Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Fraud & Payments 2020

Jeff Dant

Managing Director, Fraud Operations & Intelligence - Enterprise Fraud Management, BMO Financial Group

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group.

Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

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Adam Wehrenberg

AVP Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Adam Wehrenberg is an assistant vice president in the Secure Payments group, responsible for developing and implementing key elements of the Fed’s strategy for payment security. Adam’s primary focus is on synthetic identity fraud and internal governance. Prior to joining Secure Payments, Adam was the Bank’s director of business continuity and resilience, responsible for coordinating Bank-wide contingency planning and facilitating crisis management processes. Adam has also played a key role in advancing the Federal Reserve System’s strategy to enhance operational resilience and crisis management capability across the Reserve Banks.

Before joining the Bank, Adam was a project director in the City of Boston’s Office of Emergency Management, where he led a planning program to prepare for low-probability, high-consequence catastrophic events. This included developing the nation’s first regional framework to integrate public safety and IT personnel in response to critical cyber disruptions.

Adam received an M.B.A from Boston University and a B.A. in Political Science from Stonehill College.

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Andres Rapela

AVP of Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank

Andrés Rapela currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Secure Payments for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the strategy for improving security and resiliency of the U.S. payments system. This work entails collaboration with payments professionals across the financial system, and with interested stakeholders in various related industries. Rapela brings over 25 years of experience in financial services, information technology, and risk management to the Secure Payments initiative. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a vice president at Fidelity Institutional, where for eight years he led the brokerage platform technology risk management function. While at Fidelity, Rapela held several other senior leadership positions in technology, risk management, and compliance across multiple business lines.

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Jeffrey Brown

CISO, State of Connecticut

Brown helps companies and government agencies understand their security risk and implement practical, cost-effective security programs. He partners with C-level executives, business leaders, regulators and auditors to build and sustain best-in-class cybersecurity programs.

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Patrick Ford

CISO, Americas, Schneider Electric

Patrick Ford serves as the Chief Information Security Officer, Americas Region of Schneider Electric. Patrick started at Schneider Electric in November of 2015. Patrick currently resides in the Greater New York City Area.

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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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Harshad Agashe

VP of Product, Emailage

Harshad is the Emailage Vice President of Product. A technologist at heart with a degree in Computer Science Engineering, Harshad brings over 10 years of experience in analytics and product management. He has led global teams of product and technology talent to build data-driven products. Prior to joining the Emailage team, Harshad was at American Express at the forefront of building real-time scalable solutions focused on preventing fraud losses across different business units. Striving to continually improve our products, Harshad's expertise allows him to deliver cutting edge features personalized for each customer by leveraging the power of machine learning.

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Diego Szteinhendler

N.A. SVP of Business Development for Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

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Partha Sarathy

Global Fraud Architect, Shape Security

Partha has run Fraud Risk for JPMC Canada and led Fraud Analytics projects for FICO, supporting FALCON product. Partha has a wealth of experience in data analytics and ML, and has leveraged these analytical insights to drive fraud, marketing and business strategy for several large banks, B2B Product and consulting firms. His cross industry experience combined with managing fraud across different fraud types and helping save $MMs has uniquely positioned him to understand the fraud detection and prevention mechanics and help organizations mitigate fraud while enhancing customer experience, and drive business results.

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André Ferraz

CEO & Founder, Incognia

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Glenn Cobb

Director, Solution Engineering, PayPal

Glenn has an extensive background related to Information Technology and Financial Services/eComm. While his education is in Chemical Engineering, he quickly transformed into the IT space to address automation of environment monitoring for power plants in New York State for 14 years. Glenn then became an IBMer, and worked as an Enterprise Architect providing support to both internal programs and external customers, including several financial services companies for another 10 years. He then moved into the Financial services sector and ran all external facing financial products and security platforms for Tompkins Financial, a 4 bank, insurance and investment corporation in NY. Post Tompkins Financial Glenn moved into the fraud prevent, data protection and encryption and has been providing technology and services to all verticals for the past 9 years When he is not fighting fraud, Glenn likes to do carpentry and fly as a private pilot.

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Rick Garza

Senior Manager, Solution Engineering, PayPal

Rick Garza is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Simility with 20 years of experience in the tech world. As an SE for various security vendors across multiple facets of the Cybersecurity industry he has experience in Fraud, Dark Web Intelligence, and Threat Actor Engagements.

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Carey O'Connor Kolaja

Chief Operating Officer, AU10TIX

Carey is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of AU10TIX, the global leader in automated identity intelligence and cyber fraud prevention. She is one of the top influential women in the FinTech industry, and has more than 25 years' experience, leading the "Fortune 500", start-up ventures to scale-up enterprises. During her time as Global Chief Product Officer at Citi Fintech and Vice President of Global Consumer Products at PayPal, she was responsible for the adoption of innovative technologies and cutting-edge commercial strategies meeting the new and developing needs and interests of customer's both in domestic and international markets.

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Ameya Talwalkar

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cequence Security

Ameya heads the product and engineering teams at Cequence and works closely with customers to identify new use cases and new attack vectors that can be addressed with AI and machine learning technologies. He has built strong engineering teams specializing in enterprise and consumer security in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Madrid, Pune, and Chengdu. Before co-founding Cequence Security, he was Director of Engineering at Symantec, where he was responsible for its anti-malware software stack that leverages network Intrusion prevention and behavior and reputation technologies, and anti-virus engines. Under Ameya's leadership, Symantec developed an advanced version of network intrusion prevention technology that blocks more than two billion threats a year. Ameya holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai's Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE).

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Michelle Arguelles

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sift

Michelle has been solving problems in the payments and fraud space for almost a decade - both on the front lines as a Fraud Analyst at WePay and, now, as a Product Marketing Manager at Sift. She leverages industry experience to develop stories and solutions that help customers achieve their trust and safety goals.

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Josh Johnston

Director of AI Science, Kount

Josh Johnston is an artificial intelligence scientist who exploits information, automates decisions, and focuses attention on relevant data. He has led research teams fighting credit card fraud, developing self-driving cars, autonomy for bomb disposal robots, and scientific visualization in virtual reality and augmented reality. Josh received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering from Duke University and a Master of Science in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Ute Miller

SVP, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions North America, Mastercard

Ute Miller leads Cyber and Intelligence solutions for Mastercard. She has dedicated her career to cyber security and data protection and has been in this field for 20 years. Ute has worked with organizations around the globe to address their security challenges. At Mastercard Ute is responsible for fraud, security and authentication solutions in the payments eco system and beyond. She is based in Denver and covers the US and Canadian markets.

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Mark Horne

CMO, Pindrop

Mark Horne is the Chief Marketing Officer at Pindrop. He is a holistic marketing executive with a proven career record of driving strategic development and operational execution of transformational, customer-centric initiatives that impact and support organizations' mission and growth objectives.He has led high-performing organizations across the B2B cloud, software, and technology landscape. He has a comprehensive background in creating and spearheading strategies and programs that drive marketing planning strategy, brand awareness, customer demand, and revenue growth.Mark has a B.S. in Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University in Boston, an MBA from Georgia State, and is an Executive Scholar at Kellog School of Management.

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