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Zion Mitrani

Director, PwC

Zion Mitrani is a Director at PwC in the Financial Crime practice area of the Advisory line of service. He has more than a decade of leading Fraud Detection and Prevention initiatives, delivering products and services to Financial Institutions globally.

Mr. Mitrani has vast experience providing expert knowledge and consulting on fraud prevention systems' road-maps, building and enhancements of Fraud Detection Platforms, authentication methodologies, reducing organizations' losses, and improving operations workflows. He is a business oriented technology expert, driving organization strategic objectives.

Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Mitrani developed and directed strategy for building a new fraud prevention practice in Matrix-Exzac, a Financial Crime boutique consulting firm. As a Managing Director, and part of the company's management team, he spearheaded the practice, delivering top tier financial institutions with fraud detection and prevention services and solutions.

Before entering the consulting and advisory space, Mr. Mitrani worked at RSA (The security division of EMC) as COO and CTO and headed the research, analysis, product development, maintenance and support of the company's self-learning risk-based fraud detection and prevention, Adaptive Authentication and 3DSecure solutions. He brings deep technical knowledge with his background as an R&D manager and developer in startup companies, as well as SaaS, Machine Learning, AI, and Deep Learning. Mr. Mitrani holds a B.Sc. in computer science and physics, and an M.Sc. in quantum physics. His ideas in the field where published in PRL.