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Award winning, Oxford Educated scientist whose areas of expertise include medical imaging, electronics, semiconductors, medical devices, sensors, MEMS, signal processing and image processing. Dr Daft has deposition and trial testimony experience. Extensive Intellectual Property experience including patent development, analysis, licensing, and litigation. Serial inventor who holds 23 U.S. Patents with several pending. Completed more than 98 hours of SEAK Expert Witness Seminars, including patent-specific training. Diverse industry experience including multi-nationals such as GE, Medtronic, Fujifilm, Samsung and Siemens as well as several start-ups. Well published. Winner of grants from National Institute of Health. Extensive international consulting experience. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Senior Member since 2004. Three years’ experience teaching electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois. Holds BA and MA in Physics from Oxford University as well as Doctorate from Oxford in Materials Science.

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Security Diligence, LLC provides consulting and advisory services in Information Security, Privacy and Risk Management with key practice areas in Cybersecurity and Third Party Risk. Their extensive experience provides a practical approach to assessing risk, identifying areas for program improvement and developing strategies and implementation approaches that provide measured results.

Security Consulting Services:

Information Security  - Security Diligence brings business-driven strategy to the development and implementation of Information Security Programs. With industry-recognized practices, they assess existing program effectiveness and develop strategies for today's complex information and cyber security landscape.

Privacy and Data Protection - Security Diligence can provide a number of key services for Privacy and Data Protection that include program governance, Privacy by Design guidance, impact analysis, due diligence compliance reviews and information protection strategy and assessment.

Enterprise Risk Management - Security Diligence can provide risk management services for key focus areas including security assessments and analysis, counterparty security due diligence, cyber security framework alignment, cloud readiness, and third party oversight strategies.

Third Party Vendor Risk  - Security Diligence has extensive experience in third party vendor risk. As a key risk area today, they provide comprehensive services in program development and implementation. They can also provide third party due diligence security reviews and onsite assessment services.

Founder and CEO, Shawn H. Malone, is an award winning Information Security and Cyber Risk Expert.  He has over 35 years of experience delivering Cybersecurity Solutions and Third-Party Risk Management Programs to the financial services, insurance, consulting / advisory, and defense industries.  

Mr. Malone has degrees in Electrical Engineering Technology and Network Security.  He co-developed industry leading Third Party Risk Management professional certification. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Third Party Risk Professional (CTPRP) and Certified Third-Party Risk Assessor (CTPRA).  He has served as a keynote speaker and provides training services in his areas of expertise including Information Security, Cyber Risk, and Third Party Risk Assessment.

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Setec Investigations offers unparalleled expertise in computer forensics and electronic discovery, providing highly personalized, case-specific forensic analysis and litigation support services to assist in the investigation, handling, and prosecution of computer-related crimes or misuse.

Setec Investigations combines today's most advanced computer forensics and litigation support expertise with a business- and legal-friendly approach, resulting in a sound analytical foundation that carefully balances critical investigative requirements with vital legal and evidentiary needs.

Setec Investigations incorporates a cross-disciplinary team comprised of computer forensic investigators, attorneys, law enforcement specialists, and seasoned business professionals who have established a proven track record of success since 1997.

Services Overview

Setec Investigations possesses the necessary combination of technical expertise, understanding of the legal system, and specialized tools and processes enabling the discovery, collection, investigation, and production of electronic information for investigating and handling computer-related crimes or misuse.

Explore our range of service offerings:

Computer Forensic Investigations

Computer forensics and enterprise investigation services identify, gather, analyze, and preserve electronic evidence to establish a sustainable posture for internal or legal action.

Electronic Discovery

Manage large volumes of electronic data and quickly identify and isolate electronic evidence that is critical to the success of a litigation.

Litigation Support

Legal consultants and attorneys translate litigation issues into strong case strategies that effectively utilize electronic evidence.

Expert Witness

Supports the resolution of security incidents and active litigations by offering impartial and independent expert testimony, opinions, and customized reports in legal proceedings.

Dr. Ghjassan Hamarneh's professional experience extends over 20 years. He obtained his Ph.D. from Chalmers Univ. of Tech. in 2001, was a Post-doc fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and at the Dept. Med. Biophysics at the Univ. of Toronto. Since 2003, he has been on the Computing Sciences faculty at Simon Fraser University. 

Dr. Hamarneh's research area is Medical Image Analysis (MIA) (computer vision and 3D image processing for biomedical imaging applications). He is a leader on a large number of technical projects in collaboration with local and int'l health centers. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. 

Under Dr. Hamarneh's leadership, members of his group won several awards (e.g. 6 best papers), recognitions, and media coverage. His group secured funding from NSERC, CIHR, MSFHR, MITACS, NIH, and the Qatar Foundation. Furthermore, he played a leading role in the organization of major workshops: Two highly successful workshop at the Banff International Research Station on "Math. Methods for Medical Image Analysis" and "Geometry for Anatomy", as well as the first MICCAI workshop on functional medical image analysis.

Dr. Hamarneh has over 200 scientific publications in high impact journals and peer-reviewed conferences, 7 book chapters, and several software contributions with tens of thousands of downloads, e.g. TurtleSeg, MATITK, N-SIFT, I-DO, and VascuSynth. He has given many invited talks at top universities and companies. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE TM. He has been on the editorial board of JIVC; a reviewer for int'l high impact journals: J MedIA, IEEE TMI, PAMI, TBME, SIAM Imaging Science, NeuroImage, etc. He served on the program and review committees of many int'l conferences/workshops: MICCAI, CVPR, ICCV, IPMI, MMBIA, ISBI, etc. 

Dr. Hamarneh is the co-founder/director of the Medical Image Analysis Lab at SFU, a founding member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter - Vancouver Section, Rehabilitation Aimed at Muscle Performance (RAMP), and the SFU Centre for Disability Independence Research and Education (CDIRE). He is a member of the Int'l Society on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) and the Vancouver Brain Research Centre, a NeuroDevNet Network Investigator, and a Faculty/Mentor in the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Bioinformatics Training Program.

Tony Mason has 42 years of experience in Software Development, mostly consulting with companies to find novel and useful ways to build new or improve existing products. He has extensive experience in providing "knowledge transfer" activities, such as clearly written documents and focused education. 

Consulting Services - Mr. Mason provides software development in Computer Operating Systems environments ("kernel development") including UNIX, Linux, and Windows, with an emphasis on storage technologies, particularly file systems. 

Typical customers are usually clients interested in developing products requiring specialized operating systems functionality and/or understanding. Mr. Mason's usual involvement to achieve the client's goals in a reasonable period of time include:

• Constructing Software Architecture
• Constructing a Corresponding Design
• Constructing a Focused Development Plan 

Mr.  Mason has worked with multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux. He is the author of two books, including, Windows NT Device Driver Development, several peer-reviewed papers, and numerous non-peer-reviewed publications. 

Mr. Mason is the primary inventor on 12 patents:

US/9830329 Methods and Systems for Data Storage US/9600486 File System Directory Attribute Correction US/9535759 Work Queue Thread Balancing US/8990228 Arbitrary Data Transformation US/8903874 File System Directory Attribute Correction US/8539228 Managing Access to a Resource

US/8521752 Arbitrary Data Transformations US/8024433 Managing Application Resources US/7809897 Managing Lock Rankings US/7512748 Managing Lock Rankings US/7949693 Log-Structured Host Data Storage US 15/791,486 Methods and Systems for Data Storage

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Bruce Weiner is an Information and Internet Technology executive with over 30 years of in-depth experience managing product and software development for contracting companies and Fortune 100 companies.

Mr. Weiner is a Princeton trained computer scientist and electrical engineer, and a patent holder. Over his career, he has gained extensive experience in Information Systems management, program/project management, software development, software architecture, internet delivery, business applications, technology vendor selection, IT Outsourcing, and customer contact center operations.

Litigation Consulting Services: Mr. Weiner has experience as a consulting and/or testifying expert witness in software development, patent infringement, and commercial litigation matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. He is adept at translating complex software, patent, and technology issues for the lay person audience. He consulted on industry transforming anti-trust cases in the travel industry.

Industry Experience:

• Travel Industry Technology - Former technology leader for American Express Travel and Chief Technology Officer of United.com;
• Loyalty Industry Technology - 30 years experience in the technology that powers loyalty programs, working on Membership Miles, Thank You Rewards, Mileage Plus, #1 Gold, eRewards, MyPoints, Blockbuster Rewards, and AAdvantage
• Financial Services Technology – 30 years experience working with Financial Services Companies on credit card and banking technology.