Synthetic Identity Fraud Detection and Prevention: Best Practices for Companies

Paige Schaffer is CEO of Global Identity and Cyber Protection services for Generali Global Assistance (GGA). She has been with the company since 2007. She currently sits on two boards and leverages her business acumen in the field to offer GGA solutions to organizations that can provide their customers with a service and experience that brings peace of mind. Ms. Schaffer serves as a voice for the industry advocating for the protection of customers and providing guidance on how to best protect their identities both physically and digitally.

Bruno Domingues is currently leading the Cloud Computing and Digital Edge strategy for Financial Service Industry in Sales and Market Group (SMG). He is responsible for initiating, evaluating, and managing strategic business opportunities, partnerships, and alliances in these areas. His goals are to launch effective initiatives in FSI through OEMs, SIs, ISVs, and CSPs to drive market adoption by developing and executing global go-to-market plans.

Mr. Bruno served as chairman of the IEEE Computer Society (R9), CMG Technical Director and is an active member of standardization groups. Mr. Bruno is actively involved in multiples projects and initiatives about multi-cloud adoption in FSI and represents Intel on several foruns worldwide. Recently, Mr. Bruno is researching the impact of digital transformation in financial services with an emphasis on Data Protection & Privacy practices and technologies, e.g., ML Interpretability, usage of biometric authentication, privacy-preserving ML, social bias, confidential computing, and compliance-aC.

Mr. Bruno holds a degree in Mathematics. He has been working in the Financial Services Industry since 1998. Mr. Bruno resides in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Greg Saunders has 15 years of experience creating products for Mastercard’s Issuers, Merchants, and Cardholders. Currently he manages a Global Product team within the Cyber & Intelligence Division offering products supporting the industry’s transition into the digital age such as device level spend controls, automated updates on payment cards saved with merchants by consumers, and securing the data exchanged in digital transactions. 

Shameka Walker is a Senior Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Consumer Protection, currently on detail from the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection to the Division of Consumer and Business Education, where she serves as the Identity Theft Program Manager. During her time at the Commission, Ms. Walker has been involved in investigating and litigating consumer protection cases involving data security, privacy, work-at-home scams, and telemarketing fraud. Ms. Walker received her J.D. from Cornell University where she was a Note Editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. She received her B.A. from the University of Miami.