti-Financial Crime Investigations for the Americas, where she implemented the US Identity Theft Program and provided oversight on complex internal and external financial crime investigations, and as the Director of the FCIU for Sterling National Bank, where she assisted the BSA Officer in building a holistic Financial Crimes Compliance Program and overseeing security, transaction monitoring and investigations.
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.
Resident CISO, Proofpoint former SVP, Global Information Security Innovation Group, Bank of America
Checco is an information security professional providing subject matter expertise across various industries. He currently resides as leader for the CISO Advisory Board on Financial Services for Proofpoint, and President Emeritus of the New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance (an FBI public/private partnership program).
He has been an active contributor to the Strategic Advisory & Content Committee of the WSTA (Wall Street Technology Association) since 1997, active in InfraGard's NY Metro Chapter since 2003, member in several other security organizations (ASIS, ISSA, IASCP, ISC2, and OWASP), and co-founder and co-chair for the NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference & Workshop series since 2014.
Prior to his current role, John was SVP for Bank of America's Global Information Security Innovation Group. In this role, he was integral in the establishment of the Zero Trust Architecture strategy, an author for official guidance for Responsible Automation, a key contributor in the multi-firm Financial Systemic Analysis & Resiliency Center (FSARC), and the inaugural participant in the DHS Loaned Executive Program. John also served as Senior Information Security and Risk Advisor for Bloomberg L.P. where he introduced the BISO role to their various lines of business.
President NYCFE, InfraGard Board Member, FinCrime Consultant.
Gomez has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services and is currently with Ernst & Young's IT Advisory - Financial crimes, Fraud and Compliance team. She spent 17 years with the AXA Group in various leadership roles in Audit, Fraud Risk Management, AML, GRC, ERM, and IT Security, including significant international experience and perspectives. Following her return to the U.S. from an expat assignment in Paris France, she was Audit Director and Global Fraud Officer for AXA Technology Services where she created the company's Anti-Fraud Policy, including investigations/whistleblower incidents, and managed a fraud mitigation program. She held positions as Audit Chief of Staff and Risk Officer as well - establishing the audit department's global departmental practices and governance.
Dora is an active Board Director of InfraGard's New York Metro Chapter (affiliated with the FBI) and was the recipient of the InfraGard Northeast Region IMA Leadership Award in 2019. She is a Board Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners New York Chapter and is the current Audit Committee Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. She is a steering committee member for the annual New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference.
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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