William is Global Anti-Money (AML) Laundering and Economic Sanctions Executive for Bank of America Corporation, one of the largest financial institutions in the world. He is responsible for directing the company’s Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions Program.

Prior to joining Bank of America in 2006, Fox served as the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit. Fox was appointed by Treasury Secretary John Snow in 2003. Among other things, Fox led the administration of the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, which is the United States anti-money laundering regulatory regime. Before his appointment as FinCEN Director, Fox served in the Department of the Treasury from 2000 to 2003 as Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, Associate Deputy General Counsel, and finally, Acting Deputy General Counsel. After September 11, 2001, he was the principal assistant and senior advisor to the Treasury’s General Counsel on issues related to terrorist financing and financial crime. Fox received a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award for his work on these issues.

Prior to his service at Treasury, Fox served for twelve years at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in various legal positions, including Deputy Chief Counsel. During his tenure at ATF, Fox provided legal support to several large scale criminal investigations; helped oversee ATF’s regulatory program; served as a legal point person for ATF’s alcohol and tobacco diversion program; worked on several important legislative initiatives; and, served as principal legal support for the United States Trade Representative’s Office for wine trade negotiations with the EU and other wine producing countries.

Robert A. Goldfinger, CAMS, CFS, Cmdr. CID (retired)
Co-Chair
SightSpan

Robert is the Director of Client Solutions of the SightSpan Group. He leads the development of client services and products across all SightSpan Divisions.
With nearly three decades of leadership experience in the public and private sectors, Robert brings a unique combination of management expertise and operational leadership across business environments.

Prior to joining SightSpan, Robert held leadership positions within the Risk Management area at  multiple firms over the years and he has a proven ability to design both operational and technical approaches to enhance client risk management programs.  Robert’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.

Robert 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/integrity investigations.

Robert is a Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Specialist (CFS). He is a founding Chapter Board member of ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, and serves on ACAMS TODAY editorial task force and ACAMS educational task forces.
Robert is a frequent speaker at numerous conferences on organizational efficiency, threat and risk management, fraud and Anti-money Laundering. Additionally, Robert is published in a variety of industry periodicals.

e-mail: rgoldfinger@sightspan.com

Elaine started her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as a consumer affairs examiner dealing with consumer protection laws and regulations. Elaine is currently a supervisory examiner in the safety and soundness division of Banking Supervision and Regulation of the Federal Reserve, with responsibility for the Legal and Fiduciary Risk unit. She works with Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) legislation, bank fraud, and fiduciary/trust issues. She is the advisor to the BSA Coalition, a group of financial institution and banking agency regulatory representatives who discuss, debate, and try to resolve BSA/AML issues.

Elaine is a graduate of Furman University (Bachelor of Arts) and the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. In 2005, she obtained her MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Lisa is the America’s AML Risk Executive and Bank Secrecy Act Officer for Bank of America and is located in Charlotte, NC. She is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and related federal laws as amended and supplemented by the relevant provisions of the USA Patriot Act, as well as other locally applicable laws and related anti-money laundering regulations in the United States, Latin America and Canada.

Before joining Bank of America, Lisa managed AML Investigative Services at Wachovia Corporation for 4 years. In that capacity she was responsible for the investigation of potentially suspicious activity for money laundering, terrorist financing and necessary reporting as applicable to the Government.  She also had responsibility for the Enhanced Due Diligence and OFAC functions.

Prior to joining the private sector Lisa was a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service and served in both the Washington, DC and Charlotte, NC field Offices.  Grigg served as a Special Agent for 8 years and had both Protective and Investigative responsibilities.

Lisa graduated from Radford University where she majored in both Psychology and Criminal Justice. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1985.

Lisa Grigg is ACAMS certified, participates in many industry groups and speaks regularly at conferences.  She is also a past member of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group. 

John is President and CEO of SightSpan Inc. since 2007 and a well regarded speaker on the subjects of Risk Management, Security, Anti-Laundering Laundering (AML) and Combating Terrorist Financing (CTF). SightSpan is an International Consulting and Training firm that assists private and government clients address critical and confidential projects throughout the world. Prior to joining SightSpan, John held leadership positions within the financial services industry including roles at Wachovia Bank, where he was the CIB Data Czar responsible for information management and corporate governance; Bank of America, where he had the role of Global AML Technology and Process Executive and Merrill Lynch, where he was head of Client Connectivity and eCommence Initiatives.

John’s background also includes many years of experience in trading/dealing in commodities, FX, Local Fixed Income products and in management of firms within the USA and directly in many high risk countries, where he gained valuable experience in international compliance and security risk management.

Rick Kryzynski
Co-Treasurer
Ernst & Young LLP

Rick is with Ernst & Young’s Global Risk Advisory Services practice with over 18 years of experiences in the fields of risk management, compliance / AML, banking regulation and supervision, and project management. Before joining Ernst & Young, Rick was a Senior Examiner, Large Complex Bank Supervision (LCBO), at The Federal Reserve Bank. In that role, he was directly responsible for managing the full range of supervisory matters impacting several of the largest US banking organizations subject to supervision by the Federal Reserve.
Rick was also a National Bank Examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where he supervised National Banks and implemented formal corrective actions during the New England banking crisis.  He also was a lead instructor and course developer for the Federal Reserve and OCC on topics including compliance risk management and comprehensive examination management.

Rick holds a B.S. degree (Finance) from Merrimack College and a graduate degree in banking from the Graduate School of Banking – Boulder, Colorado.  He is a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) and received his Certified Risk Professional (CRP) designation from BAI in 2000.

e-mail: Rick.Kryzynski@ey.com

Jennifer has been the Director of Corporate Compliance & Control at Harris Teeter since 2006 and is responsible for the company’s Anti-Money Laundering Compliance program, in addition to other corporate governance activities and functions.  She is the Corporate Compliance Officer and addresses compliance matters related to regulatory exams, policies and procedures, risk assessments, and transaction monitoring.  Prior to joining Harris Teeter in this role, she worked for 5 years in the Internal Audit department of Ruddick Corporation, the parent company of Harris Teeter.  Jennifer has also served in other internal and external auditing roles, incorporating financial, operational, and information systems auditing. 

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Wake Forest University and her Master of Science degree in Accounting from Appalachian State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of North Carolina.

Dan is the Bank Secrecy Act compliance officer for GMAC, Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is responsible for GMAC’s enterprise anti-money laundering compliance activities, as well as other general compliance matters. Before joining GMAC, Soto spent time with Wachovia/Wells Fargo in the BSA area, nearly three years with Royal Bank of Canada-Centura, as the chief compliance officer, and eight years with Bank of America, where he was the global anti-money laundering compliance executive. Prior to joining Bank of America, he was a bank examiner with the FDIC and the Federal Reserve and helped develop the Fed’s anti-money laundering compliance examination policies.
Dan is currently on the advisory board of the Association for Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).

Megan is the Director, AML and Compliance Program Management for RBC Bank, headquartered in Raleigh, NC.  In this role, Megan leads RBC Bank’s AML and OFAC Program and also serves as the bank’s BSA Officer.  In addition to her responsibilities with RBC Bank, Megan also has certain global accountabilities for Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) AML program, including policy, AML framework, training, and risk assessments.  Prior to joining RBC Bank, Megan was employed by Bank of America, where she held multiple positions developing and implementing AML strategies.  Previously Megan was a Consultant with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), where she specialized in project management and process reengineering for the Financial Services industry.  
Megan is a graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BS in Business Administration, graduating with Honors and with Distinction.

David Stewart, CAMS
Co-Programming Director
SAS Worldwide Marketing

David is director of SAS’ Global Financial Crimes Practice for Banking and is responsible for leading strategy development, driving product management and providing key marketing counsel for Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Management solutions worldwide. In addition to working closely with financial services institutions and regulatory agencies, David collaborates with SAS’ research and development organization, as well as implementation teams, to deliver industry best practices for financial crimes solutions. David has chaired the Annual SAS Anti-Money Laundering User Group for the past five years and has served on the steering committee of the annual Anti-Terrorist Financing Forum since 2007.

Previously, David served as a SAS business manager for one of the world’s largest financial institutions. He managed a team responsible for implementing enterprise scale projects devoted to customer relationship management and anti-money laundering initiatives. In addition, David has held various relationship management responsibilities for financial services customers over the past fifteen years.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from North Carolina State University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

e-mail: david.stewart@sas.com

James Candelmo
Co-Communications Director
GMAC, Inc.

Jim is the Director of AML Investigations at GMAC, where he is responsible for all Anti-Money Laundering Investigations, as well as other compliance activities. Before joining GMAC, Jim was the Deputy Criminal Chief (Terrorism/National Security) for the United States Attorney’s Office in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was responsible for investigation and prosecution of all national security cases.  Prior to that, Jim served 10 years with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where he served as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Fraud Section and the Department’s elite Counter Espionage Section.  He is a veteran of both the Department’s New England Bank Fraud Task Force and San Diego Bank Fraud Task Force.

Jim attended the University Of Dayton School Of Law where he was named to the Law Review.  After graduating law school, Jim served on active duty with the United States Navy Judge Advocate Generals Corps, during that time Jim received his Master of Law in International Law from Georgetown University.

Jim has served as a guest lecturer in the fields of Terrorism and Terrorism Financing, Espionage, SAR Review Teams, Economic Espionage and Bank Fraud,.  He is an adjunct professor of law at Campbell University Law School where he teaches National Security Law and Federal Criminal Law. He is a former member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force’s Executive Council for the state of North Carolina.

His awards include the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award for Terrorism Prevention and National Security for his work in public/private partnerships regarding Terrorism Financing and Money Laundering.

e-mail: James.candelmo@gmacfs.com