Ali
Moghaddam, CAMS
Ali is a highly qualified Financial Crime professional with over 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Ali currently serves as the Chief Enterprise Risk Executive at the City National Bank of Florida. Ali began his career in the private sector as the Head of Investigations for the Americas, at UBS Financial Services, where he helped build an investigations team that was the ultimate escalation point for all BSA/AML and OFAC related matters. Following his time at UBS, Ali became the BSA/AML and OFAC Officer at the City National Bank headquartered in Los Angeles where he led the bank’s BSA/AML and OFAC team during the institution’s transition from a mid-size bank to a large bank.
Ali has a legal, law enforcement, and intelligence background and prior to entering the private sector, he was a special agent with the FBI and began as a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). However, he was involved in various types of investigations including Violent Criminal Multinational Organization (VCMO), counter-proliferation matters, sanctions/IEEPA violations, terrorist financing, and counterintelligence investigations. Ali and his teams were able to garner several indictments including indictments for terrorism financing, material support to terrorism, money laundering and related drug trafficking offenses, Medicare fraud, and sanctions/IEEPA violations. Before leaving for the private sector, Ali spent his last few years in the public sector working on the joint FBI/CIA high-value target squad. Ali began his career as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he was ultimately assigned to the office’s Major Crimes Division.
Ali received his degree in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), completed his master’s degree at California State University at Los Angeles (Cal State LA) in Near Eastern and Latin American Colonial history, and he received his Juris Doctorate (JD) from Temple University School of Law and his master’s in business administration from UCLA Anderson school of Management. Ali is ACAMS certified and is also a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.