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Michael Borkoski

Michael Borkoski is the Technology Officer for 

the Howard County, Maryland, Public School 

System. He is responsible for all technology 

visioning, operations, and support for a 

district with over 50,000 students and 8,000 

employees. For the last 21 years, Mr. Borkoski 

has held positions in application development, 

network and systems engineering, and 

information technology management.

Richard J. Boyle, Jr.

Richard J. Boyle, Jr., is the president and CEO 

of ECMC Group, where he brings extensive 

business development, management, and 

finance experience, including 20 years in higher 

education finance. He also established the 

ECMC Foundation, which assists low-income, 

first-generation students further their education 

goals. Before joining ECMC, Mr. Boyle held key 

management positions at Sallie Mae, where he 

oversaw student loan servicing operations. 

Russell Butler

Russell Butler is the Executive Director of the 

Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, 

Inc., which provides criminal justice information 

and education; support services; therapeutic 

individual, family, and group counseling; and 

legal information, referrals, and representation 

to victims of crime. Mr. Butler also serves as 

Adjunct Professor at the University of Baltimore 

Law School, where he teaches “The Rights 

of Crime Victims.” He currently serves on the 

Victim Advisory Group of the U.S. Sentencing 

Commission and has also served on a 

number of Maryland criminal justice advisory 

committees, including the State Commission 

on Criminal Sentencing Policy and Code 

Revision Committee.

Matt Cullina

Matt Cullina is Chief Executive Officer of 

IDT911. He has 15 years of insurance industry 

management, claims, and product development 

experience. He spearheaded MetLife Auto 

& Home Insurance Co.’s personal product 

development initiatives, managed complex claims 

litigation, and served as a corporate witness 

for Travelers Insurance and the Fireman’s Fund 

Insurance Co. Mr. Cullina is deeply involved 

in child identity theft issues, especially those 

involving foster children, having worked on 

several state initiatives. As a foster parent, he 

understands the risks and problems that can 

plague this population, and is constantly looking 

for ways to improve the future of these children.

Howard Davidson

Howard Davidson has been actively involved with 

the legal aspects of child protection for 37 years 

and has directed the American Bar Association’s

Center on Children and the Law since its 1978 

establishment. In addition, he served as chair 

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of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse 

and Neglect, is a founding board member of 

the National Center for Missing and Exploited 

Children, serves on the board of ECPAT-USA, a 

national group focused on law and policy reform 

related to child trafficking and sexual exploitation, 

and he is on the board of the National Foster 

Care Coalition. Mr. Davidson has authored many 

legal articles on child maltreatment, as well as 

legal commentaries to chapters of the American 

Psychiatric Association book, Family Violence: A 

Clinical and Legal Guide. 

Michelle Dennedy

Michelle Dennedy is the Founder of The 

iDennedy Project, a consulting and advisory 

company helping to bring privacy and security 

products and services to market and to advance 

information-based companies’ business 

objectives. Ms. Dennedy is also a Founder 

and Editor in Chief of a new media site—

TheIdentityProject.com, a source for individuals 

and companies who wish to debate, learn, lead, 

innovate, and drive the concept of identity in all 

its forms and facets. In 2009, Ms. Dennedy was 

awarded the Goodwin Procter-IAPP Vanguard 

award for lifetime achievement and the EWFCSO Magazine Woman of Influence award for 

work in the privacy and security fields.

Jay Foley

Jay Foley is the Executive Director for the 

Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a 

nationwide nonprofit victim services, advocacy, 

and consumer education program based in 

San Diego, California. Mr. Foley assisted his 

wife, Linda, in creating the organization in 

1999 in response to the growing need for 

victim assistance and empowerment due to the 

epidemic in identity theft. He has collaborated on 

numerous, comprehensive publications provided 

by ITRC through its website to victims and victim 

assistance personnel, and he currently serves 

on the Office of Privacy Protection, California 

Department of Consumer Affairs Advisory 

Committee; California Attorney General ID Theft 

Task Force; and California Department of Motor 

Vehicles Fraud Taskforce.

Linda Foley 

Linda Foley is the Founder and Research 

Director of the Identity Theft Resource Center 

(ITRC), a nationwide nonprofit victim services, 

advocacy, and consumer education program 

based in San Diego, California. Ms. Foley is one 

of the nation’s leading non-law enforcement 

experts on identity theft and is widely respected 

both for her knowledge of the crime, and 

cooperative, solution-seeking outreach to 

businesses and law enforcement. As a former 

victim of identity theft, Ms. Foley is uniquely 

suited to understand the complexities of this 

crime and its impact on victims.

Richard Hamp

Richard G. Hamp is an Assistant Attorney 

General for the State of Utah, where he 

prosecutes white collar crimes, including 

securities and communications fraud, theft 

by deception, and identity theft. He was the 

first to prosecute cases under Utah’s identity 

theft statute, and has successfully lobbied for 

improvements to that statute, including the 

enhancement of identity theft cases as felonies 

and the adoption of credit freeze provisions. 

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of “Operation Protect the Children,” where 

an estimated 1,800 Social Security numbers 

belonging to children under the age of 18 may 

have been compromised. Before joining the 

Utah Office of the Attorney General, Mr. Hamp 

prosecuted complex criminal cases in the Salt 

Lake City District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Hamp 

has been featured in reports on MSNBC, CNN, 

Money Magazine, and the New York Times, and 

has spoken at The Strategic Research Institute, 

The National Association of Attorneys General, 

and the Utah State Bar Association. 

Amy Harfeld

Amy Harfeld currently works as the National 

Policy Director and Senior Staff Attorney for 

the Children’s Advocacy Institute, provides policy 

advocacy for the National Association of 

Counsel for Children, and consults for the 

ABA’s Commission on Youth at Risk. She has 

been an advocate, educator, and public interest 

attorney for over 15 years. From 2007 to 2010, 

Ms. Harfeld served as the Executive Director of 

First Star, a national child welfare nonprofit in 

Washington D.C. Before that, she pioneered a 

legal services program for formerly incarcerated 

parents at the Fortune Society and prosecuted 

child abuse and neglect cases for New York 

City’s Children’s Services. She published an 

article on juvenile and human rights in the 

New York City Law Review and clerked at the 

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 

New York. 

Daniel L. Hatcher 

Daniel L. Hatcher is an associate professor of 

law at the University of Baltimore. Prior to joining 

the University in 2004, Professor Hatcher served 

as the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau’s assistant 

director of advocacy for public benefits and 

economic stability. He previously worked as 

a staff attorney for Legal Aid in the Baltimore 

Child Advocacy Unit, representing abused and 

neglected children, and in the Metropolitan 

Maryland office representing clients in public 

benefits, housing, consumer and family law 

issues. He was also a senior staff attorney with 

the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, 

D.C. Professor Hatcher’s recent scholarship 

has addressed the practice of state foster care 

agencies converting foster children’s Social 

Security benefits into state revenue, as well 

as foster care cost recovery through child 

support enforcement.

Bo Holland

Bo Holland is a technology inventor who has 

been delivering innovative solutions to hard 

problems for over 20 years. In 2004, Mr. 

Holland founded Debix to stop identity theft 

and currently serves as Founder and CEO. 

Mr. Holland believes everyone deserves basic 

identity protection for free, and, in April 2011, 

he met that goal with the introduction of AllClear 

ID. Previously, Mr. Holland developed innovative 

credit card technologies, databases, and 

computer operating systems at Works, Pervasive 

Software and Citrix Systems. 

Joanne McNabb

Joanne McNabb has been Chief of the California 

Office of Privacy Protection since it opened in 

2001. Ms. McNabb is a Certified Information 

Privacy Professional, with specializations in 

Government and Information Technology. She 

serves on the Privacy Advisory Committee to 
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the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 

and is a Fellow of the Ponemon Institute, a 

research center on privacy, data protection and 

information security policy. Before starting the 

Office of Privacy Protection, Ms. McNabb had 

over 20 years experience in public affairs and 

marketing, in both the public and private sectors. 

Tom Oscherwitz

Tom Oscherwitz is ID Analytics’ chief compliance 

and privacy officer, and leads its government 

relations activities. Before joining ID Analytics, 

Mr. Oscherwitz served as counsel to Senator 

Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), where he represented 

her for five years on the Senate Judiciary 

Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and 

Homeland Security. During his tenure, Mr. 

Oscherwitz drafted over a dozen bills on privacy 

and identity theft issues. Mr. Oscherwitz is 

immediate past Chairperson of TechAmerica’s 

Identity Management Committee and recently 

served on a Presidential Advisory Committee 

on identity management. Mr. Oscherwitz also 

regularly speaks and writes on privacy, identity 

theft, and identity management topics for local 

and national media audiences.

Theresa Ronnebaum

Theresa Ronnebaum is the Identity Theft 

Program Specialist for the Florida Attorney 

General’s Office. With over 15 years experience 

in victim advocacy, Ms. Ronnebaum has served 

as a county probation officer and as a victim 

advocate in the sex crimes, domestic violence, 

and child abuse units. She has appeared on 

many local television programs, as well as 

The Florida Channel, and ABC News “20/20.” 

Ms. Ronnebaum has spoken to hundreds of 

audiences and conducted training sessions 

throughout the United States on identity theft 

and victim assistance.

Alan Simpson

Alan Simpson is Vice President of Policy 

for Common Sense Media. Mr. Simpson’s 

background combines experience as an 

advocate for children and education issues, as 

well as work within media organizations. Prior 

to joining Common Sense Media, Mr. Simpson 

was the senior director for marketing and 

communications at the National Association for 

the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). He 

has also worked at Voices for Illinois Children, 

an advocacy organization in Chicago, and at 

National Public Radio (NPR), and the Cable 

Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) in 

Washington, DC.

Denny Shaw

Denny Shaw has been the Chief Operations 

Office of i-SAFE, Inc., a non-profit e-safety 

publishing company that has provided e-safety 

education curriculum and programming 

resources to more than 34 million K-12 students 

and to educators, law enforcement professionals, 

parents, senior citizens and community leaders 

in all 50 U.S. states and 13 foreign countries. 

Mr. Shaw is an experienced lawyer, corporate 

and federal government senior executive, and 

university professor, with a distinguished prior 

record in the Department of Defense as an 

appointee in the Reagan administration. 

Kathleen Styles

Kathleen Styles is the Department of Education’s 

first Chief Privacy Officer, where she focuses on 
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issues affecting the privacy of student records. 

She is an attorney, with experience in private 

and government practice, and has a CIPP-G 

certification. Kathleen was most recently 

Chief of the Office of Analysis and Executive 

Support at the Census Bureau, where she was 

responsible, for data stewardship policy, FOIA, 

and coordination of data sharing programs.

Diane A. Terry

Diane Terry joined TransUnion in 1973 and 

currently serves as its Sr. Director of Consumer 

Relations and Fraud Victim Assistance. Ms. 

Terry has represented TransUnion on numerous 

credit fraud task forces and work groups, has 

served as an expert witness on financial crimes 

and identity theft, and has worked with local and 

federal law enforcement agencies on major fraud 

investigations. In addition, Ms. Terry teaches 

a law enforcement post-certification class on 

credit fraud and identity theft to law enforcement 

officers in California, and is also an instructor 

for the Department of Justice economic crimes 

class. Ms. Terry is currently the Chairman of the 

Board and the past President of the International 

Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.

Jennifer Walker

Jennifer Walker is Special Agent in Charge, 

Strategic Research and Analysis Division 

(SRAD), Office of the Inspector General, Social 

Security Administration. SRAD coordinates 

all investigative operations with national 

implications, and oversees the Cooperative 

Disability Investigations Program. Before 

becoming Special Agent in Charge, Ms. 

Walker held various positions with the Social 

Security Administration/Office of Inspector 

General, where she worked on benefits fraud 

investigations and the Cooperative Disability 

Investigations Program, and oversaw contract 

fraud investigations. Ms. Walker began her 

government career with the Internal Revenue 

Service. 

Anne Wallace

Anne Wallace is President of the Identity Theft 

Assistance Corporation, a nonprofit corporation 

that operates ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance 

Center. A consumer finance attorney, Ms. 

Wallace began her career with the Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, where 

she served as Assistant Director of the Division 

of Consumer and Community Affairs. Previously, 

Ms. Wallace pioneered the financial services 

privacy consulting practice at KPMG Consulting 

and also served as legal advisor to the U.S. 

Treasury Department’s initiative to convert the 

federal government’s paper-based collections 

and disbursements to electronic fund transfers.

Larry Wong

Larry Wong is the supervisor for information 

assurance and risk management for the 

Montgomery County, Maryland, Public School 

System. He is responsible for technology 

security, including its CyberSafety Program, 

which assists parents and educators in the fight 

to help keep children safe in a wired world.
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