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Jean-Michel Ferat is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with over 20 years of experience in the specialized fields of forensic accounting, fraud detection, and data analytics. He has applied his skills in a variety of cases involving corruption, kickbacks, collusive bidding rings, money laundering, embezzlement, asset misappropriation, terrorist financing, and financial statement fraud. He has led or participated in reactive investigations and proactive compliance engagements, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act monitorships, across the United States and in over 25 countries around the world.  Jean-Michel served two terms as the forensic accounting expert on the audit and finance committee of the board of directors of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and currently serves on the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute where he advises the organization on anti-corruption initiatives. Jean-Michel has led or participated in numerous high-profile and complex projects across the United States and in international locations including Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Djibouti, Guinea, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Jean-Michel Ferat is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with over 20 years of experience in the specialized fields of forensic accounting, fraud detection, and data analytics. He has applied his skills in a variety of cases involving corruption, kickbacks, collusive bidding rings, money laundering, embezzlement, asset misappropriation, terrorist financing, and financial statement fraud. He has led or participated in reactive investigations and proactive compliance engagements, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act monitorships, across the United States and in over 25 countries around the world.  Jean-Michel served two terms as the forensic accounting expert on the audit and finance committee of the board of directors of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and currently serves on the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute where he advises the organization on anti-corruption initiatives. Jean-Michel has led or participated in numerous high-profile and complex projects across the United States and in international locations including Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Djibouti, Guinea, Holland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

Ian has dedicated his IT career to identity and access management, working in and around banking and finance for the last 19 years. In this time, Ian has worked as a software engineer, security architect, and identity product owner. He has led IAM programmes for major banks such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and ran the digital transformation programme as Head of Technology, Security for HSBC Global in the UK. After a number of years independently consulting in Europe around PSD2 and Open Banking, Ian joined Transmit Security in 2019 as Sales Engineer across APAC, before moving into a global role in 2021 covering technical evangelism and marketing.

Ian has dedicated his IT career to identity and access management, working in and around banking and finance for the last 19 years. In this time, Ian has worked as a software engineer, security architect, and identity product owner. He has led IAM programmes for major banks such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and ran the digital transformation programme as Head of Technology, Security for HSBC Global in the UK. After a number of years independently consulting in Europe around PSD2 and Open Banking, Ian joined Transmit Security in 2019 as Sales Engineer across APAC, before moving into a global role in 2021 covering technical evangelism and marketing.

Sawan is an IT Risk Management Professional with over 15 years’ experience in multi industry organisations that have grown by acquisitions and mergers where he created and delivered strategically aligned IT Transformation programmes while managing risk that improved scalability, agility and provided new business enablement. Sawan’s career has been well travelled, built upon collaborative and flexible approaches that have ensured people are at the centre of all initiatives as the main asset thus building Information Security and Privacy principles in every table discussion. As a qualified architect, one of his biggest strengths is to be an effective communicator and translate complex to a simple explanation and vice versa while focusing on the value of the work and how it contributes to business growth.