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  Dr. John Zdanowicz

  President of International Trade Alert, Inc.
  Dr. John S. Zdanowicz is a Professor of Finance at Florida International University where he was also the Director of the Center for Banking and Financial Institutions and the Chairman of the Department of Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from Michigan State University. Dr. Zdanowicz has had many years of consulting experience including consulting for U.S Customs, the U.S. Department of Justice on issues related to transfer pricing and money laundering. His research interests include international price discrimination, money laundering, income tax and import duty evasion, terrorist financing, capital flight, and capital market efficiency. Dr. Zdanowicz is an internationally recognized expert on money laundering and terrorist financing through international trade flows.

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  Lauren Pickett

  Regulatory & AML Consultant at Compliance Consulting
  Lauren Pickett has been working for financial institutions for over 25 years, specializing in the Anti-Money Laundering field for the last 16 years. As a Senior Vice President and Director of Global AML Training at Citigroup Inc., Ms. Pickett was responsible for coordinating and delivering comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering training globally not only to Citigroup/Citibank Senior Management and staff, but also to financial institutions located in various countries. In 2001, Congressman Edolphus Towns invited Ms. Pickett to be a member of his task force and travel to the Dominican Republic to to meet with senior government officials discuss the county’s economic development and future trade agreements. Currently Ms Pickett has established her own consulting practice where she works with financial institutions to evaluate and strengthen all aspects of their Anti-Money Laundering Programs.

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  Dr. Marilyn J. Bruno, J.D.

  CEO at Bruno Consulting LLC
  Marilyn Bruno earned a Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude from New York University, and J.D. degree Cum Laude from New York Law School. She was licensed in stock, commodity, insurance, and real estate brokerage, and is a member of the Bars of Florida, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. She is certified to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Bruno worked for the State Department as an Economic Officer in the U.S. Foreign Service. She undertook policy development for the detection and prevention of money laundering and counterterrorist financing (AML/CTF) worldwide, and worked with foreign government officials and international organizations to develop concordant AML/CTF compliance programs. She also collaborated on developing administrative records under the USA PATRIOT ACT section 311 that imposed sanctions against high-profile banks for BSA non-compliance.

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  Michael McDonald, CAMS

  Partner, Michael McDonald and Associates
  Now principal of Michael McDonald & Associates in Miami, which specializes in anti-money laundering compliance and examinations of financial crime controls of institutions and businesses in the banking and money transmitting industries. As an IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent, he helped launch the legendary Operation Greenback in 1980, the first multi-agency anti-money laundering task force, which recovered hundreds of millions of dollars from drug traffickers. He is former coordinator of the South Florida Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. During his career with IRS CI, he managed and investigated complex cases involving financial crime, organized crime, tax evasion, corruption, Ponzi and other types of fraud.

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  Carol Van Cleef, CAMS

  Partner, Patton Boggs, LLC
  Carol Van Cleef represents financial services companies and other clients in federal and state regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters, including anti-money laundering (AML), electronic payments, federal deposit insurance, and other bank regulatory issues. She counsels banking organizations, credit unions, securities firms, insurance companies, finance companies, money service businesses (MSB), and hedge funds, among others. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Ms. Van Cleef is a frequent speaker on AML compliance-related issues and a member of the Editorial Task Force of ACAMS Today.

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  Jeffrey Sklar, CAMS

  Managing Director, SHC Consulting Group, LLC
  Jeff is managing director of SHC Consulting Group, an independent firm that works with financial institutions to develop, implement and review AML and compliance programs. He has provided employee training, performed independent audits and transactional lookbacks for money services businesses (MSBs), insurance companies, broker-dealers and casinos. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Specialist. In addition, Jeff also co-chaired the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists' (ACAMS) Annual Conference Task Force and is chair of the ACAMS Metropolitan NY Chapter.

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  Dennis M. Lormel

  President, DML Associates, LLC
  Mr. Lormel retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in December 2003, following over 30 years of government service, almost 28 years as a Special Agent in the FBI. During his distinguished career, Mr. Lormel amassed extensive major case experience as a street agent, supervisor and senior executive, particularly in complex, document and labor intensive financial related investigative matters. In December 2000, Mr. Lormel was promoted to Chief of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Program. Mr. Lormel received numerous commendations and awards to include the Department of Justice, Criminal Division’s Award for Investigative Initiative and the Central Intelligence Agency’s George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism.Over the last six years Mr. Lormel has provided risk advisory consulting services. He is the founder and President of DML Associates, LLC, a full service investigative consultancy.

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  Ross Delston, CAMS

  Founder, GlobalAML.com
  Ross is an attorney and former Federal banking regulator (FDIC, 1986 - 91) who specializes in anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance at GlobalAML.com, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm. He advises financial institutions, industrial companies, and law firms on AML/CFT issues such as independent audit, trade-based money laundering, and risk assessment. He has been a legal consultant to the International Monetary Fund on AML/CFT and banking matters since 1997 and has participated in the AML/CFT assessments of nine offshore financial centers, most recently, Bermuda. Ross also does AML/CFT legislative drafting and training in numerous countries in Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

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  Hossam M. Abd El-Rahman, CFE, CFS, CFCI, CAMS, AMLP

  Founder and Managing Partner of Allied Compliance Consultants
  Hossam M. Abd El-Rahman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Allied Compliance Consultants “ACC”. He is a well known consultant, trainer & speaker with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of public accounting, banking, fraud, forensics, financial crimes, compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, internal control and business re-engineering. Hossam worked for leading Conventional and Islamic banks in the MENA region where he assumed senior positions. He was Compliance, AML & Fraud Head at Samba Financial Group – Dubai, UAE. Prior to that, he was Compliance Supervisor at Kuwait Finance House - Kuwait. . In addition to 8+ years of extensive public accounting experience in "BIG FOUR" International CPA firms including PriceWaterhouseCoopers & Arthur Andersen.

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  Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS

  Partner of AML Services International LLC
  Saskia was the founding Executive Director of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). She is president of AML Services International, a money laundering consulting and training firm, and Financial Crime Advisor to Fiserv, a Fortune 500 company. She served on the Advisory Board of ACAMS and formerly Money Laundering Alert. She is frequently quoted in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.