Katarina Garai
Retail & Telco Lead | Global Customer Advisory | Fraud Practice
Katarina Garai is a Certified Fraud Examiner focusing on advisory in fraud detection and fraud prevention. Her specialties include areas from retail fraud (at point of sales or online) through procurement to telco fraud. She has strong knowledge of internal fraud prevention and detection processes, combined with different fraud investigation strategies.
She has international experience across Europe and during her professional career before joining SAS Institute, her focus has always been on Fraud, Internal Controls, Internal Audit, Process Improvement and Compliance in companies such as IBM, Dell, Faurecia and Global Blue.
Besides her work as Head of Retail and telco Fraud at SAS in the EMEA region, she served as an Auditor for the Austrian Chapter of the Association of Certified Examiners (ACFE). She is a member of the ACFE Advisory Council and currently supports ACFE Austria as Vice President, leading multiple initiatives to raise awareness around fraud management in Austria.
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Speaker engagements
When | What | Where | Organizer |
2024 | Think Outside the Cart: Reimagining Retail With SAS: Learn how SAS solutions deliver better business outcomes for the retail industry. | LIVE WEBINAR | SAS |
2024 | Ridge walk of customer experience and fraud prevention | In Person (SAS Austria Office) - ACFE Austria Chapter Meeting - Vienna | ACFE Austria & SAS |
2024 | Solutions for loss prevention in Retail & CPG | BID office in Milan | BID + Crime&tech + SAS |
2024 | Fraud in Retail: Hot Topics for 2024 and Partner-Led Approach to Market | In Person (SAS Poland) SAS Inspiration Day | SAS Poland |
2022 | New Trends and Challenges in Retail Fraud | ACFE Austria Chapter Meeting - Vienna | ACFE Austria |
2021 | Fraud Risks for Luxury Retailers – New Challenges and OpportunitiesI | Online | SAS |
Publications:
Best Practices in Fighting Fraud and Reducing False Declines
E-Book: Future of retail: Insights from retail & CPG experts