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Catherine Murchie is senior vice president of Processing and Enterprise Security and Network Solutions for North America. In this role, she has responsibility for enabling the market strategies for network, processing and safety & security solutions, including EMV or chip cards, for the U.S. and Canada.Prior to her current position, Ms. Murchie was a senior vice president in Investor Relations for two years, where she was responsible for managing relationships with the financial investment community. Before taking on that role, she led the global product management and commercialization of MasterCard’s contactless solutions, helping to lay the groundwork for today, when MasterCard contactless payments are accepted in 70+ countries around the world and support mobile NFC payments.Ms. Murchie has been involved with financial technology throughout her career at MasterCard with a focus on strategy, standardization and market commercialization. She was a founding board member of The Mobile Payment Forum, a cross-industry consortium focused on the development of industry standards for mobile payments. In addition, she was a member of the EMVCo contactless working group supporting interoperability and acceptance of secure payments for new channels.

Barbara Ross is a Director in Card IT and a member of the Partnerships Leadership Team.� Ross is responsible for IT strategy and investment execution for Loss Mitigation Partnerships, and Retail Partnerships.� Ross also leads the Technology Development Program for the Chicagoland Area, Ross has transformed our Chicagoland program to give back to the greater Technology environments, internally and externally.� Ross is also the sponsor for the Vanderbilt Program for Capital One.��� Ross began her career in a variety of technology roles including software engineering, database administration, and a variety of technology leadership roles within multiple industries including Manufacturing Engineering, Oil and Gas, HealthCare, and Aerospace Engineering.� Prior to joining Capital One, Ross was the CIO for a Financial Servicing company providing Bankruptcy and Estate Solutions to major Financial Institutions.� She led the efforts to expand the company to encompass a global footprint, establishing a location in India for servicing and software engineering.� Since joining Capital One in late 2013, Ross has held a variety of Technology leadership roles in Richmond, Virginia and the Chicagoland Greater Area.� Ross has developed her knowledge of the Card business and has distinguished herself as an innovative technical leader combining her previous experiences and expertise with the adaptive thinking and culture within Capital One. �

Jason Meller is a Chief Security Strategist at FireEye responsible for overseeing strategic projects that support FireEye's partner relationships.� Jason has spent his career specializing in conceptualizing, building, and deploying security tools that serve as a force multiplier for security professionals from experts to novices. Prior to his current role, Jason was lead product engineer on FireEye’s Intelligence Center and launched FireEye’s FaaS portal. Before joining FireEye/Mandiant, Jason was a Cyber Threat Analyst at GE’s Computer Incident Response Team and a co-founder of the continuous cloud security monitoring company, Threat Stack.

Chuck Fagan, III joined PSCU as CEO in April 2015 after serving as CEO of Credit Union Executive Society (CUES) since January 2013. Fagan’s 28-year career in the credit union industry began in 1988 as the card services manager for Virginia Credit Union. In 1997, Fagan joined PSCU as the company’s SVP/eastern region manager and in 2004 was named EVP, Chief Sales Officer and helped pioneer the company’s role in bringing emerging payments technologies to credit unions. Fagan holds a BSBA in finance from Longwood University in Farmville, Va.

Ben Knieff is a senior analyst with Aite Group, specializing in fraud detection, identity verification and authentication, anti-money laundering/Bank Secrecy Act compliance, and investigations management. He brings to Aite Group over 15 years of product management and product marketing experience in Know Your Customer/due-diligence management, transaction monitoring, sanctions/OFAC compliance, account-origination fraud, online fraud, ATM fraud, and identity theft.Prior to joining Aite Group, Mr. Knieff worked with major financial services firms such as FIS and Actimize. He has consulted with financial institutions across the globe, helping to merge technology with business objectives to improve financial crime management programs’ efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. He also founded an independent consulting firm focused on helping community banks and credit unions to better manage financial crime and compliance. Mr. Knieff has presented on fraud and AML at industry conferences the world over, and he is frequently quoted in mass-media and industry publications such as American Banker, Bank Info Security, The Times of London, Forbes, The New York Times, and Wall Street & Technology.Mr. Knieff has visited 31 countries on six continents for both business and pleasure, and is very slowly learning Hindi alongside his baby daughter.

Steve Platt is Experian’s group president of decision analytics and data quality.

James Ward is the Vice President of Credit for JCPenney.� His responsibilities include private label credit, third party credit, checks and gift cards. One of his priorities is increasing private label credit card adoption in the expanding mobile payments field. He has a proven track record of driving private label credit card penetration through focusing on the right value proposition for his customers.� He recently joined JCPenney in 2015 after serving as VP of Credit for Belk department stores.� During his 25 year payment history, he has held various positions at Belk, Fingerhut, Associates and Sears.� He is a graduate of University of Virginia with a major in Economics and Foreign Affairs.

Ashok Narasimhan is a serial entrepreneur, active board member and investor. His expertise spans payments, mobile, retailer promotions/rewards and e-commerce among other areas. He has been instrumental in founding and successfully building several companies, including some that became billion dollar global corporations.He is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based OmnyPay, an omni-channel, omni-device mobile checkout and payment platform designed specifically to help large retailers.Prior to OmnyPay, Ashok was co-founder and CEO of Runa, using Big Data and real-time predictive analytics to help etailers increase conversion rates and sales. (Acquired by Staples).He was earlier the co-founder and CEO of July Systems, a provider of cross-platform mobile solutions (Private).He founded Prio, Inc. with Microsoft, American Express, Knight Ridder, Intel and others as investors and served as its Chairman and CEO, serving retailer needs for clicks to bricks promotions and loyalty. (Acquired by InfoSpace, where he then served as COO and a Board member).Prior to this, he was EVP and Head of Worldwide Marketing, Business Development, Engineering and other senior executive functions at VeriFone. (NYSE - PAY)Earlier, he was the Founding CEO of Wipro’s IT business. (NYSE - WIT)He currently sits on the Boards of several companies and organizations in areas as diverse as education, Internet portals, investment banking, software development and mobile platforms. He holds a Master’s degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelors degree in Physics from Madras University.