Staff
Mary Kepler
Director and Vice President
Mary.Kepler@atl.frb.org
Cynthia D. Merritt
Assistant Director
Cynthia.Merritt@atl.frb.org
Douglas A. King
Payments Risk Expert
Douglas.A.King@atl.frb.org
Michelle Castell
Senior Payments Risk Analyst
Michelle.Castell@atl.frb.org
Advisory Group
Professor Mark Budnitz
Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, GA
(consumer protection legal issues)
mbudnitz@gsu.edu
J. Reilly Dolan
Assistant Director
Division of Financial Practices
Federal Trade Commission
Washington, D.C.
(FTC liaison)
jdolan@ftc.gov
Kim Duncan
First Vice President
Fraud Loss Prevention
SunTrust Banks
Atlanta, GA
(current chair of BITS/Financial Services Roundtable Fraud Steering Group)
kim.duncan@suntrust.com
Mary Gilmeister
President—WACHA
Germantown, WI
(nominee of RPA's executive committee)
mgilmeister@wacha.org
Tina Giorgio
Senior Vice President
Sandy Spring Bank
Columbia, MD
(NACHA Risk Management Advisory Group current chair)
tgiorgio@sandyspringbank.com
Laura Kaplan
Deputy Attorney General
State of California
Sacramento, CA
(liaison to National Association of Attorneys General Internet/technology working group)
laura.kaplan@doj.ca.gov
Jane Larrimer
Executive Vice President ACH Network Services and General Counsel
NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association
Herndon, VA
Jay Lerner
Assistant Chief for Strategy and Policy
Fraud Section, Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
(DOJ liaison)
jay.lerner@usdoj.gov
Sharon Petrey
Corporate Director Treasury
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Atlanta, GA
(chair of Association of Financial Professionals [AFP] payments working group)
spetrey@cokecce.com
Alex C. Romeo
Director
Risk Analysis EPN Products and Services
The Clearinghouse
New York, NY
alex.romeo@theclearinghouse.org
Woody Tyner
Senior Vice President and Manager
Payment Strategist Group
BB&T Corporation
Winston-Salem, NC
(nominee of Clearinghouse Strategic Payments Forum)
wtyner@bbandt.com
Sam Vallandingham
Chief Information Officer/Vice President
The First State Bank
Barboursville, WV
(vice chair and nominee of ICBA Payments and Technology Committee)
samv@fsb-wv.com
Federal Reserve participants:
Mary Kepler
Vice President and Director of the Retail Payments Risk Forum
FRB Atlanta
mary.kepler@atl.frb.org
Claudia Swendseid
Senior Vice President
FRB Minneapolis
claudia.swendseid@mpls.frb.org
Richard Fraher (Counsel)
Vice President and Counsel to the Retail Payments Office
FRB Atlanta
richard.fraher@atl.frb.org
Cynthia Merritt (Secretary)
Assistant Director
Retail Payments Risk Forum
FRB Atlanta
Cynthia.merritt@atl.frb.org
