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Toni Sless

Director, Into Consultancy

Toni is a Senior Fraud Risk Management Consultant with extensive experience in providing strategic and advisory services to multiple international organisations across various sectors, including financial services. Her extensive career has equipped her with a well-developed and comprehensive understanding of fraud risk management, cyber fraud, insider threats, incident management, as well as contract governance and implementation. 

Toni has successfully led on and implemented business wide fraud risk management controls, policy governance frameworks, fraud risk strategies, target operating models and operational roadmaps for FinTechs, Challenger Banks, UK and International Banks as well as a global insurance company. Toni is also the founder and Chairwoman of the Fraud Women’s Network, which was established in 2007.  She also sits on the Editorial Board of the Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal providing guidance and oversight to the Cabinet Office’s Centre of Expertise for Counter Fraud.

In her spare time, Toni mentors many women and men in various disciplines including cyber security and fraud prevention and continues to drive the Fraud Women’s Network to support women working in the arena. Toni also works with her local community promoting local interests, improving housing conditions, amenities, security and the environment.

Katy Worobec

Director, Azymus Consilium Fraud Consultancy

Katy has worked in economic crime at the centre of the industry for nearly 30 years. Until recently she was Managing Director, Economic Crime at UK Finance, the trade association working on behalf of the banking and finance industry. Prior to that Katy was Director of Financial Fraud Action UK, one of the precursor trade associations which merged to form UK Finance. Katy was responsible for establishing the Information & Intelligence Unit, an industry economic crime data and intelligence sharing unit, introducing the Industry Threat Management Process (the way in which industry fraud threats are prioritised), and building the coordinated industry response to significant data loss/breaches.

She instigated the Fraud Intelligence Sharing System and helped deliver the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU), an industry sponsored police unit, in 2002. She led the development of the Take Five education and awareness campaign, worked with Home Office and City of London Police to establish the Joint Fraud Taskforce and advised on the setting up of the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT).

Katy is co-founder and Deputy Chair of the Fraud Women’s Network and in December 2020 won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tackling Economic Crime Awards.

Kathryn Garbett

Kathryn is a specialist civil fraud and business disputes lawyer at Greenberg Traurig in London, where she is Co-Chair of the UK Civil Fraud & Business Disputes Practice. Kathryn has been involved in some of the most high-profile commercial fraud cases before the Supreme Court in recent times

Kathryn regularly manages highly sensitive matters spanning multiple jurisdictions, often leading teams of international lawyers and professionals. She offers strategic advice to clients facing civil claims and simultaneous investigations by prosecution agencies, employers, the Inland Revenue, and both UK and foreign regulators. Kathryn is listed as a Leading Individual for civil fraud in Legal 500.

She is a director of the Fraud's Women's Network (FWN).

Sarah Sinden

Sarah Sinden is an experienced Economic Crime professional, having worked in various roles to combat fraud for over 20 years.  Sarah currently leads the industry Economic Crime fraud prevention education and awareness activities at UK Finance and is responsible for the development management of the Take Five to Stop Fraud awareness and behaviour change campaign as well as Don’t be Fooled – the money mules campaign, both of which were – and continue to be - aired on national television, radio, and featured high profile press campaigns.

Sarah has an in depth knowledge of payment fraud prevention and risk management and is responsible for planning and management of the Economic Crime education and awareness strategy. She serves on a number of industry groups and gives presentations on fraud matters to a wide range of organisations both nationally and internationally as well as facilitating relationships with key stakeholders such as UK Finance’s Members, card schemes, law enforcement agencies, government, trade associations and retailers. Sarah began her career in the legal sector moving on from there to credit control and underwriting before her current role.

Gaby Devereux

Gaby is Head of Future Initiatives at Cifas. Having spent her career to date in fraud prevention, she worked first in a retail finance company’s fraud department where she helped to develop and then manage their fraud prevention strategy during the launch of their retail card product. Gaby joined Cifas in 2004. Since then she has worked in various capacities across the organisation and now leads the team responsible for ensuring compliance across the Cifas membership, training delivery and internal process improvements.

Over the 17 years Gaby has worked in fraud prevention, she has developed an in-depth understanding of the fraud challenges facing UK organisations and the essential tools required to identify and prevent fraud losses. She has served on a number of industry groups and given presentations on fraud matters to a wide range of organisations both nationally and internationally.

Valeryia Dockrell

Val has seven years of global experience in intelligence and investigation. Val’s expertise in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the driving force behind her success in diverse fields such as due diligence, people tracing, brand protection, strategic intelligence, financial crime investigation, and more.

Val's experience extends to collaborating with non-profits and law enforcement to locate missing persons and identify victims of trafficking, cracking ongoing cases. Her global experience includes work in diverse countries such as Thailand, Turkey, and Dubai. Coupled with her degree in Psychology and CIPFA certification in Financial Crime Investigation, she brings a unique perspective to her multifaceted investigative approach.

Val presently channels her expertise into investigative journalism and analysis at an online media outlet with a focus on national security matters.

Rebecca Nash

Rebecca is currently the Fraud Assurance Officer at Vanquis Bank. Rebecca has worked in both the retail and banking sectors over the last 14 years, 10 years in each sector with a 6 year overlap, her working career began in retail, where being aware of the common types of retail fraud was part and parcel of the job role. Since this time she’s worked within New Business, Customer Relations and now the Fraud Department at Vanquis Bank. Rebecca is able to use her experience and knowledge of the customer life cycle to understand the challenges customers face, and how specifically fraud can impact this. Rebecca uses her skills to help improve department processes and to encourage the balancing of customer experience within business/regulatory expectations.

Pat Turner

Pat has worked in the Telecoms Industry for over 30 years. Initially with BT and 27 years with Virgin Media and associated companies. Pat started her career with Birmingham Cable Ltd in Customer Services, progressing in her role to Senior Credit Controller and then into the Fraud Manager role since 2004. During this time she has also gained experience in Risk Assessment and Revenue Assurance. She left Virgin Media in 2017 due to redundancy, to return in 2018 working in the Mobile and Business teams in Customer Support & Quality.

Pat is also an active member of a number of Fraud Forums including the Fraud Women's Network (FWN), Midland Fraud Forum (MFF) and Telecom UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) having served 2 terms as Chair Person and is a current Director of the Board of TUFF. Pat has a wealth of knowledge and experience dealing with telecom fraud, subscription fraud, payment fraud and ID theft. She received a TUFF award in 2008 for her contribution to the ongoing fight against telecommunications fraud and was recognised by the FWN with the Stella Walsh Award in 2012 for Long Term Commitment for Preventing Fraud.

Her team was shortlisted in 2014 for the Credit Today awards for Fraud Prevention Team of the year and shortlisted for Utilities & Telecoms Awards for Telecoms Team of the year in 2012.