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Paulino Barros leads the company’s United States Information Solutions (USIS) business, which includes U.S.-based services that provide businesses with consumer and commercial information and insights related to areas of risk management, identity and fraud, marketing and other industry-specific solutions.

Previously, Barros served as interim Chief Executive Officer. He also served as president of the company’s Asia-Pacific business, which includes the largest acquisition in Equifax’s history – Veda, the leading provider of credit information and analysis in Australia and New Zealand. Barros previously served as president of U.S. Information Solutions, and prior to that as president of International. He joined Equifax in April 2010. 

Before joining Equifax, Barros was the founder and president of PB&C - Global Investments (LLC), an international consulting and investment firm. Previously, Barros was the president of Global Operations for AT&T, which has a presence in 135 countries. In this role, he was responsible for leading enterprise businesses in international markets on five different continents. He held several executive leadership positions at the BellSouth Corporation before it was acquired by AT&T in 2006, including chief product officer, president of BellSouth Latin America, regional vice president of Latin America, as well as chief planning and operations officer.

Prior to working for BellSouth and AT&T, Barros served as corporate vice president and general manager - Latin America Group for Motorola, Inc. and was corporate vice president and general manager of Market Operations - Americas for Motorola, Inc. He also held a variety of positions with The NutraSweet Company in Chicago and Monsanto Company in both St. Louis and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine named Barros one of the "50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology" for two consecutive years (2004 and 2005) and one of the "100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" in 2006. He served as an Independent Director of NII Holdings, Inc. from July 2012 to June 2015. He also served on the board of the American Red Cross - Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter and served on the Westminster Schools Finance Committee.

Barros has more than 35 years of managerial and leadership experience within the telecommunications, food, automotive, glass and chemical industries. A native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Barros received degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Brazil as well as an MBA from Washington University.

Prasanna Dhoré serves as the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Equifax guiding the company through its greatest technology and decision sciences transformation in 100 years. In this role, he is responsible for developing the strategic vision that leads Equifax through the chaotic world of Big Data - the deluge of structured, semi-structured and unstructured alternate data, including social, mobile, geospatial, and machine logs.

Prior to Equifax, Dhoré served as the Vice President of Global Customer Intelligence of Hewlett Packard from 2007 to 2012. Prasanna transformed HP’s rich customer information – more than 2.5 billion customer interactions per year – into a company-wide strategic asset that drove significant revenue and margin growth.

Prior to joining HP, Dhoré served as a Senior Vice President at Mellon Financial Corporation and Executive Vice President of Dreyfus Service Corporation. In his role at Dreyfus, Dhoré was responsible for all aspects of Retail Marketing including CRM, consumer strategy, customer development, knowledge management, and e-business. 

Dhoré also serves on the Board of Employers Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:EIG), a Nevada-based company whose subsidiaries are specialty providers of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small businesses.

Dhoré holds a master’s degree in Statistics and Operations Research from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, a master’s degree in business administration from Kansas State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2004.

As the Chief Information Security Officer, Jamil Farshchi is responsible for ensuring the security of the company’s digital assets as well as tasked with transforming the Equifax cybersecurity program into a world-class capability. Farshchi has spent his career building industry-leading cybersecurity programs to protect some of the world’s most sensitive assets, particularly in times of urgent need.

Most recently, Farshchi, in his role as CISO, successfully led a similar rebuilding effort to mature The Home Depot into an information security leader following what was one of the largest cyber breaches in history. Prior to The Home Depot, Farshchi was named the first CISO at Time Warner Inc. in 2014, and was responsible for the defense of the infrastructure and content of entities such as Warner Bros., CNN, and HBO.

Before taking on his role at Time Warner, Farshchi was the VP of Global Information Security at Visa, where he was responsible for protecting over $7T of payment card transactions annually and transforming Visa’s cyber program into one of the most mature within the financial services industry.

In 2009, Farshchi served as the CISO at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with responsibility for protecting some of the United States most sensitive national security and nuclear weapon assets. He has also served in a variety of risk, operational, and technology leadership roles at organizations including Sitel Corp., NextWave Wireless, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech University, and the Piedmont Park Conservancy. He is also a member of the cybersecurity advisory boards for Center for Audit Quality, Private Equity firm GI Partners, and Venture Capital firm Insight Venture Partners. He also serves as a mentor in the Columbia University Technology Management program.

Farshchi has received a variety of awards including the CSO Compass Award for change leadership and security innovation, President’s Council award for IT Excellence, and the NASA Collaborative Achievement Award among others.

Farshchi holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed the Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development.

John Hartman leads the company’s international operations, with responsibility for businesses in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Canada. He also oversees the company’s ongoing expansion efforts into emerging markets.

In his previous role with Equifax, he served as Senior Vice President of corporate development, and the Identity and Fraud Solutions business. Hartman was responsible for the company's increasing development and expansion efforts into high-growth, emerging markets both domestically and internationally as well as its advanced consumer identity protection and fraud security group.

Before joining Equifax in April 2010, Hartman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for Acuity Brands, where he was instrumental in growing revenues for the $2 billion global manufacturer more than 30 percent during a five-year period.

While at BellSouth, Hartman led the company’s digital entertainment service and prior to that served as Executive Vice President – international. He also held senior positions at Cox Communications and United Parcel Service, and most recently was president of Growth Vector, an Atlanta-based company that provides advisory and implementation services to companies seeking business turnarounds.

Hartman holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in business management/marketing from Cornell University.

J. Kelley joined Equifax as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Vice President in 2013. He has responsibility for legal services, global sourcing, compliance, government and legislative relations, and corporate governance.

Before joining Equifax, Kelley was a senior partner at King & Spalding in its corporate practice group, where he practiced a broad range of corporate finance transactions and securities matters, and advised public clients regarding SEC reporting and disclosure requirements, among other corporate governance and compliance matters.

As part of his focus on corporate governance, Kelley was instrumental in helping create the Lead Director Network, a group of lead directors, presiding directors and non-executive chairmen from many of America's leading companies that meets to discuss how to improve the performance of their corporations and earn the trust of their shareholders through more effective board leadership.

Kelley has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, one of America's Leading Lawyers by Chambers, and one of Georgia's Super Lawyers by Atlanta Magazine.

He graduated summa cum laude from Hamilton College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and he received his juris doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Rudy Ploder leads the company’s Workforce Solutions business, which is a leading provider of human resource, compliance, analytics and verification services. An insights-driven organization, the business helps U.S. employers strategically manage their workforces and also helps credit lenders effectively mitigate risk.

Prior to leading Workforce Solutions, he led U.S. Information Solutions at Equifax and was responsible for all U.S.-based services that provide businesses with consumer and commercial information and insights, specifically related to risk management, fraud, marketing and a variety of industry-specific solutions.

Ploder also led the company’s International unit with responsibility for all aspects of operations in eleven countries in Latin America, Europe and Canada.

Prior to joining Equifax in 2004, he held executive positions with MCI, SkyTel Communications, MobileComm and SBC Communications where he served in both corporate development and expansion-focused roles.

Ploder holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Buenos Aires University, Argentina, and a master’s degree in business administration from Kansas State University.

In 2015, Steven Stripe joined the Equifax senior leadership team as Senior Vice President of corporate development responsible for mergers and acquisitions. Prior to this role, Stripe was Senior Vice President of orporate finance where he managed the finance teams supporting the global centers of excellence; Identity & Fraud Solutions and Personal Solutions – two business units with $400M in global revenue; corporate budgeting and reporting; and corporate development.

Previously, Stripe was the senior vice president and senior financial officer for the U.S. Information Solutions business unit. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the finance functions of this $1.0B division. He joined Equifax in 2004 as the chief financial officer for the Equifax Latin America division.

Stripe has more than thirty years of experience in finance and operations. Prior to joining Equifax, he held senior finance positions with several multinational companies, such as United Distillers Plc. (Diageo) and Phelps Dodge Corporation. Stripe has twenty years of international experience working with multinational companies abroad, and living abroad for nine years. He also has nearly a decade of experience working for Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Stripe is a certified public accountant and a graduate of the California State University of Sacramento with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He is fluent in English and Spanish.