Françoise Gilbert concentrates in US and global data privacy and security issues, cloud computing, and information law. Covering the entire privacy and security spectrum, her clients include public or multinational entities, cloud service providers, B2C businesses, B2B businesses, analytics companies, publishers, Internet stores, insurance companies, manufacturers, service providers, trade associations, software developers, and others. She counsels clients on complex issues related to evaluating and strategically managing privacy, security, cloud computing and e-business risks. She assists clients in driving a culture of privacy across their organization, developing and implementing information privacy and security strategies and compliance programs, and integrating privacy and security in commercial or corporate transactions.

An internationally recognized thought leader and expert in privacy and data protection law, Francoise has been named Best Lawyers’ “2014 San Francisco Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law.” For several years, the prestigious Chambers USA and Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in America, and the Who’s Who in E-Commerce have recognized her as one of the leading lawyers in the field of information privacy and security. She was listed as one of the top privacy advisers in the recent Computerworld “Best Privacy Advisers” list, and for several consecutive years as been selected by Ethisphere for its list of the “lawyers who matter.” 

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Marc is currently the Chief Emerging Payments Officer (CEPO) at the Royal Canadian Mint. Prior to this recent appointment, for the past six years, Marc was the CFO at the Mint. For the last few years, Marc has been leading a research and development team looking into the “evolution of currency”. MintChip is a prototype digital cash product that is omni-channel which will be piloted by the Mint in 2014. Marc is a charted accountant and was a KPMG partner for some 20 years prior to joining the Mint.

Patrick Gauthier is the Head of PayPal’s Emerging Services group in the Enterprise Solution division. He manages principally the PayPal Prepaid and PayPal Media Network businesses. The Enterprise Solutions division is driving PayPal’s omni-channel strategy and solutions for large retailers and partner networks. Patrick is a payments and commerce innovation specialist, with 20 years of experience managing products, sales, innovation and corporate venture with startups, Visa Inc. and Schlumberger Electronic Transactions. Patrick has also held positions on the board of directors of a number of e-commerce and m-commerce startups. He is currently an advisor to Tyfone and Sequent Software, two companies pioneering NFC solutions and a Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur de la France, one of the oldest public/private economic partnerships in the world. Patrick holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Telecom Sud-Paris in France.

As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick is responsible for Gigya’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. Patrick previously held the position of Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Gigya, driving retail product strategy and operations as well as strategic partnerships including relationships with the top social networks and identity providers including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. He was also instrumental in building and managing Gigya’s high-performing sales development organization. Patrick has also held positions at Gigya in business development and corporate sales, driving adoption of Gigya’s technology across more than 500,000 websites, and delivering some of Gigya’s lighthouse enterprise clients. Before joining Gigya, Patrick co-founded a suite of social network applications and games and served as Associate Consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. Patrick holds a bachelors degree from Harvard University.

Charlie brings more than 30 years of experience in the information security industry to his role as chief executive officer of SecureKey. He previously served as chief operations officer and general manager for INSIDE Secure’s NFC and payments businesses, where he defined business strategy, drove product strategy and development, and led the launch of new contactless and NFC chip products. Prior to INSIDE, Charlie founded Caradas, which developed digital identity and authentication management software and was acquired by Diversinet. He also served as chief operations officer for Diversinet; co-founded the CyberTrust business at GTE; and worked in GTE Government Systems, focusing on development of large-scale secure communication systems for defense customers. Charlie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.