Harshad Agashe
Vice President, Product Management
Harshad has spent 15+ years focused on converting data into actionable insights to positively influence customer journeys across their lifecycle. He has built enterprise grade capabilities around Fraud and Risk management with global enterprises and has expertise in customer outcomes in this area. Along with Risk Management Harshad has also worked on using the same template to personalize customer journeys to drive new account acquisition through digital channels. He is an expert in driving innovative capabilities bringing in data science to rapidly improve decision tools. With experience in consulting, financial services and SAS technology services he works very closely with customers across different industries to bring a positive impact for them.
Jeffrey Feinstein
Vice President, Global Analytics and Strategy
Jeffrey Feinstein, PhD, is Vice President of Global Analytic Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and oversees domestic and global statistical development and analytic projects for financial services and related areas (such as retail, telecom and utilities), government, and healthcare markets. Dr. Feinstein has been a thought leader in risk and fraud analytics and credit bureau scoring for over 20 years. Dr. Feinstein currently leads innovation efforts to bring new analytic solutions, techniques, and content to the marketplace, and he particularly focuses on isolating data patterns descriptive of synthetic and other compromised identities as well as enhancing financial inclusion opportunities for underserved consumers. Dr. Feinstein holds an undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Buffalo and a PhD from Ohio State in Experimental Psychology with a minor in Applied Statistics.
Tom Hunt
Director, Market Planning - Business Risk Management
Tom has been helping clients to find efficiencies in their commercial workflows via automated processes and more intelligent use of business information since the late 1980’s. Credit quality, due diligence, compliance, fraud mitigation and marketing use cases within a small business environment are all central to Tom’s background and experience. He has worked with a wide array of customers from the top 10 financial institutions, CMBS lenders, commercial card issuers, DDA account opening as well as small to small community banks. Outside of financial institutions and lenders, Tom has all worked with a wide array of transportation, digital economy, utilities, manufacturers and wholesalers. Business Risk assessment, particularly from a review of the business’ identity and character are his primary areas of expertise.
Fred Landis
Director of Market Planning, Fraud and Identity Strategy
Fred Landis, Director of Market Planning for Fraud and Identity Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, leads the commercial strategy for fraud investigation solutions in the America’s. He develops and integrates processes, content and tools to reduce fraud risk, empower fraud investigators and improve customer experience. He joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2019.
He has over 20 years of experience in business strategy, product and services marketing, business consulting, competitive analysis and research. His has domain expertise in fraud and identity, digital transformation, cloud migration, CRM and customer experience. As a member of the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) he received a B.S. from the University of Southern California and MBA from Pepperdine University.
Tracy Manning
Director of Financial Crime Compliance - United States and Canada
Tracy Manning is a Communications, Mobile and Media expert, with over 25 years of experience driving “next wave” innovation and growth efforts within companies like AT&T, Cox, Twitter, Cincinnati Bell and GroundTruth. She now leads strategy development and product innovation planning for the communications, mobile and media industry vertical for LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
Soudamini Modak
Director, Fraud & Identity Market Planning
Soudamini Modak supports the LexisNexis® Risk Solutions digital assessment strategy as a part of the Fraud & Identity market strategy team. Leading market prioritization and sales enablement for our digital risk solutions and platform, Soudamini focuses on understanding our customer and market needs to drive prioritization of product roadmaps and driving our key digital initiatives.
Soudamini has over 10 years of experience across consulting, strategy and product development. Soudamini joined LexisNexis® Risk Solutions through the ThreatMetrix acquisition in 2018. She holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Santa Clara University.
Chris Schnieper
Sr. Director, Fraud and Identity Market Planning
Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries from small companies to large multi-national organizations on strategic fraud challenges and authentication needs.
Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.
Chris holds a bachelor’s degree from Albright College and MBA in Accounting and Technology from St Joseph’s University.
Parul Sharma
Sr. Director, Professional Services
Parul has 12+ years of analytics experience, of which includes 6+ years of experience in the fraud and identity space. She is a certified fraud examiner and identity protection advisor. She works closely with eCommerce merchants, payment processors, healthcare, telecom, online gambling and media companies to help reduce friction and fraud while improving customer experience. Her expertise is in creating risk appropriate workflows for customers and she is passionate about making eCommerce safe and profitable everywhere. She is also a Level 1 CrossFit trainer and an industry speaker, most recently at MRC, CNP, and eTail West.
Dean Weinert
Vice President, Product Management
Dean Weinert has more than a decade of experience in designing products for fraud mitigation and prevention. He is currently the Vice President of Product Management for an industry leading online fraud prevention platform. Weinert is a tech enthusiast with a deep insight into mobile and web platforms, payments and security, with a fervent interest in the tools and techniques employed by fraudsters to defraud consumers. He thrives on collaborating with talented, driven people to make the internet a safer, more prosperous place to transact, work and socialize.
Kim White
Sr. Director, Fraud and Identity Marketing Planning
Kimberly White, Director Market Planning of Fraud and Identity Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, is responsible for commercial market strategy for identity verification, fraud analytics and identity authentication with a focus on new account opening and onboarding workflows.
With over 20 years of experience in developing product strategy and managing product roadmaps, Kim’s expertise includes corporate strategic planning, understanding market needs and building out robust fraud and identity capabilities for financial institutions, retail/e-commerce, and other commercial markets. Prior to LexisNexis, Kimberly worked at Fiserv, where she developed product strategy for walk-in bill payment solutions. Kim is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and Emory University.