Conference Chair
Brian Reiss
Managing Director – US Practice
Bridgeforce, Inc.
Brian has spent most of his career helping leading organizations develop and manage cutting-edge consumer financial service products and services. Leveraging a solid foundation in consumer lending & technology received at MBNA, Chase Manhattan Bank and Ernst & Young Consulting, Brian helped design some of the first mass consumer internet banking, investment and customer acquisition/service programs.
Keynote Speakers
William C. Dunkelberg
Professor of Economics
The Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University and
Chief Economist
National Federation of Independent Business
Currently Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Management, Temple University, where he served as Dean from 1987 through 1994 and as Director of the Center for the Advancement and Study of Entrepreneurship.
Robert D. Manning, Ph.D.
Research Professor & Director, Center for Consumer Financial Services
Rochester Institute of Technology
Robert D. Manning, Ph.D. is Research Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services, and past Caroline Werner Gannett Chair of the Humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Manning is a specialist in the deregulation of retail banking, household debt, consumer finance, comparative economic development, immigration, and globalization.



