New York Chapter

Meryl currently serves as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at T&M Protection Resources, LLC, a corporate investigations and intelligence firm based in New York City. In this capacity, she drives the overall legal and compliance policy for the firm, assists clients with regulatory and legal compliance and enforcement issues, and supervises anti-money laundering and financial fraud investigations. She is also in charge of T&M’s Cannabis Banking Risk Management group. Meryl has been with T&M since 2018.

Prior to working at T&M, Meryl served for twelve years as Chief of the Money Laundering Investigations Unit and Statewide Crime Proceeds Strike Force for the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where she investigated and prosecuted violations of money laundering as well as violations of the Banking and Tax laws. She led a task force of regulators, civil and criminal investigators, agents, auditors, and attorneys from multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. She prosecuted cases in both state and federal courts and maintained Department of Justice issued Top Secret Clearance while conducting investigations with the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Before she ran the Strike Force, Meryl spent four years tracking down and prosecuting organized crime at the Organized Crime Task Force. Meryl started her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office.

Meryl is also a noted public speaker and subject matter expert in the field of money laundering and financial crime, speaking at conferences both domestically and internationally. For her impact in the fight against money laundering and financial crime, she received the ACAMS Professional of the Year Award.

Susan White is a Senior Director at Treliant, a Huron Company bringing over 20 years of experience in engaging with top-tier financial institutions globally. She has a deep understanding of the challenges financial institutions face and a strong passion for helping them navigate the complex regulatory landscape and to efficiently managing their internal processes related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs.

Her extensive experience includes guiding clients in designing and implementing advanced AML programs, know-your-customer (KYC) processes, and evaluating risk assessments to ensure BSA/AML regulatory obligations are meeting expectations. Susan has become a trusted advisor for financial institutions looking to enhance their AML strategies and strengthen their defenses against financial crime and terrorist financing.

Before joining Treliant, Susan focused on helping clients find effective solutions to the challenges of combating financial crime. At 360kompany, she led the U.S. expansion as president and CEO, successfully launching its subsidiary, a move that contributed to the firm’s acquisition by Moody’s two years later. Additionally, Susan built and led business development for a startup team at Bloomberg, providing enterprise technology solutions focused on AML and KYC. Her dedication to fighting financial crime has been a driving force throughout her career.

At Bloomberg, Susan spent two decades developing deep client relationships at banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, insurance companies, central banks and law firms, globally. While there, she made a career-defining pivot, leveraging her skills in business transformation and her deep industry connections. She played an instrumental role in building a division to address the AML challenges faced by financial institutions. As one of the first employees, she played a pivotal role in creating the global go-to-market strategy. Later, as Head of Sales for the Americas, Susan further honed her expertise in solving financial crime-related issues, solidifying her reputation as a trusted expert in AML and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF). While at Bloomberg, she became a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Susan holds a degree from St. John’s University, where she served on the Board of Governors for six years. She also holds a FinTech certification from Harvard and co-chairs the ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) in New York City. With deep industry connections and broad expertise in model validation, global business transformation, and leveraging technology for AML, Susan is a respected leader in the financial crime prevention space.

As Vice President and BSA Manager for The First National Bank of Long Island. Drew plans, organizes, and controls the Banks day-to-day administrative and operational BSA compliance activities. He participates in various audits, reviews, and examinations, and collaborates with the Bank Secrecy Act/OFAC Officer, Privacy Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer. Other responsibilities include oversight of the AML Program as well as training different business areas to foster understanding of regulatory compliance requirements. He conducts internal/external BSA and Fraud related investigations and reports to Management on appropriate corrective actions needed.

Drew has been an active and certified member of ACAMS since 2010, as well as a member of the executive board of the New York Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. His credentials also include the American Bankers Association's designation of CRCM, Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager.

Gurran Kane is an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Project Manager (PMP) with extensive experience managing complex compliance initiatives across global financial institutions.

​He rejoined AIG as a Senior Compliance Officer, where he advises U.S. General Insurance partners on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), Economic Sanctions, and broader Financial Crime policy requirements. Gurran provides guidance on the design of first-line controls, identifies and remediates program deficiencies, and collaborates with business leaders to strengthen the overall control framework. He leads the General Insurance Compliance Risk Assessment process, evaluating inherent and residual risks across multiple business lines, and partners with corporate and regional teams to ensure robust and consistent risk management practices.​

In addition, Gurran manages initiatives to enhance AIG’s Economic Sanctions screening processes, streamlined data quality, and strengthens the oversight of high-volume risk areas. He works closely with Data Analytics and Monitoring teams to advance automation projects, improve exception reporting, and mitigate risks through report generation and reviews. As Global Records Management Lead, he oversees retention schedule updates, system decommissioning, and migration activities in coordination with local compliance teams and external counsel.

​Previously, at MUFG, Gurran developed the Global Financial Crimes Issues Analysis Program to deliver deeper analytical insights and provide strategic advice to senior AML, ABC, and Sanctions leadership. He presented regulatory risk analyses to executives, created global training materials to enhance regional/local compliance consistency, and collaborated across regions to improve issue tagging, control categories, and remediation validation processes.

Earlier in his career, Gurran served within the Core Compliance Group at Natixis Wholesale Banking, where he led a policy governance project, managed FINRA licensing processes, monitored employee trading activities, and conducted compliance training for new hires.

Gurran holds an MBA from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business and a BA in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Massachusetts.

Keith Harding (CAMS) is a Director and Head of AML Compliance Risk Management at Citi, covering the Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) and Public Sector Group (PSG) businesses.

In his role at Citi, Keith provides oversight and challenge, as well as advisory support, for a diverse set of products covering Payments and Receivables, Liquidity Management, Trade Services and Finance, and Commercial Cards programs. He also covers high-risk client segments such as Embassies and Foreign Missions amongst others.

Before joining Citi, Keith was a Director and Anti-Financial Crimes Advisory Services Practice Lead for Dixon Hughes Goodman, the 17th largest accounting firm in the nation. He also held various roles at HSBC, where he most recently worked as a Business Risk and Control Manager within Global Liquidity & Cash Management (GLCM), focusing on Anti-Financial Crimes and Operational Risk.

Throughout his career Keith has focused on delivering strategic enhancements by driving change through transformation initiatives and regulatory response efforts in the Anti-Financial Crimes and Operational Risk areas. Keith develops these perspective through active and regular engagement with financial industry regulators and participation in industry working groups.

Keith’s interests are in the identification, and mitigation, of emerging risks posed by FinTechs within the payments landscape, as well as the disruption of human trafficking operations through advanced typologies.

Before starting his career, Keith earned a Bachelor’s in Urban Planning and a Master’s in Management Information Systems from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Kelly Cooper is currently Head of KYC Policy and Advisory, Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) at JPMorgan Chase. In this role, she manages a global team that cares for the continued improvement and modernization of the firm’s KYC policy requirements, updates the KYC policy to align with new local regulatory requirements and to support business expansion, provides advisory to all lines of business on the interpretation and implementation of requirements, and creates and drives the firm’s external KYC reform agenda.

Previously, Kelly was a Senior Vice President at Citi, where she held a number of roles in AML Compliance. Kelly managed Citi’s AML industry engagement, served as the point of contact for US AML regulatory reform, coordinated Citi’s participation in external standard setting efforts, and wrote internal policies, whitepapers, and newsletters on critical industry and emerging risk topics. Additionally, Kelly coordinated cross-AML initiatives through Citi’s BSA Chief of Staff Office and held multiple AML advisory roles supporting various consumer and institutional lines of business.

Prior to Citi, Kelly worked at JPMorgan Chase, where she implemented globally consistent enhanced due diligence processes. Kelly began her career in private investigations, where she learned about conducting investigative research and AML compliance.

Kelly received a Master of Arts in Financial Integrity as a member of the Financial Integrity Institute’s (CWRU Law School) inaugural class. The focus of her studies was increasing effective financial crimes information sharing between the public and private sectors. Kelly also holds a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Studio Art from The College of William & Mary.

Nishi Gupta is a Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte.  As a member of the industry's largest crypto-exclusive team who spend 100% of their time on crypto matters, Nishi provides regulatory advice to cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. He has more than a decade of experience leading legal and compliance teams at a digital bank, FinTech companies, financial services corporations, and software companies. Prior to joining McDermott, Nishi was the general counsel and chief compliance officer at a leading FinTech bank.

Leveraging his significant regulatory, financial technology, and crypto industry experience, Nishi provides strategic counsel to companies and individuals on matters ranging from money transmission licensing, payment regulation, and financial crime compliance, to advising on token launches, stablecoin issuance, decentralized finance applications, and getting novel crypto products out into the market quickly and compliantly. In addition, Nishi has significant industry operations experience, including leading and managing transaction monitoring, rule development, financial crime investigations, sanctions compliance, and compliance data and technology development teams.  Nishi combines his regulatory knowledge with on the ground industry experience to provide actionable and practical counsel.

Pawneet Abramowski is a seasoned Compliance and Risk Management Executive with over 25 years of experience in both public and private sectors. She is the Founder and CEO of PARC Solutions LLC, a strategic advisory firm helping financial institutions and innovative companies align operations with regulatory standards, strengthen governance, and enable digital transformation.

Her career includes senior roles as Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management and Chief Compliance Officer, as well as leadership positions at CIT Group Inc., RBC Capital Markets, and Morgan Stanley. Before entering the private sector, she served in investigative roles with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on global terrorism cases.

Ms. Abramowski is the President-Elect (2025–2027) of the Financial Women’s Association, an Independent Board Director for NASDAQ-listed companies, and Chair of the Advisory Board at Adelphi University’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.

She holds an MBA, MA, and BA from Adelphi University and St. John’s University respectively.

Slav Shcherbakov is an Advisory Manager with Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP and advises clients on AML matters. During his professional career he has worked and helped to a different variety of Banks, Insurance Companies and Government Institutions. He has helped his clients in the response to a different type of Consent Orders, variety of MRAs and AWCs. He has performed several AML compliance program evaluations, transaction monitoring look-backs, Know Your Customer (“KYC”) remediations, and assessment of transaction monitoring rules. Slav holds a B.A. of Accounting and Finance from the Rutgers Business School at Newark, NJ. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Fraud Examiner and is a board member of the ACAMS New York Chapter.