Maximilian Gebhardt Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Bedford, Ma, Us

Core member of our partnerships and alliances team, aligned globally and focused primarily on our FraudAction line of business. Responsible for FraudAction channel positioning and strategy.

Bedford, Ma, Us

Ensuring FraudAction provides best-in-class service for our customers. FraudAction is a brand protection and malicious takedown solution paired with unique best-in-class cyber intelligence focused on cyberfraud.

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked within the Cybersecurity Fraud Fusion Center, a first for brokergaes. Managed the Cyberfraud analytics team and model owner for real-time risk and fraud decisioning on all Fidelity lines of business.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Consulted with client company senior leaders on fraud detection and mitigation strategy at a variety of financial institutions and insurance clients, including multiple fortune 500 FIs and several of the world's largest banks.Provided customized detection strategies for large scale bot attacks and narrow targeted high-risk attacks on banking and investment clients. Developed customized intelligence profiles on known high skilled fraudsters. Planned and implemented large multi-touchpoint contextual risk-based adaptive authentication and fraud detection strategies for banks and insurers. Leveraged big data and extensive fraud data provided by clients to routinely enhance fraud detection to over 90% while also reducing challenge rates at login below 1%.

New York, New York, Us

Global Consumer Bank, Fraud Fusion CenterIntelligence-led approach to mitigate increasingly complex cyber fraud and traditional fraud impacting the bank well before losses are actually sustained. Tools used routinely include big data analysis, deep and dark web analysis, and proprietary vendor tools.

• Private consulting and facilitation services for clients interested in improving or expanding business to China and Eastern Europe. Robust contact network in investment and business circles in both regions, developed and executed tailored approaches for clients looking for everything from EU pharmaceutical sourcing to local parts supply.• Recent projects include matchmaking existing companies in order to facilitate a US-Cuba medical tourism startup, researching trade data gaps in an EU member state to identify market weakness for a client in the financial sector, sourcing cost effective locally-produced custom fabricated parts supply for a US firm expanding to the European market, and producing an in-depth white paper for a respected think tank on the implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the EU transport and infrastructure market.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Trade and Investment Portfolio –Supporting negotiation and promotion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership through both local promotion and in closed-door discussions between US negotiators and EU and Hungarian officials. Engaged in creative problem solving using contacts in the private sector, the Hungarian Government, the European Commission, AmCham Hungary, the US Department of Commerce, and US Trade Representative Office. Controlled T-TIP draft text library. Tracked Chinese and Russian investment in the region, including the $1.9 billion dollar Chinese-funded Budapest-Belgrade Railway, a Belt and Road Initiative project.• Transparency/Counter-Corruption Portfolio – Mapping and combating corruption in Hungary that adversely affected US firms. Successfully secured Hungarian efforts to crack down on corruption-enabled tax fraud that cost US firms tens of millions of dollars in lost profits due to unfair competition. • Transportation, Telecoms, Intellectual Property Rights, and Agricultural Biotechnology Portfolios – Reporting on developments and assisting US firms in a wide variety of industries by utilizing a diverse contact network which includes Hungarian and US civil aviation and airport authorities, telecommunication firms and regulatory authorities, customs offices, the Ministry of Agriculture, and product safety and IPR officials and offices in the government of Hungary, the US, and the EU. • Acting Economic Section Chief from summer to fall of 2014.

Washington, Dc, Us

Tenured economic coned FSO

Washington, Dc, Us

• Produced investment prospectus and overview for Chinese investors interested in investing in US media sector, which contributed to a multi-billion dollar investment in a major US media firm by a large Chinese conglomerate.• Redesigned Fraud Prevention Unit by introducing anomaly detection methods. Founding member of China Visa Fraud interagency working group. Developed novel application prescreening methodology which was adopted as a standard by all other posts in China.• Refined targeting methods to identify Chinese visa applicants with national security concerns, reducing visa delays for false-positives from one month to less than five days while improving our successful catch rate significantly. Improved methods presented at global security conference in Embassy Moscow as best practice for targeting.• Strong Chinese governmental contacts in the Foreign Affairs Office and in state-owned enterprises. Close US government contacts in DHS and other agencies.• Primary consulate interlocutor for AmCham Dalian and many universities in northeast China.

New York, New York, Us

Bs, International Relations And Diplomacy, Asian Studies

Chinese Language

Chinese Language