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Victor Johnsonis a Member of the Intellectual Property & IP Litigation Practice Group in the Dallas, Texas office of Dykema Gossett PLLC.� His practice focuses on IP litigation including patent, trademark, brand protection and trade secret misappropriation. He has brought and defended numerous IP cases during his career and has tried numerous cases before state and federal tribunals.

Ian Hermon is payments security specialist at Thales e-Security in Long Credon, U.K. His specialties include security standards and implementation considerations for contact card, contactless card and mobile payment solutions. He is also a participant in the Smart Card Alliance Payments Council, Smartex Smart Payments Forum, Visa Europe Vendor Forum, MasterCard Global Vendor Forum, Global Platform Advisory Council and Multos Business Advisory Group.

David Brudnicki is the Chief Technology Officer of Sequent and has more than 20 years of experience in mobile products and technology. He has led advanced technology and product development teams at AT&T Wireless Services and held various technology and leadership roles at Sprint, Prime Computer, The Dow Jones & Company. Brudnicki is also co-author of five patents related to mobile messaging and communications.

Gordon MacKay is executive vice president and chief technology officer of Digital Defense. His earlier roles include research and development positions at Alcatel USA, where he led the Call Server Database team that designed a real time in-memory database used in the Alcatel Softswitch.

William O�Brien is the chief operating officer of Brainloop, a�provider of secure solutions for enterprise-wide storage and exchange of confidential information. Bill is also former speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He obtained his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and later received a Masters in Intellectual Property Law from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He has held various executive positions in technology companies over the last 20 years, including in both general counsel and operational roles.�

Dick Mitchell is a Solutions Director in the Technology Deployment Services (TDS) Practice of Randstad Technologies, based in Woburn, MA, outside of Boston.� A Dallas, Texas resident, Mitchell has been in the technology space for more than 30 years, providing services to a variety of customers for whom Point-of-Sale (POS), Infrastructure and Wireless are critical components of success.�