Southern California Chapter

Ms. Lee has worked in the banking and financial services industry since 1989. She has focused on compliance and risk since 2002, specializing in BSA/AML. She has been a member of ACAMS since 2005 and the Southern California Chapter since 2010, servicing on the Board since 2011.

She is currently the Compliance and BSA Officer for the Los Angeles Branch of Woori Bank, one of South Korea’s largest banks. Her knowledge and experience was gained during her tenures as BSA/AML Officer at various banks, including California United Bank, OneWest Bank, and IndyMac Bank. She has also consulted for various financial institutions, including banks, MSBs, and casinos, as they worked to strengthen their BSA/AML programs.

Email: miaslee4@gmail.com

Bryan Tinoco is Senior Vice President, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officer at First Foundation Bank in Irvine, CA. He has over 17 years specializing in BSA Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions compliance including over 26 years of experience in the operational areas of retail, commercial banking, and in the credit union industry. Today, his focus has been on BSA/AML, Sanctions compliance and other financial crimes. 

Bryan’s background includes working for various mid-size financial institutions where he served as a Senior Vice President BSA Officer, Sanctions Administrator, Compliance Officer, and Risk Management. Throughout his career, he has managed teams of investigators and analysts plus oversee responsibilities of BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud programs. He also advised on changes in regulations to analyze the changes as it effects banking operations. Bryan has successfully built the Compliance infrastructure and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for a financial institution with 3.9 billion in assets. His additional experience includes the implementation of risk assessments, policies, procedures, several AML Models, and Fraud monitoring systems to ensure continuous compliance with the BSA/AML laws and regulations. 

Bryan is a founding board member and Treasurer of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) Southern California Chapter since 2009 and a BSA Compliance Specialists with the Credit Union National Association. He has participated in the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Citizens Academy, accomplished all Peace Officer Standards Training (POST) requirements, and certificated as a level 1 Police Reserve Officer at the Rio Hondo College Regional Training Center.

Email: btinoco@ff-inc.com

Star Del Castillo serves as the Director of Compliance at Exactuals LLC. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (“CAMS”) and Project Management Professional (“PMP”). Star has worked for major financial institutions since 2006 specializing in areas of Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, Risk Management, Operations, and Training while immersed in roles ranging from Banker, Bank Manager, Auditor, Global Trainer, Senior Financial Intelligence Analyst, AML Manager, and Compliance Program Manager. Star specializes in remediating international program deficiencies to comply with regulatory requirements.

Star received her bachelor’s degree in 2012 in ‘Psychology and Sociology’ and her MBA in ‘Industrial and Organizational Psychology’ in 2015. Star joined the Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”) Southern California Chapter in 2018 as Communications Director.

Email: Stardelcastillo1@yahoo.com 

Nancy Schicker is the BSA and OFAC Officer at City National Bank, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. Nancy has responsibilities for all aspects of the BSA/AML, OFAC and Anti-bribery and Corruption (ABAC) programs, including administration and oversight of BSA and OFAC Risk Assessments, AML transaction monitoring, compliance monitoring, testing, and reporting, Suspicious Activity Reporting, Customer Due Diligence/Enhanced Due Diligence program management, BSA/AML and sanctions training, sanctions screening, Anti-bribery and Corruption, and Fraud investigations.  

For more than 17 years, she has led efforts to implement BSA/AML and OFAC risk management strategies and frameworks, detection and prevention risk management methodologies, and internal controls testing and reporting. She has extensive experience managing large financial crimes investigations organizations responsible for money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, fraud and other suspicious activity regulatory reporting; KYC/Enhanced Due Diligence reviews; and OFAC investigations and reporting. 

Prior to joining CNB, Nancy was the BSA Officer at Bank of the West and has held various AML executive roles at Citibank and Bank of America. Nancy has been in the banking industry for almost 30 years, with over half her career dedicated to transforming organizations to improve the detection, prevention and reporting of financial crimes. 

Nancy also has 9 years’ experience in privacy (“GLBA”) and identity theft compliance; regulatory relations; vendor management; marketing and sales; and a proven ability in managing, training and coaching others.

Nancy holds a Masters’ degree in Marketing from San Francisco State University. She is a Certified Risk Compliance Manager, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Financial Crimes Investigator and Certified Privacy Professional for North America. 

Nancy Nip Rouguine is the President and CEO of Team Adhoc. With over 20 years of experience in accounting, finance and governance, risk and compliance and over 10 years in the business development and client services industry, Nancy serves financial institution clients in their BSA/AML, OFAC and general regulatory needs by leveraging her extensive network of professionals, which she has painstakingly built over decades.

Having worked on the west coast for recognizable AML firms, such as IPSA International, Nancy has assembled a group of the nation’s top BSA/AML subject matter experts to run Adhoc’s AML Practice and offers clients a unique and hands-on experience unparalleled by competitor firms. Nancy formed Adhoc’s AML Practice to fill a void in the industry resulting from an influx of firms with no current BSA/AML field experience which supply resources doing more harm than good in the ever complex and evolving regulatory compliance industry.

Nancy holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of South California’s prestigious Marshall School of Business and is a Board Member of the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association. She is also involved in several charitable organization which support autistic children and poverty alleviation efforts.

Email: Nancy@adhoc911.com

Edward is the Senior Vice President and Head of FIU for Bank of Hope in Los Angeles, CA, a $20 billion firm with 57 branches nationwide, and the nation’s largest Korean American bank.   Edward has 24 years of experience in financial management roles within various Risk, Compliance, and BSA departments in Banking.  Prior to joining Bank of Hope, Edward served as Deputy BSA Officer for California United Bank (now Pacific Western Bank) for 4 years, with oversight responsibility of the Bank’s BSA and OFAC programs. Edward’s prior BSA and Risk background includes banks such as OneWest Bank (now CIT), BNY Mellon, and Countrywide. Edward completed his MBA in Finance from the University of La Verne, in 2002 and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Financial Crimes Investigator.  He is a member of the El Camino Real HIFCA Coalition (HSI Consortium), Advisory Council for Abrigo’s BAM+ system (AML solution) and Content Development and Validation Consortium for the Certified Transaction Monitoring Associate (CTMA) certification for ACAMS. Edward has previously presented at CCBN, IAFCI and ACAMS Southern California Chapter events.

Alissa Mojica has 18 years of credit union compliance and risk management experience, primarily with a Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) / Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions compliance and Fraud focus. She is the Manager of the Fraud Systems & Analytics and Fraud Detection departments for SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union headquartered in Tustin, CA. As the largest credit union in California, SchoolsFirst serves school employee members and their families. In her current role, she creates strategies to leverage data and enhance systems and processes to ensure optimal fraud detection. From 2013 - 2022, Alissa was the BSA Officer for SchoolsFirst. As the BSA Officer, she created automation for CTR reporting, implemented a new AML solution, enhanced ongoing training, and oversaw internal investigations.

Prior to joining SchoolsFirst, Alissa served as the Compliance and BSA Officer for Altura Credit Union in Riverside, CA. During her tenure, she created and established effective CIP, AML, and OFAC programs that incorporated in-person staff training and enhanced due diligence. Alissa also managed the implementation of two separate AML software solutions and was instrumental in reducing the credit union’s BSA / OFAC risk exposure as well as increasing department efficiency related to report filing and recordkeeping requirements.

Alissa has extensive experience in building BSA/AML programs, creating risk assessments, writing policies, and training staff. She is well-versed in implementing new technologies, conducting data validations, and implementing parameters and models that are effective in detecting fraud and financial crime.

Alissa is a member of the executive planning committee for the West Coast Anti-Money Laundering Forum.  She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist with a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Patricia “Patty” Rodriguez is the Enterprise Risk and Compliance Manager for Northgate Gonzalez Markets and Prospera Gonzalez LLC. She has been with the Northgate Family for over 16 years working various positions including Loss Prevention, Check Cashing & Collections and currently in their Enterprise Risk Department.

During her time as a Loss Prevention Supervisor and as the Check Cashing & Collections Manager she helped develop Policies & Procedures and risk management documentation. Currently as the Enterprise Risk Manager Patty works closely with the Compliance Officer to identify and manage any risk that could potentially create a loss as well as manage the BSA/AML Compliance Program.

Patty graduated the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Reserve Officer Academy in 2006 and has been an active Reserve Deputy Sheriff since.

Anthony Orlando is a career federal law enforcement official with 25 years of experience in the financial crimes space. He was named to the newly formed position of Director of the Nationally Coordinated Investigations Unit for IRS Criminal Investigation on May 1, 2017. Mr. Orlando is responsible for the strategic program planning, development, coordination and the implementation of programs that are national and international in scope. As Director, Mr. Orlando is responsible for identifying and developing high impact tax and money laundering investigations in diverse areas such as international, employment taxes, virtual currency and corporate fraud through the use of data analytics and forensics.

In addition, Mr. Orlando is tasked with identifying new and emerging threats and piloting innovative ideas. Mr. Orlando is also a strong advocate for public private partnerships to promote financial crimes compliance and he currently serves as the Chairman of the Executive Planning Committee of the West Coast AML Forum based in San Francisco, California.

Mr. Orlando has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with a Minor in Economics and a Master’s of Science Degree in Accountancy. Mr. Orlando is also the recipient of an Honor Award bestowed by the Secretary of the Treasury in 2005 for his overseas work on a Treasury Financial Jump Team while he was based in Baghdad, Iraq. In October 2019, Mr. Orlando and his team received a Commissioner’s Award for their ground breaking work in the use of data forensics to identify and select potential criminal tax and money laundering cases.

Mr. Luk, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), is a Senior Manager with Moss Adams LLP. Hoi is the practice leader and is responsible for project oversight and delivery of risk management services primarily in the Southern California region. His regulatory compliance, risk management, and internal audit experience spans more than 20 years with specialties in the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML), residential lending, and asset quality reviews.

Prior to joining Moss Adams LLP, Hoi was a Regional Director at the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. Prior to that, Hoi was a director at a leading national business consulting, accounting, and tax firm where he was responsible for risk management consulting services. He has also served as a compliance specialist for two $3 billion institutions and also worked for two mortgage companies, performing regulatory compliance testing and support functions.

Email: hluk@autrussrisk.com