Jeff Dant

Managing Director, Fraud Operations & Intelligence - Enterprise Fraud Management, BMO Financial Group

Jeff Dant currently serves as the Managing Director, Fraud Operations and Intelligence - Financial Crimes Unit at BMO Financial Group. Previously, he was the Director of Citi Global Consumer Bank's Fraud Fusion Center. He is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Fusion Center in the support of Fraud and Financial Crime management. Prior to this role, Dant served as the Digital Forensics Program Manager for Citi Security and Investigative Services Cyber Investigations group.

Before joining Citi, Dant served 12 years with the United States Secret Service in a variety of roles. He began his Secret Service career as a Uniformed Officer at the White House, and later carried several other roles including Special Agent in Washington Field Office, Newark Field Office, and Presidential Protection Division - Transportation Section. He specialized in financial crime investigations, specifically electronic crimes leveraged by Organized Eastern European Criminal Groups, leveraging intelligence and digital forensics in successful prosecutions, including the capture and suppression of the most prolific ATM skimming organization in the United States. Dant served as a Liaison officer to Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), continuing the targeting of international financial crime rings.

Deborah Gersh

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Gersh is the co-chair of the healthcare practice group, Ropes & Gray, LLP, with more than 25 years of experience advising a wide range of health care companies and investors on sophisticated regulatory and enforcement matters and the acquisitions and sale of health care entities. Her clients include pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical device companies, managed care companies, dental service organizations and practice management companies, as well as academic medical centers and community hospitals. Gersh counsels clients on a range of compliance matters, including design and implementation of corporate compliance programs and negotiation and implementation of corporate integrity agreements, as well as anti-kickback and state corporate practice laws. Gersh is also a recognized expert in privacy and data security. She advises clients on an array of data privacy, protection and security matters under HIPAA as well as state privacy and security laws. She has represented clients involved in security incidents involving protected health and other sensitive personal information, including representing clients in matters involving the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, as well as HIPAA security audits and qui tam actions initiated by state and federal government authorities.

Tate Jarrow

Special Agent - New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, US Secret Service

SA Jarrow has been a member of the USSS NY ECTF for over 5 years where he has conducted several high profile cyber investigations. Agents of the Secret Service's New York Electronic Crimes Task Force investigate cyber-crimes including, but not limited to network intrusions, complex cyber fraud cases, and money laundering investigations. This unit investigates complex, world-wide, significant impact cyber-crimes that affect not only the New York financial community but the United States financial system as a whole.

Prashanth Mekala

Supervisory Special Agent, FBI

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Prashanth Mekala has been a Special Agent with the FBI for approximately 15 years. He spent the first eight years of his career working on complex counterintelligence and espionage cases. From 2012 to 2014 he worked in FBI Headquarters as a Program Manager in the Counterintelligence Division - Economic Espionage Unit and the Cyber Division - Middle East/Africa Unit. For the past four years SSA Mekala has managed teams in the FBI New York Field Office focused on sophisticated nation state and criminal actors that leverage computer intrusions.