Consult Hyperion Podcasts
Consult Hyperion Weekly Podcasts on Digital Money and Digital Identity

• Mike Hendry
  Mike Hendry is an independent consultant in payments systems and e-commerce. He works with banks, retailers and service providers throughout Europe on technology and business strategy issues and played an important role in the project office for the U.K.'s transition to chip & PIN. In this podcast, Mike chats about multi-application smart cards, the subject on his book (so prominently featured on the Digital Money Blog!).
• John Taylor
  John Taylor is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Goverment and Information Management at Caledonian Business School, Glasgow. He has worked on a number of major UK research programmes including the ESRC's PICT and the Virtual Society Programme, focusing on the diffusion and uptake by goverments and NGOs of information and communication technologies.
• Colin Swain
  Colin Swain is the head of Research and Development at Barclaycard, the U.K.'s largest credit card issuer. Here he talks about mobile/NFC pilot that they have just launched in London with O2 and Transport for London, whereby customers can use their phones to pay at contactless terminals and use the bus and Tube.
• Michael Marx
  As Visa USA's VP of Research Services, Michael Marx provides marketing research. competitive intelligence and consumer trends data to financial institutions issuing Visa-branded cards and major retailers who accept Visa payments. In this podcast, he shares a couple of the key trends in the data.
• Jack Selby
  Jack R. Selby is a Managing Direactor at Clarium Capital Managment LLC. Prior to Clarium, Jack was a Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President of PayPal, Inc. As an original member of the founding PayPal team, Jack's experience and perspectives will be of interest to anyone interested in the subject of launching new electronic payment systems.
• James Gardner
  James Gardner is Head of Innovation and Research in Group IT at Lloyds TSB, based in London. In this podcast, he talks about the process of innovation in one of the largest retail banks in the world and how identity might play a role in future products and services.
• Randy Vanderhoof
  Randy Vanderhoof has been the Executive Director of the Smart Card Alliance since 2002, during which time he's seen some pretty big changes. He's got a long track record in the business having been Senior Project Manager for IBM Global Smart Card Solutions, Vice President, Business Development, with First Access, Inc., a developer of contacless smart card technology and five years with Schlumberger. Which is why I thought it would be useful to have a chat with him about a couple of major trends.
• Gerhard Romen
  Gerhard Romen is Head of Near Field Communication Market Development for Nokia's Emerging Business Unit, and is responsible for business development. He is also a representative of Nokia at the NFC Forum and the Vice-Chairman of the NFC Forum. He's a great person to talk to about the potential role of the NFC handset in the future of digital identity.
• Patrice Motz
  Patrice Motz is an expert in the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance and provides a comprehensive array of BSA/AML consulting services to bank and non-bank clients of Premier Compliance Solutions. Since leaving FinCEN in 2002, Patrice has specialised in helping members of the prepaid card industry comply with relevant state and federal laws and to effective identity, evaluate and manage their money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
• Peter Jones
  Peter Jones is responsible for Hitachi's finger-vein biometric technology in Europe. The technology is being deployed in Japan, where there are a million biometric ATM cards in circulation and 3% of all withdrawals are already made with biometric authentication. Peter explains how the technology works and how it has been performing in the real world.
• Brian Pomeroy
  Brian Pomeroy is the first chair of the UK's Payments Council. Following a career in management consultancy, he is now a Trustee of the Money Advice Trust, a member of the National Lottery Commission and the Audit Commission. He also chairs the Financial Inclusion Task Force. In this podcast, he explains what the council is and how it will set about meeting its goals for efficiency, innovation and integrity in the UK payment system.
• Dr Jacqui Taylor
  Dr Jacqui Taylor has been conducting research into the psychological aspects of technology since 1990 and completed a PhD on 'A Social Psychological Analysis of Computer-Meditated Communication', in 1995. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University teaching on the BSc(Hons) Psychology Computing degree.
• Mike Jackson
  Mike is a Founder Member and Chairman of Shaping Tomorrow. As Chief Executive of Birmingham Midshires, then the UK's 4th largest building society, he shifted it from near oblivion to a highly profitable, customer led and multiple-award winning business in just eight years. Before this, he had a long career in the UK, Europe and North America with (amongst others) Bank of America and Citibank.
• Tom Ilube
  Tom Ilube is the CEO of garlik, a new consumer company pioneering a range of services to help give people real power over their personal information in the digital world, using semantic web technologies. In this podcast, we'll find out what that means and how garlik will make a living out of it. Tom Ilube was CIO at Egg until 2005, so he knows a thing or to about innovative plays in the consumer space.
• Joseph DiVanna
  Joseph DiVanna is an independent author, consultant and global public speaker. He is the Managing Director of Maris Strategies Limited, a financial services, global business and innovation think-tank providing research and advisory services. In this podcast, he talks about Islamic finance.
• Digital Identity Management
  Jane Adams is a freelance journalist and consultant. She was editor of World Card Technology until 1996 and now writes regularly for European Card Review as well as for corporate clients. She has written two research reports about smart cards, the Smart Card Reporter for Elsevier and Smart Cards in Healthcare for HBS Consulting. Here she talks to David Birch of Consult Hyperion about the book he edited "Digital Identity Management" which was published in March.
• Jon Levenson
  Jon Levenson is the head of commercial partnerships at The Trafford Centre, located in Manchester, which has 230 stores and 55 food outlets attracting 30 million visitors per annum. Jon was responsible for introducing the centre's Visa-branded gift card and here he talks about his experiences getting the scheme off the ground with retailers and consumers.
• Peter Brown
  Peter Brown is co-chairman of the e-goverment standard group set up by the European standisation body CEN. Here he talks about the public sector approach to interoperability, crucial to the use of digital identity on a large scale, and uses the 'Austrian model' to highlight some key ideas in that field.
• Susie Lonie
  Susie Lonie was Vodafone's project manager for the highly successful M-PESA project in Kenya. With many years m-commerce and m-payments experience behind her, she is one of the leading practitioners. In this podcast, she talks about the M-PESA pilot and associated learning.
• Paul Miller
  Paul Miller is the Director of Mobile and Wireless at Symantec and leads the company's mobile client security strategy and delivery as well as the company's overall vision for mobile and wireless. Before Symantec, Paul spent five years at Gemplus leading the identity strategy using mobile infrastructure to combat identity fraud.
• Jerry Dischler
  Jerry Dischler is the Senior Product Manager for Google Checkout in Europe. Now that Google Checkout has passed its first birthday, it seemed like a good time to go and talk to Jerry