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October 12, 2011 ~ 1:00 – 4:30 pm 2012 Information to Come...
Pre-conference Workshop - Fraud Detection and Prevention
Ramada Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
There will be a 1/2 day pre-conference workshop focusing on fraud issues. There will be a featured session with John McCulloughwho always amazes us with his information about what the criminals are doing now. Come out to hear how some of your peers are handling the fraud risks faced on a daily basis.
This conference qualifies for continuing education credits for AAPs.
Featured Pre-conference Speakers ~
Rayleen Pirnie joined EPCOR in 2007 after a 10-year career as a Fraud Investigator in banking. Today she draws on that extensive investigative background to educate and offer consulting to financial institutions, businesses, consumers, and law enforcement on payments fraud, risk, and regulatory compliance. Her primary focus is on initiatives to combat cyber crimes.
Rayleen stays abreast of all frauds and their prevention counter-measures, a necessity in the rapid changing environment of financial crimes. She is recognized as a payments-fraud expert and is regularly called upon to present at national conferences.
John McCullough, chairman of FCS, is a highly sought-after speaker on fraud and security issues. John’s vision and insight in many areas of fraud have also been instrumental in his role as Business Coordinator on the Minnesota Financial Crimes Task Force, a group that provides guidance in investigating and prosecuting identity theft and financial crimes. Prior to his position at FCS, he was President of Financial Retailers Protection Association, where he was in charge of loss prevention for the Department Store Division of Target Corporation for 23 years and developed protection standards and fraud controls for Target stores. John is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Rachel Williams has been a US Postal Inspector for 8 years conducting investigations involving identity theft, mortgage fraud, investments fraud/schemes, internet fraud, child exploitation, mail theft and other financial crimes. Rachel is currently assigned to the Mail Fraud team.
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Claudia Swendseid, is Senior Vice President, is a member of the Bank's Management Committee and provides executive oversight to the following functions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis:FedACH Support Services, FedACH Central Operations Support, Customer Contact Center (CCC), CCC Registration Authority, Federal Reserve Consumer Help, FedLine Channel Products - FedMail and FedPhone, Information Technology Department, National Service Desk, Treasury Retail Securities Contact Centers Technical Support, Treasury Retail eServices Technology Support, Technology Project Standards Office, and Payments Information and Outreach Office. Claudia also serves as the senior officer sponsor to the Employee Diversity Action Council.
Claudia conducts industry relations on behalf of the Federal Reserve System, serving as a liaison to selected national banking associations and payments groups. She represents the Federal Reserve to the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X9 and serves as the vice chair of the X9 Board of Directors. As part of her outreach in the Ninth District, Claudia is a member of the Minnesota Women's Economic Roundtable.
Claudia joined the Minneapolis Bank in 1985 as a senior marketing research analyst in Business Development and has since worked in most financial services and support areas of the Bank. She was named assistant vice president in 1989, vice president in 1996, and senior vice president in 2000. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English, humanities, and religion from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and a master's in business administration from the University of Minnesota.
Dave Mona co-founded the Minneapolis-Saint Paul office of Weber Shandwick and helped build it into the largest public relations office between Chicago and the West Coast. He’s taken the leadership role in keeping the office’s name front and center in the region with his involvement in numerous civic, charitable and educational organizations.
He chaired the successful communications effort to bring both the Super Bowl and NCAA Men’s Final Four to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and he co-chaired the successful public fund-raising campaign to bring Big Ten football back to the University of Minnesota campus in 2009. He worked to bring NBA basketball to Minnesota and to keep it there when the community fought off a hostile takeover threat from New Orleans. Dave and his wife, Linda, co-chaired the 2008 Women’s U.S. Open Golf Championship in suburban Minneapolis, and he will co-chair the U.S. Senior Games in Minneapolis in 2015.
Dave frequently consults with senior management on a variety of issues including threatened lawsuits, product recalls and management transitions. He provides strategic direction to clients in the areas of corporate visibility, social responsibility, and sponsorship activation.
Before joining Weber Shandwick, Dave worked at The Toro Company where he was vice president of communications. He led communications behind the New York Stock Exchange listings of both Toro and International Multifoods Corporation where he was director of corporate communications. Prior to that he was a reporter/editor for The Minneapolis Tribune and WCCO TV (CBS Minneapolis).
Dave has co-hosted the region’s top-rated sports talk show on WCCO Radio for more than 30 years and did color analysis of football games on radio broadcasts for his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, for 14 years.
Lee Wetherington, AAP, is Director of Strategic Insight for ProfitStars®, a division of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., and provider of best-of-breed solutions that improve the performance of financial institutions of all sizes and charters and diverse corporate entities. Lee directs the development of actionable insight and strategy for the financial services industry. To this end, he creates programs, presentations and articles designed to orient and educate financial professionals on the trends and implications of new technologies. He routinely delivers keynotes nationwide focusing upon opportunities and challenges in e-banking and payments, and he is widely renowned for his unique style of comedic delivery.
Lee has spoken for numerous national and state trade groups, including the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), Bank Administration Institute (BAI), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), and the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA). Lee also serves as the Technology Faculty Chair for several regional schools of banking and finance.
He received bachelor's degrees in economics and English from Duke University in 1990, and in 1993 he completed graduate studies at Emory University. In 1995, he earned the distinguished Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) certification from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA).
Andrew Brooker is a Senior Information Security Consultant and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with Assurity River Group, a leading information security and business continuity consultancy headquartered in Minneapolis. Brooker works with organizations to improve their information security risk posture and comply with data protection regulations. He has expertise in “white-hat hacking” (penetration testing), incident response, IT risk assessments and PCI compliance. Brooker has over 13 years of experience in corporate IT operations, engineering and information security.
Prior to Assurity River Group, Brooker served as Director of Information Security for the 18th largest Managed Security Services Provider in the world where he consulted with clients to provide security and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance solutions for major distributed organizations.
In an effort to reduce waste and decrease the use of paper products at the meeting, there will be no paper copies of session presentations or handouts at the event.
One week before the start of the conference attendees will be provided a web link to the handouts available at that time. We hope you will take a minute to review the handouts and print any you would like to review. Notebooks will be provided at the event for taking notes. The handouts will be available electronically for 6 months after the conference.
Embassy Suites Minneapolis - North
6300 Earle Brown Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55430
Phone: 1 (763) 560-2700
Room rates are $119 per night (plus tax), single or double. Mention the UMACHA Comference for this special rate. Reservations may also be made online by clicking here and entering the group code UMACHA. From the homepage, go to the "Accomodations" section, then "Check Room Availability" on the right side, and enter UMACHA in the "group code" box under "Special Accounts and Rates."
27th Annual Electronic Payments Conference October 9-11, 2012 I Earle Brown Heritage Center| Brooklyn Center, Minnesota October 8, 2012 I Pre-conference Workshop | Earle Brown Heritage Center
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
