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7 weeks before the October EMV Liability Shift
Why the Industry May Not Be Ready
This panel of Merchants, Acquirers, and EMV experts will examine the issues and challenges leading up to the October Fraud Liability Shift.
Topics covered will include Durbin compliance, terminal deployment and chip card adoption levels, education gap among certain stakeholder groups, and implication of EMV migration on contactless/ApplePay and non-face-to-face acceptance channels.
This is a unique opportunity to hear first-hand perspectives from those closest to the EMV movement.
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Agenda
6:30 pm: Reception and Networking
7:00 pm: Introduction of the session
7:05 pm: Panel moderated by Philip Andreae, Vice President, Field Marketing at Oberthur Technologies and with audience participation
Lori Haakmeester, SVP, New Product Innovation at Elavon Inc.
Bill Bolton, VP of Information Technology at HoneyBaked Ham
Patrick Neale, Payment Advisor at UL Transaction Security
8:30 pm: Wrap up and Networking
speakers
Panelists' Bios
Philip Andreae, Vice President, Field Marketing at Oberthur Technologies
At Oberthur Technologies, Philip Andreae, Vice President, Field Marketing, Payment, North America, provides clients an in-depth understanding of EMV and what it takes to introduce EMV in the U.S. He supports all of Oberthur Technologies’ EMV business development efforts and compliments and further expands and defines the company’s EMV offer in order to meet new requirements merging in the U.S.
Over the last 20+ years, Philip has been actively involved in the payment industry and the evolution of EMV. While at Europay International, he was the executive responsible for driving the creation of the consortium that developed the EMV specification. At Visa Canada, Philip was a primary catalyst in the country’s migration to EMV. He helped define American Express’ global acquiring and issuing of EMV contact, contactless, and mobile strategies and provided management consulting and subject matter expertise in the fields of EMV, mobile, and card payments at Accenture. Philip successfully operated as a strategic consultant in both Europe and North America and worked with clients such as AT&T, Canadian Tire, Lowe’s, VeriFone, and IBM.
Lori Haakmeester, SVP, New Product Innovation at Elavon Inc.
Lori serves as the product and innovation leader for North America, developing and delivering products to both U.S. and Canada. She leads the strategy for Elavon’s EMV efforts with a focus on product enablement, customer adoption and future development.
Lori has over twenty years’ experience in financial services including strong new product innovation success and a focus on go-to-market. She joined Elavon in 2012 to expand the organization’s product development and delivery. Prior to joining Elavon, Lori was with Equifax, serving in roles including new product innovation and custom implementations.
Lori holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of NY and a MBA from Mercer University.
Bill Bolton, VP of Information Technology at HoneyBaked Ham
As Vice-President of Information Technology, Bill's primary focus is to deliver effective business solutions through the enablement of technology. He has pent the last 20 years managing the development of an enterprise-wide "Order Anywhere, Fulfill Anywhere" Retail Management System, including POS, eCommerce,labor, and back-office solutions. Bill's current focus is on enabling a secure technology platform to protect the company's customers and the Brand through the enablement of PCI validated technologies and processes.
His objective as a technology leader is to provide HoneyBaked with the highest quality of technology-based services, delivered in the most cost effective way, and designed to facilitate the strategic objectives of the company. The key to this, of course, is through a highly collaborative partnership with the business. The basis for solid foundational systems and the success of transformational initiatives is fundamentally linked to IT’s strategic alignment with the business. The collaborative partnership with the business facilitates the development of well-defined business requirements; those requirements when enabled through technology provide the greatest value to both the company and her consumers.
Bill is a graduate from the University of Georgia.
Patrick Neale, Payment Advisor at UL Transaction Security
Seasoned communicator and business-savvy leader with more than two decades of career experience across a wide spectrum of industries. Proven management and Information Technology/Engineering professional functioning in many strategic/tactical leadership and individual contributor roles, including Fortune 50 Retailer Ecommerce Omnichannel Payments SOA Platform with multiple billions in weekly back end sales processing.
Known for establishing effective relationships across the enterprise and bridging communications between technology and business astute partners. A Motivational Management style with a successful record of building and leading world-class organizations focused on both technical and non-technical objectives. Skilled in automation methodologies, preventive risk management, root cause analysis, situational crisis management, IT security compliance, Agile testing/development practices and overall retail systems.
Demonstrated successes in addressing corner case defect remediation and go-forward simple but complete solutions. Several years of specialized consulting management experience with clients in finance and regulatory industries. Strategic thinker with a record of successful deliveries in the commercial, government, and research and design communities, including very visible organizations with extreme volume and expectation requirements.
