Independent Expert Speakers

 

Eric Holmquist

President, Holmquist Advisory, LLC
Named one of the “Top 50 Faces Of Operational Risk” by OpRisk & Compliance Magazine, January 2009, Eric Holmquist has over 27 years of experience in the financial services industry and is a frequent industry author and speaker. He has experience in virtually every area of bank operations including: Branch operations, treasury, investments, IT, risk management, securitization and accounting. Holmquist has developed risk management, MIS and information security programs and is an expert in creating operational efficiency and risk alignment.

Holmquist is an international speaker on areas of risk management, technology, information security, change management, culture and compliance and is consistently rated as one of the top speakers at industry conferences.

Holmquist is the author of Risk-Sizing ORM – Scaling Operational Risk Management For The Small To Mid-sized Market, and is a contributing author to Operational Risk 2.0 (2007) and The Advanced Measurement Approach to Operational Risk (2006), both by Incisive Media. He has also written over 40 published articles on operational risk management, technology risk and information security.

 

Richard E. Mackey

VP, SystemExperts, ISACA/CISM

Richard E. Mackey is a leading authority on enterprise security architecture and compliance. He has helped many organizations, from online retailers and application service providers to major manufactures assess and improve their security and compliance programs. He has advised leading Wall Street firms on governance and policy, security architecture, identity management, and intrusion detection and analysis.

Prior to joining the consultancy SystemExperts, Mackey was the director of collaborative development for The Open Group (the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open).  Prior to the merger, he was the Technical Lead of the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) project.

Mackey has been a frequent speaker at conferences and a regular contributor to major publications on topics such as PCI, HIPAA, and GLB compliance, security standards, identity management, and service-oriented architecture security.

Andrew Baer

Founder, Baer Business Law

Andrew M. Baer is an attorney and founder of Baer Business Law, LLC, a Philadelphia firm focused on providing clients with cost-efficient business counseling and transactional assistance, particularly in the areas of technology, data security, licensing and intellectual property law.

Prior to founding Baer Business Law, Andrew served as corporate counsel to a life sciences technology company, as well as in-house counsel responsible for e-commerce, technology, intellectual property, data security, strategic business development and innovation matters at a publicly traded financial services company. Before that, Baer served in the Corporate and Intellectual Property/Information Technology practice groups of the Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block, where he concentrated his practice in e-commerce, trademark and copyright law, and technology licensing and development.

Among his other accomplishments, Baer has managed all legal work associated with the startup and launch of several innovative web businesses, represented a large television network in its e-commerce marketing deals and acquiring technology for its offshore operations, and represented life sciences and biotechnology companies in licensing, investment and joint venture transactions. He blogs regularly on technology and intellectual property law issues at www.baerbizlaw.com and is also a legal contributor for several prominent websites, including www.searchcompliance.com and www.revenews.com.