Payments Day Speakers

James Hilliard, Head of Product and Data, Experian Payments James joined Experian Payments in 2009 as Senior Product Manager becoming Head of Product and Data in 2010 following a successful opening six months restructuring the product function and delivery capability of the business. James' previous experience includes 12 years working in consultancy and product management with companies such as ITV Digital, Ericsson, Gartner UK, 2ergo and leading law firm Eversheds. James has held a number of management positions overseeing new product development and product marketing initiatives across EMEA and America.

Rolf Sims, Senior Legal Advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Culture Originally from Durban South Africa, Rolf lives in Oslo, Norway, where he graduated with a law degree from the University of Oslo in 1995, specializing in intellectual property and international human rights. Since 1998 he has worked as a gaming regulator, first with the Ministry of Justice and Police, and since 2001 with the Ministry of Culture. In his previous and current position within gaming his scope of work has encompassed EU/EEA-law, all aspects of legislation connected to gaming machines, I-gaming, bingo, provisions and regulations on lotteries and sportsbetting. He has also supervised the administration of Norsk Tipping, the Norwegian state-owned gaming company, as well as the Norwegian Gaming Authority. He has been particularly involved in the Norwegian Slot machine case and Ladbrokes case which question the compatibility of Norwegian gaming law to EU/EEA-law

Jan Magne Juuhl-Langseth, Partner, Schjødt Jan Magne specializes in EU-regulatory matters and has represented gambling companies and international payment services providers for many years. He has experience in dealing with the Commission and the EFTA Surveillance authority as well as national regulatory bodies in Norway. He works out of Brussels and Oslo. Currently, Jan Magne is working for stakeholders that are affected by the coming Norwegian Payment Transaction Ban.

Mark Cobbett: UK Payments Administration, Cards and Fraud Control Division Mark has been involved in card payments for the past 25 years, now working for UK Payments Administration (formerly known as APACS) in the Card and Fraud Control Unit. Prior to this, he spent over 18 years working for Visa Europe in a variety roles focusing on Payment Infrastructure development, Scheme Regulations, Dispute Management, Consumer Debit propositions and Acquiring support services in both domestic and international markets. Mark's been involved with the delivery and roll out of much of Visa's infrastructure and payment service developments in the UK over the past 10 years, particularly Chip & PIN (EMV), Contactless Payments, Original Credits, Cash back, VbV, Re - Engineering Disputes initiative. He now spends most of his time co-coordinating initiatives to reduce fraud / promote best practices interfacing with a range of organizations, notably Government departments, law enforcement agencies, retailer forums and card schemes to progress co operation on payment fraud prevention activity.

Jim Noakes, Head of Transactional Services, Gala Coral Group Working in the e-Commerce division of the Gala Coral group, Jim has responsibility for account security, Know Your Customer (KYC) and payment processing for the major online brands of GalaBingo, GalaCasino, Coral and Eurobet. He joined the company in late 1999 and, over the last ten years, has played a pivotal role in the introduction of new delivery channels for the betting and gaming portfolio, such as mobile and interactive TV; and also improving the security of payment processing methods, such as championing the introduction of Verified by Visa/SecureCode in the Gaming sector. He takes a proactive role in fraud prevention and identity verification initiatives, most significantly through the chairmanship of the Gamshield group, which has over 20 leading remote gaming companies as members. Prior to this, Jim spent 5 years in an independent business partnership, pioneering the development of touch screen and touch-through glass systems for the retail market. His formative training was as a telecommunications engineer and project manager during 19 years at British Telecom, where he gained a B. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Dave Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion David G.W. Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, which he helped to found in 1986. Prior to this he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics. Described by The Independent newspaper in 2004 as a 'grade-A geek', and by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation in 2005 as 'one of the most user-friendly of the UK's uber-techies', Dave is a member of the advisory board for European Business Review and UK correspondent to the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce.

Etienne Wery, Partner, ULYS Etienne Wery is an attorney-at-law, registered with the Bars of Brussels and Paris. He is a founding partner of the ULYS Law Firm Etienne's practice focuses on IT Law, he is regularly active in a number of areas including Electronic Payments, communications and convergence, E-invoicing, and privacy. Etienne is an authoritative speaker, and regularly delivers focussed briefings at seminars across Europe. He published several books, including one on electronic payment and another one on electronic billing. He is also the editor of the biggest French legal portal dedicated to IT law: www.droit-technologie.org ULYS is an international Law Firm with offices in Belgium and France. The firm specializes in the fields of Information technology, Intellectual property, Media & Entertainment (which includes a dynamic Gaming law practice).

David Abbott, Director, Paiment Limited In his 21 years in the payments industry David Abbott has enjoyed a wide ranging career, working for third party processors, Middle Eastern banks and payment Gateways. He managed the HSBC account for First Data, which, at that time, was First Data's largest global client. David also managed Risk and Fraud products for First Data, and sold and implemented FDR's first Non US/UK contract. David was Head Of Cards at Riyad Bank for 2 years and introduced FICO's BSAC products to the Middle Eastern market. David was CEO of Securetrading.com for two years and was a founder board member of www.getsafeonline.org. More recently he has been consulting in the Acquiring, Gaming, Gambling and prepaid sector. David is currently consulting for a number of payment providers and gaming operators.

Gerhard Knecht, Head of Global Security Services and Compliance, Unisys Until 2000, Gerhard was the head of the Unisys worldwide IT-Audit department in Blue Bell, USA. Following this he led the Security Advisory Services in Europe until 2006, when he took over as global head of security for the Outsourcing and Infrastructure arm of Unisys. As Unisys Worldwide Security Officer and Head of Security Services he developed and implemented risk management and governance/audit processes inside Unisys and for a number of blue-chip clients. On a worldwide scale he has certified 26 Unisys service centres to ISO27001 and/or PCI-DSS. With a staff of over 150 he coordinates global Security Services & Compliance, including all aspects of delivering Managed Security Services. Gerhard is also the SOX-404 Process Owner and coordinates Business Continuity for Unisys. Gerhard also advises clients on Internal Audit, general IT security, risk and operational continuity management. He has designed the National Information Security Framework of the Republic of Portugal.