Dr. Branden R. Williams has over twenty years of experience in technology and information security both as a consultant and an executive. Dr. Williams co-founded a technology services company that provided the foundation to a prominent e-learning company, and worked with a venture capitalist to build secure products and promote secure growth among portfolio companies. Along the way he was a Director at VeriSign, a CTO at RSA, a Vice President at First Data, a Cyber Security executive at MUFG Union Bank, and served on the PCI Board of Advisors, the EMVCo Board of Advisors, and the MAC Board of Directors. He is an author of several books on PCI Compliance and his other publications can be found at www.brandenwilliams.com.