John J. Byrne, CAMS
Chair of the ACAMS Advisory Board and Regulatory Relations Executive at Bank of America in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for working with regulators, analyzing regulatory policy, and reporting and examination management for the enterprise. Previously, he held various positions with the American Bankers Association, including Director of the Association’s Center for Regulatory Compliance.

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David T. Clark, CAMS
Senior Global AML Advisory and Analysis Officer for Client Acceptance and Anti-Money Laundering, ABN AMRO, London. His current role includes managing the AML advisory relationship with the 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region, the bank's internal financial intelligence unit and content development for AML/CTF trainings. He was involved in revising the CAMS Examination and in preparing the CAMS Examination Preparation Online Course.

Simon Dilloway
Principal, Lopham Consultancy, London, he is a specialist on organized crime, corruption, terrorist financing, anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations and is currently involved in creating and presenting training programmes to the UK regulated sector and overseeing law enforcement agencies. He has extensive experience conducting financial investigations of high priority terrorist targets in conjunction with the British intelligence agencies.

Peter Green, CAMS
Chief Money Laundering Reporting Officer, BNP Paribas Group, London. Previously, he held posts including General Inspection, Private Banking and Financial Institutions with responsibility for banking relationships in Asia. Since 1981, Peter has held appointments in Hong Kong, Nigeria, and more recently in the Philippines as Head of Territory.

Roland Guennou
Head of Global Customer Due Diligence for Société Générale's Corporate and Investment Banking division in Paris. He joined the bank in September 1996 and has held successive managerial positions within the Risk Management Division of the Tokyo and New York offices.

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Jane Ogden
Head of Corporate Financial Crime Prevention at HBOS, a major United Kingdom banking, insurance and investment services group in Edinburgh that serves as the holding company for Halifax and Bank of Scotland. She has more than 20 years experience in banking and was recently awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 2007.

John Pyrik
Chief Instructor and Coordinator for the government of Canada's Intelligence Analyst Learning Program, Ottawa. He has worked as an intelligence officer, a securities investigator, and a money laundering analyst for the Canadian Financial Transactions Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC). He frequently writes and lectures on the investigative uses of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and is considered a subject matter expert on the Internet by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Greg A. Ruppert
Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Berlin. He is responsible for FBI operations and liaison in Germany. Ruppert has 12 years of experience in the FBI and was previously tasked to lead various investigative groups in cases such as 9/11 and one of the most complex and largest U.S. financial frauds: the Enron Corporation.

Thaer Sabri
Chief Executive Officer of the Electronic Money Association in London, where he represents electronic money issuers and payment service providers in Europe. He is also Director of Flawless Money Ltd, a consultancy focusing on payments and e-money. Previously, he acted as European counsel for beenz.com, and regulatory manager at Mondex International.

Markus Schulz
Chief Compliance Officer Global Life and Banking and Global Head Financial Crime for Zurich Insurance in London. 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.

Richard A. Small
Vice president, Enterprise-wide AML and Sanctions Risk Management at American Express, New York. He previously served as Global AML Leader for GE Money and managing director of global anti-money laundering at Citigroup, where he oversaw and helped develop the bank’s AML policies and procedures. He is the vice-chair of the ACAMS Advisory Board.

Killian Strauss
Senior Programme Officer at the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities of the OSCE in Vienna, where he is in charge of project development and management with a particular focus on combating corruption, money-laundering and terrorist financing. He is an expert on Eastern Europe and economies in transition.

Grahame White
Financial Investigator for the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit at the Metropolitan Police, London. He is responsible for the investigation, identification, and disruption of major terrorist financing and money laundering cases in the UK and overseas. He has also been engaged in financial profiling of terrorist cells; his major cases include the July 7, 2005 terrorist attack in London.

Udo Karl Witte
Consultant for World-Check in Germany. Mr. Witte recently joined World-Check after 36 years in WestLB, where he held various positions including assistant to the Chairman, Group AML Officer and positions in Credit, Group Audit, Treasury Control and Global Operations. He has been chairman of the European Banking Industry Committee (EBIC) Working Group on Anti-Money Laundering since 2003.