Daniel P. Boylan, Senior Vice President and Audit Director, Bank of America, Charlotte

A veteran financial crimes professional with extensive experience in anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption and federal law enforcement, he is a senior vice president and audit director for Bank of America, where he is responsible for global AML audit activities. He was formerly a vice president in the Corporate Bank Secrecy Act Office at Wells Fargo, where he led an enterprise-wide effort that promoted the convergence of fraud and AML tools across department lines. Before the acquisition by Wells Fargo, he was vice president of Wachovia’s Financial Intelligence Unit , playing a role in multiple areas of counter-financial crime. In 2007, he was selected to serve on the FinCEN Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group. Previously, he was a money laundering and narcotics investigator at the New York High Intensity Drug Trafficking and Financial Crimes Area (HIDTA/HIFCA), having begun his career as a crime prevention intelligence analyst at the Washington D.C. / Baltimore HIDTA.

Gerard Britton, Managing Director, DOAR Litigation Consulting, New York

A Managing Director at DOAR Litigation Consulting, he has over 20 twenty years of experience investigating, prosecuting and litigating frauds and financial crimes. As a state prosecutor, he led an Insurance Fraud Unit that investigated and prosecuted health care facilities, providers and others involved in fraud. As an attorney in private practice, he has designed and implemented compliance monitoring systems for large organizations. In recent years, his focus as a consultant has been the application of advanced analytics solutions to enable better and more cost effective solutions in the areas of compliance, investigations and e-discovery. In this capacity, he has advised both large corporations and law enforcement agencies. For a diverse array of clients, he has developed technology-enabled solutions which have been utilized in complex US and international matters, including antitrust, RICO, commercial fraud and white collar criminal cases involving trade secrets and data breaches.

 

Annette Escobar, Partner, Astigarraga Davis, Miami

Partner at Astigarraga Davis, in Miami, she focuses her international litigation practice on financial fraud and asset recovery. She has litigated many complex domestic and international disputes in state and federal courts on behalf of multinational corporations, national governments, receivers, trustees and other officeholders. A member of the executive board of the Florida Appellate Court Rules Committee, she has been named several times as a “Florida Rising Star” by the publication, Super Lawyers. She is experienced in the use of various laws and procedures that assist US and non-U.S. litigants in obtaining discovery in the United States and other countries. She is also very experienced in utilizing Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code as it relates to international insolvency disputes. She is the author of many articles and publications for the American Bar Association Section of International Law, Florida Bar, and International Arbitration News, including a chapter on enforcement of foreign judgements in the book International Litigation Strategies and Practices.

Kevin J. Ford, Managing Director, Regulatory Data Corporation (RDC)

Managing Director for Regulatory Data Corporation, he is an expert in providing decision-ready intelligence and world-class risk and compliance protection to major financial institution and corporate clients. Prior to joining RDC, he was an Associate General Counsel in the Business Intelligence Group of Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than a decade. He was responsible for conducting enhanced due diligence on hundreds of new clients, products, and services worldwide. In 2000, he was appointed to the post of Money Laundering Reporting Officer for Goldman Sachs International, in which capacity he developed the first comprehensive anti-money laundering program for Goldman Sachs EMEA operations. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1998, he had a distinguished 26-year career in law enforcement. He is a member of Interpol’s Group of Experts on Corruption. He represents Transparency International on the Wolfsberg Group, an association of eleven global banks which have developed financial services industry standards, and related products, for KYC, AML and Counterterrorist Financing policies.

James H. Freis, Jr., Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Washington, DC

Director of the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Center, the principal US agency for the provision of financial intelligence and information to federal law enforcement agencies and state and local and foreign agencies under various agreements. FinCEN is also the lead US regulatory agency on money laundering controls and Bank Secrecy Act regulations and compliance. Director since 2007, he oversees the implementation of policies aimed at detecting and deterring money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes, and support to law enforcement and intelligence agencies through the analysis and sharing of financial intelligence. He has led several FinCEN initiatives, including creating a paperless BSA reporting system for financial institutions and promoting risk-based compliance examinations. Previously, he was Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement and Intelligence at the Treasury Department, providing legal support to the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Earlier, he was Senior Counsel at the Bank for International Settlements, in Switzerland, and a lawyer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

John M. Haried, Assistant National Criminal Discovery Coordinator, US Department of Justice, Denver

Assistant National Criminal Discovery Coordinator for the US Department of Justice, he coordinates e-discovery and criminal discovery policy and training for the department’s 6,000 prosecutors and 25,000 law enforcement agents. Together with other federal prosecutors, and law enforcement agents and public defenders, he helped develop the landmark Recommendations for Electronically Stored Information Discovery in Federal Criminal Cases, which were released by the Justice Department, the Office of Public Defender and the US federal courts in February 2012. They are the first guidelines issued on e-discovery in federal criminal cases. He has also served for 22 years as an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Colorado, trying many white collar crime cases involving bank, securities, wire and mail fraud and money laundering. At the US Attorney’s Office in Colorado, he has also served as a Professional Responsibility Officer, Senior Litigation Counsel and Complex Crimes Chief. Previously, he served as a state prosecutor in Colorado for eight years. He is a member of the Colorado Supreme Court’s Standing Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Charles A. Intriago, President, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, Miami

David Kotz, Director, Berkeley Research Group, Washington, DC

As Inspector General of the US Securities and Exchange Commission for four years until January 2012, he has been at the forefront of many of the historic financial crime cases of recent years. He spearheaded a nine-month investigation that exposed and documented the SEC’s failure to uncover Bernard Madoff’s massive worldwide fraud, and played a vital role in exposing and reporting on the SEC’s poor supervision of mega-fraudster Allen Stanford. He also led the investigation of the SEC’s oversight of Bear Stearns and its collapse. His subsequent report helped prompt Congress into examining the causes of the national financial crisis and led to enactment of major legislation, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Protection Act in 2009. He is now a Director with Berkeley Research Group, a leading global expert services and consulting firm that provides independent expert testimony, litigation and regulatory support, and data analytics to major firms, corporations, and government agencies around the world.

Nikki Kowalski, Managing Director, Kroll Advisory Solutions, New York

The managing director of the AML Compliance practice for Kroll Advisory Solutions, she guides major international financial institutions on all aspects of anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, including policies and procedures, due diligence and customer identification. She is an expert at anti-money laundering laws and regulations applicable to financial institutions in the U.S. and other countries. Prior to joining Kroll, she spent seven years heading AML compliance efforts at Goldman Sachs and Bear Sterns, where she created and implemented global and country-specific policies and procedures pertaining to customer identification, due diligence, and suspicious activity monitoring and reporting. Before working in financial services, she was a criminal prosecutor for more than 20 years on the federal and state level. While working for the U.S. Department of Justice, she prosecuted money laundering and stock fraud cases and won the Director’s Award from DOJ for a significant fraud prosecution. As a New York City prosecutor, she worked on cases involving street crime, international narcotics trafficking, stock manipulation and bank fraud.

Ken Krys, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KRyS Global, Cayman Islands

A financial investigator and analyst in the Cayman Islands with 20 years of experience in cross-border asset recovery cases throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, he has acted as court fiduciary or directed court-supervised engagements for over 50 business entities. His cases have involved BCCI, where he tracked down money misappropriated to Britain, Switzerland and Pakistan; investigating claims by the US Madoff Trustee for preference and statutory payments; participating as an expert in New York litigation to recover billions of dollars lost in the Refco fraud; assisting the SEC receiver of an insurance company that issued fraudulent policies to Latin American clients; and investigating numerous Cayman financial institutions, from banks to hedge funds, whose assets—both legal and not—were diverted overseas. Credentialed as a chartered accountant, chartered financial analysis, certified fraud examiner and certified anti-money laundering specialist, he is a former chief of compliance for Cayman’s Monetary Authority and sits on a number of regulatory boards there.

Daniel W. Levy, Assistant US Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York

A federal prosecutor in Manhattan, he led the prosecution of the historic case against the Swiss bank, Wegelin, on grounds of fraud conspiracy and forfeiture of its US correspondent account. An Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York since 2002, he has investigated through grand juries and prosecuted US tax evaders who maintain secret accounts in Switzerland and other secrecy havens, and the banks and bankers that assisted them. His work entails frequent trials and focuses on different types of fraud, including tax fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, securities fraud, identity theft, and computer crimes. He often argues appeals before the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, he was a litigator at Morrison & Foerster, in New York, where he specialized in commercial and securities litigation and white collar criminal defense. Early in his legal career he served as a law clerk to US District Judge Stephen M. Orlofsky, in New Jersey. He speaks Spanish fluently, having served as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador.

David S. Mandel, Partner, Mandel & Mandel, Miami

A former federal prosecutor who tried cases involving complex fraud and money laundering, he made history when he won a landmark judgment of $67 million from TD Bank on behalf of defrauded investors of mega-Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein. He is a renowned litigator in the fields of complex commercial disputes, securities, antitrust and white collar criminal defense matters. While at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, he led the firm’s Corporate Investigations and Criminal Defense (CICD) Practice Group in Miami. He is also a member of The Wilson Council at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Monique Maranto, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Washington, DC

Director and Deputy of the AML Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, in Washington, DC, she is an anti-money laundering specialist in the firm’s global Risk and Regulatory Advisory Services practice. She develops due diligence programs for financial institution and corporate clients, as well as risk assessments, account monitoring systems, and reporting infrastructures for global banks. She also assists major financial institutions in addressing enforcement actions by regulatory agencies of the US and other countries. A member of the firm since November 2004, she plays a major role, and has extensive experience, in overseeing remediation efforts by banks, insurance companies and money services businesses in response to regulatory actions. This work includes developing and implementing comprehensive customer risk assessment programs. She is an expert on the provisions and requirements of FATCA, and assists financial institutions in implementing them. Previously, she was a senior vice president in Global AML Compliance at Bank of America, where she played a key role in setting global anti-money laundering policy, developing AML training content and developing global AML procedures for various lines of business.

Todd J. Marlin, Principal, Ernst & Young, New York

Principal of Ernst & Young’s Forensic Technology and Discovery Services practice, he is an e-discovery specialist with broad experience in computer forensics, data analysis and electronic record review and production in litigation and investigation. He has led many projects throughout the US on behalf of Fortune 500 companies and their counsel, and has appeared on behalf of clients in front of the NYSE and SEC. He has also been appointed in federal court as a Special Master in e-discovery disputes. He specializes in the creation of custom models to identify relationships, trends, and patterns within complex data. He has overseen global teams to conduct investigations and data analysis on behalf of major financial institutions, corporations, government agencies and regulators. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, he worked as a director for several major consulting and accounting firms, including Navigant and Deloitte and Touche. He began his career as an accountant with JH Cohn.

Michael R. McDonald, Principal, Michael McDonald & Associates, Miami

A retired IRS Criminal Investigation Division special agent, he is also the former coordinator of the South Florida Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) and supervisor of the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force. He has trained thousands of state, local and international law enforcement and intelligence officers on money laundering and diverse financial crimes. In 1980, he helped found the pioneering Operation Greenback, the first multi-agency money laundering task force, which recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in assets from drug traffickers. Since retiring, he has advised foreign governments on their proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture laws and procedures.

Darrin McLaughlin, Managing Director, Regulatory Data Corp (RDC), New York, New York

Managing Director of Strategic Client Solutions at Regulatory Data Corp (RDC), he is a well-respected expert with extensive experience as an AML Compliance Officer with several major international financial institutions throughout the course of his career including Fortis Merchant Bank, Citigroup Investment Bank, the Asset Management Division of Deutsche Bank and most recently the Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Group of Macquarie Holdings USA. During his career he has focused on all aspects of Anti-Money Laundering including, policy and procedure development & implementation, KYC & CIP reviews, conducting enhanced due diligence reviews, transaction monitoring, managing remediation projects and coordinating internal/external exams with audit and/or various regulators. He also served as Senior Fraud Investigator for a major international Insurance company handling investigations of fraud, identity theft and other various white collar crimes. As a former Compliance Officer he understands AML issues and challenges and also how to provide his clients with the best solutions.

Tina O. Miller, Partner, Farrell & Reisinger, Pittsburgh

A partner at Farrell & Reisinger, she is an experienced trial lawyer who represents individual and corporate clients, specializing in criminal defense, corporate internal investigations, commercial civil litigation and representing victims of crime in criminal and civil cases. She served as a federal prosecutor for 13 years in the criminal and civil divisions of the United States Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. Her jury trials included a wide variety of cases, including fraud, public corruption, arms trafficking, and the sexual exploitation of children. In 2007, she was sole counsel for the government in a federal death penalty trial involving a murder-for-hire scheme. She served on the Local Rules Committee in the Western District of Pennsylvania, which completely revised the federal local rules. During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, she served as a CHIP (Computer/Hacking Intellectual Property) attorney and she has extensive experience in cases involving the search and seizure of electronic evidence as well as electronic information gathering tools such as wire taps, internet pen registers, cell tower/GPS and OnStar technology. She regularly speaks and publishes articles about electronically stored information in criminal cases.

Paul Neale, Chief Executive Officer, DOAR Litigation Consulting, New York

As CEO of DOAR Litigation Consulting, he advises clients involved in major litigation matters, including those responding to government enforcement actions and defending white collar criminal prosecutions. He is one of the nation’s leading, testifying experts on electronically stored information issues such as spoliation, proportionality, sanctions and the use of alternative technologies such as predictive coding software. He provides trial strategy consulting in the form of jury research, witness testing and trial presentation as well as advisory services relating to the analysis, management and production of ESI. Through his leadership of DOAR, he has been involved in criminal cases alleging financial crimes such as insider trading, bid rigging, accounting fraud, securities fraud and FCPA violations.

Jeffrey A. Neiman, Principal, Law Offices of Jeffrey A. Neiman, Fort Lauderdale

A winner of the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement, the highest award bestowed on a United States Department of Justice attorney, for his landmark work in the prosecuting the case against Swiss banking giant UBS AG, which assisted US citizens in evading taxes, he was a federal prosecutor for nine years at the Justice Department in Washington. DC and in the Southern District of Florida. While with the US Department of Justice Honors Program he received national recognition for leading and handling complex, high profile matters, including the historic case against Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, a case that has revolutionized the pursuit of financial criminals. He now practices law from his Fort Lauderdale firm, where his focus is white-collar defense, tax controversies, securities regulatory matters and general litigation.

Marc S. Nurik, Principal, Law Offices of Mark Nurik, Fort Lauderdale

A highly respected White Collar defense attorneys, he represents convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, a lawyer from South Florida whose criminal empire grew to more than $1.2 billion. In his career he has participated in nearly 300 jury trials across more than 25 federal jurisdictions and State Courts in Florida and New York. Winning significant recognition from his peers, he has received a stellar “AV” rating in Martindale Hubbell and is repeatedly included in “Best Lawyers in America.” Chambers USA rated him as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”

Amir Orad, President and CEO, NICE Actimize, New York

Author of several counter-fraud patents and a noted industry leader in developing the first anti-phishing service and risk-based authentication technology, he is an expert and thought leader in the application of technology to financial crime, anti-money laundering, cyber security, payments and authentication. As CEO of NICE Actimize, he leads the development and execution of the NICE Actimize global strategy. Prior to Actimize, he was co-founder and executive vice president of Cyota Inc., an online security and anti-fraud enterprise, which was acquired by RSA Security in 2005. A frequent lecturer and author on counter-financial crime subjects, he is often quoted in leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and American Banker. He earned his MBA degree at Columbia University and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Management at Tel Aviv University.

Paul E. Pelletier, Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Washington, DC

The lead federal prosecutor as deputy chief of the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice, he directed and supervised some of the Justice Department’s most important financial crime initiatives and investigations of the past decade, including fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. He is now a partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, in Washington, DC, specializing in white collar defense. He led the prosecution leading to the conviction of global megafraudster Allen Stanford for his $7 billion Ponzi scheme, and fraud prosecutions involving PNC, AIG, General Reinsurance and BP. Under his leadership, the Justice Department’s FCPA unit increased the number of corporate and individual prosecutions and assessed a ten-fold increase in fines and penalties. Before joining the Justice Department, he was Chief of the Economic Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, an epicenter of diverse frauds in the US. He pioneered successful new tactics to combat health care fraud.

Steven Rambam, CEO, Pallorium, New York

Founder and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., a licensed Investigative Agency with offices and affiliates worldwide, he has coordinated investigations in more than 50 countries, and in nearly every US state and Canadian province. Since 1981, Pallorium’s investigators have successfully closed more than 10,500 cases, ranging from homicide and death claim investigations to missing persons cases to the investigation of various types of sophisticated financial and insurance frauds. Pallorium’s online subsidiary, PallTech offers access to nearly 800 data sources and seven major proprietary databases, as well as provides online investigative support services to 2,800 investigative and law enforcement agencies. DataVerification.Net, a custom web portal owned and operated by PallTech, provides specialized identity verification and underwriting solutions to the insurance industry. PallTech recently coauthored two popular iPhone applications, “IdentityCheck” and “Investigators Everywhere”. He specializes in international and multi-jurisdictional investigations, investigations of sophisticated frauds and missing person investigations.

David Regan, Global Managing Director, Accenture, Dublin

The Global Managing Director of Accenture’s revenue and customs industry group, he leads the firm’s practice with Revenue Agencies globally. He has over 20 years experience working for Accenture with Ministries of Finance, Revenue and Customs authorities around the world. His work has addressed strategic issues, organizational change and major technology implementation programs. He is also responsible for Accenture’s research within the industry including the support and development of thought leadership and key technology capabilities. Currently, research projects include best practice process models for revenue and customs and the application of real-time analytics to Revenue and Customs administration particularly with regard to fraud and non-compliance.

James R. Richards, EVP, Wells Fargo, San Francisco