Mr. Ammar Jaffri holds Master's Degrees in Statistics and Computer Sciences and has served more than thirty five years in the areas of Data Processing, Information Technology, and Information Security in different departments of Federal Government that include Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defense, Intelligence Bureau and Federal Investigation Agency.

Currently the Additional Director General of Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan, Ammar Jaffri, until recently, was the Project Director for the National Response Center for Cyber Crimes.

Internationally, Ammar Jaffri is the point of contact for number of International initiatives on Cyber Security like 24/7 G-8 Group USA, OIC-CERT, SAARC CERT, APCert, Council of European Union etc.

• Additional Director General, Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency
• Project Director of PISCES (linking all twenty one ports of embarkation / disembarkation)
• Chairman of the technical committee of Automated Finger Print Identification System (AFIS)
• Chairman of Urdu Code Plate revision Committee (Cabinet Division)

• Graduated Uludag University Medical Faculty in 1989.
• Received the degree of Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine from Istanbul University Medical Faculty in 2006. Theses subjects were ‘The analysis of Splenectopy in Accordance with Turkish Criminal Code # 456’ and ‘Different Calculation Methods of Professional Winning Force Reduction of Work Related Accidents, and Occupational Diseases, According to the Social Security Administration Research and Standardization”
• Has written and presented 96 national and international academic research projects, articles, between the years of 1992 and 2008.
• Member of Turkish Medical Association
• Member of the Medical Chamber of Istanbul
• Member of the Society of Forensic Medicine Specialists
• Member of Turkish Association of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
• Member of the Association of Applied Ergonomics

 

Antoine Normand has taken over the management of BlueBear LES a software company specialized in the fight against online child exploitation in 2007. Before being the CEO and investor in BlueBear LES, Antoine Normand co founded Cactus Commerce in 1995. He was responsible of corporate governance, financial management, M&A and operations. Between 1995 and 2006, he was instrumental in positioning Cactus as a world leader in e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft platform. In 2006, Cactus employed a team of 125 professionals located in Cactus offices of Gatineau, Toronto, Montréal and Chicago. Antoine Normand sold his participation in Cactus in 2006.
Antoine received is Civil Law License from the University of Ottawa in 1996.
Antoine Normand is involved with numerous community and fundraising organization. In 2006, he was elected president of the Gatineau Health Foundation after more than 4 years as vice-president. As president of the foundation he is de facto a director at the board of the Gatineau Health Center. He was also elected President of the Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants du Québec representing Canada at this French organization that promotes entrepreneurship and human values in the corporate world in Paris, France. He served as a director of the Gatineau Economic Development Corporation, of the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce, of the Solidarity Fund FTQ-Outaouais (local VC), of the 4th Francophone Games fund and at the Ottawa Partnership board (city of Ottawa Economic Development).

Mr. Schwartz is Chief Security Officer of NetWitness and has 25 years technical experience in the information technology and information security and privacy fields. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer of ManTech Security Technologies Corporation, EVP and General Manager for Global Integrity, SVP of Operations at Guardent, CISO for Nationwide Insurance; and as a Senior Computer Scientist at CSC where he was Technical Director of the DSS Information Security Laboratory for the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Schwartz is the VP/Treasurer of the National Capital Chapter of the ISSA, and has served on the Board of Directors for Secured Services, Inc. and InfoSec (JP), the Executive Committee for the Banking Information Technology Secretariat (BITS) of the Financial Services Roundtable and the Board of Advisors for numerous security start-ups. Mr. Schwartz has a B.I.S. in Information Security Management and an M.S. in Information Technology Management from the George Mason University School of Management.

 

Presently working as Project Director National Forensic Science Agency, Project, Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan

Additional Secretary (Finance), SGA&CD Government of Sindh at Camp Office, Islamabad (October 2007 to June 2009)

ADTA- Asian Development Bank (July 2005 to Sept 2007)
A- Police /Public Safety Reforms Specialist (August 2005 to Sept.2007)
(Access to Justice Programme)

Deputy Director/Establishment, Federal Investigation Agency, Islamabad. (Dec.2001 to May 2005)
Focal person /Co-ordination for development and setting up of new projects being entrusted/assigned to FIA by the Government of Pakistan

Section Officer E-3 (Police), Establishment Division, Islamabad. (Mar. 1999 to Dec. 2001)

Section Officer, Arms Section, Ministry of Interior. Islamabad. (Sept. 1994- March 1999)

Civil Service Academy, Lahore (20th CTP) As under training civil service officer (Oct.1992-July 1994)

Specialized Trainings
· Cyber Crime First Responder Course
(By U.S. Department of Justice, F.B.I) (Dec.2004)
· Counter Terrorism Investigation Techniques
(by Royal Canadian Mounted Police) (Jan. 2005)
· Project cycle and Project management (Sept.2003)
· Communication skills ( Sept. 2002)
· Course on Removal from Service Ordinance, 2000 (Jun.2003).
· Office Automation Course (2000)
· Diploma in International Affairs (1989-90 session), Punjab University
· FEL (First Examination of Law)

Fikret Hacizade received the MSc and PhD degrees in Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics from Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, in 1977 and 1982, respectively.   He received the Prof. Degree in Laser Physics in Condensed Media from USSR Academy of Sciences in 1992.
He worked for TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey) in 1991. From 1991 till 1996 he was Scientific Adviser first and Head of The Physics Department after in the National Institute of Metrology (TUBITAK UME) of Turkey, where he was responsible for establish primary SI units Standards of Turkey. Since February of 1997, he has been working at The National Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK UEKAE) as Senior Researcher and Project Manager. His interests include optoelectronic control measurement devices, digital/optical signal and image processing, hyper spectral image analysis, high spectral and space spectroscopy systems.  He is author and co-author of more than 70 published papers and few international Patents.     

 

Mr. Peeters is Vice President International Sales & Business Development at Fox-IT ( www.fox-it.com) and has 20 years experience in different areas in the Information Technology and Information Security fields.
Previously, he served as a Director for Security Risk Management at Ernst & Young, as Corporate Director International Service Center at Telindus, as Executive Vice President Security Services at Ubizen and as an Architecture Consultant at Getronics and has as such been active in several parts of the world.
Mr. Peeters is active member of several international organizations such as ISSA and AFCEA and graduated as Master in Computer Science at the University of Leuven (Louvain).

Dr Anya Hunt is the author and presenter of this presentation entitled Laser Micro Dissection in Forensic Investigations. Anya is currently employed as European Sales Manager & International Forensic Specialist for MMi AG, a Swiss based Micromanipulation company. She works closely with many organisations across Europe including the Turkish based group Incekara. Anya joined MMi in 2009 after working as National Forensic Manager for Olympus in the UK. She has a BSc in Chemistry and Pure Maths from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Forensic Science from the University of Strathclyde, a PhD in Forensic & Analytical Chemistry from UMIST Manchester, a GDipL in Law from University of Staffordshire and a LPC from BBP Law School. She has worked in the field of Forensic Science since 1991 and has worked as a case reporting Forensic Chemist reporting cases in Fires, Drugs, Toxicology, Paint, Glass, Condom Lubricants and Footwear before finally moving into management and focussing more on the technological side five years ago. Anya is Chair of Standards for the Forensic Science Society (FSSoc) and Manages the European wide University Accreditation Scheme. Together with the FSSoc she is currently working on the development of a UK wide CPD scheme for Forensic Practitioners.

Abraham J. Domb, is the head of the Department of identification and forensic sciences (DIFS), Israel police since 2007. He is a Professor for Medicinal Chemistry and Biopolymers at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He earned Bachelors degrees in Chemistry, Pharmaceutics and Law and PhD degree in Chemistry from Hebrew University. He did his postdoctoral training at MIT/Harvard and was R&D manager at Nova Pharm. Co. Baltimore US from 1988-1992. Since 1992 he is a faculty member at the Hebrew university with interests on biopolymers, medicinal chemistry and forensic sciences.

He has been instrumental in establishing the SARC as a center of excellence in steganography research and development by leading efforts to create and expand a repository of digital steganography application fingerprints and signatures and developing state-of-the-art tools for detecting the presence and use of information hiding techniques. He has also been instrumental in developing application specific techniques, procedures, and algorithms for extracting hidden information from carrier files. Chad is a member of various computer forensic associations including HTCC, HTCIA, ISFCE, and ICFP. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from West Virginia University (WVU) and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Certificate in Computer Forensics also from WVU.

David Holt is the Director of the Analytical Unit and Professor of Bioanalytics at St George’s, University of London. He has extensive experience in the measurement of drugs as a guide to therapy, and has been responsible for the development of assays used to monitor a wide variety of therapeutic agents. He is also responsible for Forensic Toxicology Services at St George’s, where he provides services to HM Coroners, pathologists and law enforcement agencies for the analysis of illicit and prescription drugs. Professor Holt is a frequent speaker on a broad range of issues relating to bioanalytics and clinical toxicology, and is the author of over 300 publications in peer reviewed journals and invited contributions to books. He is a past President of the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology.

Dr. George Sharkov was born in 1961 in Pleven, Bulgaria. Graduated Mathematics and Computer Science at Sofia University, obtained PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), specialization in applied informatics, research in biophysics and genetics, enterprise information systems architectures.

Since 1994 he has been leading international software teams and projects for banking and finances, online trading and auctions, e-business, internet exchanges and B2B markets, innovative e-trading solutions.

• Regional Manager for Eastern Europe of the European Software Institute (Bilbao, Spain – www.esi.es  ), and managing director of the ESI Center Bulgaria ( www.esicenter.bg ).
• Leader of research network in Cryptography and Information Security ( www.cryptobg.org ).
• Accredited IT Mark appraiser (covers information security, business maturity and quality of processes).
• Chairman of BASSCOM (Bulgarian Association of Software Companies) 2001-2007.
• Instructor in SPI (Software Process Improvement), software engineering quality, implementation of CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration, SEI)
• Lecturer at Sofia University.
• Initiator and promoter of the regional ICT branding and competitiveness initiative. Founder of the ICT Cluster Bulgaria.

As the Head of Forensic Technology within KPMG Netherlands, Gerben has extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in the areas of electronic discovery, data analytics, computer forensics and litigation support.
After founding the department in 1998 he has led several projects for clients in the area of electronic discovery, shadow investigating the work performed by regulatory bodies, supporting law firms with their e-disclosure activities in legal proceedings and performing data analytics on large volumes of data for a variety of investigative purposes.
He has worked on large scale data analytics projects with a diverse client base throughout the world. He also led the development and deployment of KPMG’s AML Case Management System for both correspondent and retail banking.

Gerben’s recent work includes:

• Analysis of claims and provision data for a large insurer to reconstruct gaps identified between production and financial systems.
• Technology leader for AML review projects with different banks in Amsterdam, New York, Zürich and London.
• Design and propose Continuous Monitoring framework for integration in the business process of a Dutch Bank.
• Engagement leader for an Electronic Discovery operation where custodian data had to be collected form multiple cross-border locations after bankruptcy of a financial institution.

 

Gillian Leak has worked for the Forensic Science Service (FSS) based at its Wetherby laboratory in the North East of England, since 1978. She is a Bachelor of Science (Hons), a Chartered Biologist, a member of the Society of Biology and a Member of the International Association of Blood Pattern Analysts (IABPA). She is currently a member of SWGstain which is the MFRC sponsored Scientific Working Group on Blood Stain Pattern Analysis Methods. Gillian is based in the FSS Homicide and Violent Crime team and regularly attends Scenes of Crime and court. She has also been involved in the investigations of International homicide crimes.
She is the National Scientifc Lead for BPA and her role includes setting and maintaining standards in the discipline for BPA. This includes being the lead BPA trainer. She has delivered BPA and scene examination training courses over the last 15 years to Forensic Scientist, Pathologists, Scene of Crime Officers and Senior Investigating Officers.
Gillian has attended every IABPA conference (European and International) since 2004 and presented on many of these occasions. She has also been a guest speaker at the Nordic region conference of the IABPA held in Iceland, at British Forensic Medicine meetings held both in the UK and in Lausanne, Switzerland, at British Odontology Society meetings, at UK Forensic Science Society meetings and at the Mediterannean Academy of Forensic Science Conference held in Antalya, Turkey in 2009. Many of these meetings also included the delivery of a BPA workshop.

Richard is the owner and Managing Director of Forensic Pathways, an award winning forensic technology company based in the United Kingdom with a subsidiary in company Perth, Australia serving the Asia/Pacific areas. The company provides innovative forensic ICT solutions for knowledge management and business intelligence and has registered a number of Patents in this field. Richard has worked in Europe, Canada, United States, Middle East and Australia. The company won Middle Market Exporter of the Year 2007 and is a finalist in the National Business Awards 2009 (Best Use of Technology in Business).
The company has developed its own funded Industrial Doctoral Research Program (IDR Program) sponsoring innovative technologists to undertake applied PhD’s with the company. Currently three PhD’s are working with the company supported by a very significant investment in research and development in ICT by the company over three years. New technologies and new intellectual property has resulted now being used in industry to provide new solutions in forensics not only in the UK but internationally.
Richard is an acknowledged expert in developing advanced systems to help organisations discover and utilize knowledge and is at the forefront of an international interest in the developing field of information science and has a keen interest in the ‘information society and age’. He is committed to an entirely new vision for the future and the information age and has pioneered an innovative form of ‘informatics’ bringing together powerful visionaries, and new ideas to define the leading edge in his field.
Richard is a Senior Fellow at University College London, Associate Editor of the International Journal on Digital Crime and Forensics, member of the Editorial Review Board and Chairman of the ICT Cluster Advisory Board to the West Midlands Regional Development Agency.

From the start of his carrier, Goran Oparnica (B.Sc. in computer science) was interested in issues related to information security, both from consulting and technology perspective. Since there is no such thing as absolute security, logical step forward was interest in computer forensics, both from technological and legal point of view.
Since 2004 he is general manager of company INsig2 (Zagreb, Croatia), who is leading company in the region in the field of computer forensics. Projects that INsig2 has carried out in the region include education of investigators in the field of computer forensic methodology and tools, consulting in various aspects of computer forensics and implementation of different technological forensic solutions.
In 2008, Mr. Oparnica has become holder of CPP certificate by ASIS international.

Goran Oparnica is member of:

• ISACA – Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• ASIS International

Victor Oppleman is an accomplished writer, speaker and patent-holder in the field of network security and a consultant to some of the world’s most admired companies. Victor’s open source software has been distributed to millions of computers worldwide and some is used in graduate-level college curricula to demonstrate advanced networking techniques. Early in his career as an engineer, Victor developed portions of the backbone systems infrastructure for Genuity, the first Internet data center company. Later, as a senior architect for BBN and GTE Internetworking (now Verizon), Victor developed security-related products and services centered on public key infrastructure (PKI). A great deal of Victor's professional career has been dedicated to engineering and consulting for global telecom operators and critical infrastructure organizations in industries such as power and water, financial services, and defense. Victor holds patents in adaptive IP routing and network security. He is a co-founder and the president of Packet Forensics, a communications intercept equipment and software vendor.

Born in Gaziantep in 1974, Mr. Ahi graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1999.

• Founder and Director of Information Technology Law Center of Istanbul Bar Association.
• Member of the law work-group of the Informatics Associations of Turkey
• Member of International Technology Law Association (ITECHLAW)
• 2007 – Certificate of Certified Forensic Expert given by Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey.
• Published author in Milliyet Daily Newspaper on the subject of SME’s and law.
• 2003-2009 published articles in Hurriyet Daily Newspaper on the subject of IT law & regulations.
• 2008 – Certifite of ‘USA Law, and Legal English’ given by William Mitchell College of Law.

Senior Security Consultant and Forensics Investigator for Government, Commercial, Financial and Telecommunication organizations, as well as top Law Firms.

• 15 years of professional experience in numerous Computer Forensics around the world involving multitude of different technologies, and many different types of Cases (including massive collections and trans-national investigations).
• SANS institute certified instructor since 2002. Lead Computer Forensics Instructor in Europe of SANS.
• Top-rated regular speaker at international security conferences organized by organizations such as NATO, Gartner, IDC, RSA, ISACA, BCS, etc.
• Writer for international publications on multiple Computer Security Books, National Standards and SANS Courseware and member in international committees.
• 10 years experience as a Systems, Network and Security engineer for the Spanish National Aerospace Institute - INTA, in collaboration with space agencies (ESA, NASA) and other international government, research, educational and commercial organizations, as a security expert.
• Scientific Operations Center Manager for the Spanish Space Agency of the first Spanish Satellite, at the beginning of his career.
• Jess holds a B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Univ. Politécnica de Madrid.

Dr. Koltuksuz was born in 1961, received his Masters Degree from the Computer
Engineering Department of Aegean University with a thesis of “Computer Security Principles” in 1989. Earned his Ph.D. from the same Institution with a dissertation thesis of “Cryptanalytical Measures of Turkey Turkish for ymmetrical Cryptosystems” in 1995. And, appointed as an Assistant Professor subsequently.
He moved to Izmir Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering in 1996 and became a full-time, tenured Associate Professor within the same institution in 1999. Dr. Koltuksuz established & run the Information Systems Strategy and Security Laboratory (IS3 Lab) in Izmir Institute of Technology for a decade. He joined to the department of Computer Engineering of the College of Engineering of Yasar University in September 2009. His research interests are Cryptology, Theory of Numbers, Information Theory, Theory of Computation, Operating Systems, Multicore Architectures, Open Source Intelligence Analysis
and of Computer Forensics. Dr. Koltuksuz has held numerous workshops and education programs for Computer Forensics over the years and the number of police officers and DA’s who had participated in his programs exceeds well over couple of hundreds. Dr. Koltuksuz gets called as a computer forensics expert by many courts very often and thus has a very broad experience on the subject matter.

Dr. KWOK Fu-chiu got his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong. Since 1987, he joined the Forensic Science Division, Government Laboratory, Hong Kong, China as a chemist specialized in traffic accident reconstruction and drugs of abuse analysis. Forensic examination of damaged vehicles, vehicle parts, serial number restoration, toolmarks, shoeprints, trace evidence as well as facial-photo comparison and crime scene investigation are also his expertise. His present post is Chief Chemist heading the Drugs, Toxicology & Documents Group. While he worked in the Criminalistics & Quality Management Group, he also gained his management experience in DNA analysis. His main responsibility is to provide and manage forensic services to the Hong Kong Police Force and other local government departments, including testimony as an expert witness in courts of laws.

ACADEMIC DEGREES:
M.D. 1985, University of Granada
Ph.D. (Medicine, Forensic Medicine): 1989, University of Granada
Specialist in Occupational & Industrial Medicine (1987)
Specialist in Forensic Medicine (1990)
ACTUAL POSITION & PROGRAMMS
Associate Professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine, University of Granada (1994-)
Director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification at the  University of Granada (1990-)
Director GENYO – Pfizer – University of Granada – Andalusian Government Center for Genomics and Oncology (2007-)
Scientific Director “Phoenix Program of Spain” - Missing Persons Genetic Identification Program (1997-)
Scientific Director “PROKIDS – MISSING KIDS IDENTIFICATION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING” – International Missing Kids Identification (2005-)
President, Iberoamerican Scientific Group on DNA Analysis (GITAD) – (1997- )
President, Academia Iberoamericana de Criminalística y Estudios Forenses (AICEF)
(1998-2006) – International Liaison Officer – AICEF (2006-present)
RESEARCH & SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:
Papers: over 140 published in national and international Journals
Attendance of > 120 national and international meetings
Conferences & invited speaker in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Italia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Singapur, Thailand, UK, Uruguay , USA, &Venezuela.
RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST:
Human genetic identification (forensic genetics): STRs, sequencing, SNPs
Missing persons and missing kids – human trafficking prevention
Cardiac sudden death & genetic markers for prevention
Human genetic variability & solid tumors – early diagnosis
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – detection & typing
Ancient DNA
FOLLOWING SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
AAFS (since 1995, Fellow; #088936-Criminalistics)
IALM (Int. Acad. Legal Medicine)
AICEF (Latin American Acad. Of Criminalistic and Forensic Studies)
ISABS
AEEMT

Leyla Keser Berber has a Law degree from Marmara University Law Faculty. She has received her Ph.D. in 1998 with the thesis on Multi-party Arbitration in International Economic Arbitration and she has been active in the area of IT Law.

• Founder and Manager of IT Law Research Center at Istanbul Bilgi University.
• National Author of Cyber Law Turkey for Kluwer Law International.
• Chairman of Legal Working Committee for E-signature National Coordination Board.
• Chairman of the Secondary Regulations Commission under the Turkish Commercial Code Committee responsible for the draft.
• Member of the E-transformation Turkey Leaders Commission.
• Published author on the subjects of IT forensics, biometric methods, e-government, e-transformation, electronic health services, internet governance, e-commerce, e-signature, digital rights management, e-invoice, data protection and privacy.

Dr. Arslan graduated from Bogazici University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 1991. He received his M.S. and PhD degrees from Duke University in 1993 and 1996 respectively.
He worked as a research engineer at Texas Instruments and Entropic Research companies on speech technologies. He joined the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogaziçi University in 1998 where he is currently working as a full professor. He is also the founder of Sestek (www.sestek.com.tr) , a speech technology company whose main focus is speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice biometrics and IVR technologies. Dr. Arslan has published 75 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.  He is also the inventor of 10 patents. He participated in more than 10 national and international research projects which include European Framework programmes. His main research interests are speech enhancement, voice conversion, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and voice biometrics.

Liljana Selinsek, Ph.D, graduated at the Law Faculty of University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she studied all available subjects from the broader filed of criminal law. In postgraduate education, she received Master’s degree in the field of financial criminal law and after that she advocated successfully her doctoral thesis with economic criminal law theme. She passed also the Judicial State Examination. At present, she is working as the Assistant Professor for Criminal law, Criminal procedure law and Economic criminal law at the Law Faculty of University of Maribor (Slovenia). There have been more than 150 units in her bibliography; most of them are scientific and expert papers from the broader field of criminal law, but three of them are books. Her research work is focused particularly on economic criminal law and criminal law aspects of modern technologies. In the period 2006 – 2008 she was a member of national research team dealing with the project on theme “Digital forensics and its role in court procedures.”

Liljana Selinsek is member of:
- International Association of Penal Law (AIDP),
- European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN)
- Slovene Society for Criminal Law and Criminology,
- Slovene National Committee for Prevention and Combating of Crime, and
- Council for Penal Law at Ministry of Justice of Republic of Slovenia.

Prof.Dr. M.Fatih Yavuz M.D.,PhD.  was born in 1963.  Graduated Medicine at Istanbul  University, specialized  in Forensic Medicine, additionally obtained PhD in Forensic Sciences.
Prof. Of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Sciences Istanbul University. 1995-Present
Founder and Manager of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences Center at Istanbul Alman Hospital 2007- present.

• Highschool ; Kadyköy Maarif College 1981
• Medical Doctor;  Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty.1987
• Specalist of Forensic Medicine;1991
• Assoc. Prof.: Forensic Medicine 1994
•  PhD in Forensic Sciences : Ystanbul University, Institute of Forensic Sciences 1996.  
• Prof.of Forensic Medicine:2000

Fields of interest: Forensic traumatology, sexual assaults, forensic nursing, substance abuse, handwriting analysis,  forensic DNA analysis,
Memberships:
Society of Forensic Medicine
Society of Questioned Documents Analysts
Society of Forensic Biology and Genetics
Foundation of Forensic Medicine

Mehmet Eris has graduated from METU Electric and Electronics Engineering, and Physics departments in 2000.  He has earned his Master of Science degree from Marmara University Engineering Management program. He has been working as a senior researcher in TUBITAK EUKAE since 2001. He leads the Turkish Computer Emergency Response Team (TR-CERT) activities.  

Alvaro Soto is a Digital internal Forensics Instructor and examiner, and speaker at international related conferences/events, some of visited places are: Russia, China, USA, Ukraine, Brazil, among others, trainer for government projects (Law enforcement / Intelligence) examiner and advisor for corporate related investigations, technical advisor for building digital forensic labs (lawful interception, media recovery, clean room procedures, etc) , provider of training of companies like Paraben, Sarc, Decision group, Salvation Data, Mile2, and others.

Michael Robert Hickok currently serves as the Assistant Legal Attaché at the American Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey. A Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dr. Hickok previously was a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force assigned to the FBI Division in Buffalo, New York, where he also served as the Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator for Western New York State. Before joining the FBI, Dr. Hickok was an Associate Professor of Turkish and Central Asian Studies in the Department of Warfighting at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base. He received his B.A. in Near Eastern & North African Studies as well as his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Dr. Hickok was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Turkey and was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations doing his research at the Institute for Energy Economics in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Hickok is the author of Ottoman Military Administration in Eighteenth Century Bosnia as well as other writings on Ottoman History and modern Turkey to include “Homicide Investigations in Ottoman Bosnia” in Ottoman Balkans, 1750-1830 and “Yükselen Hegemon: Türk Stratejisi Askeri Modernizasyonu Arasyndaki Uçurum” in Statejik Analiz. His columns have appeared in Long Island Newsday and Ulusal Strateji.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2007-Present: Public Prosecutor of Supreme Court (Judicial Function: Review given by courts of justice about network crimes)
• 2003-2007 : Public Prosecutor of Şişli-İstanbul (Judicial Function: Criminal investigations)
• 1999-2003 : Public Prosecutor of İskenderun-Hatay
• 1996-1999 : Public Prosecutor of Çamlyyayla-Mersin
• 1993-1996 : Public Prosecutor of Selim-Kars
• 1990-1992 : Court Practice
• 1989-1990 : Law Apprenticeship

PUBLICATIONS A. BOOK
BAŞTÜRK, İhsan, (2010): “Liability of Internet Intermediary in Turkish Criminal Law” (will be published soon).
B. ARTICLES
1. BAŞTÜRK, İhsan, (2010): “Offencess to Confidential Informant’s Identity in Turkish Press Code”, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Dergisi, (Turkey Bar Associations Review), No: 86, January-February 2010, pp. 121-167.
2. BAŞTÜRK, İhsan, (2009): “A Study on the Decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court about the Cancellation of Turkish Penal Code Art. 440 and 441”, (Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, working of seminar, unpublished).

Murat has 24 years of technical experience and extensive knowledge in Information Security, IT Governance, Business Continuity Solutions, Computer Forensics, delivery of consultancy, training and auditing services. He is the founder and CEO of LOSTAR Information Security since 1998, has also been lecturing as part time instructor in Galatasaray, Bilgi and Sabanci Universities. He is the current VP and founding president of ISACA Istanbul/Turkey Chapter in 2009.  

After that graduating from Police Academy in 2006 as a deputy inspector. He worked at IT Department of Bolu Security Directorate Until October of 2009. He is still doing master degree at Instute of Security Sciences (Forensic Science Department).<> He worked on Operating Systems, Information Security, Cyber Crimes and Computer Forensics during his education and working life. He attended courses and participated in seminars about Cyber Crimes and Computer Forensics. He presented his studies on different platforms. He is also editor of BilgisayarPolisi.com.

Cem YÜKSEL, is the head of Speech and Audio Examinations, Turkish Police Forensic Laboratory. He is doing PhD in linguistics. He has almost 1000 real case experience on forensic audio. He gave consultancy on call center frauds to Turkish Banks. He provided technical support before and during establishing the speech and audio laboratory of Council of Medicine of Turkey and North Cyprus Turkish Republic. He is author and co-author of more than 30 published papers.  

Nasir Memon is a Professor in the computer science department at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York. He is the director of the Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) lab at Polytechnic (http://isis.poly.edu).
Prof. Memon got his BE in Chemical Engineering and MS in Math from BITS, Pilani, India, 1981. He got his MS in Computer Science (1989) and PhD in Computer Science (1992) from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Prof. Memon's research interests include Digital Forensics, Data Compression, Computer and Network Security and Multimedia Computing and Security. He has published more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds 4 patents in image compression and security with six more pending application. He has won several awards including the NSF CAREER award and the Jacobs Excellence in Education award. He has been a PI or Co-PI on research and education grants exceeding 10 million dollars. He has appeared on NBC nightly news as an expert on steganography and his research has been featured in NY Times, BBC Radio, MIT Review, Wired.Com, New Science Magazine etc.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics. He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the Journal of Electronic Imaging, the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, the LNCS Transaction on Data Hiding, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the International Journal on Network Security.
Prof. Memon is the co-founder of Digital Assembly (http://www.digital-assembly.com) and Vivic Networks (http://www.vivic.com), two early stage start-ups in Polytechnic's BEST incubator.

Aside from his teaching responsibilities Jonathan is member of the Vermont Internet Crimes Task Force serving law enforcement and governmental entities. He has experience in helping the public and private sectors with digital forensic litigation strategy and providing written and oral testimony. His high degree of professionalism and experience in the detection and prevention of white-collar crime complements his ability to teach, manage and conduct digital forensic investigations. He has served many high profile confidential clients and has worked alongside many three and four letter governmental agencies. Jonathan has provided expert oral testimony, affidavits and reports for cases at both the state and federal level. Jonathan consults and provides proven successful case strategy to clients/students on a daily basis.

Academic -

MS Managing Innovation & Information Technology, Champlain College Burlington, Vermont
BS Economic Crime Investigation, Hilbert College, Hamburg, New York

Certifications/Associations
• EnCE – Encase Certified Examiner
• CCE -­- Certified Computer Examiner
• CFE – Certified Fraud Examiner
• CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• CSI– Certified Steganography Investigator
• ISFCE – International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners
• ACFE – Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• HTCIA – High Technology Crime Investigation Association
• HTCC – High Tech Crime Consortium
• InfraGard – Federal Bureau of Investigation sponsored information sharing group
• International Botnet Taskforce – Global initiative to investigate Botnets

Career:

• Assistant at Faculty of Economics and Business, Marmara University (1979)
• Received Doctorate Degree, 1984. Thesis subject “Sampling Method of Currency in Accounting Auditing and an Application”.
• Became Assistant to Associate Professor, 1988.
• Became Associate Professor, 1995. Thesis subject “Prediction and Auditing of Bad Debts through Marcow Chain Analysis Method “
• Appointed as Professor in April, 2001.
• Bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate’s degree on accounting, auditing and financial table analysis.
• Trainer at Istanbul Chamber of Independent Accounters and Financial Consultants for preparation to independent accounters, financial consultants and chartered accounting examinations. (1995- )
• Instructor at various institutions and establishments.
• Advisor at various establishments and auditing applications.
• Worked on establishing accounting and internal auditing systems in various establishments.
• Audit Committee Member of TÜPRAŞ Petroleum Refineries.

Fields of Work and Interests:

• Accounting and Auditing
• Fraud Auditing
• Analytical Examination Procedures
• Internal Auditing
• Forensic Accounting
• Internal Control System
• Control Self Assesment
• Management Information Systems and Reliability
• Risk Assesment

Published Books:

• Monetary Unit Sampling Method in Auditing and an Application, MÜ, Publication No.: 419,İİBF Publication No.: 368, Istanbul 1985,
• Auditing the Corresponding Total Amount of Doubtful Receivables through
• Application of the Markoff Chain Process, MÜ, Statistical and Quantitative Research Centre (ISKAR), Publication No.: 1990/2
• Auditing Principals, Alfa Publishing House, 3rd Edition, 1998, Istanbul
• Auditing Applications, Alfa Publishing House, 2001, Istanbul

Rahul Patel has been with the Bode Technology Group since 2003. He began as a forensic DNA analyst. Afterwards, as a business analyst with the information technology group, he helped create the in-house LIMS system. Currently, as the international sales support manager he is responsible for the sale and support of Bode products and services outside of the United States.

Perry C. Quak is the Counsel for International Relations at the Netherlands’ Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. He has recently established the NFI Academy, the (international) forensic knowledge and expertise centre of the NFI.
Previously Mr. Quak has been an advocate-general at the Court of Appeals. Before that he has been a public prosecutor at several District Courts in The Netherlands for over 15 years. He specialized in organized (financial) crime.
Mr. Quak is a longstanding active member of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP). He graduated in 1987 as a Master of Laws in Amsterdam, and in 2001 as a Master of Public Administration in The Hague.

Dr Roberto King was born in Derby, England, in 1984. After completing his BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry with Sports Science at Loughborough University, in the summer of 2005, Roberto began a Chemistry PhD research project, under the supervision of Dr Paul Kelly and Prof. Roger Mortimer, at the same institute. Primary investigations encompassed novel reaction chemistry and applications of polythiazyl: a (super)conductive inorganic polymer that has stimulated many interesting avenues of research since its discovery in the early 20th Century.
Roberto began a postdoctoral research associate position in March 2009, this time under the sole supervision of Dr Paul Kelly, investigating the forensic potential of polythiazyl in relation to ink printed documentation. His research interests include forensic fingerprint and ink detection, indentation identification, solid-state zeolite syntheses and application, host-guest chemistry and various aspects of main group sulfur-nitrogen chemistry. He has several publications relating to these research areas and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Darrell is a member of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) working as a Computer Forensic Examiner in the Brisbane Office. His duties include providing assistance to the AFP and external agencies with the examination of computers and other electronic storage media. He is also responsible for the installation, maintenance and development of equipment and software used during computer forensic examinations. Darrells specialty within the team is the extraction and presentation of data from Navigation Systems.
Darrell has been involved professionally in the forensic examination of computers and data storage devices since 1999. In that time he has worked on the development of many of the systems used by the AFP. Prior to joining the AFP, Darrell was a System Administrator.
Darrell is a member of the Australian Computer Society and holds a Bachelors degree and a Graduate Diploma in Information Systems from the Queensland University of Technology. Darrell is now a part-time lecturer at the University, lecturing in Computer Forensics.

A.Selim Güsar graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Business Administration A.Selim Güsar held a position in Cine5 Filming and Broadcasting Inc. And Show TV from 1993 to 1995, From 1995 to 1999 A.Selim Güsar held various senior positions in factoring companies: TEB Factoring, Euro Factoring and Facto Finans.
Before taking up his present role, A.Selim Güsar joined Koçbank in 1999 and worked as Division Manager of Merchant and Credit Card Marketing of Retail Banking, Koçbank.
He also was responsible from development and management of Koçbank Direct Sales Team of Retail Banking.
A.Selim Güsar is working as Corporate Communication and Fraud Director of BKM as of 2004. BKM, Interbank Card Center of Turkey carry out the authorization operation between the banks, domestic clearing and settlement of debit and credit card transactions.
He accomplished implementation and launch of ;
chip&PIN Awareness Campaign,
Consumer Awareness Campaign and
Bank Card Awareness Campaign Since 2004

Piotr Girdwoyn - born in 1973; in 1995 graduated from Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, where in 1999 he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Legal Sciences based upon doctoral thesis devoted to reconstructing the past (criminalistic versions). In 2002-2003, Girdwoyn benefited from scholarship in Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg (Germany) where he conducted research on assumptions for his habilitation thesis elaborated under scientific patronage of Prof. Albin Eser. The paper (criminalistic defence tactics – outline) was defended in 2005, and since 2006 Girdwoyn has worked as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminalistics of Warsaw University Faculty of Law and Administration. In 2006 he stayed as Visiting Fellow at School of Law, University of Baltimore (USA), and in 2007 – thanks to the scholarship of H. and M. Straniak – at the Faculty of Law, Basel University. In 2007, Girdwoyn moved to the position of Director of Forensic Science Centre at Warsaw University, where in collaboration with, among others, Warsaw High School of Technology, National Academic Computer Network and Polish Security Printing Works he has been involved in “The Platform for Secure Implementation of Biometric Systems for Verification and Identification” project. The project is conducted within 7th competition for development projects in the field of security and country’s defense, of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland. 

Richard is the owner and Managing Director of Forensic Pathways, an award winning forensic technology company based in the United Kingdom with a subsidiary in company Perth, Australia serving the Asia/Pacific areas. The company provides innovative forensic ICT solutions for knowledge management and business intelligence and has registered a number of Patents in this field. Richard has worked in Europe, Canada, United States, Middle East and Australia. The company won Middle Market Exporter of the Year 2007 and is a finalist in the National Business Awards 2009 (Best Use of Technology in Business).
The company has developed its own funded Industrial Doctoral Research Program (IDR Program) sponsoring innovative technologists to undertake applied PhD’s with the company. Currently three PhD’s are working with the company supported by a very significant investment in research and development in ICT by the company over three years. New technologies and new intellectual property has resulted now being used in industry to provide new solutions in forensics not only in the UK but internationally.
Richard is an acknowledged expert in developing advanced systems to help organisations discover and utilize knowledge and is at the forefront of an international interest in the developing field of information science and has a keen interest in the ‘information society and age’. He is committed to an entirely new vision for the future and the information age and has pioneered an innovative form of ‘informatics’ bringing together powerful visionaries, and new ideas to define the leading edge in his field.
Richard is a Senior Fellow at University College London, Associate Editor of the International Journal on Digital Crime and Forensics, member of the Editorial Review Board and Chairman of the ICT Cluster Advisory Board to the West Midlands Regional Development Agency.

Dr Wolstenholme is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at Sheffield Hallam University. She has worked on trace evidence analysis in relation to forensic ink and pigment examination, and the application of Raman spectroscopy and IR to forensic science. Her current research is concerned with the chemical composition of fingermarks using MALDI mass spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy. Part of this research was published in 2009 in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.

Dr. Umut Uludag received the BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He was a PhD student and research assistant in Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University, between 2001-2006. During 2006-2009, he worked as a R&D scientist at Lumidigm Inc. His research interests include watermarking, image & signal processing, pattern recognition, biometrics, and cryptography.

Michael Webber is CEO and Founder of BitSec Global Forensics, a worldwide leader in information security and forensics training. International, federal and state investigative agencies, as well as major corporate Fortune 500 companies, rely on BitSec Global to provide discreet and confidential information security and forensic training. BitSec is an Authorized Guidance Software Training Partner and is licensed to teach their entire line of forensic courses. Since 2005 BitSec has provided training in cyber incident response, computer and cellular phone forensics, network security, and other topics in 25 countries on five continents
Prior to forming BitSec Global Forensics, Michael served for over a dozen years as a law enforcement officer in the United States. He was a cyber crimes investigator and forensics examiner. More recently, as a senior consultant to the U.S. State Department Anti Terrorism Assistance Program (ATA) Michael has spent considerable time in the region assisting law enforcement agencies and government intuitions in Turkey and nearly 20 other countries, acquire the skills needed to detect, prevent, and investigate incidents related to cyber terrorism and cyber crime.
You can learn more about Michael Webber and BitSec Global Forensics by visiting www.bitsecglobalforensics.com.

Prof.: Biochemical Toxicology and Criminalistics, Institute of Forensic Sciences Istanbul University. 1995-Present

• PhD in Chemistry: Hacettepe University, Faculty of Post Graduate Education  1981.  
• Assoc. Prof.:Biochemistry 1987.
• Laboratory Technician: Istanbul Medical Faculty Istanbul University 1970-1976
• Researh Assistant: Faculty of Chemistry of Hacettepe University  1976-1981
• Asist. Assoc. Prof.Faculty Of Science and Arts Cumhuriyet University 1981-1987
• Asoc. Prof in Biochemistry Faculty Of Science and Arts Cumhuriyet University 1987-1989
• Asoc. Prof in Biochemistry Institute Of Forensic Sciences Istanbul University 1989-1995

Memberships:
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Turkish Biochemical society
Turkish Forensic Sciences Society

Recent Lectures at the Institute of Forensic Sciences
1- Criminalistics (theory)
2- Criminalistics  (practice)
3- Analytical Toxicology
4- Biochemical Toxicology
5- GLP (forensic laboratories)

Received his Masters degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois in 2003
Received his bachelors degree in Political Science – Public Finance from Ankara University in Turkey.
Started his career at the Inspection Board of Finance in Turkey in 1993, and climbed his way up to chief inspector.
Upon starting to work for Financial Crimes Investigation Board, governed by the Turkish Ministry of Finance in February 2005, he became the deputy director of the board in 2009.
Over the years, Mr. Turkkot has attended many international meetings with the OECD, FATF, Egmont, EAG, and many more.
Mr. Turkkot has many articles published in the subjects of Finance, Tax and Accounting.
In January 2010, Mr. Turkkot started working within the private sector working as a consultant, and chartered accountant. He also serves as board member of the International Crime Investigation Experts Association (USUID) in Turkey.

Halil has more than 10 years experience in IT/IS and has specialized in IT Security for the last 8 years. He has delivered security training and provided consultancy services to various corporate customers. He has managed projects related to Network and Application Penetration tests, Forensics, Malware Analysis, Information Leakage, Vulnerability Management, Compliance Management and Secure Coding. In addition to holding a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, he also holds CISSP, CISA, GPEN, CEH, CHFI, CCSI, CCNP, CCSE, MCT and HPCI certifications. Furthermore, he received the Microsoft MVP award in “Enterprise Security: Engineering” Competency in 2009.

PHD candidate at Security Sciences Faculty. Working at Turkish National Police of Cyber Crimes and IT Systems Unit HQ as Breau Chief Certified National and International Trainer Member of European Cyber Crime Training & Education Group (ECTEG) Awarded by several National and International Instituons Leaded several national and international investigations Partner at several Europol Working Group

Andrew's IT background spans over 28+ years with 12 years management consulting and 16+ years forensic computing. He holds a Masters degree in Forensic Computing from the Royal Military College of Science at Cranfield University. He is a regular speaker at both domestic and international security, forensics and compliance conferences.

• Member of the Centre for Forensic Computing, Royal Military College of Science (RMCS), Cranfield University.
• Module developer and lecturer on Masters Degree in Forensic Computing at RMCS
• Member of RMCS Forensic Computing MSc management committee
• Member of Advisory Board for ICG Inc. -specialising in digital forensics
• Board member, Global Security Syndicate.
• Member of 'F3', the UK forum for forensic computing practitioners.

Dmitry Sklyarov works as IT Security Analyst at ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. since 2000. He graduated from Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU), where he currently teaches IT Security. At ElcomSoft, Dmitry is constantly involved into the research of exploits and weaknesses of cryptographic algorithms. Dmitry is author and co-author of two patent applications.
On a regular basis, he is a speaker at IT security and computer forensics conferences and seminars, such as China Computer Forensics Conference, Russian Cryptology Association’s conferences RusCrypto. He speaks English and Russian.

Alexandra Tsybulskaya is a Corporate Sales Manager at ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., a leading developer of password recovery software. Alexandra is a graduate of Moscow Linguistics University. She joined ElcomSoft in September 2009.
Alexandra is in charge of company's sales and partner programs, communication with existing and potential customers from Spanish- and Italian-speaking countries. Besides her mother tongue Russian, Alexandra speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Italian.

Valerio Causin was born in Venice on March 14th 1975. On 2000 he graduated in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Padova and on 2005 he got a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the same University. From 2001 to 2003 he was First Lieutenant in charge of the Chemistry, Explosives and Flammables section of the Forensic Branch of Carabinieri in Rome. Since October 1st 2007 he is researcher in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Padova. His research interests are focused on the application of polymer characterization techniques to forensic sciences, in collaboration with Carabinieri in Rome and Messina. He is actively engaged on the application of morphological and structural characterization of polymers by X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis and optical and electronic microscopy. In 2009 he was awarded the AIM prize for young researchers in polymer science. An author of 41 papers in international journals, he was invited or keynote speaker at a number of international conferences, universities and research centers.

 

Prof. Dr. Yasar İşcan, after graduating from the Ankara University, Anthropology Department, attended to the Smithsonian Institute in the United States as a scholarship, and worked on the Terry skeleton series.
Master's and doctoral studies have been accepted by Cornell University, Prof Iscan completed his Masters and doctoral studies here. Prof Iscan received his Ph. D. Degree in 1976.
Prof. Iscan continued his research on Anthropology and gave several lectures at the University of Florida. His research subjects include Modern , historic and archaeological societies .
Prof Iscan also conducted research on American, Japanese, South African society regarding the variations of the skeleton . He has trained may PhD students from Turkey, South Africa, South Korea, Romania and USA. In his work, Prof Iscan focused mainly on the identification techniques in forensic anthropology.
Prof. Iscan was referenced in many publications, and also served as expert witness in many cases taking place in the U.S.A., Israel, and South Africa. In addition he also served as expert. A few examples of his expert witness cases include the Israel vs. Ivan Demjanjuk and the United States vs. Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma Federal Building bombing).

Graduated from Police Academy in 1999 and started as a system administrator in the Forensic Laboratory of Turkish National Police. Taking advantage of both a forensic environment and specialization in Information Technology, he moved into the world of IT forensics in 2002 and founded the computer forensics unit in the Crime Laboratory of Turkish National Police– still the only accredited IT forensics lab in Turkey, where he has still been working as a computer forensics specialist. Currently, he is specialising in Quality Management in computer forensics services.

Yuri Gubanov is CEO and owner at Belkasoft, independent software vendor from Russia. In his past Mr. Gubanov completed a full path from being junior software developer to senior developer, then project manager and later IT top-manager. Graduated with honors from one of the best universities of Russia, St-Petersburg State University, he started Belkasoft 2 years later, being postgraduate student. Very soon the company became well-known in the forensic market for its Instant Messenger analysis product so Mr. Gubanov concentrated on forensic products instead of general-purpose ones.

Since 2003 Yuri is a senior lecturer at the St-Petersburg State University, delivering various courses like programming essentials, Microsoft.NET basics, usability and human-computer interaction, and, of course, security.

August 2009 – Present, Avea Internal Audit Director
January 2005 – August 2009, Ericsson Turkey Head of Sourcing
2002, 2005 Ernst & Young, Senior Manager
2000 – 2002 Arthur Andersen, Senior Manager
1998 – 2000 Sabanci University (SU), Project Manager
1997 - 1998 PrizmaNet ISP Istanbul, CIO
1989 - 1996 A La Carte Express Washington DC, Founder
1985 - 1989 Quality Couriers Washington DC, Founder
1984 - 1985 Strategic Planning Associates (presently Mercer Management Consulting) Washington DC, Research Analyst

TRAINING/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Turkish Internal Audit Institute, Annual Conference, “IT Security” May 2000
Bosphorous University Conference “How to Make Money via the Internet” July 2000
Euroforum Conference “Security in Internet Based Transactions” February 2001
Smart Valley Security & Audit Conference “Computer Aided Audit Techniques” March 2001
ISACA Annual Conference “IT Audit Infrastructure and CobiT Implementation” July 2002
Smart Valley Risk Management Conference “Implementing CobiT in a Retail Bank” August 2002
Smart Valley Risk Management Conference “CobiT Essentials” August 2002
Smart Valley Risk Management Conference “Operational Risk Management According to the Turkish Banking Regulatory Framework” August 2002
EuroCACS “IT Audit Infrastructure and CobiT implementation” March 2003
EuroCACS “CobiT Essentials” March 2003
Turkish Bankers Association “Security in Internet Banking Systems” May 2003
Smart Valley IT Audit Training “CobiT Fundamentals”
Turkish Internal Auditors Institute, First Annual IT
Audit Conference “CobiT as an IT Audit Standard” November 2003
Numerous Ernst & Young Internal Trainings 2000 – 2004
EuroCACS “CobiT as an Input to the Strategic Audit Plan” March 2004
EuroCACS “Non-Traditional Assurance – An Innovative Approach to Trust” March 2004
EuroCACS “CobiT and the Detailed Audit Plan” March 2004
NorAmCACS “CobiT Based Controls” April 2004
NorAmCACS “CobiT as a Foundation for a Process Based IT Organization” April 2004
NorAmCACS “The Risks and Benefits of Freeware and Shareware” April 2004
ISACA International Conference “CobiT based IT Assurance” (daylong workshop) May 2004
ISACA International Conference “The Role of IT in Due Diligence” May 2004
TUSIAD “Enterprise Governance and Risk Management” September 2004
BDDK (Turkish Banking Regulatory Board) “Foundation IT Audit” Training September 2004, November 2004
Asia-PacificCACS “CobiT as a IT Assurance Foundation” Workshop December 2004
Asia-PacificCACS “CobiT Based Controls” December 2004
Asia-PacificCACS “CobiT as a Process Based IT Organization Model” December 2004
Israel ISACA Chapter “CobiT for SoX Section 404 Compliance” December 2004
ISACA Int’l Conference “Using CobiT as an IT Assurance Tool” Workshop June 2005
ISACA Int’l Conference “CobiT as an IT Audit Foundation” June 2005
ISACA AsiaPacific CACS “CobiT as an IT Audit Foundation” Sept 2005
ISACA AsiaPacific CACS “CobiT as an IT Risk Barometer” Sept 2005
ISACA Network Security Conference “Mobile Data Access: Business Requirement or Security Risk” Nov 2005
ISACA Network Security Conference “CobiT as an IT Risk Barometer” Nov 2005
EuroCACS “Implementing Trust Services” March 2006
EuroCACS “Operational Risk Management” March 2006
Artifex “ISACA COBIT Implementation for IT Gov and Management” June 2006
ITPreneurs (Jordan Kuwait Bank) “ISACA COBIT Implementation for IT Gov and Management” Sept 2006
Artifex “ISACA COBIT Implementation for IT Gov and Management” June 2007
ISACA Training Week Amsterdam, Netherlands September 2007
ISACA IT Governance Conference Metrics Measurements & Benchmarking Nov 2007
ISACA IT Governance Conference CobiT Based IT Risk Management Nov 2007
ISACA Training Week Athens, Greece February 2008
EuroCACS Metrics Measurements & Benchmarking March 2008
EuroCACS CobiT Based IT Risk Management March 2008
Artifex “Metrics Measurements & Benchmarking” June 2008
Istanbul ISACA Chapter “Metrics Measurements & Benchmarking” May 2009
Israel ISACA Chapter “ISACA COBIT Implementation for IT Gov and Management” June 2009