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Vicente Amores, Global Account Director, NCR

Vincente holds a degree in Law and Mathematics from the Universities Autonoma and Complutense (Madrid). He joined NCR Corporation in February 2001 and for the last five years has held his current position as a Global Director for the BBVA Group.

Achim Boers, Innovation Director, Prosegur

Achim Boers is currently Innovation Director at Prosegur and leads Prosegur?'s global competence centres for ATMs and new CIT products and solutions. He joined Prosegur as National Operations Director for the Spanish CIT business.
Before joining Prosegur, he was a management consultant at DiamondCluster (now Oliver Wyman) and he started his career at AMS (now CGI). In both companies, his main area of expertise was launching mobile phone operations in countries like Portugal, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Egypt, as well as restructuring engagements for mayor banks and transport companies.
Mr. Boers holds an EMBA degree from IESE Madrid and an MSc. in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology.
He is a father of two lovely children and if not working, you probably find him windsurfing on a windy beach in Spain.

Wolfgang Braunwieser, CEO, Salzburger Banken Software (SBS)

After his graduation in petroleum engineering Wolfgang Braunwieser started his career in the finance sector with software development on behalf of IBM. In 1988 he founded Salzburger Banken Software (www.sbs.co.at). Today SBS has a leading role in software development, particularly in the field of customer self-service for financial institutions in Europe. SBS develops bespoke applications and independent multi-vendor solutions based on its well proven KIX product family.

Favio Calabuig, Manager of Direct Banking, Banco República

Favio has been working at Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay since 1985. He ha worked in different positions at the bank and assumed responsibility of managing the Direct Banking Department in 2004. He has been leading the multichannel platform project of BROU. He has specialised in Quality Systems Management and has worked as an evaluator in different National Quality Awards.

Jenny Campbell, CEO, YourCash

Jenny Campbell is the CEO of YourCash, Europe’s leading independent ATM business. YourCash operate in the UK, Netherlands, and will launch in Belgium in 2011. After 30 years in a variety of roles for the Royal Bank of Scotland, Jenny joined Hanco ATM Systems in 2006, when is still operated as part of RBS. After playing a key role in returning the business to profitability, she became Managing Director then led a successful management buy out in 2010, re-launching the business as YourCash.

Stella Chatterton, Head of Schemes, VocaLink

Stella has over 15 years’ experience in payments and financial services, with roles at Next, GE Capital and VocaLink. She has been with VocaLink for over 10 years and has worked in a variety of roles including implementation of Faster Payments. She is currently Head of Schemes and is responsible for provision of the service to the LINK Scheme, and connections to other international schemes such as EAPS, CUP and PULSE/Discover.

Gergely Csikvári, OTP Bank

Since graduating in programming and mathematics, Gergely has accumulated extensive programming experience across a number of fields, starting with the building industry and most recently the financial sector. Today Gergely is the programming expert at OTP Bank Plc with responsibilities for ATM and ATM Terminal Management software and working with KAL. Other responsibilities include PCI-DSS compliance in IT development department, chip card expert (acquiring side).

Eric de Putter, Director Business Development Europe, EDB Ergogroup

Eric joined EDB less than a year ago to become a driving force in EDB Ergogroup’s European expansion plans. With almost 20 years behind him in the UK, Ireland and Europe, Eric has a great appreciation of the European card market.

Prior to joining EDB Ergogroup, Eric was Account Director at VocaLink, had a string of product management roles at Visa Europe and worked as consultant in the Netherlands.

Jorge Diaz, Chairman, Redbanc

Jorge graduated in Economics and has had a long career in Chile´s financial sector.
He is Chairman of the Board at Redbanc, Nexus and Servipag and a Member of the Board at Transbank, CCA, AFT, Sinacofi and Telsur. Previously he was Deputy Superintendent of Bank, CEO of Banco BUF and Concepción a Member of the Board of VISA International LA, and Banco del Pacifico, Edwards and De Chile.

Vincenzo Fiore, Founder and CEO, Auriga

Vincenzo 47 years old and Italian. In 1988 he graduated in Information Science at Università degli Studi di Bari (University of Bari), and after a time spent as a lecturer he moved to Rome becoming a member of the software consultant group of an informatics engineering company, the core business of which is the development and maintenance of banking informative systems. In 1992, thanks to his gained experience, he decided to make a big step and constitutes, with other three business partners, the Auriga Informatica, a consulting company for Information and Communication Technology in the finance sector. From the company's foundation till today, he holds the acknowledged role of the leader, as well as the one of CEO, taking full time care of the company's commercial development and it's growth. During these years his role and his production and commercial strategies have been vital for Auriga's growth, which today represents an acknowledged and appreciated reality in the IT field for the banking sector, with a large range of software services and products successfully implemented from hundreds of bank institutions operating in the entire national territory and beyond.

Dag-Inge Flatraaker, General Manager and Head of Group Infrastructure and Payment System Strategy, DnB NOR Bank

Mr. Dag-Inge Flatraaker is General Manager and Head of Group Infrastructure and Payment system Strategy at DnB NOR Bank. His academic background includes a Masters Degree in Economics (University of Oslo, 1986) and a mid-career Program at Harvard University (Boston) in Public and Business Administration 1993/94.

He holds other key positions including Executive Board Member of EPC and chairman of the EPC Mobile-Channel Working Group.

Peter Flynn, Industy Specialist

Peter Flynn is an independent consultant specialising in card payments. Peter was formerly Head of International Relations at LINK Interchange Networks; prior to that General Manager – ATMOS, the outsourcing arm of LINK. Peter has 30+ years experience in the finance/computing industries, working extensively in Europe, as well as the Middle and Far East and Africa.

Johann Friedl, Head of Cash Management Division, Raiffeisenlandesbank

Johann Friedl has lead the Cash Management Division of Raiffeisenlandesbank Vienna for exactly six years now. He is responsible for all developments in foreign and domestic payments, cards and the self service area including functions and services at ATMs. Before that, Johann worked as Head of Treasury for Orange Austria. He has also experience in International Project Finance activities from his time with UniCreditAustria and Austrian Federal Railways.

Agnieszka Gasowska-Ferdyn, Director, Cash Management and Operational Services, ING Bank

Director of the Cash Management and External Operations Services Department at ING Bank Slaski S.A. in Poland, Agnieszka is responsible for the operational management of all cash transitions and all associated outsourcing and vendor contracts, includind automated cash transactions and ATM / deposit machines servicing. She has 14 years of experience working for banking/FSI institutions (on the Polish and EU market) for corporate and universal banks, Deloitte Advisory (clients: banks, capital market infrastructure institutions, insurance companies), including 9 years experience at management level. A Ph.D. graduate in banking with over 5 years experience in lecturing / tutoring in the best Polish economic schools, Agneiszka holds adeep knowledge about banking/FSI sector.

Anirbban Goswami, Senior Manager, Retail Banking Department, Axis Bank

Anirbban is a career banker with eight years of experience across a wide range of areas in Retail Banking. He has experience in encompassing routine banking operations, ensuring compliance with statutory banking rules and client servicing & marketing. Anirbban has a master’s degree in Business Administration from Pune University, India. He has worked with some of the leading Indian private sector banks such as HDFC and ICICI, thereby gaining first-hand knowledge in retail banking delivery channels. He joined Axis Bank in 2008 and is responsible for retail products, including territory mapping, monitoring productivity levels, organizing sales promotions, monitoring competition activity and development of subordinates in a branch scenario. He also looks after the training & development of new joinees to the Bank. Apart from banking, he likes to spend leisure time with family and participates in different sporting events, e.g. the annual Mumbai Marathon.

Flora Hamilton, Executive Director, ATMIA Europe

Flora Hamilton joined the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) with responsibility for Europe in October 2009. Trained in business science, Flora has previously worked for the Public Relations Consultants Association, BBC Worldwide, the Press Association and Association for Measurement & Evaluation of Communication.

Tyler Johnson, SVP, ATM / Kiosk Strategy and Innovation, Bank of America

Tyler Johnson, an ATM Channel Product Manager, is responsible for delivering strategic planning and innovation for ATM / Self-Service capabilities.
Johnson joined Bank of America in 1994 and has held a variety of technology initiative management roles accross the company as well as several product management roles.

Dr Aravinda Korala, CEO, KAL ATM Software

Aravinda is the founder and CEO of KAL. KAL's Kalignite software is the world's leading software suite for ATMs and Kiosks. Thousands of ATMs and Kiosks powered by Kalignite are installed around the world. Aravinda is a world authority on software technology for ATMs. Aravinda was born in Sri Lanka. Following a degree in Electronics at King's College London and a PhD in Computer Vision at Edinburgh University, Aravinda worked with PA Technology and Coopers and Lybrand before founding KAL in 1989.

Tonarius Looyesteyn-Worth, Senior Product Manager, Card Acquiring, Rabobank Nederland

Tonarius has more than 12 years experience in the cards acquiring business at Rabobank, encompassing POS (debit cards and domestic electronic wallet), ATM (debit and credit) and product management for both ATM and the Issuing Acquiring Host. Also represents Rabobank on several Dutch interbanking committees.

Dinko Lucic, Deputy CEO, Privredna banka Zagreb

Dinko Lucic is a Member of the Management Board of PBZ, part of Gruppo IntesaSanpaolo, where he is responsible for overall Retail Group operations. He is a President of the Supervisory Board of PBZ Stambena stedionica, Deputy President of the Supervisory board of PBZ Card, and a member of Supervisory Board of ISP Card.

Leonor Machado, General Manager, Caixa Geral de Depositos and Chairperson, Cash Working Group, European Payments Council

Leonor Machado is the chair of the Cash Working Group and General Manager at Caixa Geral de Depósitos with responsibilities in the payments area. She has a long career at the banking industry and experience in cards, marketing, retail and commercial areas. She is also the chair of the SEPA Portuguese group.

With a background in Economics, before joining the banking sector she worked in different areas such as International Trade and Cooperation and Development.

She is married and a mother of 4 boys.

Guenther Oberreiter, Head of Product Care, Raiffeisen Informatik Austria

Guenther Oberreiter is responsible for innovation, roll-out and stable operations of collaboration, infrastructure and banking automation services. He started his career working in direct marketing at the Austrian insurance company Quelle, and was Dead of Direct Marketing at GE Capital Austria. He has now been working for Raiffeisen Informatik for 12 years.

Babatunde Ojo, Head of Channels Management Group, Fidelity Bank

Babatunde Ojo holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Mathematics. He later obtained a post graduate diploma in Computer Ccience from the University of Lagos. He also has masters in Business Administration, specialising in Finance.

He has sixteen years experience in the banking industry. He started his banking career with Manny Bank where he was the Head of the Electronic Banking Department. He is currently working with Fidelity Bank PLC as the Head of Channels Management Group. He has deployed ATMs and implemented other electronic banking solutions.

Stefan Radu, Head of Produsts and Direct Channels, ING Bank, Romania

Stefan Radu has worked at ING Bank Romania for 11 years, the last 5 years ago as Director of IT and since last year Head of Products and Direct Channels. He graduated in Informatics at Bucharest University in 1999. From 2003 he was responsible for implementing Retail and Self-Bank concept in ING Romania. Between 2005 and 2006 he was Head of IT Application Development and between 2006 and 2010 he was Head of IT. Since 2010 he has coordinated Product Development and Direct Channels in Retail Banking, with responsibilities over Retail Products, Customer Care, Self-Bank and Internet Banking.

Gianluigi Rocca, Head of Product Development - Financial Institutions, SIA Spa

Mr. Gianluigi Rocca is SIA's Head of Product Development - Financial Institutions, focused on business division strategy and processing solutions.
He was previously Director of the Strategic Marketing Department, providing business executives with thought leadership on competition, vision, strategy, branding, marketing, structure and processes of the financial services industry in SEPA area.
Prior to SIA, he was Director, Strategy and Marketing, at various services firms where was responsible for the development of the offering to financial markets, identifying, analyzing and implementing new business opportunities. He has founded and successfully launched, IT/finance initiatives in Italy and Europe, gaining many blue-chip customers primarily in the financial services industry.

Danny Rogge, Senior Consultant, Rogge Consult

Danny Rogge has been involved with ATMs since 1978 and is now an independent consultant to the ATM industry. Danny has occupied various positions at Siemens, Wincor Nixdorf and Diebold before founding Rogge Consult in 2008. Rogge Consult provides high level ATM consultancy to HP, DEXIA, BNP Paribas Fortis and many others. Rogge Consult is developing security solutions based on KABA electronic locks for banking and retail business.

Bernd W. Romswinkel, Managing Director, NoteMachine Germany.

Bernd took on the responsibility for the German NoteMachine business in 2006, at an early stage. Beginning with first installations Bernd forged the current NoteMachine ATM business in Germany. Previously he worked for nine years as an International Programme Manager for De La Rue, heading various projects for the worldwide De La Rue organisation.

Patrice Rullier, Managing Director, Oberthur Cash Protection and Chairman, EURICPA

Patrice is Managing Director of Oberthur Cash Protection, which he joined in 2008. He is a Graduate of the Ecole de Management de Lyon and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In 2010 Patrice was elected as Chairman of EURICPA, the European Intelligent Cash Protection Association.

Based in Brussels, EURICPA represents the leading European manufacturers of intelligent solutions for secure cash transportation and storage.

Previously Patrice was Managing Director and Commercial & Marketing Director in a number of technology companies such as Lectra where he was based in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1993, Atari, CryoNetworks and ViaMichelin.

Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo, Director of Transactional Banking Services, la Caixa

Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo is the Relational Banking Director at “la Caixa” with responsibility of online banking, the ATM business and the contact centre activities.

He began his relationship with “la Caixa” 40 years ago, when his parents opened Ramiro’s first bank account, only a few days after he was born. After graduation from ESADE business school and a several years experience at Andersen Consulting, he joined “la Caixa” in 1999. He has held various management positions within the Electronic Channels team. As Manager of Spain’s largest ATM network, he has promoted projects aimed at increasing branch efficiency through the extensive use of the ATMs, but has kept in mind that channel innovation is key to maintain and increase customer loyalty.

John Smith, Senior Risk Product Manager, Visa Europe

John Smith has worked in the cards and electronic payments area for over 25 years, in many international markets, including Europe, USA and Russia. As a senior risk product manager with Visa Europe, he has a key responsibility for the direction, promotion and adoption of a range of risk products and services in both the issuer and acquirer environments.

Benoit Speybrouck, Head of ATM and Branch Infrastructure, Branch & ATM Infrastructure, Dexia Bank

Benoit is 32 years old with a degree in Law from Ghent University and a Masters in General Management from Vlerick Business School. He is Head of ATM and Branch Infrastructure at Dexia Bank, and previously has had roles in business development and project management in retail and commercial banking.

Marco Vagnerini, Head of Self-Service, UniCredit Bank

Since 2009, Marco has been responsible for Self-Service Banking at UniCredit Retail in Italy, collaborating with other countries in the group and supervising Self-Service channel development. In 2005 he was responsible for UniCredit's migration project "EST - Easy to Save Time" and in 2007 ran MultiChannel Retail Italy in the fields of organisation, multichannel processes, migration and human resources development. Previously, he has worked at Telecom Italia and Rolo Banco.
Marco was born in Bologna, is married with 3 children and holds a BA in Law.

Gustavo Vinacua, Innovation Centre Director, BBVA

Gustavo Vinacua is a Graduate in Marketing and Business Administration at Buenos Aires University and at CESMA Business School in Madrid. During the last 15 years, Gustavo has worked in key management positions in leading telco companies. Simultaneously, he was involved in several entrepreneurships. Currently, Gustavo is the BBVA Innovation Center Director, a meeting point where ideas become true.