Jim Philips - is the Managing Director for Compliance and Risk Management with Everett Advisory Partners. Everett focuses on the banking and financial services sector. Everett specializes in providing decision-makers at community and regional banks advice and execution resources to help with regulatory orders, governance, credit and risk management, distressed assets and holistic “defense of house” strategies. Jim served as Executive Vice President, Compliance Intelligence Officer, and as the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering/Office of Foreign Assets Control Officer for Regions Bank. As BSA/AML/OFAC Officer, Jim supervised all aspects of the BSA/AML/OFAC program. and advised bank executives and Board committees on BSA/AML/OFAC issues. Jim also served as the primary point of contact and BSA/AML subject matter expert for Regions external affairs office in Washington and regularly met with members of Congress and their staffs on matters of bank regulation and reform. Jim was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating white collar crimes in the St. Louis area, Chicago, and New York City. He spent twenty-six years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama where he concentrated in the prosecution of white collar offenses. During a portion of that time, he served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and supervised all criminal and civil litigating units. He also served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division where he was the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Crimes coordinator and supervised prosecution of terrorism, white collar frauds, cybercrime, child exploitation, human trafficking, tax violations, criminal structuring of financial transactions, illegal immigration, public corruption, criminal and civil asset forfeiture cases, and national security violations. He received the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Director’s Award for a series of major fraud prosecutions. He was nominated for the U.S. Department of Justice Lifetime Service Award. He also served on the Evaluation and Review Staff for the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys to review white collar crime programs in various federal districts. Jim served on the faculty of the National Advocacy Center and as a national instructor for the U.S. Department of Justice on computer search and cybercrime issues. For almost twenty years, Jim served as an Adjunct Professor in Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, teaching well over 100 sections of undergraduate and graduate courses. Jim is a current active Adjunct Professor at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University and is a board member of the Birmingham Chapter of Infragard. He is a Certified Public Accountant (not in public practice), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS), and a Certified AML and Fraud Professional (American Bankers Association). He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from The University of Alabama.