CAMS holds instructor-led CAMS preparation seminars for candidates looking for a classroom-style setting to enhance and improve their AML knowledge and study skills. In order to lead a prep seminar, instructors must meet certain criteria to ensure students are best prepared for the exam. You can trust that all instructors are:. CAMS-certified themselves. Recognized leaders in the industry.

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Closely involved with ACAMS and its staffOur expert instructors are a valuable resource for those studying for the exam. They equip candidates with helpful tips for taking the exam, comprehensive information on the core content covered in the exam, and the ability to answer complex questions about the material. Read on to learn more about our distinguished faculty. Al-Abed, CAMSHussam A.Al-Abed (CAMS) is An Internationally recognized subject matter expert on AMLCFT, Compliance, Banking & Financial & Cyber Crime Risk Management. Maleka Ali, CAMS. Arc-Serv, LLCMaleka Ali (CAMS), President of Arc-Serv, LLC, has over 30 years’ experience in the financial industry in areas of operations /compliance/risk/product development/training along with participation in creation of two new banks and served on task forces for several mergers, acquisitions and system conversions. Experience includes over 10 years with an AML automated system provider where she was instrumental in building their education and consulting programs.

She is a CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), and was part of the inaugural class for the Advanced CAMS-Audit certification demonstrating advanced skills in auditing the effectiveness and adequacy of BSA/AML compliance programs. She was a founding board member for the Southern California ACAMs chapter and currently serves as co-chairperson.

She has assisted over 750 institutions in areas such as data integrity, program efficiency, risk assessment, exam remediation, policies and procedures, BSA program enhancement, training and how to effectively utilize automated monitoring systems. Samar Baasiri, CAMS. Head of AML Department. BankMedSamar Baasiri (CAMS) was recently elected by the World Union of Arab Bankers as the Head of Compliance Officers in Lebanon & the MENA region.With 20 years of banking experience in Canada and Lebanon, Ms. Baasiri is currently the Head of the Compliance Department at BankMed and its subsidiaries in Lebanon. In this role, she is in charge of preparing the bank’s Anti-Money Laundering policies and procedures on a risk-based approach. She also participated in building the AML risk matrix model now used in the bank and implemented Anti-Money Laundering software for the AML unit for monitoring customers and internal accounts.

Before arriving at BankMed, Ms. Baasiri served as the head of operations division and trade finance at the United Bank of Lebanon, the customer relations manager at Bank Audi and is the former assistant head of operations & trade finance at HSBC, Canada.Samar is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board since 2006. She is also a founding and current member of the AML Committee at the Association of Banks in Lebanon as well as a founding and current member of the Group of Certified Compliance Officers Best Practices Committee for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Samar is a frequent speaker at industry, government and law enforcement conferences on compliance and AML/CFT issues in the MENA region and was recently elected by the World Union of Arab Bankers as the Head of Compliance Officers in Lebanon. Yevgeniya Balyasna-Hooghiemstra, CAMSYevgeniya Balyasna-Hooghiemstra (CAMS) is a senior AML & financial crime professional with over 10 years of practical experience within financial services in the Netherlands, including ABN AMRO, RBS and Amsterdam Trade Bank. She has experience in setting up and leading (global) projects implementing new legislation, improving processes and management controls, writing policies and procedures, executing training on various AML/compliance matters, as well as doing a day job of an AML (Compliance) officer.In January 2014 Yevgeniya has started her own company, Radosyn, to provide tailor-made compliance training & advisory, in particular, related to understanding and managing compliance risks inherent to Eastern European business.

She is a native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian.Yevgeniya holds a law degree from Kyiv University on Trade and Commerce (Ukraine). She is certified member of ACAMS since 2007 and holds ICA International Diploma in Compliance. Yevgeniya is co-founder and Chairperson of ACAMS Netherlands Chapter.

Lee Byrne, CAMSLee Byrne (CAMS) is a highly respected risk and compliance professional, with more than 30 years international operational and management experience covering sales and back-office roles.During this time, he has held the position of Head of Compliance and Financial Crime, and was approved as the CF11 Money Laundering Approved Person and Nominated Officer of a UK authorised bank. Other roles have included being the Data Controller, Quality Assurance Training Manager and Compliance Monitoring Manager of a UK retail banking branch network.For the past four years he has been at the forefront of the design and delivery of financial crime risk management education and training, and is widely regarded as being one of the foremost AML and CFT educators and learning facilitators. A recent highlight was to be selected by the world’s largest trade finance bank to present trade-based money laundering training to representatives of the Monitor appointed by the US Department of Justice.Lee has worked in a range of regulated sectors and markets, and this work has taken him to Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Europe and the Middle East, giving him helpful insights and knowledge of international regulations and best practices. Chapman, CAMS. Director. Aub Chapman Consulting ServicesAub Chapman (CAMS-Audit) was a career banker with over 42 years of professional experience prior to his retirement.In his last role at Westpac Banking Corporation, he was responsible for managing a number of functions including Group Fraud Control, Physical Security, Business Continuity Services, Cash and ATM Services as well as managing the group’s compliance with AML/CTF legislation.Since his retirement, Aub has been consulting in both the public and private sectors, not only in Australia, but also internationally.

He specialises in controls against financial crime and management of cash services. His international experience includes assignments for the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, The Eurasian Group on Money Laundering (on behalf of the FSVC), Bank Negara Malaysia, Institut Bank-Bank Malaysia and the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority. He has been a guest speaker at a number of international AML/CTF conferences and international conferences associated with the cash services industry.Aub is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Australasian Chapter, a member of the ACAMS Education Task Force. Aub is CAMS-Audit certified and is a certified CAMS Instructor and a member of the CAMS-Audit teaching faculty. He received the prestigious ACAMS AML Professional of the Year award in 2009.Aub is also a member of the Australian Digital Commerce Association (ADCA) AML Committee.

David Clark, CAMS. Head of Intelligence and Analysis.

Financial Crime. Barclays WealthDavid Clark (CAMS) is the Head of Financial Crime Intelligence & Analysis, Barclays Wealth. David has extensive global financial crime risk mitigation experience within banks and, previously, government customs agencies. He joined Barclays Wealth from ABN AMRO where he held a senior position in their global advisory and analysis team with specific responsibilities for global AML training & communication and Asia advisory. Prior to switching careers to work in Financial Services, his 18-year law enforcement career as a financial investigator & intelligence officer included 7 years in a crown dependent territory.

Additionally, Clark worked on the ACAMS’ taskforces to revise the CAMS certification exam and produce the CAMS Online Training. Cunningham, CAMS. Deputy Team Chief. United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM)Martin A. Cunningham (CAMS) is a Deputy Team Chief in the Counter Threat Finance branch of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

Cunningham also serves as Program Manager for SOCOM’s counter threat finance training program and oversees the development of curriculum and training partnerships. Martin frequently provides counter threat finance training on disrupting the financial operations of transnational criminal organizations, drug cartels and terrorist networks, their methods of value transfer, and their global money laundering topographies.Martin Cunningham is a subject matter expert on countering the financing of terrorism and is a frequently demanded guest speaker on the topic. As an Adjunct Professor with the Joint Special Operations University, he facilitates a counter threat finance course. Martin also serves as a guest lecturer at various institutions to include the Navy War College, the University of South Florida, Georgia State University and the Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.Mr. Cunningham’s background includes a deployment to the Iraq Threat Finance Cell to disrupt Al Qaida-in-Iraq’s financial operations, Senior Counter Threat Finance Analyst for Booz Allen Hamilton, Director of Working Capital Solutions for PrimeRevenue, Inc., Founder and Owner of an income tax preparation firm, and an Intelligence Officer for the United States Navy. Hue Dang, CAMS-Audit. Head of Asia.

ACAMSHue Dang (CAMS) is the Head of Asia of ACAMS based in Hong Kong since 2008. She is the Program Chair & Moderator for all ACAMS training events, including the Annual Asia/Pacific AML/CTF Conference, and annual country seminars held in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China, and Malaysia.

She is a frequent speaker at AML-related conferences around the region and the US. She also conducts the Annual Train-the-Trainer Program to certify ACAMS trainers.Prior to joining ACAMS, Hue had more than 15 years’ experience in banking and finance. She was previously a Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Manager with Barclays Capital’s Investment Banking Division in Singapore, Director for Business Development at Citibank’s Global Consumer Banking Group in Singapore and Director of Business Development, Asia/Pacific, for Thomson Financial in Hong Kong.

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Hue holds educational degrees from the US, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors from Amherst College and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In addition to English, she is fluent in French, Vietnamese, and Cantonese Chinese. Gregory Dellas, CAMSGregory Dellas (CAMS) currently leads the AML Risk Management team within the International Banking Services Division (IBS) of the Bank of Cyprus, in Nicosia, and acts as the local Compliance Officer. His team is responsible for the on-boarding of high-risk clients, the evaluation of large and complex transactions, as well as the review and approval of existing high-risk client relationships. Also, Gregory is responsible for providing advice, guidance and specialised trainings to management and staff, on AML and regulatory compliance matters.In the past, Gregory worked with Coopers and Lybrand in Nicosia and held various senior and managerial positions in Cyprus Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus, in Wealth Management, Compliance and other areas. He is a very experienced Private Banker and led the setup of Private Banking units in the UK and Romania.

He also served as the Group Money Laundering Compliance Officer, responsible for the AML function, for Cyprus Popular Bank in Cyprus and all its overseas subsidiaries.He is CAMS certified, holds a BSc in Industrial Economics from the University of Warwick and an MBA from Lancaster University, in the UK. He is also a full member of ACAMS and a founding member, and currently serves as Chair, of the ACAMS Cyprus Chapter. He also participated as delegate and speaker in various international conferences and webinars. Ross Delston, CAMS. Attorney + Expert Witness. Washington, DCRoss Delston (CAMS) is an expert witness, lawyer and former bank regulator (FDIC) with over 40 years of experience in banking regulation, Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) compliance and trade finance.

Participated in two major compliance projects (AIG and BNP Paribas) involving international banking, AML/KYC and sanctions, including OFAC. Retained as an expert witness or litigation consultant on BSA/AML compliance issues in numerous civil fraud cases including a civil forfeiture case on behalf of the U.S. Attorney’s Office (SDNY). Conduct BSA/AML independent audits and reviews for financial services firms, including MSBs and broker-dealers. Draft policies and procedures on customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD) and know your customer (KYC), for corporate banking, investment banking, correspondent banking, and trade finance lines of business.

Advise financial institutions, foreign financial regulators, industrial companies, US government agencies, and law, accounting and consulting firms on BSA/AML compliance issues. Consultant to International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 1997 on AML/CFT, banking, bank restructuring, deposit insurance, bank insolvency and systemic crisis issues. Consultant to World Bank since 1998 on banking, deposit insurance, resolutions and bank insolvency matters. Provide compliance training on BSA/AML, suspicious activity reports (SARs), handling of alerts, onboarding of high risk customers, preparing for examiners and now to avoid violations. Jurgen Egberink, CAMS. Head of Audit for Anti-Money Money Laundering / Financial Crime.

Credit Suisse AGMr. Egberink is globally leading Internal Audit’s coverage of Financial Crime risks at Credit Suisse.In the last few years he has been globally responsible for Compliance Risk Management and Training at Swiss Reinsurance Company.

Prior to this role, he was working as Group Financial Crime Officer & Head of Compliance Advisory at Zurich Insurance Company, where he managed the development and implementation of global control frameworks in compliance risk areas such as Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Trade & Economic Sanctions, Data Protection and Employee Conduct. Prior to joining this multi-national Swiss insurance company in 2010 he has worked as Chief Operating Officer for ABN AMRO Compliance, which included program-, project- and risk management responsibilities.

During more than 10 years at ABN AMRO Bank he has gained extensive experience in developing and implementing (global) AML-related processes and procedures, offshoring compliance supporting activities as well as operationally managing Transaction Surveillance Europe. He has also worked as a volunteer for FSVC in several international projects (Albania, Kenya) as well as speaker/instructor for ACAMS. Bachir El Nakib, CAMS. Founder and CEO. Compliance Alert SARLIndustry experience includes the public and private sectors and assignments have seen me working with organisations working in the energy, hospitality, oil & gas, financial services, hospitality, and leisure industries, amongst others. I have an exceptional database of global contacts.A published author, I have had a number of articles and studies published and have made podcasts appearances in a number of countries as a subject matter specialist and have been commended for my understanding the markets in which I work.

I am also a regular guest speaker on the global conference circuit.My recent professional experience includes the development of expertise in relation to forensic skills, fraud and tax evasion fraud, FATCA compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, regulatory compliance and more recently Compliance Alert Blog highlighting cyber-crime in so far as it impacts on the financial services industry and the risks associated with new payment methodologies and mobile banking. Emmert, CAMS. Director.

Standard Chartered BankBarry Emmert (CAMS) is a Director and the Regional Head of Policy and Advisory for Standard Chartered Bank- Americas. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering field.

Barry has significant experience in AML and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) laws, regulations and best practices. Previously, Barry was the Regional Head of Anti-Money Laundering for Royal Bank of Scotland, MIB Americas business. In this capacity, he was responsible for oversight of the anti-money laundering compliance program for RBS’s banking, markets and wholesale lending businesses.He has held positions of Vice President of AML Compliance at ABN AMRO Bank and Vice President in the Corporate Anti-Money Laundering Group at JPMorgan Chase Bank.

For the last eight years Barry has been an Instructor for the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“CAMS”). As an instructor, he teaches classes on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing that prepare students for their certification exam. In addition, Barry has worked in the forensic practice of several big four accounting firms during his career.Barry also serves in the United States Army National Guard.

He is an attorney in the Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG Officer) and holds the rank of Captain. Goldfinger, CAMS.

President. Lormel Goldfinger Global Group LLCRobert A. Goldfinger (CAMS) is the President of Lormel Goldfinger Global Group LLC. He leads the development of client relationships, partner collaborations as well as providing expert consulting services.With nearly three decades of leadership experience in the public and private sectors, Mr. Goldfinger brings a unique combination of management expertise, operational leadership and marketing across business environments. Goldfinger has held leadership positions within Fraud/Risk Management area at multiple firms over the years including financial services and technology entities. He has a proven ability to design both operational and technical approaches to enhance Risk, Fraud and Compliance management programs.

Goldfinger’s background within the Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering/Combating Terrorist Financing, Security and Operational Risk disciplines allow him to view overall risk management operations with a practical risk based approach. Goldfinger is a retired Law Enforcement Executive having served with the Rochester New York Police Department. During his tenure in Law Enforcement, he held numerous leadership positions including Commanding Officer of Criminal Investigations, Director of Training and Development, Patrol Staff Commanding Officer, Patrol Section Commander and Internal Investigation Command managing use of deadly physical force and corruption and integrity investigations.Mr. Goldfinger is a Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Specialist (CFS).

He is Co-Chair of ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, and serves on ACAMS TODAY editorial task force and ACAMS educational task forces. He is a frequent speaker at numerous conferences on organizational efficiency, threat and risk management, fraud and Anti-money Laundering and has been published in a variety of industry periodicals. Jorge Guerrero, Esq., CAMS. CEO. Optima Compass Group, LLCJorge Guerrero (CAMS), is an attorney licensed in the State of New York. Guerrero has worked in the Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act field since 1996.In his capacity as an attorney, and as consultant on AML/BSA regulatory matters Mr.

Guerrero has represented and served financial institutions and governmental agencies in the United States and abroad in developing, evaluating and implementing anti-money laundering controls.He was a member of the founding Board of Advisors of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). He was the first president and co-founder of the National Association of Money Transmitters (NMTA). He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences concerning AML/BSA, OFAC, Anti-Terrorism Financing (TF), and other regulatory issues.Mr. Guerrero has been the lead presenter at training provided to federal regulators at the OCC and the FDIC who wished to become certified as Anti-Money Laundering Specialists through ACAMS.Mr. Guerrero is the contents author of the leading AML/BSA automated compliance software, the AML Compass, in use by a large number of money transmitters in the US, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia. The AML Compass was licensed to the Department of Justice to investigate and discover AML violations that resulted in a fine of $25 million against Sigue Corporation, which at that time was the largest such fines issued against money transmitters for AML violations.Mr.

Guerrero has led the review and/or development of compliance programs of diverse financial institutions including banks, credit unions, money transmitters, broker dealers and others in the United States and abroad.Mr. Guerrero led a team of analysts that participated in the look back reviews of American Express Bank International, which resulted in the discovery of issues that required remediation on the part of the financial institution.During his tenure as a member of the Compliance Committee of the bank’s Board of Directors, Mr. Guerrero assisted Nova Bank in implementing regulatory controls that allowed the institution to successfully serve Money Service Business clients. Michael Hannum, CAMS. Global AML /CTF Manager.

PayPalMichael Hannum (CAMS) is a Global AML /CTF manager at PayPal. He previously served in United States Military, Law Enforcement and various Banking Fraud and Financial / Securities positions. With a Criminal Justice Masters in Cyber Crime, Michael serves as a Subject Matter Expert towards money laundering trends. During the last 15 plus years Michael has been deeply integrated into multiple lines of compliance and Fraud.

Partnering closely with law enforcement, financial institutions and regulatory bodies.Michael Hannum is recognized for his white papers and articles on Money Laundering typologies and guest speaking events.Michael Shares a love for regulations and the training, development and growth of combating criminal activities. Michael is co-Chairmen of the Phoenix Association Certified Anti-Money Specialist (ACAMS) chapter. Sana Khan (CAMS)Sana Khan (CAMS) is an experienced lawyer (qualified Barrister-at-Law), Author and lecturer in law.

Her practice as a barrister included advising a wide range of public and private organisations. She has received numerous scholarships and awards at national and international level for achievements in legal matters including international moot courts and publications.She has presented papers both nationally and internationally on the developments of governance standards throughout a number of industries. She lectures in a variety of subject matters including corporate governance, anti-money laundering, data protection and CSR in a number of organisations. She is also experienced in developing and delivering CPD training on anti-money laundering and data protection.Sana has worked with many international reputable organisations which includes a publicly listed US technology giant and an international trust and corporate services business, where she had MLRO and Data Protection Officer nationally and internationally.

Lormel, CAMSDennis M. Lormel (CAMS) is the founder and President of DML Associates, LLC, a full service investigative consultancy. Lormel provides consulting services and training related to terrorist financing, money laundering, fraud, financial crimes and due diligence. For 28 years, he served as a special agent in the FBI and served as chief of the FBI Financial Crimes Program. There, he formulated, established and directed the FBI’s terrorist financing initiative following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For his visionary contributions, Mr. Lormel received numerous commendations and awards to include the Department of Justice, Criminal Division’s Award for Investigative Initiative and the Central Intelligence Agency’s George H.

Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism. Angela Mele, CAMSAngela Mele (CAMS) has 18 years in international financial services experience, having worked at Dundee Leeds Management Services in Bermuda, then at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, and most recently with Citi Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Ltd.

(formerly BISYS Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Limited). Angela left her position as head of the Compliance & Training Division of Citi to take over managing Bodden Compliance & Training Ltd. In December 2007.Angela is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and is a member of the International Compliance Association (MICA).

In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and a Bachelor of Education from York University, North York, Canada, and is a teacher qualified in the province of Ontario. Marlene Meli, CAMS. Business Consultant. MMeli ConsultingMarlene Meli (CAMS) is acknowledged for her track record to transfer regulatory requirements and standards in AML, CFT and KYC-CDD/EDD into operationally efficient and effective solutions at large national and international banks.

In the last 30 years she gained broad experience in Banking Operations, IT and Compliance at UBS and other international financial institutions. Since a couple of years she works as an independent consultant in the area of financial crime mitigation. Prior to this she was Global Head of GMS Screening Infrastructure at UBS with a special focus on sanctions screening and CFT.Marlene is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds a CAS International Compliance at Zurich University of Applied Sciences Management & Law and a BA at KV Zurich Business School. Audrey Milesi, CAMS. Founder. Flying CFOAudrey Milesi has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, and London before moving to Switzerland in 2007. She began her career as an external auditor before moving to Transaction Services/M&A in the Big 4 and then transitioning to the industry.

She led global financial compliance at Syngenta and Europe /Rest of the World at eBay.In 2017, she started her own consultancy, Flying CFO, specialized in regulatory audits, AML/internal controls and assistance to asset, funds managers and banks. Audrey holds a master’s degree in Commerce and International affairs and a master’s in German. She is a Certified Anti-Money-Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Fellow ACCA and Certified Fraud Examiner. Ira Morales Mickunas, CAMS.

Managing Director. Milersen LLCIra Morales Mickunas (CAMS) directs global projects involving AML Independent Evaluations, Consulting and Training to the Company’s client base throughout sectors in Banking, Money Service Business, Securities and Precious Metals, among others. Prior to co-founding Milersen she worked for a Global Risk Mitigating Consulting firm with a focus in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.Ira is a frequent guest speaker in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe on Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing, Organized Crime and Corruption. She has written articles, collaborated on official publication documents with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and interviewed on money laundering related topics for publications and televised programs. She is a designated Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and serves as a member of ACAMS Money Service Business (MSB) Task Force since July 2010. Inga Mukane, CAMS. Financial Crime ConsultantInga Mukane (CAMS) is a compliance professional with over 17 years of experience in the banking sector.Inga’s competencies include deep understanding of AML international standards and practice gained through working at a diverse range of banks.

Inga has passed all qualification path from AML analyst up to the Chief Compliance Officer and the Management Board member responsible for compliance, effectively supporting business areas in their duty to comply with AML regulations and relevant laws.Understanding that the role of compliance specialists is complex, requiring both varied and specialised skills and competencies, Inga is conducting ACAMS Exam Prep courses. She is also training and advising on how to build an effective compliance program starting at the top, to work competently to fulfill compliance obligations and prevent financial crime.Inga possesses a Master’s Degree in Business Management from Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration.

She speaks English, Latvian and Russian. Inga is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and ACAMS member, she also holds the ICA International Diploma in Compliance.

Robert Pasley, CAMSRobert Pasley (CAMS) was most recently a Senior Vice President in the AML policy area for Bank of America. Prior to that, he served as a contractor for FinCEN, working on policy issues, handling specific cases, and assisting in drafting the final 312 regulation. Before that, he was an Assistant Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and specialized in the AML area. He is a graduate of the Cornell Law School and of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. His honors thesis at Stonier was on the Consolidation of the Banking Agencies.

He has also written on several other topics, including a chapter on the History of the Banking Agencies’ Enforcement Powers, a law review article on the impact of the Double Jeopardy Clause on civil money penalties, a law review article on the tension between privacy rights and anti-money laundering enforcement and a law review article on developments in Bank Secrecy Act enforcement. Holger Pauco-Dirscherl, CAMS. Co-Chair.

Commerzbank AGHolger Pauco-Dirscherl (CAMS) is an experienced and passionate Senior Financial Crime Professional with a unique blend of international knowledge, expertise and experience together with a good reputation in the national and international Financial Crime field. He is a recognized SME for Financial Crime giving a wide range of trainings and acts as a speaker on conferences and symposiums both national and international.He works as a freelance consultant for different banks on a wide range of projects. Prior to this he was the Head of the Global Financial Crime Unit of Commerzbank AG.

A global unit whose responsibility it is to facilitate information sharing and perform analysis on key events related to AML, CTF and Sanctions. Before this, he was Head Financial Crime at UBS Deutschland AG responsible for the Financial Crime and Sanctions teams after acting as German Country Compliance Manager/MLRO and Deputy Branch Manager of the two Wells Fargo entities in Frankfurt, Germany.

Holger also worked for ING-DiBa AG in the AML and Fraud department among others before he joined GenoTec GmbH as an outsourced MLRO for several banks and financial service providers.Holger is the Co-Chair of the ACAMS Germany Chapter as well as an AML Certification Instructors and SME and Content Advisor on Certificates for ACAMS and also a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds a MBA degree from the OU Business School. Chris RandleEChris Randle (CAMS) is the Manager of AML/CFT Compliance with Meridian Credit Union, one of Canada’s largest credit unions, and for motusbank, a fully owned subsidiary of Meridian that is presently applying for its banking charter.

Chris applies his 20+ years of experience in operations, audit, and investigations management to lead a team who are responsible for the strategic development and tactical execution of the entirety of Meridian’s AML compliance program.Chris is a CAMS instructor, and is a Review Board Member for both the CAMS-Audit and CAMS-FCI Advanced Certification programs. Edward Rodriguez, CAMS. Chief Operating Officer. Diligence Enterprises Inc.Ed Rodriguez (CAMS) is the principal and founder of EORS Consulting LLC.

Prior to forming his own firm, Ed was practice leader of Watkins Meegan LLC, a CPA firm in the DC region, in the area of Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Compliance Services. Ed has deep and varied subject matter expertise in AML compliance, having completed a career as a Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigations (CI) where he conducted and supervised tax and money-laundering investigations for 25 years.Prior to being assigned to Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OFC), he was a senior analyst in IRS CI HQ in the Financial Crimes Section where he oversaw the IRS CI’s national money laundering program. Reviewed money laundering policy and supported CI’s field offices globally.

Strategic analysis reviews were intended to enhance money laundering investigations. Coordinated and trained all the National CI’s 81 Suspicious Activity Review teams (SARs) within all of CI’s Field Offices.While in New York Field Office (NYFO) as a Supervisor for IRS CI, he presented numerous engagements as an expert in money laundering and BSA enforcement to law enforcement and industry communities. He supervised in the El Dorado Task Force in NYC which involved money laundering and criminal financial investigations.

He also supervised the IRS NYFO SAR-Review Team by enforcing BSA statutes such as Title 31. Then finally he supervised in the New York Asset Forfeiture Task Force working on criminal investigations while evaluating the potential to execute the federal asset forfeiture and seizure statutes. Saur, CAMSNancy Saur (CAMS) has over 35 years’ experience in financial services, with more than 20 years focused in the Caribbean and Latin American region. While living in the Cayman Islands for the past 17 years, Nancy has managed compliance for banks, trust companies, corporate service providers, insurance companies and securities brokers. She founded the Cayman Islands Compliance Association, and in 2004, she and her partners opened the first independent compliance consulting company in Cayman, where, in addition to consulting for institutions such as the above, Nancy consulted for a variety of other financial services businesses including credit unions, MSBs, law firms and insurance and real estate brokers. She currently works for a Private Trust company; prior to making the move this summer, Nancy was head of compliance at an insurance company that provides private placement life insurance, annuities and business insurance.

Nancy is a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board, a CAMS Prep Facilitator and has been on the various ACAMS Exam Writing Task Forces over the past 10 years. Brian Stoeckert, JD, CAMS, CFE. Partner. Stratis AdvisoryBrian is a Managing Partner of Stratis Advisory with more than 15 years of experience in strategy, risk, legal, and compliance serving startups through Fortune 500 companies. He manages an international portfolio of FinTech start-ups, money service businesses, financial institutions, government agencies, universities, and entertainment. Brian has served as an expert in civil and regulatory matters related to anti-money laundering (AML) and digital currency compliance, and international bond swaps.

Moreover, he has testified before domestic and foreign governments.Brian previously co-founded CoinComply, the first risk and compliance solutions provider devoted exclusively to the FinTech and digital currency ecosystem. Prior to CoinComply, he led Booz Allen Hamilton’s west coast strategy and risk practice on advising board of directors, audit and compliance committees, and executive management of global financial institutions under consent orders for AML deficiencies, money service businesses, and international intelligence firms.

Moreover, he has served as a guest lecturer at New York University’s Law School and Stern School of Business on AML laws, regulations, and digital currency compliance. Brian is a frequent presenter at international risk and compliance conferences.Brian is a recipient of Stony Brook University’s 2014 Top 40 Under Forty Award.

He serves as a Non-Executive Director for a post-IPO global FinTech firm and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Chairman of the ACAMS Chapter Steering Committee, and an Executive Board member of the award winning ACAMS Northern California Chapter. He received his J.D. From New York Law School and his B.A. In Political Science from Stony Brook University.He can be reached at, @StratisAdvisory, or 917.554.9903.

Kevin Sullivan MS, MMBA, CAMS. President. The AML Training AcademyKevin Sullivan (MS, MMBA, CAMS) is the president of The AML Training Academy and Advisory. Kevin has personally trained and/or consulted with numerous financial institutions from large to small (many from the Wolfsberg Group), regulators and government entities (U.S. And international). Kevin is a retired Investigator from the NY State Police and was the state money laundering investigations coordinator assigned to the NY HIFCA El Dorado Federal Task Force in Manhattan, the largest money laundering task force in the world.

Kevin has over 22 years of police experience, specializing in money laundering, financial crimes, narcotics, organized crime and terrorist financing. Kevin was responsible for SAR analysis and review, case reverse engineering and special projects on the latest money laundering trends and patterns. Additionally Kevin helped develop Operation Cornerstone, an initiative that assisted financial institutions with the development of their AML programs with emphasis on constructing quality SARS. Kevin possesses a Master’s Degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College of Syracuse University. He is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Kevin was a founding member of the first ever ACAMS chapter and subsequent chair of the NY chapter. He is a long time instructor of the CAMS prep exam and speaker/presenter at numerous AML seminars globally.

Kevin is the author of the book, “AML in a Nutshell”. Kevin is also an adjunct professor at Utica College. Chuck Taylor, CAMS. Senior Vice President and BSA Officer. Compliance Department, BSA Group. City National BankChuck Taylor (CAMS) is Senior Vice President, BSA Officer for City National Bank, headquartered in downtown Los Angeles.

He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the BSA/AML function for City National. He has been in the banking industry since 1992 and the BSA/AML field exclusively since 2003. His resume includes positions with; California National Bank, Bank of America, Pacific Capital Bancorp and the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. Chuck completed his Juris Doctorate in 2001, received certification as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) in 2003 with the inaugural class and became a Certified BSA Officer in 2007. Don Temple, CAMS. BSA/AML ConsultantsDonald Temple (CAMS) is a nationally recognized subject matter expert in the areas of currency reporting, money laundering, the detection of suspicious transactions and fraud investigations.

He has over 28 years of experience in the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering field. He has extensive hands-on experience in the areas of the Bank Secrecy Act, financial investigations including financial fraud, anti-money laundering, due diligence, and Federal income tax investigations. His experience includes a 26 year career in federal law enforcement as a Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service where he conducted complex Federal income tax investigations; lead a Financial Investigative Task Force for 16 years; experience with an anti-money laundering software provider; the BSA/AML subject matter expert and director of anti-money laundering investigations for a bank; and a director in the forensic practice of one of the big four accounting firms. He has been a regular speaker at global anti-money laundering conferences.

He has also conducted more than 20 ACAMS Exam Prep courses. Peter J Warrack, CAMS. BMO Financial GroupPeter J Warrack, (CAMS) is currently Director, Risk Intelligence for the Bank of Montreal (BMO).

Prior to his current role he built two highly capable AML FIUs at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)and BMO viewed locally as ‘the universities of AML”.Peter was recruited to Canada by RBC leaving behind a successful career in law enforcement in the UK.

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