Ryan Schmiedl

Ryan Schmiedl is the Global Head of Payments - Trust & Safety at JPMorgan Chase. He is responsible for protecting the bank and its clients from the impacts of fraud and financial crimes. Specifically, Ryan oversees product, engineering and machine learning functions for fraud detection, validation services, authentication, sanctions screening, and regulatory reporting for JP Morgan Payments. Ryan also services as the Payments Chief Data Officer (CDO). He has extensive expertise in the areas of product management, software engineering, machine learning, and operations.

Before joining JPMorgan Chase, Ryan worked for Amazon Web Services, where he served as the General Manager of Fraud & Financial Crimes Prevention overseeing vision and direction as well as day-to-day operations. He led a team of research scientists, software engineers, product/program managers and fraud investigators who worked closely with executives, product leaders and customers to ensure fraud prevention objectives & best practices. Key accomplishments include launching a new Amazon service, Amazon Fraud Detector, significantly reducing Amazon fraud losses, improving customer friction and successfully moving the AWS commerce platform to China, meeting a regulatory commitment.

Prior to Amazon, Ryan was the Vice President of Product at SAS Institute. While in this role, he oversaw the vision & direction and roadmap for SAS’ portfolio of business analytic and machine learning software ($3.5😎. He also held the position of VP of Fraud & Financial Crimes business where he launched numerous offerings including Anti-Money Laundering Prevention, Credit Card Fraud Prevention, Case/Alert Management. Ryan created this business unit with CEO support in 2002, turning the portfolio into a market leader.

Ryan holds a MBA and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University.