Delaware Chapter

Since 2016, Chris has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Delaware Chapter of ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists). Chris is also on the Board of the Delaware Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, serving as the training director.

Currently, Chris is an adjunct instructor at Widener Law and Wilmington University, teaching on-line and in-person compliance college courses to students. He holds both the Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certifications, earned a Master of Science degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College in New York, as well as a BA in Communications from Salisbury University in Maryland.

Additionally, Mr. King has been a guest speaker at related industry conferences on topics such as suspicious activity reporting, the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and anti-money laundering compliance programs.

Previously, Chris served as a director and AML officer in the global financial crime compliance department for PayPal’s two credit businesses. In this capacity, Mr. King led audits, examinations, self-assessments, risk assessments, policy and daily operations with a variety of leaders and team members. Additionally, Chris’ team was responsible for developing policies and training for their programs on credit compliance, sanctions screening, suspicious activity reporting, risk assessments and supporting the bank partnerships with the consumer and commercial credit businesses.

Prior to that, Chris was a vice president in the financial intelligence unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for seven years. He had been responsible for managing detailed AML procedures and training for a large team of investigators and a lead instructor teaching AML-related classes to both new hires and experienced teams. In that role, he frequently interfaced with other new hires, analysts, investigators, managers, bank partners, auditors, and regulators. While employed with MBNA / Bank of America, Chris served in many compliance leadership roles. He was the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) coordinator for the card business, led the policy process of automating SAR filing, USA PATRIOT Act Customer ID and Information Sharing Programs for deposits and business lending programs, bank-wide sanctions processes, as well as an AML/BSA team lead and manager, responsible for creating training and developing policies and procedures.

Ella Miller is currently VP of AML Operations/Head of US AML Operations for Barclays Bank of Delaware. She is responsible for US AML Investigation, Real Time Screening, Sanctions and PEP Screening. She is responsible for strengthening the Control Environment as well as working with Internal Compliance, Audit and Regulators. She is responsible for implementing new efficient processes to improve the processing of alerts. Ella reports results to senior management and action plans for improvements.

Ella also worked as VP Control manager for JP Morgan Chase where she worked on action plans for issue resolution. She monitored KRI for reporting in control committee reporting, ensuring there is a path to green for any items which breached thresholds.

Previously, Ella was senior vice president and AML manager with HSBC Bank in Delaware. Her role was focused on managing multiple teams responsible for investigations, SAR filings, and reporting on SAR related metrics about trends and performance enhancement to more senior management. Ella also worked with other managers to develop and implement the policies and procedures to focus the investigations on the statutory requirements of identifying suspicious activity rather than mere defensive filings.

In her past, Ella held many roles in the banking industry including retail credit cards, merchant funding, and accounting. Ella graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor of science in accounting with a minor in business administration, and had attained her CAMS certification in 2015.

Ryan Griffith is the President and Co-Chair of the ACAMS Delaware Chapter and a Senior Vice President, Cryptocurrency Investigations, Compliance and Privacy within AlixPartners' Digital Assets Practice. He was previously at Chainalysis where he was the Team Lead for a cryptocurrency investigations supporting IRS Criminal Investigations, leading the team’s efforts to combat cryptocurrency enabled cybercrime. He has almost 20 years of financial crimes investigations experience in cryptocurrency related investigations as well as anti-money laundering and counter terror financing investigations across six large multi-national financial institutions and crypto tech start-ups. Ryan holds a Master of Science in Law Enforcement Intelligence and Analysis from Michigan State University as well as a Master of Science in Forensic Accounting from Neumann University. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist by ACAMS, a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigation Specialist by Chainalysis and a Certified Ethereum Investigations Specialist by Chainalysis.

Chris is a team leader in JP Morgan Chase’s global compliance operations unit. He has been in the banking industry for close to 20 years, and during the last nine of those, he has followed his passion for the investigations world with JPMorgan Chase.

Previously a lead in a credit card investigation and SAR filing group, Chris entered the AML arena in 2013 with a focus on leadership and staff development. He built partnerships across the firm and was part of the startup and build-out of several groups within Global Compliance Operations. His current role as team lead in the law enforcement/subpoena group allows him to guide a team whose role is to interpret legal documents and investigate clients across the firm that are being reviewed by courts and law enforcement. Chris received his CAMS designation in 2014.

Luke graduated from Elizabethtown College with a BS in Finance before embarking on a 15 year career in banking and financial services. In 2014, he joined JPMorgan Chase and got his first taste of the Anti-Money Laundering world. He started out as an investigator where he learned the ins and outs of AML and Financial Crimes Compliance and realized this was the career path for him. After a few years, Luke took on a leadership role overseeing a team of investigators and began to hone in on his leadership skills while continuing to build his AML knowledge. Luke helped lead the expansion of the AML program in India and took on a role in quality and training oversight to continue to aid in the growth of the new organization.

Luke is currently a Vice President in Global Financial Crimes Compliance at JPMorgan Chase where he leads a team of investigators focused on Anti-Money Laundering investigations across multiple lines of business. He has been involved in various aspects of the organization including training, quality assurance, program expansion and execution, operational enhancements, and specialized investigations.

Luke received his CAMS designation in 2015 and continues to seek opportunities to build his knowledge of the ever-changing AML and Financial Crimes space. He is interested in the new technologies shaping the current landscape including AI and Web3. Beyond his passion for fighting financial crime, he enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, gardening, and cooking. Luke is also an avid Liverpool FC fan and still kicks the ball around in an over 30 league in Delaware.

Alexanders joined the Board of the Delaware Chapter of ACAMS as the Treasurer and brings with him more than fourteen years of AML and BSA Compliance experience. He is currently a Senior Supervisor at Green Dot in the AML Operations department.

In prior roles, he was the board-appointed BSA Officer and Head of AML/BSA Compliance at startup FinTechs where he was responsible for designing, implementing, and managing AML training, the Customer Identification Program (inclusive of KYC/KYB and CDD/EDD), onboarding screening (PEP, negative news, sanctions), on-going screening, AML/BSA policy, AML and Fraud investigations procedures and reporting, regulatory reporting, the firm-wide risk assessment, as well as the controls environment. Before he transitioned to FinTech, Alexanders worked for Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank in AML Investigations and Risk Management. He has been CAMS designated since 2014.