GSMA Financial Services Community Meeting #3

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.

Jon France is the Head of Industry Security at the GSMA, where he leads the Fraud and Security function. A technology and security expert in world heading rapidly towards 5G, where reliance on digital tech has risen exponentially, Jon’s focus is on ensuring network resiliency and integrity in support of mobile operators, consumers and other stakeholders throughout the mobile industry.

Jon has 20+ years’ experience in Enterprise IT & Security within media and telecoms. Jon has also delivered cloud enablement strategies; built online product portfolios; lead development teams; run global IT portfolios and headed up incident/ crisis management teams.

Bob brings 25 years of mobile experience to SpyCloud’s leadership team. With a background in the device security and IP licensing spaces, he leads SpyCloud’s efforts to engage with the mobile ecosystem to best serve enterprises and consumers globally and protect them from account takeover (ATO). In parallel, Bob is also the Chair of GSMA’s Device Security Group (DSG), which advises mobile network operators, device OEMs, and ISVs on device security, theft, malware and spyware protections. Prior to SpyCloud, Bob co-founded and was CEO of a mobile device enterprise security software company, which he helped lead to exit in 18 months, and held leadership roles at Samsung, Motorola, Qualcomm, and multiple venture-funded startups.

Fraser is a founding member of Vodafone’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics business unit and now heads up commercial strategy for Vodafone’s Mobile Identity portfolio globally. Fraser thrives on challenging the norm, burning the rulebook and the realising the profound possibilities technology creates to improve human life.

Keiron is responsible for the UK and supports international growth at Prove. His career covers all facets of the mobile operator identity ecosystem, with spells at the GSMA, BT and as a service provider. Keiron believes a prototype is worth a thousand meetings. 

Philip is the Chief Information Security Officer for Coinbase Global Inc., along with Custody Trust Company LLC. In his role, he is responsible for developing the technology, processes and team that safely store one of the world’s largest holdings of cryptocurrency. Under his stewardship, Coinbase has safely stored more than $25 billion in crypto without ever experiencing a breach or loss of customer funds. In addition to his work securing the assets of Coinbase’s customers, Philip also manages the insurance program that covers them in case of a breach. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive policies of its type ever conceived. Prior to Coinbase, Philip built and led the Incident Response and Security Engineering teams at Palantir Technologies developed new virtual infrastructure at Amazon A9 and spent a decade as a US Army counterintelligence agent, in a range of foreign and domestic roles.