Victor Badejo is a Cyber Security Manager in PwC’s Consulting practice based in Vancouver. He has over 5 years of experience helping retail, public sector and financial services clients develop and sustain their information security programs. Victor has been involved in cloud security assessments and implementations, security architecture and deployment of enterprise SIEM/SOC solutions for multiple organizations across Western Canada.

Victor currently serves as the certifications Director at ISACA Vancouver Chapter and an Advisory Board member at New York Tech Vancouver’s cybersecurity program. Victor has a Masters Degree in Information, Network and Computer Security and holds the CISSP and CISA designations.

Pouria Ghatrenabi is a Manager within PwC Canada’s Cloud Security Practice. With +15 years of professional experience, he has led many security transformations, cloud migration, security automation, and security solution implementation projects for the Canadian financial sector clients. Pouria holds two master’s degrees in eBusiness Technologies and IT Management.

Jason Wang is Chief Risk Officer at Synergy Credit Union, a top tier credit union in Saskatchewan. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Marble Financial, a Vancouver-based fintech. Jason has nearly two decades of experience working as a risk, compliance and analytics professional in the U.S. and Canadian financial services industry. Jason is frequently featured in print media and live TV interviews, ranging from Bloomberg, Business New Network (BNN), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), to Canadian Television (CTV). Jason has an MBA from New York University, and is a CFA charter holder.

Heidi Miller is the Privacy Officer at Synergy Credit Union. She is also one of the facilitators in the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada’s Women’s Mentorship Program to help mentor women from developing countries on all things in the credit union system. Heidi has over thirty-five years of experience in the credit union system with nineteen of these being in the role of Privacy Officer. Heidi has her Chartered Access and Privacy Professional designation from the Privacy and Access Council of Canada and was one of the first graduates from the University of Alberta’s Information Access and Protection of Privacy Program back in 2010.

Jennifer has been with the Vancouver Police for 25 years now. Her career started in patrol working on the South Slope, West side then into East Vancouver and the DTES.

She went into policy writing for the Planning/Research & Audit Section, she branched out into investigations working as a Detective in the General Investigation Unit, then Major Crime Unit (Robbery/Assault/Arson Unit) where she was also the Liaison Officer between police and Jewelers Vigilance Canada. Jennifer was seconded to work in Special Projects for the Professional Standards Section and now works as a Detective in the Financial Crime Unit

Anna has been with the Vancouver Police for 21 years. Her career has span from front line policing in East Vancouver (DTES) to the West side of Vancouver. She then went into investigations working in Domestic Violence (developing and running the Elder Abuse Unit – the 2nd unit of its kind in BC), Recruiting, Mental Health Unit, Homicide Support Team and now the Financial Crime Unit.

She is a member of the IAFCI (International Association of Financial Crime Investigators) and is the Co-Chair on the Financial Abuse Investigators Action Group.
Anna lives in North Vancouver with her husband and their two dogs.

Shiv Gill is the Sergeant in charge of the Vancouver Police Department Financial Crime Unit. Responsible for the overall management and direction of all fraud related investigations in the city of Vancouver. Shiv brings with him decades of experience in all types of high-level criminal investigations that have been local, national, and international in scope. The types of investigations that Shiv has led include: Homicides, Cross-border firearms trafficking, Fraud, Cyber-Fraud, Sex Crimes, and Extortions/Kidnappings. Shiv is also a forensic interviewer and teaches investigative interviewing to both the public and private sector.

Shawn R. Chaput is an Information Security Architect with Central 1 Credit Union, in Vancouver, Canada. With a past of entrepreneurship, running his own PCI QSA company, and working for large consulting firms like IBM, EDS/HP, and Accenture, he has more than 20 years of experience in information security, now specializing in strategy and compliance related to regulations like PCI DSS, SWIFT, OSFI, and BCFSA.

Shawn holds a Master of Business Administration focusing on the Management of Technology from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and an BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Winnipeg. Over the last 25 years, he has also collected more than thirty industry certifications across multiple technical and best practices disciplines, such as those from (ISC)2, IIA, PMI, Microsoft365/Azure, and Amazon.

Mike Burgener has worked in the high-tech sector for over 20 years working for both Fortune 100 and start-up SaaS companies before recently joining Vancity as Director of Information Security. His experience covers a broad spectrum including cloud and on-premise infrastructure and applications including servers, storage, networking, disaster recovery, physical datacenter builds, ERP implementations as well as all things security related including static and dynamic code analysis, threat modeling, security awareness training and Information Security regulatory compliance.

Stephen has a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineers from Cape Peninsular University South Africa. He also holds professional designations in Security Management, Intrusion Detection, Incident Response and Forensics from the SANS Institute. Stephen holds a MBA through SFU’s Beedie School of Business. His Information Security career began in the mid-nineties connecting corporations to the Internet. Prior to joining Coast Capital Savings Federal Credit Union as Director information Security in 2017, Stephen spent 20 years in the Telecom sector (Telus) where he held a variety of security leadership roles.

Jason Wang is Chief Risk Officer at Synergy Credit Union, a top tier credit union in Saskatchewan. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Marble Financial, a Vancouver-based fintech. Jason has nearly two decades of experience working as a risk, compliance and analytics professional in the U.S. and Canadian financial services industry. Jason is frequently featured in print media and live TV interviews, ranging from Bloomberg, Business New Network (BNN), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), to Canadian Television (CTV). Jason has an MBA from New York University, and is a CFA charter holder.

Victor Badejo is a Cyber Security Manager in PwC’s Consulting practice based in Vancouver. He has over 5 years of experience helping retail, public sector and financial services clients develop and sustain their information security programs. Victor has been involved in cloud security assessments and implementations, security architecture and deployment of enterprise SIEM/SOC solutions for multiple organizations across Western Canada.

Victor currently serves as the certifications Director at ISACA Vancouver Chapter and an Advisory Board member at New York Tech Vancouver’s cybersecurity program. Victor has a Masters Degree in Information, Network and Computer Security and holds the CISSP and CISA designations.