Program: Speaker Bios
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Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, and a member of Carnegie Mellon Cylab. His work investigates the economic and social impact of IT, and in particular the interaction and interconnection of human and artificial agents in highly networked information economies. His current research focuses primarily on the economics of privacy and information security, but also on the economics of computers and AI, agents economics, computational economics, ecommerce, cryptography, anonymity, and electronic voting. His research in these areas has been disseminated through journals (including Marketing Science, IEEE Security & Privacy, and Rivista di Politica Economica); edited books ("Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices.'' Auerbach, 2007); book chapters; and leading international conferences.
Prior to joining the CMU Faculty, Alessandro Acquisti researched at the Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto, CA, with Bernardo Huberman and the Internet Ecologies Group (as intern), and for two years at RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, CA, with Maarten Sierhuis and Bill Clancey (as visiting student). At RIACS, he worked on agent-based simulations of human-robot interaction onboard the International Space Station.
Alessandro has received national and international awards, including the 2005 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the 2005 IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award. He is and has been a member of the program committees of various international conferences and workshops, including ACM EC, PET, WEIS, ETRICS, WPES, LOCA, QoP, and the Ubicomp Privacy Workshop at Ubicomp. In 2007 he chaired the DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics and the WEIS Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. In the past, he has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
Alessandro Acquisti has lived and studied in Rome (Laurea, Economics, University of Rome), Dublin (M.Litt., Economics, Trinity College), London (M.Sc., Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, LSE), and in the San Francisco bay area, where he worked with John Chuang, Doug Tygar, and Hal Varian and received a Master and a Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems from the University of California at Berkeley.
Fred H. Cate
Fred H. Cate is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Informatics, and director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, and a senior policy advisor to the Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals; a member of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board; reporter for the American Law Institute’s project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information; and a member of the Research Steering Committee of the Center for Identity Management and Infrastructure Protection.
Professor Cate served as counsel to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, reporter for the third report of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a member of the Federal Trade Commission’s Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. He directed the Electronic Informa¬tion Privacy and Commerce Study for the Brookings Institution, and chaired the International Telecommunication Union’s High-Level Experts on Electronic Signatures and Certification Authorities.
Professor Cate speaks frequently before professional, industry, and government groups, and testifies regularly before congressional committees. He is the author of many articles and books, including Privacy in the Information Age and The Internet and the First Amendment, and Privacy in Perspective. He serves on the board of editors of Privacy & Information Law Report.
Professor Cate is a senator and fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He attended Oxford University and received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in American Law.
Shiu-Kai Chin
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Kyung-Seok Choo
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Joanna P. Crane
Joanna Crane is the Identity Theft Program Manager at the Federal Trade Commission. She is responsible for coordinating the FTC's implementation of its responsibilities under the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998. The FTC’s program focuses on assisting victims of identity theft, supporting law enforcement investigations and training, outreach to private industry, developing regulatory and policy responses, and bringing civil enforcement actions against entities that fail to comply with data security laws. Ms. Crane also participates in a variety of governmental councils and workshops, public-private partnerships, and training and research initiatives involving identity theft.
Ms. Crane served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Diane Gilbert Weinstein of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Ms. Crane holds a B.A. and an M.P.A. from Syracuse University and a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law.
Gary R. Gordon
Gary R. Gordon is a professor of Economic Crime Programs at Utica College. In 1988, Professor Gordon developed the first major in Economic Crime Investigation in the United States. He also developed a Master’s Degree in Economic Crime Management that commenced in January 1999, using a distance learning format. In 1988, Dr. Gordon co-founded the Economic Crime Institute (ECI) of Utica College and is its Executive Director. He has coordinated seventeen national conferences focusing on economic crime issues. In June 2006, he founded the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection and serves as its Executive Director (www.cimip.org).
Dr. Gordon is the co-editor of the International Journal of Digital Evidence (www.ijde.org) and the Journal of Economic Crime Management (www.jecm.org). These online journals are sponsored by the ECI and Utica College.
He has been a Senior Research Consultant with LexisNexis since 2002. His research agenda includes identity fraud and its impact on crime, commerce, and national security.
Dr. Gordon holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. His master’s degree is in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven and his bachelor’s degree is in Psychology from Clark University.
Judy Gordon
Ms. Gordon is CIMIP's Program Administrator, providing day-to-day management, direction, and leadership for all operational areas of the Center. She works as a researcher and manages research projects and coordinates the researchers' activities. She also plans events, develops and maintains databases and information tracking systems, writes grants, and manages corporate relationships.
Judy is a contributing author of the LexisNexis/ECI white paper: Identity Fraud: A Critical National and Global Threat. She has been involved in researching the three additional white papers supported by LexisNexis and ECI. (
White Papers)
Judy is the Executive Assistant of the Economic Crime Institute of Utica College, a position she has held since 2000. Prior to joining Utica College, she was a school media specialist in the New Hartford, NY Central School District.
Judy holds a master's degree in Library Science from Syracuse University and a bachelor's degree in English and Education from Clark University.
Joseph Gurreri
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Jack Hermansen
Jack Hermansen is the former CEO and co-founder of Language Analysis Systems, Inc. (LAS), a provider of knowledge-based, multicultural name recognition solutions for both commercial and government agencies that require accuracy and integrity when accessing customer records or other lists of names. In 2006, IBM acquired LAS. Jack is currently the Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Global Name Recognition group
In 2004, Federal Computer Week presented Jack with the Federal 100 Award "for coming up with new and better ways of tackling perpetual problems." He was also selected as one of 2003's "Fast 50 Champions of Innovation" by Fast Company magazine. In September 2001, name recognition technology developed by LAS helped INS special agents track the 9-11 terrorists to their Florida locations.
Jack earned a Ph.D. with distinction in computational linguistics, and a minor in Chinese, from Georgetown Univ. He earned two undergraduate degrees from Pennsylvania State University in linguistics and speech. He has authored numerous articles in the national & trade press, and holds two patents related to his work in computational linguistics.
Markus Jakobsson
Markus Jakobsson is an associate professor at Indiana University and associate director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He is a visiting research fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a founding member of the RSA eFraud Forum, founder of the security startup RavenWhite, and a consultant to the financial sector. He has served as principal research scientist at RSA Laboratories, adjunct associate professor at New York University, and a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is an editor of Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft (Wiley, 2006). He received his PhD from University of California at San Diego in 1997. His webpage is located at
www.markus-jakobsson.com, and that of his research group at
www.stop-phishing.com. He is involved in an educational outreach effort, located at
www.securitycartoon.com.
Robert W. Jones, M.S., Cfe, Crp
Bob Jones, Principal, RW Jones Associates LLC, is a consultant, educator and expert witness with nearly forty years experience leading fraud risk management programs. Until May 2004, he led FleetBoston Financial Corporation’s operating risk management programs. He chaired FleetBoston’s Operating Risk Committee. He joined FleetBoston in January 2000, after a 21-year career with KeyCorp, where he was responsible for all fraud detection and prevention systems and programs.
Until May 2004, he chaired the American Bankers Association Operating Risk Committee and co-chaired the Fraud Reduction Steering Committee of BITS, the technology affiliate of the Financial Services Roundtable. In 1998 he chaired the Financial Institution Fraud Committee of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Bob is an Adjunct Professor at Utica College, where he teaches in the college’s Master’s in Economic Crime Management and M.B.A. programs. He has been published in the RMA Journal and the Journal of Economic Crime Management and is frequently quoted in publications such as American Banker and Dow Jones MarketWatch.
Craig Magaw
Craig Magaw is a 20-year veteran of the United States Secret Service, having served in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and Washington, D.C. in protective and investigative assignments. Currently, Mr. Magaw holds the position of Special Agent In Charge of the Criminal Investigative Division. As the supervisor with oversight over the entire division, which, in turn, provides direction to all Secret Service Field Offices, Mr. Magaw provides guidance in determining investigative focus and direction. He prioritizes investigations that prevent or detect attacks which threaten the integrity of our currency and the reliability of our financial payment systems worldwide.
Mr. Magaw began his career with the Secret Service in 1986 as an agent in the Washington Field Office, and subsequently transferred to the Philadelphia Field Office. He rose rapidly to the managerial level while serving in a variety of assignments reflecting the Service's diverse interests and responsibilities. From the Philadelphia Field Office, Mr. Magaw went on to serve as a member of the elite Counter Assault Team and a member of the Presidential Protective Division. He has served in supervisory positions in both protective and investigative assignments, serving as an Assistant To the Special Agent In Charge of the Office of Investigations; an Assistant To the Special Agent In Charge of the Baltimore Field Office; an Assistant Special Agent In Charge of the Presidential Protective Division, and the Special Agent In Charge of the Orlando Field Office.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Magaw received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Maryland, and a Masters Degree in the field of Management from Johns Hopkins University in 2001.
Jim McCabe
Jim McCabe, Director, Consumer Relations and IDSP, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), manages the ANSI-BBB Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP). IDSP is a cross-sector coordinating body working to develop a resource of standards, guidelines and best practices that businesses and other organizations can use to combat identity theft and fraud. He also has primary responsibility for all ANSI activities with respect to the consumer interest segment. Past assignments have included support for the Institute’s government affairs activities, international policy groups on the protection of personal data and occupational health and safety management system standards, standards boards dealing with safety, health and construction issues, and various U.S. technical advisory groups to ISO. Before joining ANSI in 1995, he was director of arbitration for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of The Catholic University of America.
Steven Myers
Steven Myers is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics at Indiana University, where he is also a member of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. His research interests are in all areas of cryptography, and computer and systems security with a specific interest in phishing. He has written several papers, led panels, and given invited talks in fields ranging from Cryptography and Computer Security to Distributed Systems and Probabilistic Combinatorics. Recently he co-edited the book 'Phishing & Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft' with Markus Jakobsson (Wiley Press, 2007).
Steve Myers completed his PhD (2005) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Professor Charles Rackoff. While completing his PhD he interned in the Mathematical Research division of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Belcore) doing work on secure cryptographic voting. Additionally, he worked for Echoworx Corp, an Internet startup focusing on providing usable and secure email solutions. He has consulted for a number companies and law firms on different topics related to cryptography and computer security, and is currently processing several patents related to his research.
D
on Rebovich
Donald J Rebovich, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the Economic Crime Investigation Program at Utica College. Before coming to Utica College, Professor Rebovich served as research director for the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and for the American Prosecutors Research Institute. At NW3C he was responsible for directing the national analysis of Internet crime report data generated by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center and directing the National Public Survey on White Collar Crime. As a criminal justice program evaluator, he spent eight years with the New Jersey State Attorney General’s Office.
Dr. Rebovich is the author of the book Dangerous Ground: The World of Hazardous Waste Crime, which presented the results of the first empirical study of environmental crime and its control in the United States. Dr. Rebovich is also the co-editor of the book The New Technology of Crime, Law and Social Control. He is the assistant editor of the Journal of Economic Crime Management. His background includes research in identity theft, economic crime victimization, white collar crime prosecution, and multijurisdictional task force development.
Dr. Rebovich has served as advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice on tribal technology and information sharing, and on environmental crime control. He obtained his B.S. degree in Psychology from the College of New Jersey and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.
Tom Regan
Mr. Regan joined LexisNexis in January 2003 and is the leader of the LexisNexis Advanced Government Solutions Government, Industry and Regulatory Affairs (GIR) Group. In that capacity, Mr. Regan is responsible for counseling The LexisNexis Advanced Government Solutions in the laws, practices, policies and procedures applicable to the appropriate use of personal information. He also leads the LexisNexis privacy team in assisting LexisNexis’ government customers and industry partners in comporting with LexisNexis’ information sharing best practices.
Mr. Regan has worked in government facilities developing and applying Privacy Act System of Records Notices and Privacy Impact Assessments.
Mr. Regan is a former senior member with the Philadelphia law firm, Cozen O’Connor. During his 22 years at the firm, Mr. Regan was a litigator in the Insurance Arson and Fraud Group. He also chaired the firm’s Privacy Law and Regulation Department. Mr. Regan previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Regan graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1976 and from Villanova University, with a B.A., in 1973. He is a Member of the Bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Regan has frequently presented on topics relating to information privacy, identity authentication and identity theft. Mr. Regan has presented at the Economic Crime Institute Conference, the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection workshop, The American Bankers Association annual seminar, The American Bar Association annual seminar and a plethora of privacy conferences. He also is the coordinator of the LexisNexis Information Policy Forum and the annual LexisNexis Data Use Seminar. He has testified before the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, formed to review the Total Information Awareness Program, and he has presented to the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Mr. Regan has also authored numerous papers and articles on information privacy and identity theft issues. Mr. Regan, in collaboration with Norman A. Willox, Jr., the Chief Officer for Privacy, Industry and Regulatory Affairs for the LexisNexis Group, authored “Identity Fraud: Providing A Solution” which appears in the Journal of Economic Crime Management, Summer 2002, Vol. 1, http://www.jecm.org/. Mr. Regan was also a contributing author of “Identity Fraud: A Critical National and Global Threat,” October 27, 2003, also available at the Journal of Economic Crime Management, Winter, 2004, Vol. 2.
Gary Reynolds, Cfe
As the Director of Financial and Electronic Crime Investigations Division in the Corporate Security group of Wells Fargo, where he manages a team of 60 professional investigators, Gary brings unique experience to the company. Having spent 20 years in law enforcement, Gary has been involved in the detection and prevention of fraud in a variety of situations and cases. Gary’s reputation as one of the experts in this field is widely recognized. He has been involved in cases that include bank fraud investigation, white collar crime investigation, consumer fraud investigations, real estate fraud investigation, and high technology crime investigation. Since having joined Wells Fargo, Gary has been involved in domestic and international investigations involving bank fraud and high technology crimes. Gary also manages the Executive Protection function and is a member of the company’s Threat Assessment Team for both physical and cyber threats. He is also a member of the company’s Privacy and BSA Council’s.
Prior to moving to the investigations division, Gary managed the Technology Services Division at Wells Fargo working on both domestic and international projects. With five security technology managers the team worked on projects from banking stores to high risk cash processing facilities designing both physical and electronic protection systems.
Gary is a faculty member at Santa Rosa Junior College and is a certified instructor at the Law Enforcement Academy for Unusual Incidents. Gary is a frequent speaker on Identity Theft to industry and trade groups. He was a speaker at the California Identity Theft Summit, addressing state senators, Department of Consumer Protection, law enforcement, privacy advocate groups, and consumers, the FDIC Identity Theft Symposium in 2005, the FFIEC Conference in 2006, and he participated in the Identity Theft Roundtable sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service in 2006. He is a member of California’s High Technology Crime Committee, and represents California’s financial services industry and is a steering committee member for the regional Northern California Computer Crime Task Force.
Gary is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners where he obtained certification. He is also a member of the High Technology Crime Investigators Association, USSS Electronic Crime Taskforce, Infragard, American Society for Industrial Security, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and is on the board of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS/ISAC).
Gary holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Service Management from the University of Redlands, and a Master of Science degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College.
Rob Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez is a Special Agent in the Criminal Investigative Division of the United States Secret Service. A ten year veteran of the Secret Service, Mr. Rodriguez has served as Intelligence Liaison to the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department and was the Secret Service Protective Intelligence Coordinator. He also served for five years in the Presidential Protective Division. Prior to joining the Secret Service, he served four years of active duty in the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division. Mr. Rodriguez graduated with a bachelor of arts from Louisiana State University and a master of science degree from Troy University.
Jonathan J. Rusch
Jonathan J. Rusch is Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he serves as the head of the United States delegation to the United Nations Crime Commission Expert Group on Fraud and the Criminal Misuse of Identity, the United States Co-Chair of the United States - Canada Mass-Marketing Fraud Working Group, and Chair of the national-level Mass Marketing Fraud Working Group. Since 1995, Mr. Rusch has been the Justice Department’s coordinator for a series of multinational fraud enforcement operations, including “Operation Global Con” in May 2006 and “Operation Roaming Charge” in October 2004.
Mr. Rusch also serves as Executive Director for Consumer and Benefit Fraud of the Department of Justice’s Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force. In that capacity, he oversees the Task Force’s national enforcement program with respect to charity fraud, disaster-relief assistance fraud, identity theft, and other forms of consumer-related fraud. In addition, he served as a key drafter and editor of the President’s Identity Theft Task Force Strategic Plan that was issued in April 2007.
Mr. Rusch received an A.B. degree with honors from Princeton University, an M.A. (Government) degree from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review. He has been the lead prosecutor in major fraud and public corruption prosecutions by the Department of Justice, including successful prosecutions of a former United States Treasurer, a House Sergeant at Arms, and former Members of Congress, as well as ringleaders of various mass-marketing fraud schemes.
Mr. Rusch received the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention in 2006 for his work on the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force, the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Inter-Agency Cooperation in 2005 for his work in organizing and leading strategic law enforcement initiatives, the Chief Postal Inspector’s Award in 2004 for his work in fraud prevention and cross-border fraud initiatives, and the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 1995 for his work in investigating the House Bank scandal. Mr. Rusch also is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches courses on Global Cybercrime Law and Trial Practice, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Virginia Law School, where he teaches Cybercrime.
Howard Schmidt
Howard A. Schmidt, President & CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC, has had a long and distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security spanning almost 40 years. He retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local and federal government.
He has served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for eBay, CISO, CSO and formed Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Program. He was appointed by President Bush in December 2001 as the Vice Chair of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Mr. Schmidt is Professor of Practice at GA Tech, GTISC and Professor of Research at Idaho State University.
Bob Sullivan
Bob Sullivan is an author and technology writer for MSNBC who has concentrated on technology crime and consumer fraud. He is the nation’s leading journalist covering identity fraud, having written more than 100 articles on the subject since 1996. His work appears on several MSNBC partner sites including MSN.com, Wall Street Journal Interactive, and ZDNet.com. His first book, Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic, introduced the nation to the complex crime of identity theft. His second book, Gotcha Capitalism, will expose the work of companies that trick consumers into paying hidden fees and surcharges for nearly every good and service they buy. It furthers the work of his popular blog, The Red Tape Chronicles. It will be available from Random House beginning this January.
Among his many scoops, Bob was the first to tell the world about the existence of Magic Lantern, a top-secret Trojan horse program designed by FBI researchers to steal encryption passphrases; he was also the first to describe the data theft at ChoicePoint, the first of what would become an avalanche of stories about stolen and lost personal information. Sullivan also appears on air on MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates. He is the winner of the prestigious 2002 Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for his series of articles on online fraud. He has spoken before trade and government groups including the National Association of Attorney Generals. He lives in Maltby, Washington with his golden retriever, Lucky.
Blog: The Red Tape Chronicles
Book: Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic
George K. (Chip) Tsantes
Mr. Tsantes joined Intersections Inc. as Chief Technology Officer in January 2005. Intersections Inc. (NASDAQ: INTX) is a leading provider of branded and fully customized identity management solutions in North America. Additionally, through majority-owned Screening International LLC, Intersections provides pre-employment background screening services domestically and internationally in partnership with Control Risks Group Limited of the United Kingdom. In this role, Mr. Tsantes leads all technology activities including development, IT operations, and IT security across all business units.
In addition, he is responsible for developing new services related to strong consumer authentication. In this role he has developed patent pending processes to improve initial and subsequent user authentication. The Intersections authentication framework provides a platform to manage and integrate the disparate technology solutions for providing and managing good authentication. He is co-chair of the IDSP Working Group 3 and frequent speaker at industry events including the FTC’s Proof Positive.
Prior to joining Intersections, Mr. Tsantes was a Partner in Accenture’s Capital Markets Group, part of the global firm’s Financial Services practice and a member of its FSI Technology leadership. During his more than 19-year career with Accenture, he was an IT architect specializing in helping clients assimilate emerging technologies, computing architectures and development techniques. His clients included major global financial institutions, many of which are Intersections’ clients. Mr. Tsantes earned a B.A. in Management from Virginia Wesleyan College in 1983 and an M.B.A. with an MIS concentration from Old Dominion University in 1986.
Jim Vogt
Jim is Senior Vice President for Vectra Bank Colorado and Director of the Treasury Management and Merchant Services Department. He is responsible for managing the statewide treasury sales and support efforts for Vectra Bank. This group provides treasury and cash management services for the bank’s commercial and corporate relationships.
Jim has over 20 years of banking and payment systems experience. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Psychology from Regis College in Denver, CO. Jim has earned Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) credentials, is a current member of the Colorado Treasury Management Association (CTMA) and has served nationally with the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). He is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Jim specializes in fraud management issues and holds an MS degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College in NY.
Anne Wallace
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Bradford Willke
Bradford Willke is a member of the Survivable Enterprise Management group and a senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The CERT® Coordination Center is a part of this program.
At the SEI, Willke is responsible for leading the Assessment and Evaluation team, and conducts research, development, and process improvement activities in risk, threat, and vulnerability management methodology related to information security management. Willke also leads projects to develop strategies and provide support for national and international critical infrastructure protection initiatives. In addition, he worked on the development of the SEI’s principle risk assessment methodology, the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE™) Method.
Before joining the SEI, Willke was a technical intern with Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he installed, managed, and maintained the University’s first firewall, which protected the University’s multi-million dollar Oracle investment. He also provided technology and security management for computing resources of the 90th Security Police Squadron, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. Willke served in the United States Air Force as a law enforcement specialist and organizational computer security officer from 1993-1997.
Willke holds a professional certificate in information protection and security from the University of New Haven, and received a BS in information systems technologies from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1999. He received an AAS in criminal justice from the Community College of the Air Force in 1997, and has been a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2005.
Norman A. Willox, Jr.
Norman "Norm" A. Willox, Jr. is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of LexisNexis Special Services, Inc. for the LexisNexis Group, a division of Reed Elsevier. In this position he is responsible for leading LexisNexis federal and state government business. In this capacity, he leads all sales, product development and policy application for the management of government information solutions.
Previously Willox was Chief Officer for Privacy, Industry and Regulatory Affairs at LexisNexis. In that role he was responsible for overseeing all domestic and international privacy and regulatory activities as well as global industry relations.
Prior to LexisNexis, Willox founded and built several information decisioning companies in the risk management sector. Willox was the principal shareholder and CEO of the National Fraud Center for over 10 years and a board member and officer of Riskwise International.
Willox serves as a board member for Austin Logistics, Inc. and the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection, as well as the Economic Crime Institute of Utica College. He also was a founding member of the Individual Reference Services Group (IRSG), a self-regulatory group of information solutions providers. He is a frequent speaker on fraud, economic crime, privacy and risk management, both domestically and globally.
Willox has undergone formal law enforcement and professional training and he received a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from West Chester University.
Willox currently lives on the Maryland Eastern Shore with his wife Jo Anne and their three daughters.
