Chackan Lai

Chackan Lai is a seasoned payments and security leader with more than 25 years of experience shaping the future of payments, risk, and compliance. At Verifone, he leads the development of the company’s biometrics solution, with a focus on security, privacy, and consumer trust. His work bridges advanced biometric technology with the rigorous demands of […]

Steve Mott

Steve Mott

Steve Mott is a 40+ year veteran of the electronic payments and security industry.  His payments consultancy, BetterBuyDesign, specializes in payments landscape and strategic assessments; analyses of transaction economics; innovative uses of digital networks; evaluations of security technologies; and handicapping of business prospects for alternative payments. Steve also advises investment firms on industry trends and developments, […]

Lucy Chen

Lucy Chen is an award-winning author, executive coach, and former fintech leader with 20+ years of experience in risk management, fraud prevention, and data analytics. She previously held leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Mosaic, focusing on consumer lending and identity fraud. Now the founder of Gifted Coaching and Gifted Books, Lucy helps tech professionals […]

John Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo is a seasoned legal professional specializing in employment eligibility verification and compliance, as well as identity verification and fraud prevention during the onboarding process. John leads Vertical Screen’s initiatives in designing and implementing electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify,  advanced identity verification, fingerprinting solutions. The commonality among all of these: an intense desire […]

Sara Walsh

Sara Walsh

Sara Walsh manages the Network Performance Management and Controls team within the Bank of America Enterprise Payments organization. Her team is responsible for managing economics, compliance, controls, merchant engagement, network routing and enterprise operations initiatives. Sara works from the Wilmington, Delaware office. Sara worked at MBNA America, in multiple card operational areas and Learning and […]

Deepanker Saxena

Deepanker Saxena

Deepanker Saxena is the Head of Document Verification Products at Socure, where he leads the vision and strategy for building scalable and secure identity verification solutions. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and AI technologies, Deepanker collaborates with cross-functional teams across data science, engineering, and business operations to enhance the product’s capabilities. Passionate about solving real-world challenges, […]

Jatin Deshpande

Jatin Deshpande

Jatin Deshpande is a Sales Director at Giesecke + Devrient (G+D) ePayments America Inc. In this role, he is responsible for driving the Federal, Enterprise and Transit Business in the US.  He has 20+ years experience in the Authentication and Identity space. A majority of those years have been at G+D, where he has worked on various […]

Antoine Kelman

Antoine Kelman

Antoine is the Chief Technology Officer for IDEMIA Payment Services in North America, leading technical resources and client implementations in the region. He joined what is now IDEMIA in 1998, first in France and then in the US based in Southern California since 2001. Antoine has held various roles including leading EMV/ID chip development, IT […]

Angelique McClendon

Angelique McClendon

Angelique McClendon has served as General Counsel at the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) since 2015. Her two decades of legal expertise, include service as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia representing state agencies in civil litigation and appeals. In addition to providing legal support and guidance to the Commissioner, staff, […]

Riley Hughes

Riley Hughes

Riley Hughes is the co-founder and CEO of Trinsic, the first identity acceptance network and a leader in reusable digital identity infrastructure. Today, Trinsic supports a network of almost 2 billion verified users and partners across fintech, government, health, and travel. Riley got his start as the first employee at the Sovrin Foundation, where he […]