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Gregory Hedges
Managing Director of Protiviti, Inc.
Gregory Hedges is a Managing Director of Protiviti, Inc., based in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Hedges has 20 years of experience helping companies in many industries manage risks that emerge as they deploy global technology solutions. Mr. Hedges leads Protiviti's global information security and infrastructure consulting business. Of particular focus are services related to information security vulnerability and attack, identity management, privacy, intrusion detection, forensics, global security architecture, and business process automation of IT asset, service, portfolio and change management and testing. While in industry, Mr. Hedges coordinated the recovery of a flooded $200 million data center while he had responsibility for IT operations, security and business continuity. He has held positions to manage and consult on these activities for the last twenty years. Mr. Hedges is leading a global initiative to help clients take advantage of wireless technologies so they need not set them aside because of the security risks. He has also testified before the U. S. Congress on need for actionable standards related to security and privacy risks.
Mr. Hedges is an inventor in a U. S. Patent Office business process method patent application for an approach to reduce internet merchant credit card fraud. He has been an outspoken proponent of a better, more consumer oriented approach to reduce the merchant chargeback costs related to fraudulent internet credit card transactions, and contributed to a creative new approach to manage the risk. Over the years, Mr. Hedges has had leadership and quality assurance responsibilities for the delivery of hundreds of thousands of hours of consulting effort for prominent clients around the world. Mr. Hedges currently has primary client responsibilities for ABN AMRO and Accenture, two of Protiviti’s largest clients.
Mr. Hedges earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago.
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