After spending almost 15 years heading the anti-Fraud and Security operational and product management activities at BICS, and a strong believer in the value of cooperation, Katia González is ever more motivated and committed to and actively working in enabling collaboration in the International communications industry to Restore Trust in communications.

Katia has been an active member of the i3Forum Board for the past 4 years and has been chairing the i3Forum Fight Fraud workgroup for more than 10 years. Additionally, Katia has actively participated in the creation of One Consortium in March 2024 and GIRAF in June 2024, each representing the Industry at large and the National Regulatory Authorities respectively, to restore trust in international communications and is part of its Leadership Council.

With more than 20 years of experience in the Mobile and Wholesale Telecom industry, Katia has held different positions in the National and International Telecoms Carrier Business providing a complete understanding of the various aspects of the business, its challenges and more specifically of the fraud and security risks for the different industry verticals (M(V)NO, OTT, IoT, Enterprise, Cloud Communications, wholesale, etc.) and the cross-sectoral impact of telecommunications-enabled fraud and scams.