Dr. Dan Schutzer

Senior VP System Architecture

Dr. Schutzer is a world-respected authority on security, fraud, cybercrime, resilience, cyber warfare and financial services technology, providing leadership and innovative thinking on applying technology to business, defense, and intelligence, bringing to fruition several noted innovations and products.  He is the holder of numerous patents, the author of 6 books and hundreds of articles, and is a sought-after lecturer. His most recent book, Becoming Resilient, Staying Connected Under Adversity was published in 2023.  He has also served on numerous Boards and Standards organizations, such as ANSI X9.

Dr. Schutzer Founded and was President of Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC), overseeing its eventual merger with the Financial Services Roundtable and the Bank Policy Institute (BPI), where he worked on collaborative research for the financial services industry, bringing to fruition many leading-edge technology and process innovations and products.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Schutzer was Director and Senior Vice President at Citibank, developing and deploying the technologies that would keep Citi at the forefront of the banking world. His innovations in e-banking, trading systems, risk management, advanced technology, payments, and security often set the standards for the entire banking industry. While at Citibank he authored the book, Application of Emerging Technologies in Business, which defined how business could capitalize on innovation and technological advances.

Dr. Schutzer became Technical Director of U.S. Naval Intelligence, after serving as the first Technical Director of Navy Command, Control, and Communications. While serving the U.S. Navy, he authored several books, including Applied Artificial Intelligence, Parallel and Distributed Processing, and Military Communications, Command and Control.

At Bell Laboratory Dr. Schutzer supervised the development of complex signal processing for defense projects, including discriminating between real warheads and decoys for the first Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system.

Dr. Schutzer has taught at a number of universities, including Syracuse University, George Washington University, and Cooper Union.