Northern California Chapter

Lisa is the Chief Compliance Officer and AML/BSA officer at Mercari, Inc, an e-commerce platform and MSB since 2016. She is also the Executive Chair for ACAMS Northern CA Chapter. Her previous roles include: SVP of Compliance at Rabobank serving as OFAC Officer, Privacy Officer, BSA/AML, Compliance Systems and Training concentrating on OCC remediation efforts; Chief Compliance Officer and AML/BSA Officer for Venmo and Braintree and she served in numerous position at PayPal as a founding member of their compliance program over the course of nine years, including as the Director of Global AML/CTF Program and the Head of Compliance Strategy, Product and Analysis.

During her career she has created and managed numerous facets of global compliance programs including: Licensing, OFAC and Global Sanctions, AML/AFC, Trust & Safety, Consumer Protection, FCPA, SAR and FIU programs, TCPA, UDAAP, GLBA, specializing in the development of compliance strategies for new products, partners, global expansion initiatives, M&A, as well as ongoing compliance program development and regulatory reviews. Her experience includes the implementation of several enterprise-wide compliance platforms and successful remediations with AUSTRAC and the OCC. Having represented both large institutions and new companies evolving with the technology landscape, she understands many sides of the compliance and financial ecosystem.

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska College of Law and has a B.S. degree in Political Science from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lisa is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-lechner

Amanda is currently Vice President, Audit and Compliance Manager at Bank of Stockton leading the Bank's audit and compliance programs. Prior to that she held regulatory relations and BSA compliance program management roles at Bank of the West. She has over 25 years of financial services experience and almost ten years of experience in the BSA/AML/OFAC space. She is an active member of the California Bar Association and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Previously, she was a Senior Audit Leader at Wells Fargo acting as an Auditor in Charge of complex BSA/AML/OFAC audits and acted as a subject matter expert on line of business audits where BSA/AML/OFAC was involved. Prior to her position at Wells Fargo, she was First Vice President and AML Compliance Officer for the former United Commercial Bank, a $13 billion bank headquartered in San Francisco. She received her J.D. from John F. Kennedy University, School of Law and received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, with a major in Legal Studies and a minor in Ethnic Studies.

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Matt is currently Vice President, Financial Crimes and High Risk Compliance at Technology Credit Union.

Matt was previously a Senior Compliance Officer at Bills.com (FinTech), a BSA/AML/OFAC Audit Leader at Wells Fargo, a FIU Analyst at Wells Fargo, and a Compliance Officer at SNC Investments (commodities brokerage).

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of California at Berkeley.

He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Melanie is a Senior Manager on Crowe’s Financial Crimes Team. Her experience in providing risk services to the financial industry includes conducting full scope BSA audits in accordance with regulatory guidance and banking partner expectations, NYDFS 504 audits, sanctions screening model validations, transaction monitoring model validations, customer risk rating validations, and Enhanced Due Diligence reviews. She has worked with various financial crime platform vendor solutions including Chainalysis, Unit21, Hummingbird, NICE Actimize, Prime, BAM, BAM+, FCRM, Verafin, YellowHammer, and GVS Patriot Officer. Melanie is one of the firm’s Financial Crime BSA/AML audit and model validation subject matter experts. Based in the Bay Area, Melanie is also a core team member on the firm’s Fintech sub-vertical leadership team.

Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from DePaul University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Colleen is currently a Vice President and Strategy Consultant in the Conduct Management Office at Wells Fargo Bank.

Prior to that, Colleen spent several years as a Financial Crimes Manager with Wells Fargo’s Financial Crimes Investigations group and as a Business Initiatives Consultant for the Group Risk Organization for Consumer Lending and Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovation. Prior to Wells Fargo, Colleen was a manager with Ernst & Young LLP’s Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services group.

She holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley. She is a Certified Public Accountant(CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Tim currently evaluates country ML/TF risks for Wells Fargo’s Corporate and Investment Banking group. Tim develops qualitative geographic risk reports used by relationship managers, risk managers and other bank officers as part of Wells Fargo’s BSA/AML compliance risk program for the bank’s foreign correspondent bank portfolio.

Tim has more than 20 years of experience analyzing risk and compliance for financial institutions in emerging and developed markets with onsite experience in Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Tim served as the Regional Director for Russia and Eastern Europe for the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, a non-governmental organization that works to strengthen financial sectors in emerging economies.

Prior to this, Tim worked for an international development consultancy, providing technical assistance in capital markets development alongside micro, small and medium sized enterprises and their access to finance. This followed other work in emerging markets in Central Asia and also in Eastern Europe, including the management of a logistics office under a US-Russia bi-lateral nuclear non-proliferation program.

Tim holds an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a BA in Economics, also from UNC. Tim is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Lee Brown currently is a contract analyst with Morgan Stanley’s Corporate Security & Investigations responsible for due diligence research and analysis.

Lee has over 23 years of federal law enforcement experience, beginning his career with the United States Customs Service as special agent and retiring in 2021 as the Resident Agent in Charge (RAC) with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Santa Rosa, Calif. During his law enforcement career, Lee led the Financial Crimes Unit charged with investigating money laundering and illicit proceeds of crimes. He was also a National Program Manager on temporary assignment to the Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit (IFPCU) in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he was the National Program Manager for the Third-Party Money Laundering Program (3PML). In addition, Lee has conducted financial training for HSI and domestic and international law enforcement partners and assisted the Illicit Digital Economy Program (IDEP).

Pengbo Liu is a compliance practitioner with 15 years of experience in developing regulatory compliance policies, conducting risk assessments, and applying regulatory licensing/change of control. She is currently working as the Head of Core Compliance at Binance.com.

Prior to that, she held positions as Chief Compliance Officer at a FinTech firm and US Compliance Officer at Ant Financial, where she led the MSB license application process with 50 states and managed over 10 regulatory examinations in the US. She is a subject matter expert on digital wallets, having accumulated hands-on experience through licensing and change of control dealings with international regulators such as MAS, FCA, and US regulators.

Pengbo started her compliance journey at PayPal, where she led the development of the first generation of real-time sanction screening engines. She currently holds the qualification of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and graduated from UC Berkeley with an MBA.

DJ Mai is a Staff Compliance Regulatory Program Manager at Intuit Inc., responsible for driving compliance across an array of innovative financial product offerings. Previously, she held roles as Senior Compliance Program Testing Manager at Intuit Inc, Product Risk & Governance Manager at PayPal, BSA Compliance Testing Manager at Bank of the West, and Senior Internal Auditor at JPMorgan Chase. She has over 20 years of financial services experience, including over 10 years in the BSA/AML space.

DJ holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). In addition, she serves on the Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) San Jose Chapter.

Brian Weber is currently a Senior Manager and People Leader within Charles Schwab's Financial Crimes Risk Management program, overseeing a team of investigators dedicated to identifying, investigating, mitigating, and reporting on financial crimes across Schwab's enterprises. Prior to joining Schwab, Brian spent over 21 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Supervisory Special Agent and Associate Division Legal Counsel. At FBI Headquarters in Washington DC, Brian managed complex financial crimes cases nationwide as a leader in the Financial Crimes Section. As Associate Division Legal Counsel for the San Francisco FBI field office, Brian served as a member of the executive team, providing counsel to management, investigators, and staff. As Media and Private Sector Engagement Coordinator, Brian conducted public affairs outreach including television, radio, and social media interviews, and built key partnerships within Silicon Valley’s vital finance and tech industries. Prior to his tenure at the FBI, Brian prosecuted felony criminal cases as a cook County Assistant State’s Attorney in Chicago, Illinois.

Noman Masood is a seasoned compliance leader with 13 years of experience specializing in AML program development and implementation. 

As Senior Compliance AML Program Manager at Intuit, he drives the ongoing development, implementation, and assessment of Intuit's AML Program and manages critical compliance initiatives. His expertise spans strategic AML/OFAC platform development at Figure Technology, building foundational KYC/CDD/EDD capabilities at Accenture, and managing prime brokerage client accounts at SS&C Technology and JPMorgan. 

Noman holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).