Bashir Fancy is the President of the Business & Technology Professional Association of Canada (BIZTEK) – a NOT for Profit organization that provides education, training, mentoring, exams, and certification of Technology professionals. BIZTEK brings both business and technology in today’s world where the pace of technology changes and innovation is happening at a lightning pace, creating skills gaps. Bashir sits on the Program Advisory Council of Colleges as well as Advisory Boards. He also led the cybersecurity task force in Canada. Bashir was also a former Chairman and CEO of CIPS National Board and CIPS Ontario. He initiated AIS-DSS for Visa and let a team create the security standard for Visa and that standard, whilst still property of Visa became PCI-DSS that impacts any company that stores, processes, transmits, provides software/hardware to companies globally for Debit/Credit for Visa, MasterCard, Amex and othersBashir was Managing Director, of Corporation Solutions & Services Inc., providing Risk Management, Data Privacy, Governance, Security, Operations, IT consulting services, and Internal Audit globally. He continues to be called upon regularly to advise Corporations in Canada and globally. Mr. Fancy has held the position of Senior Executive Advisor, with Deloitte & Touché and also assisted Grant Thornton in a similar position.Before that Bashir, Fancy was the Executive Vice President of Risk Management and security for Visa International. He was the Global Head of Internal Audit for Visa International and the Head of Risk Management and Security for Visa Canada. Was Vice President of Card Payment Services for SNS (initially known as Emergis and later acquired by Telus). Bashir also held Senior Management positions at Citibank, Air Canada. Bashir is a Senior Executive with extensive and progressive financial, Risk Management and Security, Operations, IT, Internal Audit, Governance, Customer Service, Product Management and Business Development experience. He has been very big on innovation. His specialty is in Strategic Planning, Internal Audit, Risk Management and Security, IT, and Operations in a fast-paced Financial, Credit card, Airline, Third Party processing, and Retail business globally.Specialties: Ability to identify very quickly the root causes of problems. Always takes a holistic view of the challenges of the business and is known as a silo buster.