Switzerland Chapter

Audrey Milesi has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, and London before moving to Switzerland in 2007. She began her career as an external auditor before moving to Transaction Services/M&A in the Big 4 and then transitioning to the industry. She led global financial compliance at Syngenta and Europe /Rest of the World at eBay.

In 2017, she started her own consultancy, Flying CFO, specialized in regulatory audits, AML/internal controls and assistance to asset, fund managers and banks. Audrey holds a master’s degree in Commerce and International affairs and a master’s in German. She is a Certified Anti-Money-Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Fellow ACCA and Certified Fraud Examiner.

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Sine Edal is a financial crime specialist who gained her experience in the Business Risk, Compliance, and Legal departments of a large global financial institution as well as a forensic investigator with a Big4. In addition, Sine has several years of experience in European Union affairs including previous employment with the EU institutions in Brussels. 

Sine holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a postgraduate Master’s Degree in Advanced European Studies and International Negotiations from the College of Europe, Poland. Moreover, Sine was engaged as Research Assistant at Harvard Law School within the topic of “Prosecuting Transnational Organized Crime”.  

Sine is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

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Natalie Ng is Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Manager, Director at Rothschild & Co Bank AG in Switzerland. From 2015 to 2024, Natalie was the Vice President/MLRO in FCC at Goldman Sachs Bank AG in Switzerland, focusing on AML/CFT, KYC, Sanctions as well as Transaction Monitoring. Prior to this, she was a Manager at the Compliance Risk and Diligence practice at Kroll in Washington, D.C.

She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) since 2012, and holds a B.A. in International Studies, Political Science from Pepperdine University as well as a M.A. in International Relations from The George Washington University.  She also holds a certificate in Dispute Resolution from Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Ewa Gerber is Senior Regional Compliance Officer with global money transfer company  Moneygram where she leads  the AML Department for Switzerland. In this role Ewa deals with compliance-related issues in Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein. Ewa is responsible for  due diligence, especially in the areas of ​​Know Your Customer and Know Your Agent, as well as for the implementation of AML and fraud measures at national and international level. Ewa’s duties comprise support in the implementation and securing of regulatory requirements, creation and maintenance of documents and internal guidelines, customer service as well as cooperation with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies, police, foreign FIUs, MLROS as well as with internal stakeholders.

Ewa holds a masters and engineering diploma in Agroeconomy from the Agricultural University of Cracow and worked for several years in this field. Ewa has more than 10 years’ experience as a professionally certifeid Intercultural Translator and actively supports her local community, showing involvement in the integration area. Ewa became fascinated by compliance 6 years ago and has been developing her skills in this field ever since, expanding her knowledge at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and HWZ Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration as well as several compliance-related trainings.

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Marlene Meli (CAMS) is acknowledged for her track record to transfer regulatory requirements and standards in AML, CFT and KYC-CDD/EDD into operationally efficient and effective solutions at large national and international banks. 

In the last 30 years she gained broad experience in Banking Operations, IT and Compliance at UBS and other international financial institutions. Since a couple of years she works as an independent consultant in the area of financial crime mitigation. In this role she holds mandates at software companies and banks.

Prior to this she was Global Head of GMS Screening Infrastructure at UBS with a special focus on sanctions screening and CFT. Marlene is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds a CAS International Compliance at Zurich University of Applied Sciences Management & Law and a BA at KV Zurich Business School.

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