Julie Fergerson
Julie Fergerson, Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Ethoca, is one of the industry’s foremost experts on internet payments fraud. In her role with Ethoca, Fergerson works closely with customers to develop use cases and new product requirements for Ethoca’s advanced collaborative network,
Vice President of Emerging Technologies
which enables merchants and other industry stakeholders to work together as effectively and efficiently as the fraudsters already do. A key focus is driving adoption of Ethoca’s collaborative platform through identification and commercialization of the many ways it enables value creation for customers.
Fergerson has
20 years of experience in the online payments and fraud management industry, and holds and has patents-pending methods for secure transaction order management processing and preventing fraudulent electronic transactions. She is a co-founder and board member emeritus of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC), the leading trade association for managing payments, preventing online fraud and promoting secure e-Commerce. She also serves as a board member of the Identity Theft Resource Center, where she created and lead the Victim Assistance Program (
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/VACP
), a joint effort between the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (
www.nctfa.net
), the ITRC and Debix to provide notification and assistance to consumers whose identities have been compromised and found on crime servers by law enforcement.
Ms. Fergerson is a frequent speaker at industry trade events, including International Association of Privacy Professionals, National Retail Federation, Electronic Transaction Association, Economic Crime Summit, Mastercard University, Merchant Risk Council, NACHA, NRF Loss Prevention and the National White Collar Crime Conference. Publications include regular contributions to LooksTooGoodToBeTrue.com (a consumer site run by the FBI and Postal Inspectors), various industry journals, and contributions to three books and two government publications.