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  Martin Woods

  Managing Director at Hermes Forensic Solutions Ltd.
  Woods is the Managing Director of Hermes Forensic Solutions Ltd. a boutique financial crime consultancy business based in London. He is an experienced fraud investigator and anti-money laundering (AML) practitioner. A former detective who imprisoned money launderers and fraudsters; he knows how they operate and think. He now applies that knowledge in the regulated sector and is an innovator in financial crime and AML systems and controls. He has been highly commended by regulators and is internationally recognised as an outstanding presenter and trainer. He was the man who blew the whistle at Wachovia bank when he saw suspicious transactions from Mexican casas de cambio. He subsequently testified against the bank at a grand jury hearing in Miami. In 2009, Woods worked with the police in London to develop the best in class counter terrorist finance training. In 2010 he wrote the wholesale markets training module for the International compliance Association’s Financial Crime Certificate.

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  Kathy Bazoian Phelps

  Partner at the law firm of Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz, LLP
  Kathy Bazoian Phelps is a partner at the law firm of Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz, LLP in Los Angeles and was admitted to the California Bar in 1991. She represents trustees and receivers, debtors and creditors in bankruptcy cases, and has extensive litigation experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of bankruptcy litigation matters. She is recognized by peers for her ability to trace and recover funds in large-scale complex cases and for her familiarity with all issues arising in Ponzi cases. She has just completed a new book entitled The Ponzi Book: A Legal Resource for Unraveling Ponzi Schemes, co-authored with Hon. Steven Rhodes to be published by LexisNexis and released in early 2012.

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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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  John F. Walsh

  President and CEO, SightSpan Inc.
  John Walsh is President and CEO of SightSpan Inc. since 2007 and a frequent lecturer at international conferences on subjects related to Risk Management, Security, Anti-Laundering Laundering (AML) and Combating Terrorist Financing (CTF). SightSpan is an International Consulting and Training firm that assists private and government clients address critical and confidential projects throughout the world in matters such as Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Overall Business Process Improvement. John has had the privilege to work directly with many government FIUs and Intelligence groups. Prior to joining SightSpan, John held leadership positions within the financial services industry including roles at Wachovia Bank, where he was the CIB Data Czar responsible for information management and corporate governance; Bank of America, where he had the role of Global AML Technology and Process Executive and Merrill Lynch, where he was head GMI eCommerce. John’s background also includes many years of experience in trading/dealing in commodities, FX, Local Fixed Income products and in management of firms within the USA and directly in many high risk countries, where he gained valuable experience in international compliance and security risk management.

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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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  David B. Chenkin, Esq.

  Partner, Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP
  David B. Chenkin is a partner in the New York office of law firm Zeichner Ellman & Krause, LLP ("ZEK"), and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. David is a member of ZEK's management committee, and is the Firm's administrative partner. As a litigator, David represents major financial institutions and other clients in civil, criminal, regulatory and compliance related matters. He heads the Firm's anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance practice area, and represents clients in connection with investigations initiated by Congress and by federal, state and local prosecutors and regulators. In addition, David handles confidential internal investigations for clients facing potential civil, criminal and regulatory exposure. David frequently speaks on these issues at conferences which are attended by regulators, members of the financial services industry and law enforcement.

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  Charles A. Intriago

  Founder, International Association for Asset Recovery (IAAR) and AssetRecoveryWatch.com
  Founder and president of the International Association for Asset Recovery (IAAR) and AssetRecoveryWatch.com, the former federal prosecutor launched Money Laundering Alert in 1989 and later moneylaundering.com. In 2001, he founded the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the leading international credentialing organization in the field. His companies hosted the most widely attended anti-money laundering conferences in the world. Previously, he was chief counsel of an investigative subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives that oversaw the Justice and Treasury departments, the Federal Reserve, FBI, IRS, DEA and other agencies with asset tracing and recovery operations. He also was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Miami, where he prosecuted corrupt public officials, fraudsters and drug traffickers. As Special Counsel on Organized Crime to the Governor of Florida he wrote the Statewide Grand Jury Law. Born in Ecuador and fluent in Spanish, he later was an equity partner of the international law firm, McDermott, Will and Emery.

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  Ross Delston, CAMS

  Founder, GlobalAML.com
  Ross is a lawyer, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and former banking regulator (FDIC) with over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, including the US Export-Import Bank. He conducts BSA/AML audits for financial services firms and has been a legal consultant to the IMF on AML/CFT and banking matters since 1997. On behalf of the IMF, Ross has participated in the AML/CFT assessments of nine offshore financial centers, most recently Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2010) and Bermuda (2008). Ross is the co-author of “Reaching Beyond Banks: How to Target Trade-based Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2009) and is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Banking Regulation (London). He has been the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s International AML Committee since 2008 and was a founding director of the US Capital Chapter of ACAMS.

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  Hossam M. Abd El-Rahman, CAMS

  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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  Martin G. Prego, CAMS

  Head of Compliance for Espirito Santo Bank
  Martin is SVP and Head of Compliance for Espirito Santo Bank since 2004 in Miami, Florida. He is also the AML Principal for E.S. Financial Services, the bank’s wholly owned broker/dealer subsidiary. Martin is responsible for the banks and broker/dealer’s AML and consumer compliance programs, and acts as the liaison between the board of directors and the internal and external auditors. Previously, Martin worked for almost 10 years at Merrill Lynch in various capacities, including: banking officer, operations supervisor and risk management supervisor. Martin earned degrees in political science and international relations from Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina and University of Miami, in Coral Gables, FL.

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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 multimedia training firm in financial crime risk management. She serves on the ACAMS Certification Taskforce, and formerly on the ACAMS Advisory Board and Editorial Board of Money Laundering Alert. She conducts AML/OFAC audits for financial institutions in the US and Latin America. She frequently speaks at money laundering conferences and seminars on a variety of topics.

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  Alberto Avila, CAMS

  Executive Director of Inspiritum
  Ávila is executive director of Inspiritum, a firm dedicated to offering services to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. With 15 years of experience in the AML field, he advises and works for financial and non-financial institutions, governments, financial intelligence units and political parties in the development of compliance programs, money laundering and compliance risk administration, creation of AML controls, review and maintenance of automated systems, amongst other key areas in the AML sphere. He was a Mexican Government Official during the creation of the unit in charge of money laundering prevention and regulation; likewise, he has been a compliance officer for financial institutions in Latin America, has a book on AML and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

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  Tom Nollner, CAMS

  Member of Economic Crimes Team, Office of Technical Assistance
  Mr. Nollner retired from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, United States Treasury Department in September 2008 after having spent twenty-five years as a National Bank Examiner. During his career he examined banks of all sizes for BSA/AML/OFAC & USA PATRIOT Act issues. Mr. Nollner currently works for the Economic Crimes Team of the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA), U.S. Treasury. Since his retirement Mr. Nollner has also worked as an AML consultant in a variety of countries, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. He advised the AML/CFT Section of the Financial Supervision Department of the Afghanistan Central Bank, and was also assigned to Baghdad, Iraq where he conducted an assessment of the AML/CFT regime of the Central Bank of Iraq.

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  John Pyrik

  Expert in Internet Training for Investigators
  John Pyrik has a broad range of analytical and investigative experience accumulated from 19 years of government service. He has worked as an intelligence officer, a securities investigator, and a money laundering analyst. He frequently writes and lectures on the investigative uses of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and is considered a Subject Matter Expert on the Internet by the RCMP. John lives and works in Ottawa, Canada.

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  Ed Rodriguez, CAMS

  Chief Operating Officer at Diligence Enterprises Inc.
  Ed Rodriguez was a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation for more than 20 years. During his career as a Special Agent, Ed worked in the Manhattan and Brooklyn offices; two of the busiest offices in the county. As a special agent, Ed was involved in many different types of investigations, including money laundering, income tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud, narcotics, mortgage fraud, bank fraud and asset forfeiture cases. He was the lead coordinator for the eighty-one Suspicious Activity Review Teams around the United States. He served on various inter-agency committees on mortgage fraud, bank fraud, debit card laundering, cross-border remittances and money laundering. In the private sector, he worked as Manager, Forensic Accounting/AML Services at Watkins Meegan LLC and Senior Consultant/Investigator at Fannie Mae.

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  Vincent P. Cookingham, Ph.D.

  International expert in anti-money laundering and white-collar crime.
  Dr. Cookingham is a court recognized international expert in anti-money laundering and white-collar crime. He served as an undercover agent and was responsible for the arrest and conviction of a nationwide ring of money launderers. In addition, while working on Wall Street, he was also responsible for the seizure of many millions of dollars of laundered money, narcotics and weapons. He is the holder of the NYPD Medal of Valor. His executive positions have included Director of Internal Security, American Stock Exchange; Deputy National Director NASD; VP, Sempra Energy Trading; SVP, Chief International AML Officer, Royal Bank of Scotland Commodities, and Executive Director, Commodities Due Diligence, JP Morgan Chase. He has a Ph.D. in business with a dissertation in white-collar crime, Dr. Cookingham also holds an M.B.A. in accounting, an M.A. in criminal justice and a B.S. in forensic science. He has published several books.