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Rich Oliver Biography
Rich Oliver is an Executive Vice President with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and has been with the Bank since 1973. Since 1998, he has served as Retail Payments Product Manager for the Federal Reserve System. In this capacity, he has responsibility for managing the Fed's check and ACH businesses nationwide.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Oliver served as planning analyst, Administrator of the Automated Clearing House, Chairman of the Federal Reserve's Electronic Payments Implementation Task Force, Manager and Officer in Charge of Software Development, Vice President in charge of Automation Services, the Federal Reserve System's Product Manager for Electronic Payments Services, officer in charge of business development and check software, and Staff Director for the Federal Reserve System's Policy Committee for Financial Services, where he was responsible for coordinating integrated financial management, project management, and strategic planning for all the Federal Reserve's payments services nationwide. He also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Management Committee.

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Elliott McEntee Biography
Elliott McEntee is President and Chief Executive Officer of NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association. NACHA is a nonprofit banking trade association that promulgates the rules and operating guidelines for electronic payments including the ACH Network. NACHA's mission includes the development, promotion and use of electronic solutions to improve the payments system. The ACH Network reaches more than 20,000 financial institutions, and about 5 million businesses and 145 million consumers in the U.S.

Prior to joining NACHA in November 1988, Mr. McEntee was an Associate Director on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was responsible for managing a function that oversees the nation's payments mechanism and financial services the Federal Reserve provides to banks, thrift institutions and the United States Government.

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Dennis H. Jones Biography
Dennis Jones is the CEO of Securitas Consulting Group, LLC. A widely recognized information technology visionary and business leader, Dennis H. Jones, is the CEO and a founding partner of Securitas Consulting Group, LLC, a computer service firm that serves small and mid size companies. SCG is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

As Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of Commerce One from 2001-2002, Jones was responsible for the company's administrative, engineering, finance, and marketing divisions.  He also oversaw strategic accounts, marketplace management, marketplace services, and strategy consulting.

Prior to joining Commerce One, Jones served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Accel-KKR, a Silicon Valley investment company.

However, Jones is best known for his 25 years at FedEx Corporation, culminating in his role as Executive Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. As part of this role, Jones served on the company's five person Executive Committee that oversees all company operations. During his tenure at FedEx, Jones built a world-class technology organization with more than 5,000 professionals worldwide and an annual budget approaching $2 billion. Under his guidance, in 1994, FedEx introduced online package tracking, making it the first major corporation to do business on the Web. Two years later, Jones led FedEx in another first, developing the technology to process shipping transactions online.

Under Jones' leadership, FedEx received many honors, including consistent recognition by ComputerWorld as one of the "Best Places to Work." In acknowledgement of Jones' lasting contributions to the company, FedEx named the centerpiece building of its 1.0 million square foot World Technology Center campus in Collierville, Tennessee "Dennis H. Jones Hall."

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Lee Wetherington Biography
Speaker, humorist, and author, Lee Wetherington, AAP, is Senior Vice President of Goldleaf Technologies, the leading provider of electronic payments systems and website design services to independent financial institutions. Lee oversees communications and public relations initiatives with the financial services industry. To this end, he develops programs, presentations, and articles designed to orient and educate financial institutions on the trends and implications of new technologies. He routinely delivers keynotes and seminars nationwide, counseling financial institutions on strategic, technical, and promotional issues in the arenas of e-banking and electronic payments.

Lee has spoken for numerous trade groups, including ICBA, IBM, NACHA, Southern Financial Exchange, Florida Banker's Association, Georgia Bankers Association, Texas Bankers Association, Tennessee Bankers Association, Community Bankers of Wisconsin, Kansas Bankers Association, Missouri Independent Bankers Association, Iowa Bankers Association, ICB of Minnesota, Idaho Bankers Association, Nebraska Bankers Association, The Payments Authority, Mid-America Payments Exchange, GACHA, TACHA, WACHA, SoCACHA, UMACHA, and the Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers.

Lee also serves as the Technology Faculty Chair for the Georgia Banking School, the Midwest School for Community Bankers, the Florida School of Banking, GBA's Southern Operations & Technology School, and CBA of Georgia's Bank Directors College.

Lee has authored several articles for financial trade periodicals, including Independent Banker. Lee received bachelor degrees in Economics and English from Duke University in 1990. In 1993, he completed graduate studies at Emory University before joining Goldleaf. In 1995, he earned the distinguished Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) certification from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA)

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Jimmy R. Sawyers Biography
Jimmy Sawyers is Director of Consulting at Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck PLC, a Memphis-based CPA and advisory firm founded in 1916. Jimmy helps banks in the areas of technology planning, system selection, information security, business continuity planning, policy development and IT risk management. With over twenty years of experience in banking technology, his career began in 1984 as a computer operator at a community bank. By 1986, Jimmy was directing the operations and technology division of the bank, working his way to Vice President of Operations in 1989 before joining the consulting practice of Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck in 1993 where he now leads the firm's consulting services group. Jimmy is a graduate of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee with a B.S. in Business and a concentration in Information Technology Management and Telecommunications.

Active in the banking industry not only as a consultant but also as a speaker, author and teacher, Jimmy is on the faculty of the Barret School of Banking (formerly Mid South School of Banking) and the Southeastern School of Banking. Jimmy is a member of the Financial Institutions Committee for the PKF North American Network and the Memphis Technology Council. A frequent contributor to BankersOnline, Jimmy is the author of the book, IT Auditing for Financial Institutions.

Jimmy, his wife Cindy, and their three children, live in Cordova, Tennessee.

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Jack Vonder Heide Biography
Jack Vonder Heide is one of the nation's leading authorities on technology and its associated risks. He is consistently ranked among the top speakers at industry conventions, management conferences, corporate seminars, board meetings and other events.

Prior to founding Technology Briefing Centers in 1993, Jack was Vice President of Sales for a major financial services company and held marketing positions with IBM Corporation.

Jack appears regularly on ABC News and has also been featured on Fox-TV, CBS Radio and in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and is the author of two columns; Business on the Internet and Untangling the Web.

Jack's clients include major banks, financial services firms, trade associations, Fortune 500 corporations, and a variety of public and privately held companies.