Barry Thompson
BARRY THOMPSON, Managing Partner at Thompson Consulting Group, LLC
Barry Thompson is a transformational leader in financial security and compliance. With over four decades of experience in the financial services industry, Barry Thompson has held pivotal roles including Security Officer, Compliance Officer, Treasurer, Senior Vice President, and Executive Vice President. His career spans a remarkable trajectory of leadership, expertise, and innovation in financial security and compliance.
Career Highlights:
Security Expertise: Handled over 900 security cases, assisting with investigations and prosecutions at the federal, state, and local levels, and providing expert testimony before grand juries, county courts, bankruptcy courts, family courts, and the New York State Supreme Court.
Conference Leadership: Organized national conferences as a Security Specialist for America’s Community Bankers (2000–2008), overseeing all aspects of the National Operations, Technology, and Security Conference, including designing the security track, hiring speakers, and authoring the conference manual.
International Recognition: A sought-after speaker at financial industry conferences worldwide, Barry has delivered impactful presentations on topics such as internal fraud (Brussels), identity theft (United Nations), and bank security (Japan).
Education and Training: Leveraged his expertise as an instructor at the Credit Union National Association’s Security Institute (2000–2008, 2011) and Vanderbilt University’s Belmont University’s SouthEastern School of Banking (2005–2018), fostering the next generation of financial security leaders.
Current Focus: Through his firm, Barry now leads specialized training initiatives for banks and credit unions, ranging from physical security to Artificial Intelligence. His training programs address critical issues such as identity theft, internal fraud, scams and schemes, investigations, social media risks, and bank robbery protocols. To date, he has trained over 60,000 and his firm has trained over 150,000 financial professionals—a number that continues to grow.
Barry Thompson's legacy is one of dedication, expertise, and a relentless commitment to advancing the standards of security and compliance in the financial sector.
