ACFCS Conference Speakers

The ACFCS International Financial Crime Conference & Exhibition 2013 will showcase leading world experts in money laundering, fraud, enforcement, compliance, sanctions, corruption, asset recovery and more. This great collection of experts will provide you with practical training and best practices. Our unique, interactive format assures that you can question the speakers directly, and get answers. One tip, one connection, or one insight will more than pay the price of admission.

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Dan Barta | Security Intelligence Solutions for Banking SAS | Senior Solutions Specialist| Dallas, TX A Senior Solutions Specialist with SAS, he is part of a team responsible for providing input into the development of the SAS Enterprise Financial Crimes Solutions, focusing on banking. He has over 20 years experience in fraud investigation, detection and prevention primarily in the financial services industry. He uses his experience in law enforcement and financial services fraud detection to provide insight into product features and functions required to meet the needs of users. He also provides consulting around the operational aspects of fraud detection and investigation including the integration of software tools to address the fraud challenges within organizations. He began his career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Dallas, TX as a member of the Bank Fraud Taskforce. He also investigated several white-collar crimes and defense procurement fraud matters. Previously, he was a manager with a Big Six accounting firm in their Business Fraud practice and a senior compliance officer with Bank of America, where he led the implementation of a check fraud detection software product across multiple sites within the bank.

Shannon Bennett | Wolters Kluwer | Director of Financial Crime Control Strategy and Consulting, Risk and Compliance | Waltham, MA An expert on the requirements and implications of Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance, she serves as a senior advisor and strategist to clients in preventing, identifying and resolving opportunities for financial crimes at banks, securities firms, and other financial institutions. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, she served as Senior Director for Law Enforcement Liaison and Technical Strategies with MoneyGram International, where she was the responsible for building the company’s relationships and working closely with law enforcement agencies, as well as overseeing and globally centralizing the subpoena processing team. While there she focused her efforts on leveraging law enforcement input and knowledge to advance company efforts to systemically prevent fraud and manage compliance. Previously, she was a Vice President in the Enterprise Risk Management Group (ERMG) at Wells Fargo’s Home and Consumer Finance Group, where she leveraged common technology and built capabilities across the Group’s real estate lending business and implemented a global delivery strategy.

Jim Bischoff | United States Special Operations Command | Chief of Counter Threat Finance | Tampa, FL As Chief of Counter Threat Finance at the United States Special Operations Command in Tampa, with a team of more than twenty persons he has led the growth of the program to a global reach encompassing several geographic combatant and theater special operations commands. His team supports and trains Special Operations Forces globally on threat finance, as well as federal law enforcement, the US Treasury Department and partner nations. His team has supported threat finance operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, US Treasury Department and other law enforcement operations, as well as UN sanctions designations and actions. From 2007 through 2010, he served as Chief of Counter Threat Finance as a Lieutenant Colonel, continuing a 29-year career in the reserves as a company commander, battalion intelligence officer, special operations intelligence detachment commander and Special Forces group intelligence officer. He served in Afghanistan in 2004 as the combined special operations intelligence director and in Iraq in 2007 as the Iraqi special operations brigade intelligence advisor. He is now a Colonel in the Army Reserve. A sought-after speaker on threat finance, he was named the Joint Special Operations University instructor of the year in 2012.

Daniel P. Boylan | Bank of America | Senior Vice President & Audit Director | Charlotte, NC A veteran financial crimes professional with extensive experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), 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 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.

Eric Bustillo | Securities and Exchange Commission | Regional Director | Miami Regional Director of the Miami Regional Office (MIRO) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he is responsible for leading the functions of the (MIRO) including the supervision of the office’s Enforcement and Examination programs, which jurisdiction covers the States of Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The MIRO employs numerous professionals, including attorneys, accountants, and examiners, as well as support personnel who are assigned to these programs. Between March 1995 and February 2010, he was employed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida as an Assistant United States Attorney where he served as Chief of the Economic & Environmental Crimes Section, in charge of supervising a group of AUSAs and other professionals. He supervised and prosecuted criminal matters involving, among other things, securities/corporate fraud, health care fraud, environmental crimes, commodities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, and/or money laundering violations.

Thierry Desmet | Securities and Exchange Commission | Assistant Regional Director, FCPA Unit | Miami He is an Assistant Director in the Miami Regional Office of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and also serves as an Assistant Director in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit. He supervises numerous FCPA investigations, as well as investigations involving accounting and financial fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, unregistered offering fraud, and violations by brokers-dealers and investment advisers. In addition to an active caseload, he has handled responsibilities related to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Anti-bribery Convention, such as serving as a lead examiner for the review of Canada’s enforcement of the Anti-bribery Convention. He joined the enforcement division ten years ago after spending several years as a litigation associate at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. He was born and raised in Belgium and speaks French fluently.

Kelvin Dickenson | Global Risk Management Solutions, D&B | VP of Business Development | New York A compliance expert with extensive experience in both the financial services and financial crime solutions fields, he leads Compliance Solutions for D&B. He has over 25 years experience managing risk in financial services. He worked as Assistant Vice President of Commercial Risk Management and held other senior positions at MBNA, where he directed regulatory compliance, credit, loss prevention/risk management and collections activity for commercial customers. Within D&B’s Global Risk Management Solutions group, he manages D&B’s Governance, Risk Management and Compliance, AML, and OFAC solutions, as well as Counterparty Management, Investment Risk Management, Legal Entity Identification, Corporate Actions and Capital Markets products. He is a noted speaker on financial crime and compliance issues, particularly those dealing with FCPA and anti-corruption compliance programs.

Matteson Ellis | Miller & Chevalier | Special Counsel | Washington, DC As Special Counsel with Miller & Chevalier, he is an FCPA attorney with extensive experience in all areas of international anti-corruption compliance and enforcement. He was previously the founder and principal of his own practice, Matteson Ellis Law, where he advised large multinational corporations on FCPA compliance and helped build compliance programs under some of the largest FCPA settlements to date. His wide-ranging anti-corruption work includes investigating fraud and corruption for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as performing complex, independent, and on-site internal investigations in over 20 countries considered “high corruption risk” by international monitoring organizations. He focuses particularly on the Americas, having spent several years in the region working for a Fortune 50 multinational corporation and a government ethics watchdog group, and is a fluent speaker of Spanish and Portuguese. He regularly speaks on corruption matters throughout the region and is Editor of the FCPAméricas Blog.

Stanley I. Foodman | Foodman CPAs & Advisors | CEO | Miami, FL CEO of Foodman CPAs & Advisors, he is an internationally recognized forensic accountant and litigation support practitioner who specializes in complex international and domestic tax matters, including FATCA. He has served as an expert witness and accountant for some of the nation’s most challenging, high-profile financial crime cases. He and his team of accountants also assist clients with a full range of accounting matters including compliance, voluntary disclosure, corporate and individual taxation, estate and trust tax. He is a former auxiliary special agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with specialization in financial crime, and a former consultant to the Miami office of the U.S. Attorney for civil RICO money laundering recoveries. His articles have appeared in national law and banking journals as well as regional business journals.

J.R. Helmig | Founder | Leveraged Outcomes | Washington, DC The founder of Leveraged Outcomes LLC., an executive consulting practice, he provides critical expertise during times of change where budget, reputation, and operational outcomes are at risk.  His focuses include technology selection and implementation, data collection and processing, and analytical processes and workforce modernizations.  He has successfully created and delivered innovative solutions to Fortune 20 executives, to the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Treasury, to the Intelligence Community, and to foreign counterparts.  Most recently he was a Principal at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Solutions practice.  Previously he was the Senior Advisor (GS-15) for Program Planning and Coordination at the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), where he was instrumental during a multiyear modernization of the agency’s technology, data, and analytical capabilities.  Prior financial industry experience includes managing client facing portfolios in excess of $100M for major institutions such as Merrill Lynch as well as emerging companies.

Katya Hirose | Global Risk and Investigations Practice, FTI Consulting| Director | Los Angeles, CA Director in the Global Risk and Investigations Practice of FTI Consulting, in Los Angeles, she specializes in conducting and managing complex fraud, business intelligence and risk mitigation consulting assignments within the US and globally. She serves as an advisor and problem solver to executives of multinational corporations and law firms, overseeing multifaceted, sensitive global problems involving integrity and reputational risks. Previously, she served as a senior consultant in corporate investigations at Control Risks, where she blended desktop-based public records, database, and social media research with extensive field work and interviewing techniques. She has managed diverse cases ranging from investigating allegations of internal fraud, to conducting an AML audit of a multinational money service business, to investigating an organized crime ring involved in check and ACH fraud, to leading multinational asset trace investigations. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Specialist in Asset Recovery (CSAR), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and a native Russian speaker.

Charles A. Intriago | Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists | President and Founder | Miami, FL Known for his pioneering work in the field of financial crime and money laundering controls, he launched Money Laundering Alert in 1989, a newsletter that evolved into a business that included moneylaundering.com and international conferences that drew tens of thousands of professionals. In 2001, he co-founded the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), which he later sold. Early in his career he was Chief Counsel to an oversight subcommittee of the US House of Representatives, which oversaw the operations of the US Department of Justice, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, FDIC and other agencies. He also served as Special Counsel on Organized Crime for the State of Florida where he drafted the Statewide Grand Jury Law. He has substantial litigation experience having served as an Assistant US Attorney and as a capital partner at McDermott Will & Emery. He is a native of Ecuador and fluent in Spanish.

Ron P. King | Scotiabank Group of Companies | Chief Anti-money Laundering Officer | Toronto Chief AML Officer for Canada’s most international bank, he oversees all aspects of Scotiabank’s anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and sanctions programs, encompassing 3,115 branches and offices worldwide. He coordinates AML compliance for major business lines, supports line management in assessing and managing money laundering and other risks, and develops standards, procedures, training, and monitoring and surveillance programs. He has over 30 years experience in the financial services and compliance fields, and has held a variety of progressively senior roles in retail banking, business banking, internal audit and compliance functions. Since assuming his current role, he has been frequently called upon speak at financial crime conferences and workshops including the Canadian Institute’s Annual Forum on Anti-Money Laundering, The Global Payments Forum, and the Global Sanctions & OFAC Compliance Conference.

Becki LaPorte | FINRA ® | Lead Compliance Trainer | Rockville, MD The lead compliance trainer for FINRA®, the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, she possesses nearly 15 years of financial services experience and brings a unique perspective to financial crime detection and prevention. She develops and delivers anti-money laundering and securities fraud detection training throughout FINRA® including online, entry level and advanced learning. She partners regularly with law enforcement and other financial crime experts to develop courses that address the current trends in financial crime. She also consults on ongoing examinations of member securities firms specific to their AML controls and compliance as well as patterns of suspicious transactions and potential fraudulent activity. She served as one of the financial crime professionals who assisted in constructing the CFCS Certification Examination.

Daniel Levy | Southern District | Assistant US Attorney | New York, NY 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.

Allen G. Love | TD Bank | Senior Vice President and BSA Officer/Deputy Global AML Officer | Philadelphia, PA A former Special Agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), he has an extensive background in Financial Crimes Risk Management working in both the private and public sectors. He currently serves as one of the most senior BSA and AML compliance officers at one of the largest banks in North America. While at IRS-CID he was responsible for conducting complex money laundering and financial fraud investigations and also served in an undercover capacity. As a consultant at KPMG he led teams that conducted numerous financial crime and money laundering investigations. He also performed reviews that resulted in the implementation of procedures that enhanced the fraud control environment at institutions across multiple sectors. He began his career at the State of Connecticut Department of Corrections where he managed a $20 million budget.

Todd Marlin | Ernst & Young | Principal | New York, NY 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 | Michael McDonald & Associates | Principal | Wellington, FL 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.

Deborah M. Morrisey | Department of Homeland Security | Assistant Special Agent | Miami, FL As Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, in Miami, she leads the Financial Division and four investigative groups that attack transnational financial crime. Previously, she led an ICE, HSI group investigating criminal groups that exploit the US financial system, focusing on international financial fraud, public officials and money laundering. Earlier, as a Special Agent in the Financial Investigations Division of the US Customs Service, she investigated money laundering in the life insurance industry. She also investigated one of the first Internet-based financial frauds that was successfully prosecuted. She has served as an expert witness in financial crime cases and as an instructor at US and foreign public and private sector training programs. An author of articles on kleptocracy and money laundering, she has advised Congressional staffs on money laundering legislation, most recently on the Corporate Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act.

David G. Nanz | FBI | Supervisory Special Agent | Miami, FL A Supervisory Special Agent, he serves as White Collar Crime Program Coordinator for the FBI’s Miami Field Office. He also supervises the squad primarily responsible for addressing the threats posed by corporate and securities fraud in South Florida. He previously served as Chief of the FBI’s Economic Crimes Unit at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, the Bureau’s special division targeting financial crimes. There he managed and oversaw the FBI’s corporate, securities, insurance, mass marketing/telemarketing, and other complex financial crime programs. Prior to joining the FBI, he was an attorney with Kreindler & Kreindler in New York City, where he handled a variety of complex litigation. He holds a BA from George Washington University and a JD from George Mason University.

Jack Nadeau | LexisNexis | Senior Director, Product Management | Dayton, OH Senior Director of Product Management for the Financial Services Market Planning group within LexisNexis Risk Solutions, he is responsible for leading all product development activities across Financial Services.   He has been employed with LexisNexis for over 20 years and has held various Product, Program and Business Management positions in the Legal, Elsevier, and Risk Solutions business units.  In the early years, he worked with the Data Services Division to improve the overall data quality for legal case law.  Later, he drove the program management for significant development initiatives in Elsevier and Risk Solutions.  Over the past 5 years with Risk Solutions, he led the development of innovative products for Financial Services’ customers helping drive the strong growth in the Financial Services business. He earned a master’s in business administration and a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University.  He holds both Product and Project Management certifications and is active in fundraising activities for Families of SMA.

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

Eileen Radford | TRACE International | Director, Advisory Services | Annapolis, MD Director of Advisory Services with TRACE International, she has extensive experience as an attorney specializing in anti-corruption enforcement and compliance. She most recently worked as an Investigator for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, focused mainly on investigations in West Africa. She has managed all aspects of investigations into high-level African government officials and agencies accused of corruption, money laundering, and fraud. She has also represented the Global Fund on joint missions with the US government and international organizations. Prior to joining the Global Fund, Eileen worked for several years as an attorney at Miller & Chevalier, where she counseled clients on compliance with the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other international anti-bribery regulations. She also conducted FCPA-related investigations and assisted in representing clients before the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to her legal career, Eileen was a journalist in Poland and in Washington, DC.

Edward Rounds | IBM | Smarter Analytics Executive, North America Fraud and Crime | San Francisco, CA An expert in the use of data analysis in financial crime detection and prevention, he is responsible for the IBM Smarter Analytics solution for Fraud, Waste and Abuse in North America for government, healthcare, insurance and banking. He has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years with 15 years experience primarily in the banking industry. He has consulted with major corporations on financial crime problems globally. Prior to joining IBM, He was with Searchspace/Actimize, where he worked with banks for anti-money laundering and fraud detection systems in the United States. He has done extensive work to help financial institutions develop business requirements for AML and fraud systems in light of regulatory requirements, ROI modeling, systems and technology, and implementation in the context of prevention, detection and investigation.

Edward Sander Chief Product Officer, NICE Actimize Chief Product Officer of NICE Actimize, the world’s largest and broadest financial crime, risk and compliance solutions provider, he oversees the company’s product management, product marketing, and business development functions and is responsible for Actimize’s overall solution strategy. He brings a decade of global enterprise software experience for high-growth markets, with expertise in portfolio management and new product development across analytics, audit-compliance, business process management, and customer relationship management solutions for the banking, insurance, energy, and life sciences markets. Prior to joining Actimize, he was Senior Vice President, Product Marketing at IntraLinks, where he led the organization’s enterprise product strategy and accelerated its highly successful IPO in 2010, by doubling the company’s solution portfolio and tripling its addressable market. He was also formerly Vice President, New Product Introduction at SAP, as well as Global Director, Product Marketing for its entire CRM product line. Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at PeopleLink and Monster Worldwide.

Stephen J. Shine | Prudential Financial, New York | Chief Regulatory Counsel Chief Regulatory Counsel for Prudential Financial, in New York, he is a former federal and state prosecutor who investigated and tried major securities, commodities, bank fraud and FCPA cases nationwide. He received the United States Department of Justice Special Achievement Award. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Senior Regulatory Counsel at Prudential Securities, Inc. and Prudential Equity Group, where he was responsible for the management of cases, disposition of regulatory matters and supervision of attorneys in the regulatory, asset management and trading arenas. He also supervised senior in-house litigators who defended major claims against Prudential Securities and oversaw the resolution of major class actions against the firm. He is the founding co-chair of the Anti-Money Laundering Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and received the Securities Industry Association Distinguished Leadership Award.

James Slear | Partner | Thompson Coburn LLP | Washington, D.C. As a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP., he focuses his practice on international trade compliance and enforcement, including the economic and trade sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He also advises clients regarding matters before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). With more than 25 years of experience, he has conducted internal investigations for numerous clients in international trade and other matters–such as antitrust and securities–both domestically and abroad, including Europe, the Middle East, Japan, the People’s Republic of China and Malaysia. Prior to entering private practice, he was a Judge Advocate with the U.S. Air Force. He served as the Air Force’s Chief Trial Counsel in Asia and later as a Federal Court Trial Attorney for the Air Force’s Commercial Litigation Division. He reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves following 16 years on active duty.

David Stewart | SAS Financial Crimes Global Practice | Director | Cary, NC An expert on technological tools to detect and prevent financial crime, he is responsible for the development of strategy, guiding product management and supporting SAS’ fraud and financial crimes solutions for the banking industry. He has worked exclusively with financial services companies over the last 20 years on various consumer risk and compliance initiatives. Previously, he served as a SAS Business Manager at one of the world’s largest financial institutions. He is responsible for coordinating best practices among SAS’ global subject matter experts in combating financial crimes. He works closely with many of the world’s most innovative financial services institutions, regulatory agencies, SAS research and development, implementation teams, and alliance partners to deliver superior solutions for fraud detection and complying with anti-money laundering regulations. Stewart is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and serves on the North Carolina ACAMS board.

Sandra Stibbards | Camelot Investigations | Owner and CEO | Pasadena, CA An expert in using online tools and open source intelligence in investigations, she is an experienced investigative professional who specializes in Financial Fraud Investigations, Counterintelligence / Competitive Intelligence, Intellectual Property Investigations, Internet Threats and Investigations, and Vulnerability Assessments. She has conducted internet profiling and online investigations internationally in five continents, and her clients include several Fortune 500 and multinational corporations. She began her career as an investigator with one of California’s largest and oldest private investigation agencies before opening her own agency in 1996, which has offices in Texas and California. She has become recognized for her presentations and training seminars on harnessing open source intelligence and publicly available online information for investigations, due diligence, audits and internal reviews, and regularly presents on the topic to groups from large corporations, law enforcement, financial institutions and regulators.

Kevin Tanaka | Ernst & Young | Senior Manager, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services | New York, NY A distinguished expert in fraud investigations, he is part of the Financial Services Industry team at Ernst & Young. He assists corporate boards of directors, audit committees, executive committees and their counsel with complex financial crime matters such as market manipulation, “rogue” trading, insider trading, asset misappropriation, financial reporting fraud, and bribery & corruption. Based in New York, Kevin has 12 years experience that combines fraud investigations, risk assessments, diagnostic reviews, anti-fraud services, transaction due diligence, and advisory projects. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Kevin was Director and Americas Head of Deutsche Bank’s Business Integrity Review Group. He also worked at American Express as Director of Fraud & Special Investigations.

John Tobon | Homeland Security Investigations | Section Chief | Washington, DC A leading expert in financial crime investigations, since August 2007 he has been assigned to the Illicit Finance & Proceeds of Crime Unit (IFPCU) at Immigration & Customs Enforcement – Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The IFPCU has oversight of ICE financial investigations around the world. Previously he was the Assistant ICE Attaché in Bogota, Colombia, where he was the primary point of contact between ICE and the government of Colombia on money laundering issues. While in Colombia he developed and managed the ICE/Bogota Financial Investigations Unit. Prior to his overseas assignment he worked as a Special Agent within the ICE-HSI led El Dorado Task Force in New York, NY and the office of the Special Agent in Charge, Seattle, WA. During his 13+ year law enforcement career he has participated in numerous high profile money-laundering investigations targeting trans-national criminal organizations as a case agent, undercover operative and supervisor. He regularly provides anti-money laundering training to private industry, foreign and domestic law enforcement entities.

Karen Van Ness | AML and Fraud Specialist | Austin, TX An expert in financial crime and compliance management, she is a published author on financial crime, money laundering, fraud prevention and risk management and compliance issues. A frequent speaker at conferences, she was previously Senior Director of Financial Services Planning and Global Anti-Money Laundering Head at LexisNexis, with a record of building innovative technology solutions and businesses. She has substantial experience in working within major organizations and building innovative technology solutions for anti-money laundering compliance, fraud prevention and risk management. Her business management experience, including strategic and market analysis and planning, often results in her being called to lead major complex projects in financial services, software solutions and compliance and risk. A graduate of Dartmouth, with a masters from Johns Hopkins, she has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services and software industries.

John F. Walsh | SightSpan Inc. | President | Charlotte, NC A highly regarded industry leader on the subjects of risk management, financial crime risk management, security, anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing, John has been the CEO of SightSpan Inc, since 2007. He has also held numerous high-level positions within the financial services industry, including leadership roles at Wachovia Bank, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch along with multiple international trading entities which he managed for the majority of his career. With more than 25 years of experience in the financial services sector, both within the USA and in high risk countries throughout the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, his expertise and insight into international business management, compliance, security and overall operational risk management have earned him the reputation as a leader in the financial crime field.

Bruce Zagaris | Berliner, Corcoran and Rowe | Partner | Washington, DC A distinguished expert on international financial crime with decades of experience in criminal trials and consultancy work for the public and private sector, he is a partner at the firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe and the editor of International Enforcement Law Reporter, a respected monthly publication. He has worked as a consultant and counsel for fourteen governments and the United Nations on tax enforcement and international criminal law issues. His private practice includes counseling corporations and individuals on extradition and international evidence gathering cases, and counseling witnesses for grand jury investigations, and he has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. A prolific writer, he has authored and edited several books and hundreds of articles on international law.