Speakers

Within France Telecom - Orange since 2005, MK Woo is charge of developing mobile payment and mobile contactless services to be deployed throughout the countries where the Group operates.
He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He started his career in the UK working on very large defence communication projects. He then joined a consultancy as a practice director. His last position was director at a French interbank organisation specialised in new electronic payment systems.

After his business studies at Nyenrode University and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam Eric Tak joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1991 where he held a number of commercial and advisory positions in (international) payments.

From 1996 he worked as a management consultant in Financial Services with a focus on Payments, as Director of PwC Consulting and Associate Partner with IBM Business Consulting Services

In 2005 Eric joined Currence, the brandowner of PIN, Chipknip and iDEAL.

Benjamin Syrbe is adviser in the area of innovative processing solutions. In this function he is responsible for the strategic consultancy on future trends and the business development of various areas such as biometric payments, e-invoicing, strategic partnerships and fraud prevention services. Prior to his current function he worked for the former Transaktionsinstitut für Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen AG, one of Equens' predecessors. At Transaktionsinstitut he has been working as a strategic consultant within the innovation management department since 2005. Previously, he studied business administration in Mannheim and at Open University London. During that time he worked for DZ BANK AG in the business areas payments, credit management and corporate finance.

Harry started his career as a Management Trainee with Banque Paribas. Next, Harry became manager of the Commercial Development Department of ABN AMRO Bank's International Operations Group. After ABN AMRO he joined Leyer & Weerstra, as a Senior Management Consultant, before starting his own firm.
Harry is specialized in the corporate (B2B) and retail business areas. He has been leading in the development of, amongst others, (corporate) electronic banking, web- and mobile banking, new payment development, financial planning and employee & employer benefits services. He is a catalyst in helping financial institutions to develop strategies, the appropriate solutions and a successful (commercial) implementation.
Harry, as expert, has published many articles and specialized studies in leading European Journals and other publications. Harry is a well known speaker on strategies and developments in the financial services industry.

Douwe Lycklama à Nijeholt (1965) is director and co-founder of Innopay, an independent consultancy firm specialised in payments and related financial services. Innopay typically works for commercial business management, responsible for innovation and business development. Douwe Lycklama has been in Payments innovation business since 1999, after an international career with Philips Electronics for PC multimedia products and strategy consulting with Adstrat. He holds a masters degree Electrical Engineering with Delft Technical University.