Richard Small, CAMS
Chairman
Vice President, Enterprise Anti-Money Laundering | Anti-Corruption | Sanctions
American Express

Vice president, enterprise-wide AML and sanctions risk management, American Express, New York, he previously served as global AML leader for GE Money. Prior to joining American Express he was the managing director of global anti-money laundering at Citigroup, overseeing and helping to develop AML policies and procedures. He joined the Federal Reserve System as special counsel in 1989, with responsibility for all Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering matters, conducting investigations of complex financial transactions, suspicious activities and related enforcement actions. 

Email: rick.small@aexp.com

Samar Baasiri, CAMS
Head of Compliance Department Bankmed, Beirut Lebanon

Samar Baasiri 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.

Email: baasiris@bankmed.com.lb

Vasilios Chrisos, CAMS

Vasilios oversees the management of Macquarie's AML and sanctions programs in North and South America. He is responsible for conducting risk assessments, developing AML policies and procedures, ensuring employees receive periodic AML training, acting as an adviser to stakeholders regarding AML/CTF and sanctions matters, managing investigations, as appropriate, ensuring Suspicious Activity Reports are prepared and filed timely, performing compliance testing, participating in the new business / product approval process, and chairing various AML Working Groups across the region.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Vasilios helped lead Ernst & Young's AML advisory practice by managing projects / initiatives at large, complex institutions. He assisted and advised financial services institutions in developing comprehensive AML risk assessment frameworks, identifying inherent money laundering vulnerabilities, establishing customer risk ranking protocols, designing AML compliance programs, implementing policies, procedures, and controls, creating AML governance structures, establishing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) protocols, and developing transaction monitoring capabilities.

Vasilios has worked with financial institutions that were either undergoing or facing regulatory enforcement actions and advised them on the construction of action plans and communication strategies with regulators, including regular updates on the progress of remediation efforts. Vasilios is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). In addition, to his role on the New York chapter board, he's also involved with several ACAMS taskforces.

Email: Vasilios.Chrisos@macquarie.com

David Clark, CAMS
Head of Intelligence and Analysis for Barclays Wealth Financial Crime

David has extensive global financial crime risk mitigation experience within banks and, previously, government customs agencies. David 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.

Email: david.t.clark@barclayswealth.com

Susan Galli, CAMS
HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.

Susan Galli is currently the Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Strategic Planning Office, part of the AML Compliance Department for HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. ("HNAH") where she has responsibility for ensuring that the firm's AML Program continually adapts to address changing risks and trends based on external events and evolving business strategies. This office also fulfils an outreach role on AML matters with HSBC Group affiliates worldwide. Prior to that she had responsibility for developing HNAH's enterprise-wide AML Policy and Program after joining the firm in December 2010.

Ms. Galli served as a Managing Director and Practice Leader for the AML Compliance Risk Advisory & Forensics Practice of a big-five consulting firm. Ms. Galli, who is fluent in English and Spanish, has over 18 years of senior-level anti-money laundering experience providing a vast array of services including developing AML risk scoring policies and procedures for various business lines, implementing automated customer acquisition due diligence processes for the correspondent bank and corporate bank accounts of Citibank's Latin America Division and developing and approving the Customer Identification Program Procedures and exception requests for business lines in Latin America. Additionally, she has conducted in-depth AML reviews of various financial institutions' AML programs as part of internal compliance monitoring and testing or as part of mergers and acquisition due diligence. She has also developed and delivered numerous AML training sessions for financial institutions, banking associations and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. She has acted as a course instructor for the ACAMS certification exam preparation course and developed the FIBA Correspondent Banking AML course. In addition, she has developed and taught an AML course in Spanish for the Cámara de Banco Privados e otras Instituciones Financieras in San José, Costa Rica.

Previously in her career, Ms. Galli served as the Senior Anti-Money Laundering Coordinator and a member of Citigroup's Global Anti-Money Laundering team, as well as the Latin America AML Director for Citigroup businesses in Latin America. She served as the Head of AML Compliance for Grupo Santander's U.S. entities, and was the Head of AML Compliance for Citicorp. She was also a member of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group ("BSAAG") and the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group Funds Transfer Subgroup, representing both Citicorp and the industry.

Email: susan.j.galli@us.hsbc.com

Peter Richard Hazlewood
Global Head, Financial Crime Risk Operations, Standard Chartered Bank , London

Following his appointment in August 2011, Peter is the Standard Chartered Bank executive responsible for managing Financial Crime Risk (FCR) operations globally. Headquartered in London and operating in over 70 countries worldwide, Standard Chartered is an emerging markets specialist with a strategic focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Hazlewood previously served in Hong Kong law enforcement, specializing in complex white collar crime. He was recruited by JPMorgan Chase in 1996 and worked in various positions in Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA. His last appointment at JPMC was in Corporate AML Compliance, New York. Immediately prior to joining Standard Chartered, Peter was Managing Director, Compliance Services and Security, DBS Group, the largest financial services group in the South East Asia.

Email: Peter.Hazlewood@sc.com

Karim Rajwani, B.A, C.A.
RBC Financial Group (RBC)

Mr. Rajwani is currently the Vice-President and Chief Anti-Money Laundering for the RBC Financial Group (RBC) and is responsible for leading RBC's Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism and client risk management initiatives globally. Mr. Rajwani has more than 20 years of risk management, compliance and financial accounting experience. Mr. Rajwani is a leading authority on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing matters both domestically and internationally and speaks frequently on these matters in banking, legal, compliance and academic platforms. Mr. Rajwani is also a member of the Advisory Council on National Security for the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada as well as the Co-Chair of the Canadian Chapter of ACAMS. As Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Mr. Rajwani has overseen the development and implementation of RBC's AML/CTF program from its inception. Over the past 10 years under Mr. Rajwani's direction RBC has developed and implemented numerous AML/CTF solutions globally. Prior to taking on his current role with RBC, Mr. Rajwani held various management positions focused on risk management, internal controls, Operational risk and IT development. In addition to his risk management experience, Mr Rajwani is a Chartered Accountant both in Canada as well as the UK and has worked for various Financial Institutions, Chartered Accounting and Management Consulting firms. In these roles he has overseen the implementation of a number of enterprise-wide risk management and compliance initiatives. Mr. Rajwani has a double honors degree in Accounting and Finance and is a member of the Institute of Chartered accountant in Canada as well as in England and Wales.

Email: karim.rajwani@rbc.com

William D. Langford
Global Head of Compliance Architecture & Strategy
Citigroup

Nancy J. Saur, CAMS, FICA
Compliance Manager
Millennium bcp Bank & Trust

Nancy is the Compliance Manager at Millennium bcp Bank & Trust in the Cayman Islands. Previously she was responsible for compliance and risk management for the Caribbean & Asian offices of the ATC Group. In 2004, she co-founded a successful compliance consulting company headquartered in the Cayman Islands. She also founded the Cayman Islands Compliance Association, managed the development of computer-based training for its members and created a Cayman Islands module for an international compliance training program.

Email: bcpnancy@candw.ky

Markus E. Schulz
Chief Compliance Officer
EMEA GE Capital

Markus joined Zurich in January 2008 after 13 years at ABN AMRO Bank, where he held various senior global Compliance positions, including Global Head Compliance Service Center and COO AML Compliance, as Corporate Senior Vice President and a member of the Global Compliance Management Team. Prior to his time in Compliance he served in a variety of senior in-country, Regional and Global management positions in the Back-, Mid- and Front-Office located in Germany, UK and the Netherlands for almost a decade.

He was an active member of multiple Banking industry Compliance, a.o. the Wolfsberg Group, and is a very frequent and regular presenter, panellist, key note speaker, moderator and chairman at Compliance, AML, Financial Crime and Anti-Fraud conferences in Europe, Middle-East and the US. He is also featuring Webinars.

Email: markus.schulz@ge.com

Daniel D. Soto, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer, Ally Financial, Inc.

Dan is the Chief Compliance Officer for Ally, where he is responsible for Ally's enterprise-wide compliance activities.

Before joining Ally, Dan spent two years with Wachovia/Wells Fargo in anti-money laundering and retail banking compliance; was for three years the Chief Compliance Officer for Royal Bank of Canada–Centura; and spent eight years with Bank of America in the global anti-money laundering compliance function.

Prior to joining the private industry, Dan was in the public sector as a commissioned bank examiner where he spent six years with the FDIC and nearly 10 years with the Federal Reserve Board.

Dan is based in Charlotte, North Carolina; is a faculty member of the American Bankers Association's National Compliance School; and is on the advisory boards of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and the BSA Coalition.

Email: dan.soto@ally.com

Luciano J. Astorga
Regional Chief Compliance Officer, BAC|Credomatic Network

Mr. Astorga joined BAC|Credomatic Network in the year 2000 where he worked as Managing Director/General Manager for BAC|Nicaragua until 2008 when he accepted the position of Regional Chief Compliance Officer when the position was jointly offered by both JV partners, (General Electric Co. and Grupo Pellas). During his 8 years tenure at BAC|Nicaragua, he executed a successful high-growth business strategy which persistently exceeded yearly projected double digit business growth and earnings which resulted in yearly ROEs of above 25%.

Prior joining BAC|Credomatic Network, Mr. Astorga worked as Managing Director for First Chicago/Bank One (prior merging with JPMorgan) from 1986 to 2000 as Managing Director in several assignments including Mexico City, Mexico (new bank), New York, NY (Emerging Markets), Chicago, IL (Energy) and Houston, TX (Petroleum).  Assignments included heading several business efforts and senior credit positions.

Mr. Astorga also worked from 1983 to 1986 at Bank of Boston in Boston, MA where he completed the Loan Officer Development Program and concluded an assignment in Panama, Rep. of Panama.  Prior beginning his banking career, Mr. Astorga worked for 2 years with General Electric Company in Schenectady, NY as an Electrical Engineer where an educational leave of absence was granted for graduate school studies.

Mr. Astorga´s education background includes a Masters of Business Administration in Banking and Finance from the Central American Institute of Business (INCAE), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Email: lastorga@baccredomatic.com