Chris Mathers

Chris Mathers spent most of his life working undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Drug Enforcement Administration, and the US Customs Service. Posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker, and even a money launderer, Mathers has seen and done it all. He takes audiences into the underworld that only he can describe, letting people in on the stunning stories and secrets harboured by terrorists and those involved in organized crime.

Mathers retired after a 20-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He then joined the Forensic Division of the international accounting firm, KPMG in 1995. He was appointed to the position of President of KPMG Corporate Intelligence Inc. in 1999, where he was responsible for international due diligence, asset recovery operations, and the investigation and prevention of organized crime and money laundering.

A popular media commentator and speaker, Mathers has served as a consultant on several feature films and documentaries relating to organized crime, espionage, and money laundering. He has appeared on television and radio interviews on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, and all Canadian national news networks as well as media outlets in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean.

Mathers is a unique, humorous, and fascinating speaker who touches on issues from security, hiring decisions, and background checks to money laundering, corporate fraud, and the incredible impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on the prevention and spread of crime. Mathers offers wise insights on human character and organizational culture that can help you spot and avoid the perils of white-collar crime.

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AI and Crime +

Artificial Intelligence is software that mimics human cognition in order to perform complex tasks and learn from them. Its positive potential is limitless but, like any technology, it can be abused.

Criminals are already using audio and video impersonation to defraud and extort us. Foreign governments are using AI to influence our political beliefs.

On the upside, AI can detect fraud, spam calls, and phishing attempts much better than people can. AI never sleeps or even gets tired and it won’t call in sick.

Join Chris Mathers as he shares the latest amazing advances in AI, describing how the bad guys are using this amazing technology against us and how the good guys are using it to catch them. --

Futureproofing Your Business: Privacy, Safety, and Security Post-COVID +

Although working from home has reduced some of the risk to employees and customers, it has drastically increased the risk to businesses, particularly as it relates to cyber crime and data theft.

COVID-19 also demonstrated how adept organized crime groups are at dealing with change. Within days of the outbreak, they had changed their business model, identified new opportunities, and found new ways to commit fraud and theft.

In order to safeguard information, business owners need to ask important questions of employees who will continue to work remotely:

• Are they willing to submit to increased cyber-security measures? Measures that may require use of their biometrics? Or location tracking?
• How much of their privacy are they willing to sacrifice? For convenience? For personal security?

Join Chris Mathers as he describes how recent changes in the world have created new opportunities for organized crime and state-sponsored criminals and the profound impact it will have, both on the way we do business and how we live our lives. --

Cyber Security: The Invisible War +

You may not know it, but we are at war.  Not in Iraq.  Not in Afghanistan.  But in our own country. Every minute of every day, American and European companies and governments are under attack from an invisible enemy.  An enemy who is not limited by rules of engagement or ethical boundaries. An enemy whose goal is to develop the capability to disrupt our commerce, our infrastructure and our military.

Here are some scary stats:

• The energy company, BP, reports 50,000 hacking attempts every day.
• The Pentagon reports 10 million hacking attempts every day.

However, it is not just companies who are combatants in this invisible war.  It’s also you and me.  Every day criminals, spies and vandals attack us online in an attempt to steal our identity and our money.

What can you do to reduce your chances of becoming a victim?  Quite a lot actually.

Chris Mathers will explain  who exactly the bad guys are, what they’re trying to do, and how you can protect yourself and your organization from becoming the next headline. --

Chris Mathers: Undercover +

Chris Mathers is an in-demand keynote speaker. Whether the audiences are front-line staff, sales managers, corporate executives, teachers, entrepreneurs, trades people, or parents, there are many lessons to be learned from his life of crime.

Touching on issues from security, hiring decisions and background checks to money laundering schemes, corporate fraud, bribery, blackmail, extortion and more, Chris Mathers offers wise insights on human character and organizational culture that can help you to spot and avoid the perils of white collar crime. --

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