Mr. Nigel Jones, MBE
Adjunct Professor,
Centre for Cybercrime Investigation,
UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics,
University College Dublin

Nigel Jones is currently a director of a company specialising in technology risk solutions and training and has recently taken up an adjunct professorial position at University College Dublin. He was most recently European Practice Leader and Managing Director of the Financial and Litigation Consulting Services Practice of a major insurance broker.  Prior to this he was responsible for the creation of the National High Tech Crime Training Centre at the National Centre for Policing Excellence at Wyboston in the UK and was responsible for the creation of the design and delivery of a core curriculum and modular high tech crime training programme for the UK police service. 

In addition to wide ranging experience in major commercial fraud and computer crime investigation, he was the Secretary of the Association of Chief Police Officers Computer Crime Working Group and the UK Internet Crime Forum as well as being the UK Police representative on the G8 sub group on high tech crime and UK coordinator of a series of G8 Industry conferences. During his time as a fraud investigator he designed and delivered an academically accredited fraud training programme.

Nigel formed the Kent Police Computer Crime Unit in 1993 and is co-author of the ACPO “Computer Based Evidence - Good Practice Guide” and member of the Technical Working Group on the Investigation of Electronic Evidence (TWGIEE) in the USA.  Nigel has given presentations at numerous national and international events including the preparation and moderation of a hi-tech crime scenario at the United Nations 10th Crime Congress.  In 2002 he was appointed by the UK as a member of the Interpol European Working Party on IT Crime.

In 2003 Nigel was appointed as project manager of a European Commission Agis funded programme to develop a cybercrime training programme for the 28 EU and candidate countries. A network of cybercrime training institutes was created to take this work forward.  The project was supported by 19 partner organisations within the EU.  Nigel was also project manager for a series of training courses course on behalf of the European Police College (CEPOL) to deliver training to senior managers of EU police forces and a further project to deliver training to a group of countries from North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. 

In January 2005 Nigel was elected by the Member Countries as Chair of the Interpol European Working Party on IT Crime. and has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Institute of Computer Forensic Professionals,

Nigel worked in close collaboration for two years with Canterbury Christchurch University in the development of an MSc award in Cybercrime Forensics that is now offered by the University.

He was recently invited to Interpol as an expert to provide advice on an international IT forensics investigation. He also chaired the cybercrime panel at the recent Interpol General Assembly. He is currently a member of the Home Office Forensic Regulators digital forensics specialist group which is assisting in identifying requirements for new or improved quality standards, applying to the provision of digital forensics services to the police service and the wider Criminal Justice System

Professional affiliations:

Nigel was honoured with the award of an MBE for outstanding public service by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the 2004 New Years Honours List.

***

Mr. Len Hynds,
Director, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI),
Global Head of Anti-Piracy Enforcement, London.

Len has the role of Head of Anti-Piracy Enforcement for IFPI representing the recording industry worldwide.  With a background in law enforcement spanning 32 years he has directed a number national and international initiatives on behalf of the UK Government.  He is recognised for working collaboratively with multi-agencies in more than 30 countries.

He held lead roles in the UK’s National Crime Squad and was the architect and first head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, where he won industry recognition for driving the international agenda on cyber-crime.  In 2006 he was instrumental in formation of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency mapping from concept to operation a new national department delivering innovative solutions to the organised crime threat.  In his current role Len is developing new holistic strategies to bring about sustainable success against music piracy.

***

Christopher P. Sonderby is the Attaché for US Department of Justice at the US Embassy in Bangkok and the DOJ’s Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator for Asia.  As the DOJ Attaché, Mr. Sonderby represents the Department of Justice in all criminal matters in Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia, working closely with the US and foreign law enforcement authorities to facilitate both formal and informal mutual legal assistance.  Mr. Sonderby’s duties also include the coordination of criminal investigations and prosecutions involving IP offenses throughout Asia.  Mr. Sonderby’s efforts have also led to the recent creation of the IP Crimes Enforcement Network, which consists of key law enforcement officials in the Asia-Pacific region and is designed to improve cross-border cooperation in combating large-scale intellectual property theft.

From 2003 until his arrival in Bangkok in January 2006, Mr. Sonderby served as Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.  Mr. Sonderby also headed the Computer Crimes Section for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, and has prosecuted a broad range of federal crimes in his career.  Mr. Sonderby has served as an adjunct professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Michigan.

***

Mr. Bernhard Otupal,
Assistant Director,
Financial and High Tech Crime Sub-Directorate,
INTERPOL General Secretariat,
Lyon, France

Bernhard Otupal has more than 25 years of law enforcement experience and academic studies in both a national and international environment, culminating in more than 5 years at the International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL as Team Leader, Assistant Director and Senior Training Coordinator. He has been involved during that time in international relations - at police agency and governmental level. This has included close cooperation with the private sector in the framework of Public Private Partnership, for example in the field of Intellectual Property Rights, Identity Theft or BotNets.

His qualifications cover a broad range of skill sets: of particular note are a Master's degree in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation; the Gendarmerie Academy certification in management of police in both operational and business functionality. Training in Intelligence Operations; Criminal Case Development and Analyses; CISSP training by ISC2 in Security Management Practices, Security Architecture and Models, Access Control Systems and Methodology, Application Development Security, Operations Security, Physical Security, Cryptography, Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security.

He is currently Assistant Director within the Specialized Crimes Directorate of INTERPOL responsible for Financial Crime, Intellectual Property Crime, High Tech Crime, and Computer Forensics

***

Chris Smith has spent the past 25 years in the  corporate security environment, in the UK, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.   He has worked for international  hotel groups and financial institutions.  His current  role in HSBC, as the Head of Regional Security & Fraud for Asia Pacific  involves financial crime risk management, physical protective security, business continuity management, security intelligence and information risk management.

Chris is a Steering Group Member of the Asia Crisis and Security Group, Co-Chairman of the Asia Sister Banks Group, Member of the OSAC Steering Committee for Hong Kong & Macau, a member of ASIS International, a member of CSO Roundtable and a Fellow of the Security Institute of the UK.   He is a Board Certified Protection Professional and has a masters degree in crime risk management. 

***

Katharine Bostick joined Microsoft in January 2001 and currently serves as the Senior Director of Legal & Corporate Affairs for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.  Katharine leads Microsoft’s efforts across Asia Pacific in developing and implementing Microsoft’s Internet Safety and Security enforcement initiatives to ensure a safer and more secure internet.  She focuses on strong enforcement,  public policy,  and partnership initiatives across the broad range of Internet and cybercrime threats.  Katharine works with a team building public-private partnerships with law enforcement, key government agencies, inter-governmental agencies,  non-government organizations and industry to create a powerful network to tackle cybercrime related threats.  Katharine  also leads Microsoft’s Child Online Safety Enforcement through partnership initiatives advancing technology,  tools and technical support for law enforcement.

Katharine initially joined Microsoft to build a strategic Intellectual Property enforcement program in Asia Pacific targeting  criminal organizations producing and financing high-end counterfeit Microsoft product.  She established a recognized world-class team of lawyers, investigators,  and forensic and intelligence analysts, focused on protecting Intellectual Property Rights.   She has led a number of key best practice enforcement strategies developed in Asia Pacific resulting in more effective enforcement having global impact.

Before joining Microsoft, Katharine served as a federal prosecutor for over 11 years, serving in 3 offices including:  United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York; United States Department of Justice , Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, and: United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California where she served as Chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for the Pacific Region.  During her career as a prosecutor she prosecuted major international drug trafficking, money laundering, and major fraud cases involving organized crime and hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal proceeds.  

Mr. Goodman has extensive international experience on matters relating to cybercrime, cyber-terrorism and information security. Since 1999, Mr. Goodman has worked extensively with INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, headquartered in Lyon, France where he serves as a Senior Advisor to the Organization’s Steering Committee on Information Technology Crime. In that capacity, Mr. Goodman co-chaired two of the organization’s international conferences on cyber crime (in France and in South Korea). In addition, Mr. Goodman has participated in and chaired numerous INTERPOL project groups examining a wide variety of emerging technology-based security threats, ranging from E-Commerce Crime to Advanced Computer Forensics. Mr. Goodman has consulted with and trained police forces in more than fifty countries throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

In 2007, Mr. Goodman was nominated by the Secretary General of the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to serve as a member of his High Level Experts Group on Global Cybersecurity (HLEG). HLEG serves as a global multi-stakeholder think tank for the United Nations and is tasked with the analysis of new security challenges as well as the development of strategic solutions for both the Secretary General and for United Nations member states.

In addition, Mr. Goodman has authored numerous articles and book chapters on  cyber crime and terrorism and has been published widely by a number of academic and profession journals including Oxford University Press, the American Bar Association, the Institute of