John Bandler
Asst. District Attorney, NY County

John Bandler has been an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office since 2002. As a member of the Trial Division, Mr. Bandler prosecutes felony offenses from arrest through trial. Mr. Bandler was appointed to the Identity Theft Unit's Major Case division in 2006 and has worked on a variety of investigations involving complex identity theft crimes, including credit card counterfeiting, new account fraud and the trafficking of stolen personal data via the internet.

D. Miles Brissette
Asst. Criminal District Attorney
Tarrant County (TX) Criminal District Attorney's Office

Miles Brissette has been a Prosecutor since 1998 and is currently assigned to the felony trial division in Tarrant County, Texas. Trials have included everything from simple drug possessions to Capital Murders. He is currently specializing in arson and complex litigation cases involving digital based evidence. In addition to his trial work he is the system designer for a custom case management system for a Criminal District Attorney’s Office that prosecutes over forty thousand cases per year. Notable trials include the Windshield Murder Case, where Chante Mallard struck a man with her vehicle and then let him die in her garage. He is currently participating as the task group chair for the Testing and Certification Committee on the International Association of Chief of Police’s Advisory Panel for Digital Video Systems for Public Safety.

Sam Brothers
Sr. Digital Forensics Analyst
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Sam Brothers is currently working for US Customs and Border Protection as a Sr. Computer Forensics Analyst. He has been in the IT field for over 20 years, and is currently specializing in Cell Phone and Computer Forensics. He has taught classes around the country for various Law Enforcement and Government organizations on a wide variety of topics such as: Cell Phone Forensics and Service Oriented Architecture. In his spare time, he enjoys being a part-time professional magician, and running two marathons every year.

Special Agent (Ret) Jim Christy
Director, Futures Exploration
Dept. of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3)

Supervisory Special Agent Jim Christy, is the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Futures Exploration Directorate, Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). FX is responsible for informing and educating members of the other Department of Defense organizations, federal agencies, state and local law enforcement, international partners, the private sector, and academic institutions on the mission and activities of all DC3 programs. SA Christy is a retired Air Force Office of Special Investigations Computer Crime Investigator. SA Christy was an AFOSI computer crime investigator for over 18 years. In Oct 03, the Association of Information Technology Professionals, awarded SA Christy the 2003 Distinguished Information Science Award for his outstanding contribution through distinguished services in the field of information management. Previous recipients of this prestigious award include Adm. Grace Hopper, Gene Amdahl, H. Ross Perot, LtGen. Emmett Paige, Bill Gates, Lawrence Ellison, David Packard and Mitch Kapor.

Lt. Charles Cohen
Special Investigations & Criminal Intelligence Commander
Indiana State Police

Chuck Cohen’s formal education includes a Masters in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University with a double major in Criminal Justice and Psychology.

He is a Lieutenant serving the Indiana State Police, where he has been employed for 13 years. He is currently the Commander of the Special Investigation and Criminal Intelligence Sections. In the capacity, Lt. Cohen is responsible for the cyber crime, white collar crime, vehicle crime, and crimes against children units along with overseeing the departments overt and covert criminal intelligence function. He is cross-designated as a Special Deputy United States Marshal.

Chuck speaks nationally on topics including cyber crime, online fraud, money laundering, corruption investigation, and the investigation of skilled criminal offenders. He is an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches Foundations of Criminal Investigation. He is a published author, including peer-reviewed material and the cover article for the March, 2007 Police Chief Magazine.

Steve DeBrota
Asst. U.S. Attorney
Southern District of Indiana

Steven D. DeBrota was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1991 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Indiana. As a member of the general crimes unit, he specializes in computer crime, political corruption, complex fraud cases and environmental crime. He is also the Special Emphasis Coordinator for child exploitation cases, the Chairperson of the Indiana Interagency Environmental Crimes Task Force, and the Chairperson of the Project Safe Childhood Task Force. He is also an expert in the investigation and prosecution of crimes on the Internet and the use of computer forensic evidence, having frequently lectured and written on these subjects. He has trained agents, prosecutors and members of the public locally, nationally, and internationally. Mr. DeBrota received the United States Department of Justice Director’s Award in 2000 for Superior Performance in this area. In 2006, the Indiana Anti-Sexual Violence Movement presented Mr. DeBrota with an award for being its Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year.

Jeremy Glickman
Asst. District Attorney, NY County

Jeremy Glickman joined the New York County District Attorney's Office as an Assistant District Attorney in 2002. Mr. Glickman prosecutes felony-level criminal offenses, from pre-arrest investigation to Grand Jury presentation, as well as conducting hearings and trials. Since April 2006, Mr. Glickman has been assigned to the Identity Theft Unit's Major Case division. During his tenure with the Identity Theft Unit, Mr. Glickman has investigated and prosecuted dozens of cases, including those involving credit card skimming, online retail fraud, cyber-stalking, bank theft and computer trespass. Mr. Glickman was formerly a private investigator with Kroll Associates, a corporate investigation firm headquartered in New York.

Robert Hayes
Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Government

Robert Hayes has over thirty years experience working for government in the law enforcement, security and intelligence community.

Prior to joining Microsoft he was Head of the UK National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC) which is the primary provider of lawful interception and specialist computer forensic services to UK agencies. NTAC works in partnership with industry and government agencies, in the UK and elsewhere, and provides policy advice, and a technology and communications watch capability to the UK Government.
Previously he was Head of the UK National Specialist Law Enforcement Centre (NSLEC) which is a multi-agency organisation developing specialist covert and computer based investigative techniques and training programmes for UK law enforcement agencies. NSLEC works in partnership with other international agencies on trans-national programmes.

Robert holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, he lives in Godmanchester, and is married with one daughter.

Jill Trumbull-Harris
Asst. U.S. Attorney
Northern District of Indiana

Jill Trumbull-Harris is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the White Collar Group of the Northern District of Indiana U.S. Attorney’s Office where she prosecutes child exploitation, fraud and public corruption cases. She previously served as a Trial Attorney with the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division. For these efforts and her other work at CEOS, in 2007 she received a Director’s Award from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the “Outstanding Advocacy for the Protection of Citizens from Online Crime” award from the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Jill is co-author (with Professor Steven Lubet) of Mock Trials: Preparing, Presenting and Winning Your Case (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2001).

Max Kelly
CISSP, CIPP, CFCE
Chief Security Officer, Facebook

Max Kelly is Director of Security at Facebook, where he provides internal and external enterprise wide leadership for the company’s security domains. Prior to Facebook, Max was a Senior IT Specialist and Forensic Examiner with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He worked with the FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team on a variety of technologically complex cases and was responsible for the design and development of UNIX/Linux based forensic tools and techniques used throughout the law enforcement community. Max has FBI Computer Forensic Certifications in UNIX/Linux, Windows and Macintosh and is also recognized as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Computer Forensic Examiner (CFCE) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Western Governors University.

David McLaughlin
Sr. Asst. Attorney General
Georgia Attorney General's Office

David McLaughlin is a Senior Assistant Attorney General and heads the Special Prosecutions Unit of the State of Georgia Department of Law. The Special Prosecutions Unit handles white-collar crime and government corruption cases. David has been prosecuting for the Attorney General since 1996, primarily handling complex white-collar crime and racketeering (RICO) cases, including mortgage fraud. David has been a volunteer instructor for the National White-Collar Crime Center and teaches the Center's Financial Records Examination and Analysis Course and remains one of the Center's highest rated instructors.

In August 2004 David was profiled in the Fulton County Daily Report's annual "On the Rise" issue. He was the primary author of the nation’s first residential mortgage fraud law, enacted in Georgia in 2005. Last year the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators awarded David their 2007 Distinguished Service Award for his work in combating mortgage fraud.

Unit Chief Antonia Merzon
Identity Tehft Unit, NY County District Attorney's Office

Antonia Merzon is the Chief of the Identity Theft Unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office. Ms. Merzon supervises over sixty attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of identity theft and related crimes. Ms. Merzon also oversees the Identity Theft Unit's Major Case division, which was specifically created for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting large scale identity theft and related cyber crime cases in New York County. She has been a prosecutor in the Office since 1998.

Jim Moeller
Investigative Consultant
Microsoft Consulting Services Law Enforcement Support Team

The Law Enforcement Support Team provides US and International law enforcement consulting and training concerning technical investigative topics related to cyber crime. Jim has consulted and trained extensively on Microsoft product forensics as well as vendor independent issues such as Internet investigation techniques.

Det. Cynthia Murphy
Madison (WI) Police Department

Cynthia Murphy is a detective with the City of Madison, Wisconsin Police Department, and has 23 years of experience in Law Enforcement. She is currently assigned to the investigation of Computer Crimes and is the lead Computer Forensics Examiner for her department. Det. Murphy is a certified forensic examiner, and has directly participated in the forensic examination of hundreds of hard drives and other pieces of digital evidence pursuant to criminal investigations in a variety of crimes including homicides, missing persons, computer intrusions, sexual assaults, child pornography, financial crimes, and other investigations.

Aaron Naternicola
Internet Fraud Analyst
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), NW3C

Aaron Naternicola has been an Internet Fraud Analyst since 2000 at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI & National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). His formal education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Fairmont State University.

Dr. Sujeet Shenoi
F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science,
University of Tulsa Oklahoma

Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tulsa. An active researcher with specialties in cyber security and digital forensics, Dr. Shenoi is the principal investigator on projects supported by DHS, FBI, ICE, NSA, NSF and the U.S. Secret Service. He is currently working on exciting "problems" ranging from helping solve homicides to penetrating telecommunications systems, oil and gas pipeline control systems, and California's voting machines. He spearheads the University of Tulsa's CyberCorps Program, which mainly trains "MacGyvers" for the intelligence community. For his innovative strategies integrating academics, research and service, Dr. Shenoi was named the 1998-1999 U.S. Professor of the Year.