Dann Adams leads the Equifax Global Consumer Solutions business, which provides credit monitoring and identity management services and other direct-to-consumer solutions and services across the U.S., the UK and Canada. Adams was named in this role in November 2015.

Prior to this role, Adams was president of the company’s Workforce Solutions business, a leading provider of human resource, compliance, analytics and verification services.

Adams also served seven years as president of Consumer Information Solutions, which provides consumer information and insights, specifically in the areas of risk management, fraud, marketing and a variety of vertical industry offerings. Prior to this role, he was responsible for North America Information Services, which focuses on sales in banking and finance, retail, automotive, credit marketing and other specialized business markets.

He joined Equifax in February 1999 as senior vice president of the financial services vertical for the North America Information Services business.

Before joining Equifax, he worked at Dun & Bradstreet Information Services in Atlanta. During his 17-year tenure, he held leadership positions in sales, sales management and product marketing.

Adams holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and economics from Central Michigan University, and he also completed Emory University’s Executive Development Program.

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.

Coretha Rushing serves as Chief Human Resources Officer. She has global responsibilities for the human resources center of excellence that includes community affairs, human resources operations, talent management, and total rewards. Rushing is also a trustee of the Equifax Foundation.

Prior to joining Equifax, she served in several senior human resources roles for The Coca-Cola Company (including senior vice president of human resources) where she led all human resources functions for the global beverage company. After leaving The Coca-Cola Company in 2004, Rushing was an executive coach and consultant with Atlanta-based Cameron Wesley LLC.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Rushing was director, human resources for the Midwest division of Pizza Hut (a division of PepsiCo). She also worked for IBM in several human resources management positions. Rushing began her career as a recruiter and corporate training specialist with R.H. Macy's & Co. and training director for East River Savings and Loan.

A native of Virginia, Rushing received her bachelor’s degree in industrial psychology from East Carolina University and holds a master’s degree in human resources and counseling from George Washington University. She is also certified as a senior professional in human resources from the Society for Human Resource Management, where she serves on the board of directors and is a member of its compensation committee.

Laura Wilbanks is the Chief Marketing Officer for Equifax and leads all core global marketing functions including innovation, strategy, brand, communications, pricing, insights and solution marketing.

Wilbanks joined the company in 1998 as business development lead for the Telecommunications vertical. In 2000, she was named a vice president of the company and has since served in positions of increasing responsibility including leadership roles in market development, market insights and planning, and product management. For three years, Wilbanks led the company’s strategy, pricing, and insights teams, and in 2013 was named Senior Vice President and Senior Marketing Officer for USIS.

In this role, Wilbanks delivered on both short and long-term revenue objectives by creating and executing against a three-year strategic plan, identifying acquisition opportunities, launching strategic pricing initiatives, developing new products and technology platforms, optimizing sales channels and enabling strong demand generation programs. Most notably, Wilbanks transformed the general marketing approach by creating tailored industry vertical marketing teams to drive targeted go-to- market approaches, which helped drive innovation to its highest level in USIS and resulted in one of the strongest USIS Vitality Indexes since its inception. 

Prior to joining Equifax, Wilbanks worked in the Telecommunications industry, first with GTE (now Verizon) and then AT&T where she held a number of leadership roles in channel marketing and sales management.

Wilbanks earned her business degree from the University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business.