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WINTER MEETING - SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Paul Lyda, Director, Risk/Fraud Management, CheckFree
Paul Lyda is responsible for three Platform Service areas within Product Management at CheckFree; Payment Risk, Enrollment, and Fraud Control.  The Team monitors, conducts analysis, develops hypothesis, creates tests, and adjusts the various systems so that risk, enrollment, and fraud are mitigated or managed to the mutual benefit of CheckFree and our customers.

Prior to joining CheckFree, Paul was the Personal Loan Portfolio Risk Manager for Associates Financial Services in Dallas.  He has over 11 years experience in Risk Management encompassing portfolio reviews, automated decision making, on-line enrollment, fraud, and segmentation analysis.  Paul also worked for KeyCorp in Cleveland, in both Consumer and Commercial Risk Management.  Paul holds his Masters Degree in Business Management from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelors or Business Administration in Finance from Kent State University.

Robert Varnadoe (Bob), Director of Security Strategy, CheckFree
Bob Varnadoe is responsible for information security strategy at the corporate level.  The security strategy team is responsible for information security policy and standards, compliance with customer and regulatory requirements, IT risk analysis, information security awareness and training. In addition, the security strategy team also provides consulting to CheckFree’s divisions and business units for information security and acts as an escalation point and liaison to law enforcement for security incidents.

Prior to joining CheckFree, Bob was IT Director for an architecture and engineering firm in Atlanta.  He has over nine (9) years experience in data networking and information systems, five of which were spent in the security field.  Bob holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.


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Jason Berryhill, Special Agent, United States Secret Service
Jason Berryhill has been with the Secret Service since 1999 and has been a member of the Electronic
Crime Special Agent Program (ECSAP) since 2000.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
Kent State University and is presently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science.  In 2003,
SA Berryhill was named one of the top five ECSAP examiners in the Secret Service.  In addition to his academic accomplishments and Secret Service background, SA Berryhill has served in the United States Army.  He left military service with the rank of Captain.


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