Management

• Kostas Siourthas, Chief Executive Officer
• Bjarne Matzen, Chief Technology Officer
• Stuart Mackenzie, Corporate Development Director
• Edwin van Staden CFE, Global Solutions Director
• Sue Hornsby, Chief Information Officer

Chief Executive Officer Kostas Siourthas founded FMT in 2002 to help organisations reduce risks, exploit opportunities and increase operational efficiencies. Since then, FMT's proven technologies have helped numerous companies around the world save millions of dollars.

Most recently, Mr Siourthas was responsible for guiding the development of FMT Octopus™ - revolutionary technology in a new market segment focusing on front-end control of online user experiences for e-business profitability.

Prior to establishing FMT, Mr Siourthas held a number sales and management roles with multinational organisations including LogicaCMG and US-based Premiere Technologies, where he pioneered its electronic messaging business and was honoured with its Global Sales Leader award.

Mr Siourthas serves on a number of boards and committees and is a founding member of the Development Board for the Centre for Community Child Health at Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

He is based in Melbourne, Australia.

FMT Chief Technology Officer Bjarne Matzen focuses on developing innovative e-business enhancement solutions that deliver measurable results for clients in a variety of industries worldwide.

In his role, Mr Matzen liaises with FMT's technology partners, oversees all technology staff and research and determines the future direction of FMT solutions.

He has more than two decades' experience in software development and has worked on three continents. Prior to joining FMT, he co-founded a company that developed products that have since been sold in more than 26 countries.

In addition, Mr Matzen has written numerous "redbook" manuals for IBM and his company received an IBM Business Partner award for excellence in technical innovation in 2001 for his work on a new development approach. He also is an award-winning speaker and has served as an industry advisor to Monash University PhD students.

Mr Matzen is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Stuart Mackenzie is responsible for the strategy, development and implementation of FMT strategic alliances and rapid business growth.

Mr Mackenzie previously managed multiple vendor and partner relationships to drive secure e-business enablement across developed and developing markets as part of GE Money's Global Fraud Management team.

Before that, he served as Remote Channel Fraud Strategy and Policy Manager at Barclays Bank where he pioneered anti-fraud solutions in response to the emergence of phishing and delivered 3D Secure technology to Barclaycard's credit and debit card portfolios.

Mr Mackenzie is a former member of APACS' E-Banking Fraud Liaison Group (the UK's Association for Payment and Clearing Services) and won the 2005 Anti-Fraud Strategy of the Year honour at the UK's Finance Sector Technology Awards.

He is based in Cyprus.

Edwin van Staden is responsible for the development and roll out of FMT's Fraud and Risk Management solutions.

Mr. van Staden previously served as Chief Fraud Risk Officer for GE Capital's Global Banking businesses. Prior to that, he was CEO of SyntiQ International, implementing a standardized platform for remotely controlled payment applications in POS terminals, ATM's and other payment technology. He was also Senior Vice President at Interpay Netherlands, responsible for risk management. Some of his key industry accomplishments are the development and implementation of the world's first real-time artificial intelligence system for card fraud prevention and detection, and rebuilding national credit card transaction processing systems. Having started his career in law enforcement, he has since completed an executive study at INSEAD University in France and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). As a former member of MasterCard's International Security committee for over a decade, he has chaired and participated in numerous private and public committees for security, fraud and risk management.

He is based in The Netherlands.

Chief Information Officer Sue Hornsby facilitates the flow of information between FMT staff, clients and partners. She oversees the strategic planning, acquisition, maintenance and use of information technology throughout the company as well as monitors the performance of IT programs and activities.

Ms Hornsby formerly served as a director at Symco, an Australian-based online solutions firm with customers throughout Europe and the UK.

Prior to Symco, she worked in a variety of online technology disciplines and systems integration in both technical and managerial capacities.

Ms Hornsby is based in Paris, France.

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