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Lisa Arquette
Steven Beattie, CAMS
Debra L. Bonosconi, CAMS
Christine Bordner, CAMS
Camille Busette
John J. Byrne, CAMS
Gregory J. Calpakis, CAMS
Donald Carbaugh
David B. Chenkin, CAMS
David T. Clark, CAMS
Garry Clement, CAMS
James A. Cox III, CAMS
Ken Dreifach
Kevin Favreau, CAMS
Al Gillum, CAMS
Hank W. Grant, CAMS
Sarah Green
Lisa M. Grigg, CAMS
Megan Davis Hodge, CAMS
Rainer G. Hoerning, CAMS
Lester M. Joseph
Michael D. Kelsey
Barry Koch, CAMS
Gerard (Jerry) W. LiVigni
Juan Llanos, CAMS
Brigitte Lowe
Meryl Lutsky
Philip Magathan
Chris Maher
Brian L. Mannion
Michael R. McDonald, CAMS
Nina A. Nichols
Thomas Nollner, CAMS
Laura Perlotto
James R. Richards, CAMS
Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS
Jeff Ross
John Sabatini
Nancy J. Saur, CAMS
Kiren M. Schulte
Jeffrey Sklar, CAMS
Richard A. Small
Daniel Soto, CAMS
Kevin Sullivan, CAMS
R Suresha, CAMS
Matt Vigh, CAMS
Sean Watterson
Timothy R. White, CAMS

Lisa Arquette, CAMS
Associate director, anti-money laundering & financial crimes branch, division of supervision & consumer protection, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Washington, D.C. She is responsible for the FDIC’s policy, guidance, and examination procedures related to BSA, AML, counter-financing of terrorism, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), bank fraud, cyber-fraud, and the background check program. She is also the Chairperson of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) BSA/AML Working Group and represents the FDIC on the BSA Advisory Group, Terrorist Finance Working Group, and National Bank Fraud Working Group.

Steven Beattie, CAMS
Global AML services leader, Ernst & Young, New York, he brings operational, technology and process improvement experience starting with his internal audit leadership role within a global financial services company. He is responsible for America’s leadership and global coordination of E&Y’s AML-related efforts across banks, investment banks, asset managers, broker-dealers and insurance companies. He is an architect of the firm’s “Assess, Improve and Monitor” strategies for its AML solutions, and brings extensive hands-on experience in compliance organization/structure, risk assessment, control assessment and operational and technology improvement strategies. 

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Christine Bordner, CAMS
Assistant director of market conduct and AML compliance officer, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, she has been actively leading the company’s AML program and is the chairperson of the AML Committee which has enterprise representation from the insurance, broker-dealer and trust company. In addition to her AML responsibilities, she oversees all sales practices complaints and investigations, complaint monitoring and reporting for the enterprise, FINRA filings and responses to inquiries from securities regulators regarding associated persons. She also is a participating member of the American Council of Life Insurance AML/CI Workgroup.

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Camille Busette
Deputy director, government relations, PayPal, Inc., an eBay company. She currently manages PayPal’s government relations effort for the Americas. In that role, she is responsible for all proactive regulatory and legislative outreach in the region. Her portfolio has included close coordination with FinCEN, the Federal Reserve, FDIC, FATF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on payments issues. Prior to joining PayPal, she headed the privacy function at Intuit, and the consumer and market research division at NextCard. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.

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Gregory J. Calpakis, CAMS
Executive director, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Miami, he is responsible for the overall operations of the 8,000 plus member association, with members ranging from over 100 countries. He has over 14 years experience in the financial services industry as a bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), “Big Four” consultant manager and BSA/AML officer at an international bank. He has assisted financial institutions nationally with the development and implementation of their BSA/AML programs, and has conducted numerous trainings for all levels of personnel.

Donald Carbaugh
Compliance director at JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, he oversees the bank’s corporate money laundering risk assessments and anti-money laundering compliance testing and training programs. Previously, he was assistant director of the office of compliance of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, where he oversaw Bank Secrecy Act compliance matters referrals from examination agencies for disposition and negotiated information-sharing agreements with federal and state regulators. Prior, he was a senior examiner-in-charge at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

David B. Chenkin, CAMS
Partner, law firm Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP, New York, he represents financial institutions in civil, criminal, regulatory and compliance matters. As head of the firm's anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance groups, he represents institutions under investigation by Congress, federal, state and local prosecutors, and banking regulators. He also handles confidential internal investigations for clients facing potential civil, criminal and regulatory problems.

David T. Clark, CAMS
Vice senior global AML advisory & analysis officer for client acceptance & AML, ABN AMRO, London. His current role includes the AML Advisory relationship with the 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region, the bank's internal FIU and knowledge content for AML/CTF trainings. In addition, he was the AML regional education officer for the 27 countries in the EMEA region, where he coordinated and developed the bank’s transaction surveillance training initiative. Previously, he investigated international money laundering cases for Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise in conjunction with other countries’ law enforcement agencies.

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Garry Clement, CAMS
Managing director of Toronto Office, IPSA International, Toronto, Canada, his responsibilities consist of overseeing all of IPSA’s business activities and risk mitigation projects for the region. Prior to joining IPSA, he established 30 years of policing experience with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in a range of investigative matters and management roles, and four years as the chief of police for Cobourg. During his tenure at the RCMP, he worked in the areas of proceeds of crime and money laundering as an investigator, undercover operator and manager.

James A. Cox III, CAMS
Sergeant, Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax County, Virginia, he supervises the Special Investigations/Money Laundering Unit for the department. He has over 24 years in law enforcement including four years as a military police officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He oversees the disbursement of SARs to his unit and has supervised money laundering investigations that have led to millions of dollars in seizures. He is a certified expert witness in narcotic investigations and also a certified instructor by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, having instructed money laundering to numerous groups. 

Ken Dreifach
Deputy general counsel, Linden Lab, operators of the Second Life virtual world platform. He heads the company's regulatory, compliance, privacy, safety and litigation efforts, ensuring Second Life is operated in a secure and responsible manner. He also serves as the company's primary contact with law enforcement and advocacy organizations, working closely with prosecutors when criminal activity is suspected. Prior, he served as chief of the internet bureau of the New York Attorney General's office where he brought numerous enforcement actions protecting Internet users from fraudulent activities and other illegal practices.

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Sarah Green
Branch chief in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She manages the Commission’s AML examination program for broker-dealers on a day-to-day basis, including designing examination procedures, developing examination modules, conducting training for SEC and self-regulatory organization (SRO) examiners and coordinating with the SROs on all aspects of AML examination and enforcement. She also chairs the SEC’s AML Working Group, and oversees AML examination issues arising in the SEC’s eleven regional and headquarters offices and in its Suspicious Activity Report Review Team.

Lisa M. Grigg, CAMS
Senior vice president, global AML executive and BSA officer, Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., she is responsible for managing the global AML group as well as the bank’s AML program. Previously she was responsible for Bank of America’s global AML financial intelligence unit and investigation teams. Prior, she worked at Wachovia Corporation, and had corporate-wide responsibilities for monitoring and investigating suspicious activity for money laundering and terrorist financing. In addition, she has served as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service where she had both protective and investigative duties.

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Rainer G. Hoerning, CAMS
Senior compliance officer and vice president, Credit Suisse, London he assists the global AML compliance director and is responsible for ensuring bank-wide compliance with laws, regulations, international standards, and internal policies. His focus is on minimal standards and the global management of risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing. He also represents Credit Suisse in the Wolfsberg Group. Previously, he was compliance advisor at Citizens Financial Group's Financial Intelligence Unit in Rhode Island, USA.

Lester M. Joseph
Principal deputy chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, he guides and assists federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies throughout the United States in money laundering and forfeiture cases, including various “Deferred Prosecution Agreements”. He advises Justice Department officials on money laundering control legislative and prosecutorial policies and procedures and has participated in some of the landmark U.S. money laundering prosecutions, including several that established the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. law.

Michael D. Kelsey
Managing vice president of anti-money laundering compliance, Capital One, Richmond, VA. He is responsible for overseeing the development and execution of all AML compliance programs throughout the company. Prior to joining Capital One, he spent 21 years at PNC Bank, where he held a variety of positions in the Compliance and Legal Departments. He is a former chair of the American Bankers Association Compliance Executive Committee and teaches at the ABA’s Compliance School.

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Gerard (Jerry) W. LiVigni
Senior compliance officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Washington, D.C., he is a key member of the compliance outreach and implementation team at OFAC. He has over 28 years of international banking operations, AML and BSA compliance experience. Before joining OFAC, he was vice president and compliance AML/BSA/OFAC training officer for BNP Paribas’s bank and securities affiliate offices in the U.S. were he was responsible for PATRIOT Act AML policies and procedures as well as monitoring BSA and OFAC examination work programs.

Juan Llanos, CAMS
Director of compliance, Unidos Financial Services, Inc., a New York City based company providing a variety of financial services to immigrant communities. He is responsible for the company’s AML/CFT and regulatory compliance risk management infrastructure. He has several years experience with building and managing AML and regulatory compliance programs for multiple international jurisdictions, including Canada, Italy, Spain, the U.S. and is recognized as a leading developer of compliance and risk management best practices for the money remittance industry. Previously, he was chief compliance officer of Remesas Quisqueyana, Inc.

Brigitte Lowe
National bank examiner and compliance specialist in the compliance policy division of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington D.C., where much of her work deals with Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance issues. Previously, she was the large bank compliance lead expert on BSA and AML examinations in Cleveland and served as an OCC safety and soundness examiner in Dallas. Since 1990, she has completed many multifaceted, high profile BSA/AML and general compliance examinations of banks of all sizes.

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Meryl Lutsky
Chief of the New York State Attorney General’s Money Laundering Investigations Unit and New York State Crime Proceeds Strike Force. These units are responsible for the investigation and prosecution of money laundering crimes, as well as violations of banking and tax laws. To more effectively and creatively investigate these emerging crimes, she assembled a task force consisting of federal and state prosecutors, law enforcement, and regulators. In addition, she is actively involved in educating and training financial institutions in how to better protect their organizations from financial fraud.

Philip Magathan
Regional supervisory compliance examiner, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Topeka, Kansas, he provides analysis of the adequacy of AML program controls to both examiners and industry. In addition, he provides policy interpretations and guidance to field staff, represents the OTS on various interagency task forces and training programs, and serves as an instructor for the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council AML workshop. He also assists various federal law enforcement agencies including the Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering Section, in the investigation of complex bank fraud and money laundering cases. 

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Chris Maher
Principal with Ernst & Young’s AML advisory practice in the New York Financial Services Office, co-leading EY's Global AML advisory practice. Chris has over 25 years of experience including 14 years with the Federal Reserve. He is responsible for the Americas leadership and global coordination of Ernst & Young’s AML-related efforts across banking organizations, investment banks, asset managers, broker/dealers and insurance companies. He has handled a variety of anti-money laundering initiatives serving as engagement partner for projects focused on AML and CTF frameworks and transaction trend monitoring.

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Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS
Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS President, AML Services International, LLC, Miami, a consulting and training company in the money laundering, asset forfeiture and terrorist financing field. She is financial crime advisor to Neteconomy, a leading firm in enterprise risk monitoring solutions, automating financial crime prevention and detection for financial institutions worldwide. From 2001-2005, she was the founding executive director of the ACAMS and currently serves on the ACAMS Advisory Board. She has an International MBA from Florida International University, and speaks five languages.

Jeff Ross
Chief compliance officer, Green Dot Corporation, Monrovia, California, a leading retail prepaid debit card company. He ensures AML compliance requirements are applied across product lines, and as new product lines are added. Prior to joining Green Dot, he served as the senior advisor (law enforcement) of money laundering and terrorist financing in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He helped coordinate and lead Treasury’s efforts to identify and attack terrorist financing, money laundering and financial crimes from a systemic perspective.

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John Sabatini
Principal with Ernst & Young’s AML Advisory Practice where he serves as the compliance technology leader. In this role, John has helped financial institutions select, implement, tune, conduct “lookbacks”, and improve the quality of alerts generated by AML technologies. John’s experience and approach for improving the effectiveness of AML technologies has been highlighted in recent articles within the financial services industry. This approach includes techniques for enriching data, implementing/tuning vendor applications, integrating AML technologies, and developing/enhancing executive-level dashboards.

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Daniel Soto, CAMS
Compliance managing director, AML and BSA, Wachovia Corporation, Charlotte, N.C., he is responsible for the global AML and OFAC compliance activities. Before joining Wachovia, he spent nearly three years with Royal Bank of Canada – Centura, as chief compliance officer, and eight years with Bank of America, where he was the global AML compliance executive. Prior to joining Bank of America, he was a bank examiner with the FDIC and the Federal Reserve and helped develop the Fed’s AML examination policies. He is currently a member of the American Bankers Association’s Compliance Executive Committee and on the ACAMS Advisory Board.

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R  Suresha, CAMS
Senior consultant and head of Oracle Mantas Competency Centre, Oracle Financial Services limited (i-flex), a global technology group, based in Bangalore, India. He spearheads i-flex’s AML/Mantas initiatives, conceptualizing solutions and evolving strategies for various markets across the globe. He brings end-to-end AML solutions to worldwide banks and financial institutions, encompassing strategic consulting, assisting in drafting/review of policies and processes, training and implementation. Prior to i-flex, he worked for a leading asset management company in India where he spearheaded initiatives to develop technology solutions to minimize fraud and strengthen internal controls.

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Matt Vigh, CAMS
Assistant vice president, AXA Financial, New York. He oversees the day to day AML operations for the company in identifying, monitoring, and reporting suspicious activity within AXA’s life, annuity, and broker-dealer operations in the U.S. Prior to working in an AML capacity for the company, he spent two years investigating fraud and eight years in various roles within two broker-dealer operations. In addition, he is a licensed registered representative.

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Sean Watterson
Director of global monetary and financial control group, Merrill Lynch, New York, he is responsible for the development and maintenance of policies and procedures, internal controls and training for the company’s AML and economic sanctions programs. Prior, he was a senior vice president in Citigroup’s global AML group where he developed policies and performed assessments of AML programs. Previously, he served as senior counsel in the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s Office of International Affairs and represented the Commission as a member of the U.S. delegation to the FATF.

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