Kolade
Falua
Kolade Falua is the Global Product Compliance lead at Paxos. He is responsible for enabling the advisory interaction model between the Compliance function, and all critical cross-functional stakeholders, including the Paxos Product, Engineering, and Growth organizations.
Prior to Paxos, Kolade was the Global Sanctions Compliance Lead, supporting Cash App, at Block (fka Square) and led the team responsible for global sanctions operations supporting Cash App. In addition to this role, Kolade co-led Block’s enterprise-wide Sanctions Compliance Program, as well as advised product teams on sanctions and AML risks for new product or market launches. Before joining Block, Kolade was a Compliance Officer at the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he led sanctions regulatory violation investigations and advised the general public on sanctions issues. Before OFAC, Kolade spent time at CitiGroup in its Global Sanctions Compliance team.