MICHEAL MALAN
Managing Director of CompuScan CRB Ltd in Uganda

Mike has been appointed as the Managing Director of CompuScan CRB Ltd in Uganda. He has spent the last fifteen years in the credit information industry working as a senior specialist in commercial and consumer credit bureaus where he has had the opportunity to obtain insight and knowledge into many different organizations’ credit, fraud and risk policies.

BARRY COETZEE
Chief Executive Officer of iVeri Payment Technologies

Barry is the Chief Executive Officer of iVeri Payment Technologies, the company he founded in 1994. Based in South Africa, Barry has dedicated the last decade to developing IT solutions to improve transactional banking in emerging markets and specifically in Africa. Through iVeri, Barry has created technology which is being used to address the transactional requirements in South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Nigeria and Kenya.  Barry is a regular speaker on the topic of Payments and Transactions and over the years has presented papers at dozens of international conferences.

HANY FEKRY
Head of Sales and Marketing – Mediterranean Smart Cards Company (MSCC)

Mr. Hany Fekry is Head of Sales and Marketing, a position he has held at MSCC since 2006.  He is currently responsible for distribution planning, sales, as well as promoting MSCC’s processing operations and services in Egypt and abroad.

Previously, Mr. Fekry held a number of business management positions at global companies such as the Allianz Group and Al Ahram Beverages, where he developed strategic relationships with partners, implemented business development initiatives and acquired standard business concepts and procedures.  

Mr. Fekry graduated from Helwan University with a Bachelor of Science from the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration majoring in Accounting.  He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands.   Throughout his career, Mr. Fekry undertook several professional training courses in various areas including marketing, business development and negotiation.

DENIZ KARAN
Business Development Manager, NXP Semiconductors, EMEA

STEPHEN LEONARD
Chief Executive Officer of PIC Solutions International

Stephen J. Leonard is Chief Executive Officer of PIC Solutions International, the leading specialist credit risk solutions company in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has over 20 years of credit risk management experience in the banking and consulting industries, including Chase Manhattan Bank and Fair Isaac Corporation. After 7 years of credit, risk and fraud management roles in the New York banking industry, he joined the start-up of Fair Isaac International in Great Britain. There he established and successfully grew the risk management consulting practice for the Europe Middle East Africa region. He has managed assignments with over 150 clients in 30+ countries, covering the entire credit life cycle.

KIRBIN VLADEN
Head of Foreign Sales, ROSAN, Russia

Vladlen Kirbin is recently the Head of Foreign Sales of the ROSAN Company, a Moscow based worlds top ten EMV smart card manufacturer (as ranked by Nilson Report in 2008). Vladlen has held this position since June 2008 after his employment as a National Sales Manager for Russia by TBC (US based MNC) and was hired to both enhance and structure ROSAN’s international expansion and to boost sales in Moscow and Lagos offices (SecureID, Nigeria). Vladlen holds a degree in International Business (USEU, Russia), an associate degree in Banking (Pace U., New York) and has over 13 years of sales experience mostly in financial trading and FMCG sales management, dealing mainly with sophisticated hi tech products.

ANDREW ODUORY
Manager, IT operations & Support, Paynet Group, South Africa

Visionary and goal-oriented Manager with demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing cutting edge information solutions to address business opportunities. Develop strategic plans for implementation, product support, quality assurance and training. Initiate and enforce strict budget controls addressing company needs and promotion of growth. Adept at crisis management, troubleshooting, problem solving, and negotiating. Experienced in capacity planning, project and resource management.

GRAHAM BOND
Project Manager, EMV Programs with TechTrex Inc

Graham Bond is a 2 0 year veteran of Visa, having joined the company in 1988 as a project manager for VAP implementation and support. In 1996 he became

A technical project manager for the development and implementation of the then new e-C ommerce solutions based upon the SET standard. Two years later Mr Bond joined Visa CEMEA where he was responsible for the development and implementation of e-Commerce solutions throughout the region. During this period, he also provided technical support in the validation of 3D-Secure, which is the technology behind Verified By Visa.

In 2001 Mr Bond took on the newly created role of Technical Architect for Visa CEMEA’s Emerging Payments team. As part of this role, Mr Bond was responsible for the functional design of Visa CEMEA’s first mobile phone top-up solution. From here, Mr Bond  moved to the Chip Payment Solutions team, where he was responsible for chip migration in the Balkans and South-East Europe, and providing Visa CEMEA’s input into the development of Visa’s Contactless Payment Specification.

For the past 2 years Mr Bond’s focus has been on supporting clients in the implementation of chip payment solutions , where he is the primary technical lead . Prior to joining Visa, Mr Bond spent five years in the vendor community working in application development for bill payment processing, ATMs and telecommunications.