Tim
O’Brien, 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).