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As part of the engagement process with the financial community, the project has close ties with the Co-ordination action project PARSIFAL, whose purpose is bringing together the financial industry and research stakeholders in order to better establish trustworthy better protect Critical Financial Infrastructures. In addition, a Financial Advisory Board (FAB) has been established for the project. The CoMiFin FAB is chaired by Mr. Thomas Kohler of UBS Zurich and has members from across the European financial landscape. The board includes both national and international service providers and steers the project with their operative knowledge of the financial infrastructures. The CoMiFin Consortium is actively cooperating with the FAB and other financial bodies in the areas of: requirements analysis, regulatory policies, prototyping and assessment, and dissemination of the results.
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 Thomas Kohler, Group Information Security (GIS),
UBS AG
Th. Kohler has 23 years of experience in Banking, Finance, ICT audit and IT &
Information Risk Control.
Prior to his current function, Th. Kohler has held various management positions in
ICT audit, IT Risk Management, Credit Risk Management and Information Risk
Control. ICT audit and Information Risk Control are the two functions, Th. Kohler had
the privilege to successfully start and built-up at UBS AG.
Before joining UBS, Th. Kohler held various positions with hardware and software
vendors, the most recent one was Cincom Systems, a major database vendor where
Th. Kohler was the account manager and technical support for large clients.
Currently, Th. Kohler is an Executive Director at UBS Group Information Security
where the global security fundamentals of UBS are co-ordinated with the Business
Divisions. Furthermore, Group Information Security drives the implementation of the
Information Security Policy statement consistently in all Business Divisions and seeks
to find synergies to further improve the Information Security set-up within the
Business Divisions of UBS.
Th. Kohler graduated in "Information Systems Technology" and lives with his family in
the greater Zurich area.
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 Finn Otto Hansen
SWIFT Head, Clearing and Settlement Strategies, DnB NOR Bank ASA, Norway.
SWIFT Director since 2004. Joined DnB NOR in 1974. Held various positions in Credit, Payments and Cash Management. Currently heads the department for Clearing and Settlement Strategies. Has represented his institution and Norwegian banks on various national committees over the last two decades, including the SWIFT National Member Group. Representative of DnB NOR to EBA Clearing. Chairman of SWIFT' s Banking and Payments Committee.
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 Henning H. Arendt is president of @bc®, an independent Business Consultancy for financial service providers since 1997.
With focus on biometric identification and security solutions he was a.o. project manager of the BioTrusT-Project 1999-2002 (BMWA, Sparkassenorganisation, TeleTrusT with a total of 30 partners) and is expert to the European Commission. He is speaker at international conferences (Athen, Barcelona, Berlin, Brüssel, Budapest, Den Haag, Frankfurt, Jena, Köln, München, New York, Paris, Qatar, San Francisco)
Member of
TeleTrusT Deutschland e.V.
Co-Author of the "Biometric Guide Germany" issued by BITKOM, TeleTrusT and ZVEI
Author of EEMA Security Best Practice Paper "PKI and Biometrics"
From 1972 to 1997 IBM employee
International management experience, 5 years based in the U.S.A.
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 Guido Pagani, graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1972, received the award for best graduate from the AEI (Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana).
In the first year of work, he designed system of continuity in MT and BT. Then he has been involved for Motorola's in designing of control and air navigation electronic systems. Since 1976 he became manager of electronic systems and pointing and tracking systems for military vessels.
In 1979 he joined the Bank of Italy with the responsibility in management and evolution of information systems, both voice and data networks, and continuity of service of financial information systems both in Italy and EU in cooperation with the European Central Bank; in the meantime, he represented Italy in Basel Computer Experts group of the G10.
Today represents Italy at the ABI in the Committee that coordinates the use of the SWIFT international financial network.
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