GSMA Financial Services Community Meeting #4

Brian is the FinTech Vertical Lead at GSMA leading activities to enhance collaboration between the Financial Services vertical and the mobile eco-system. This reflects the strategy requested by the GSMA board to get closer to key verticals and better understand their needs.

His career includes product and commercial management in banking and mobile telecoms including O2, Lloyds and Barclays. As well as Telecomms, heading up the Digital Product team, Commerce, at Telefonica UK.

Dave Kleidermacher is VP, Engineering – Android Security & Privacy, at Google. In this role he leads the engineering team responsible for protecting the billions of users and devices in the Android ecosystem – this includes the Play Store, the Android operating system, and Pixel devices, phones by Google.  Prior to his role at Google, Dave held positions as SVP/Chief Security Officer at Blackberry and Chief Technology Officer at Green Hills Software.

Chris Elverson is a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Cyber Division.  Chris joined the FBI in 2010 and has been working cyber since 2015.  He works alongside private industry and other law enforcement partners at the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a non-profit fusion center located in Pittsburgh, PA.  Chris leads international collaboration between government, private industry, and academia to combat cyber crime.

Justin Lee is a FBI Special Agent with 15 years of service, currently assigned to the FBI Sacramento Field Office.  He works on the cyber squad where he investigates cyber-criminal violations to include network intrusions, ransomware, and business email compromise.  His previous FBI assignments include organized crime investigations and special operations.

Alexander Schmidt has served as a FBI Special Agent at the Sacramento Field Office since 2017. He has worked on a variety of investigations ranging from organized crime to cyber, and is currently assigned to a cyber-criminal squad. Prior to joining the FBI, he served as an officer in the US Coast Guard.

Taylor Grossman is a research analyst with the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she works on capacity-building and financial inclusion in the financial sector. Previously, she worked as a research associate at the Hoover Institution, a national security analyst at a Silicon Valley consulting firm, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s press shop. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.

After working for fintech and database technology companies, Hank has found a home in cybersecurity. Before Lookout, he was the 20th employee at a cloud infrastructure security startup and helped the company grow to over 160 employees. At Lookout, he is a Senior Manager on the Security Solutions team, enabling internal teams and informing the market about the growing need to secure mobile devices as part of the larger security strategy.