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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

Gregory J. Calpakis, CAMS
Executive Director of the Association for Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, he is responsible for the overall operations of the more than 6,500 member association spanning over 100 countries. With over 14 years experience in the financial services industry as a Bank Examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “Big Four” Consultant Manager and AML Officer at an international bank, he has assisted financial institutions with the development and implementation of their AML programs, and has conducted numerous AML trainings for all levels of personnel.

David T. Clark, CAMS
Senior Global AML Advisory & Analysis Officer for Client Acceptance & Anti-Money Laundering, ABN AMRO, London. Previously, he was as the AML Regional Education Officer for the 27 countries in the EMEA region and Group Compliance Global COO Training & Education Team, where he was responsible for the co-ordination and development of the bank wide Transaction Surveillance Training initiative. Before joining the private sector, he pursued a law enforcement career in which he investigated international money laundering cases for Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise in conjunction with other countries’ law enforcement agencies.

Simon Dilloway
Principal, Lopham Consultancy, London, he is a specialist on organized crime, anti-corruption, terrorist financing, anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations and provides training in those areas. He has extensive experience conducting financial investigations of high priority terrorist targets in conjunction with the British intelligence agencies and authored a report on the costing and funding of the London Bombings in July 2005. He is currently involved in creating and presenting AML, terrorist financing and financial investigation training programmes to the UK regulated sector and overseas law enforcement agencies.

Nicoletta Grilli
Founder and Managing Director of Corporate Risk Watch Srl, an Italian risk management consultancy, Nicoletta Grilli has extensive international experience in the risk consulting sector. She has worked for leading international companies in London, Milan and Hong Kong where she has assisted Kroll in the development of local operations. She has focused on due diligence and corporate investigation assignments with particular focus on European (West and East) and Asian countries.

Roland Guennou
Head of global customer due diligence for Société Générale's Corporate and Investment Banking division in France. He joined SG in September 1996 and has held successive managerial positions within the Risk Management Division of the Tokyo and New York offices. His group includes a network of 40 professionals located throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Stephen M. Hancock
Head of Global Money Laundering Prevention and Counter Terrorist Financing at Prudential Plc. in London, has responsibility for group policy and procedures in the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. His recent projects have included an evaluation of complex analytical and rules based automated transaction monitoring systems, and a review of Asian AML regulation.

Jennifer Hanley, CAMS
Representative consultant of Corporate Risk Watch Srl, a Milan-based risk advisory firm. She is based in Berlin and currently a PhD student at the University of Bremen, where she is undertaking research into criminal risks and governance issues. Her work also includes litigation support and asset tracing as well as advising clients on issues relating to anti money laundering in Central and Eastern Europe, and in relation to specific aspects of Know You Customer programs.

Clyde Langley
Legal Attache, U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Federal Bureau of Investigation, is a fifteen year veteran of the FBI. Langley has extensive experience in financial crime and terrorist financing, including investigations and the supervision of the Joint Terrorism Task Force-Pacific. He also developed the FBI’s Terrorist Financing Operations Section, focused on investigating the financial aspects of terrorism. Prior to joining the FBI, he worked for over six years as an auditor with Peat, Marwick, Main & Co. and as a financial manager with Baker Hughes, Incorporated.

 

Luigi Licari, CAMS
Head of Global AML Monitoring at ABN AMRO, the Netherlands, he is responsible for developing and implementing processes to provide comprehensive and effective surveillance solutions and also engaged in senior management planning, direction and policy decisions. He has over 25 years experience in well known financial institutions in operations, investor relations, broker/dealers, electronic trading, private banking, correspondent banking and retail banking. He also has experience in successful remedial programmes following regulatory actions at major banks.

Walter Loher, CAMS
Group Compliance Officer of TMF, a global management and accounting outsourcing firm. He has developed and implemented the company's AML compliance program and is responsible for the client acceptance and KYC procedures including periodical customer due diligence reviews. Previously, he worked for several years for a Credit Suisse Corporate finance division dedicated to corporate customers.

John Mair
Senior Vice President, AML Global Compliance for Europe CIS, Middle East, Africa and South Asia for the Western Union Company in London, leads the EMEASA AML and Anti- Terrorist Financing team, as well as its outreach efforts to country and international regulatory, industry and other agencies. He is also responsible for administering compliance with the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act and regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in the over 120 countries. Previously, he was Group Financial Crime Director, at Lloyds TSB Group PLC.

Patric Marshall
Sales and Marketing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa for World-Check, he has been closely involved in the development of World-Check since its creation in 2001. He has been involved in Compliance and AML for over 14 years, began his career in banking and then worked for Euromoney for eleven years as a publisher. He then joined Thomson Financial Publishing for six years.

 

Pat O’Sullivan
Law Enforcement Advisor to the Global Programme on Money Laundering at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. Formerly, he headed the New Zealand Police Interpol Office and the anti-money laundering section of the National Proceeds of Crime Bureau. In 1995, he established the New Zealand financial intelligence unit, which he directed until his retirement in 2001. Since then, he has worked with several public and private organizations on anti-money laundering projects, particularly the establishment of financial intelligence units in countries around the world.

Mark Outhwaite
Principal, OHL Consulting LLP, he specialises in risk-based anti-money laundering (AML), compliance issues and MiFID. He has been an active member of the Association of Foreign Banks' Anti-Money Laundering Special Interest Group and has been an FSA registered MLRO and risk manager at a European bank offering financial services to high net worth individuals. He has over 20 years banking experience and has held a number of line and strategic positions in international banks in the City of London, where he developed his expertise in lending to and assessing the strength of international financial institutions.

Jane Ogden
Head of Corporate Financial Crime Prevention at HBOS Plc. in Edinburgh, Scotland, is responsible for the prevention and detection of fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing within UK and European corporate business. She has been working in risk management for over 10 years, covering Anti Money Laundering, Credit Risk, Regulatory Risk, Fraud and Operational Risk.

Philippe Pellé
Deputy head of the Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Crime unit in the European Commission, and the Commission representative at the Financial Action Task Force. A qualified chartered accountant, he worked in banking and auditing in Paris before joining the European Commission in Brussels. He has been working in different fields in the Directorate General Internal Market and Services including financial reporting.

John Pyrik, CAMS
A consultant to financial institutions and government agencies, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on the collection and exploitation of open source intelligence. Based in Ottawa, he is an expert on exploiting the Internet for due diligence in AML work, and has taught an online course on Internet investigations for several years. Previously, he was an intelligence officer and a money laundering analyst in Canada. He is a visiting fellow at the Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Henri Quintard
Global Head of Financial Security for BNP Paribas Group, he leverages on its experience of Group Audit leader, General Manager of several international operations and business lines of BNP Paribas. During the last three years, he led the reshaping boad member of the International Bank Security Association. He represents the French Banks at the European Banking Federation AML Committee.

 

Miriam Ratkovicova
Senior manager, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services’ Forensic & Dispute Services practice, Prague, she is responsible for the anti-money laundering services for the Central and Eastern Europe region. She focuses on projects related to review and gap assessment of compliance programs, risk assessments, know your customer, customer identification program and enhanced due diligence requirements, as well as customer transaction monitoring. Previously, she worked within the Deloitte Financial Advisory Services practice in New York.

Philip Robinson
Director for Financial Crime and Intelligence at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), London, is responsible for ensuring that issues which pose risks to the FSA are identified and resolved, and that the FSA provides intelligence on the risk-based strategies necessary to maintain the integrity of the U.K.’s financial sector. He has successfully completed the Pensions Misselling Review, led the Deposit Takers Division and created the Regulatory Transactions division. Previously, he worked in Securities, Derivatives and Investment Management regulation.

Richard Small - ACAMS Advisory Board Member
Global anti-money laundering leader, GE Money, Connecticut, U.S. and one of the leading world experts on money laundering issues, he previously served as the managing director of global anti-money laundering at Citigroup, overseeing and helping to develop global 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. He is on the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.

Jack D. Smith, CAMS
Counselor to the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. He works with the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime and Interpol to provide training and assistance to help countries trace, seize and repatriate assets of corruption. Prior to founding ICAR in July 2006, he spent fifteen years leading asset recovery programs for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington, D.C.

Anne-Chris Visser
Senior policy advisor, Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands, directorate Financial Markets, Integrity Division, is responsible for financial sanctions and relations with the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF). Her work encompasses the legislative and policy aspects of financial sanctions, concerning implementation and execution of UN, EU and national regulation regarding financial sanctions. She is also part of the Dutch delegation for the FATF.

  Herbert Laferla Zammit
Divisional Director responsible for financial stability, internal audit and risk assessment at the Central Bank of Malta. He is a member of the Malta Delegation on the Council of Europe Select Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures (MONEYVAL) and a member of the Bureau of MONEYVAL. He has participated as an expert financial evaluator on the AML mutual evaluations of a number of EU countries and delivered training on the subject. He is a member of the Executive Management Committee and the Monetary Policy Advisory Council of the Central Bank of Malta and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit of Malta.