Amir Safranovich has been with the Bank of Israel since 1997. Mr Safranovich has headed the Cash Management Division in the Currency Department of the Bank of Israel since 2003.

He is responsible for determining and implementing cash management policy in Israel and among other things, he is responsible for the supervision of cash centre, the regulation of the cash market, the contingency plan for cash, the banknotes quality standards, the reduction of counterfeits in circulation and the BOI cash centres operation.

Previous to this appointment, Mr Safranovich worked in the Banking Supervision Department in the Bank-Customer Relations Unit (1997-2003). He has a Master of Science degree in Economics from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.

Lee has been a member of the cash community for nearly 30 years, 20 as the Managing Director of 7 Layer Solutions. He has consulted on, conceived, functionally designed and implemented solutions for central banks, commercial banks, CITs and retailers throughout the world.

7 Layer Solutions are a specialist software development company. Formed 20 years ago they have conducted projects globally across the entire cash logistics supply chain. Their developments are deployed across thousands of sites but frequently as the company behind the big name, they are unseen experts in cash processing software.

John Winchcombe is a Currency and Payment Consultant having spent his career working with central banks on banknotes and management of the cash cycle. He worked for De La Rue and was the Currency Division Product Development and Marketing Director until mid-2015. He still works on providing banknote circulation and performance data based on the automated reading and analysis of banknote serial numbers and is Editor of Cash and Payment News. In this editorial role he writes monthly about payments and, in particular, about the impact of digital currencies. Crypto currencies, stablecoins and CBDCs have been steadily growing in importance and there is a need to bring clarity about them. John speaks regularly on webinars and at conferences. He is also an adviser to the Central Bank Digital Currency conference.   

Lisa Cronier-Gabel joined the Currency Department of the Bank of Canada in September 2016 as the Director, External Stakeholder Management. She is responsible for building and managing critical business relationships with external partners to ensure confidence and pride in Canada’s bank notes as well as delivering various initiatives related to bank note development and issuance. Prior to joining the Bank, Lisa spent 14 years at Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) managing various programs, most notably the Citizenship program.

Martin Münd was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1964. He started printing at the age of 12 in a voluntary workshop at school and went on to establish his own little print shop as a side business in the cellar of his parents‘ house. He studied printing technology at the “Fachhochschule für Druck” in Stuttgart, Germany and graduated as a printing engineer in 1995. For four years he was employed in the process engineering department of a major manufacturer of electric appliances as an expert on printing and marking technologies. In 1999 he followed his life long passion and fascination for banknotes by joining the counterfeit money department of Deutsche Bundesbank. In 2001 he moved on to the European Central Bank and has since been working at the ECB’s Counterfeit Analysis Centre (CAC) as an expert on counterfeit banknotes. 

Martin Münd was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1964. He started printing at the age of 12 in a voluntary workshop at school and went on to establish his own little print shop as a side business in the cellar of his parents‘ house. He studied printing technology at the “Fachhochschule für Druck” in Stuttgart, Germany and graduated as a printing engineer in 1995. For four years he was employed in the process engineering department of a major manufacturer of electric appliances as an expert on printing and marking technologies. In 1999 he followed his life long passion and fascination for banknotes by joining the counterfeit money department of Deutsche Bundesbank. In 2001 he moved on to the European Central Bank and has since been working at the ECB’s Counterfeit Analysis Centre (CAC) as an expert on counterfeit banknotes.