Monday, March 14, 2022                          

The Colony Palm Beach Pavilion Room 
155 Hammon Avenue
Palm Beach, FL 33480  

6:00 p.m. – Registration & Social
6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Speaker Presentation

Dr. Daniel Schutzer  will discuss The Evolution of Ransomware:  A Geopolitical Threat

Speaker Profile:
Dr. Daniel Schutzer  is a noted expert on naval and cyber warfare, security, fraud, cybercrime, banking, and finance. He is the author of 7 books and hundreds of articles and has has taught at several universities, including Syracuse University and George Washington University. He is currently President of BeeSecure, working on applications of innovative technology, cybercrime, security, fraud, payments and risk management projects. 
Dan served as Chief Technology Officer, Technology Group, Financial Services Roundtable from January 2010-December 2013. Prior to this he was President of the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) division, Technology Group, Financial Services Roundtable. 

Prior to the Financial Services Roundtable FSTC, Dan was Executive Director and Senior Vice President at Citigroup where he worked for over 23 years in areas ranging from e-banking, trading systems, risk management, advanced technology, payments, and security; and holds numerous patents. He authored the book, Application of Emerging Technologies in Business, to define ways in which business could capitalize on innovation and technological advances.  Prior to Citigroup, Dan served as Technical Director of US Naval Intelligence, which he transferred into after serving as the first Technical Director of Navy Command, Control and Communications.  While serving the US Navy, Dan authored several books, including Applied Artificial Intelligence; Parallel and Distributed Processing; and Military Communications, Command and Control. 

Dan’s business and technology experience was gained at Sperry Rand/Univac where he served first as Director of New Business for Sperry, and later as Director of Systems and Technical Sales Support for the Univac New York Metropolitan Region. Dan received his MSEE and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Syracuse University. Upon completing his PhD, Dan went to work at Bell Laboratory, where he supervised the development of complex signal processing for defense projects, and worked on the Safeguard system, an ABM defense system. 

Upon graduation from City College of New York with his BSEE, Dan worked for IBM as a Project Engineer.