 Alan Abel, CPA/CFF, CFE
Global AML Practice Leader
Crowe Horwath LLP
Alan is Crowe Horwath’s and Horwath International’s Global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Practice Leader, and is responsible for Quality Assurance on Crowe Horwath Financial Crime engagements. Alan has worked with the Boards and Senior Management of more than one hundred global and regional banks to help them develop and strengthen their governance, business processes, controls and risk assessment and risk management connected with money laundering, fraud, corruption, related financial crime, and sanctions. He has 25 years of experience managing large, complex domestic and international projects and financial management operations. Alan has developed training programs and materials and has personally trained more than 1000 professional staff for client projects and management operations.
Alan has worked with the governments Puerto Rico and thirty-five countries and other jurisdictions to evaluate and assist their money laundering detection and deterrence efforts, including the first money laundering vulnerability assessment of the Latin American Rim Region and the Caribbean Region for the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) including the governments of Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela, the British Commonwealth jurisdictions, the UK Caribbean Dependent Territories, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands jurisdictions. This included close cooperation with the police, public prosecutors, and the superintendencies of finance, justice, controllers, national security, and the central banks. Alan works closely with the Financial Crimes Enforcement (FinCEN) and has assisted the World Bank with its AML strategy. |
 Lisa Arquette, CAMS
Associate Director, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Lisa is responsible for the FDIC’s policy, guidance, and examination procedures related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML), counter-financing of terrorism (CFT), Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the FDIC’s international assistance related to AML/CFT initiatives. Ms. Arquette is also responsible for oversight of the FDIC’s application process related to transactions such as deposit insurance, mergers, and changes of control. Ms. Arquette also manages the Expanded Bidder Qualification Process related to troubled institutions. Ms. Arquette had prior responsibility to administer programs that encompassed: bank-related fraud matters, cyber-fraud, policy related to fiduciary activities, government and municipal securities dealers and registered transfer agents, as well as, the national background check program. Ms. Arquette began her FDIC career as a safety and soundness bank examiner in the Dallas Region. Since then, she has also held the positions of Senior Capital Markets Specialist and Risk Management Review Examiner. |
 John H. Atkinson
Director
Protiviti
John is a Director with Protiviti in the firm’s Regulatory Risk Consulting practice. John joined Protiviti in June 2008 after a 30-year career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he had oversight and management responsibilities at the official level for numerous bank supervision functions, including anti-money laundering, enforcement, fiduciary risk, international bank supervision, operations risk, consumer compliance, and policy development. At Protiviti John consults with a broad array of financial institution clients on regulatory and risk management issues, with an emphasis on anti-money laundering risk management. John has been a regular speaker for many years at professional conferences and events for industry, regulatory, and law enforcement groups on both a national and international basis. He has a B.A. degree in Economics from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the Executive Development Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. |
Gloria G. Benson, CPA
Senior Vice President, BSA/AML Officer
Banco Santander Puerto Rico
Gloria Benson is Senior Vice president and BSA/AML Officer of Banco Santander Puerto Rico. Ms. Benson is responsible for assuring a robust BSA/AML program within the Bank and its affiliates in Puerto Rico, Santander Securities, Santander Insurance and Santander Finance. She was first appointed BSA officer in 1994 and has been active in the development and implementation of corporate BSA/AML policies including the adaptation of international corporate AML policies to local regulatory requirements. Ms. Benson serves as the AML compliance liaison to the global AML unit of the parent company in Madrid as well as the USA Compliance Division. |
 RJ Berry
Head of Compliance
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
RJ joined the Authority in May 2002 as the Deputy Head of Compliance and was promoted to Head of Compliance in May 2004. His primary responsibilities include managing and directing the enforcement actions taken by the Authority, overseeing the due diligence process on persons applying to be approved persons on entities regulated by the Authority, and assisting on non-routine requests for assistance from overseas regulatory authorities. Mr. Berry’s duties also include acting as the Authority’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer and working closely with the Financial Reporting Authority concerning any suspicion of money laundering identified in the course of the Authority performing its functions.
Prior to joining the Authority Mr. Berry worked as a Private Banking Assistant Manager and Administrator at Bank Vontobel Cayman from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Berry began his career in the financial services sector in 1993 at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Grand Cayman (CIBC), where he was promoted to a number of positions within the Investment Department. He moved to Barclays Private Bank & Trust (Cayman) Limited in 1997, where he held the post of Investment Dealer.
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 John J. Byrne, CAMS
Executive Vice President
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
John recently joined ACAMS as Executive Vice President. John is an internationally-recognized regulatory and legislative attorney with over 25 years of experience in financial services issues, with expertise in regulatory oversight, policy and management, anti-money laundering, privacy and consumer compliance. He was most recently President of Condor Consulting LLC and prior to that the Global Regulatory Relations Executive for Bank of America and the Director of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance. John has received a number of awards, including the Director's Medal for Exceptional Service from the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the ABA's Distinguished Service Award for his career work in the compliance field.
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Arturo L. Carrion
Executive Vice President
Puerto Rico Bankers Association (ABPR) |
 Gladys M. Castellano, CAMS
BSA Manager
Banco Santander Puerto Rico
Gladys has over 18 years experience in the banking industry and has held many challenging managerial positions mostly in the Anti-Money Laundering field and regulatory compliance in Puerto Rico. She is currently working as a BSA Manager at Banco Santander Puerto Rico. In this role, she is responsible for the AML detection and investigation unit as well as the BSA record-keeping unit among other managerial responsibilities. She has an MBA in Finance and has completed the ABA Graduate School of Compliance Management.
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 Heiromy Castro, CAMS
Director, Office for Prevention of Laundering and Financial Crimes
Superintendency of Banks of the Dominican Republic
Heiromy is an economist, holds a Masters in Business Administration, a Post-Graduate in Financial Management and Strategic Planning. He has 19 years experience in the financial sector, serving currently as Director of the Office for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financial Crimes of the Superintendency of Banks of the Dominican Republic.
He has represented the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). CFATF designated instructor, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations United Nations International Drug Control Programme, Inter-American Development Bank and National Anti-Drug Plan of Spain.
He has been Advisor of the Superintendency of Banks in Prevention of Serious Fraud, Financial Evaluator assigned by CFATF (Countries studied: Panama, Venezuela and El Salvador) he represented the Dominican Republic in the Egmont Group, the Group Inter-Governmental Expert Committee on Drug Abuse (GEG-CICAD/OEA) and the Group of Experts on Money (LAVEX-CICAD/OEA) |
 Haivanjoe NG Cortiñas
Superintendent of Banks
Dominican Republic
He has extensive experience working in the public sector, starting in 1984 as a Systems and Procedures Analyst, and then Manager of the Agricultural Economics Unit of the Agricultural Bank of the Dominican Republic. Later, worked as a Technician in Health’s Statistics in the Hudson County, New Jersey from 1991 to 1993; then Economic Adviser to the block of Deputies of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana from 1994-1997; Manager of Planning in Procomunidad; Director of Research at the Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo (UCSD) from 1995-1997. As a high level Dominican Government Official, he was the National Treasurer from 1197-1998, General Comptroller of the Republic from 1998-2000, and Economic Advisor of the City Council of Distrito Naciolan from 2002-2004.
He served as Superintendent of Securities of the Dominican Republic from august 2004 until may 2009. In this position, he participated and gave several lectures and conference, both in the Dominican Republic and Abroad, relating to the securities market and products. He was also the proponent and the signer of the Cooperation Agreement between UASD and the Superintendent of Securities. |
 Cherise Cox-Nottage
Executive Director
Head of Legal Department
UBS Bahamas Ltd.
Cherise is presently the Head of the Legal Department for UBS (Bahamas) Ltd. A role which encompasses oversight of the 2 largest trust companies of the UBS group, namely UBS Trustees (Bahamas) Ltd. and UBS Trustees (Cayman) Ltd. Prior to UBS Cherise held the position of Head of Legal and Compliance for a rival Swiss bank for 3 years. She has practiced as an Attorney in the UK and in The Bahamas providing legal advice and representation to institutional clients.
Cherise is a graduate of the London School of Economics Political Science (LSE) London University where she obtained an LLM ( Master of Laws) degree in subject grouping Commercial and Corporate Law. She also obtained her undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) England. |
 Elizabeth Davy
Partner
Sullivan & Crowell LLP
Elizabeth Tibbals Davy joined Sullivan & Cromwell as special counsel in October 1998 and became a partner of the Firm in January 2004. Ms. Davy is a member of the Financial Institutions Group and is particularly active in the areas of banking regulation, supervision and enforcement. She advises clients on numerous bank regulatory and compliance issues, including issues relating to permissible investments and activities for bank holding companies, powers of state and national banks, affiliate transactions, trading activities, investment management activities and anti-money laundering compliance, including compliance with the USA PATRIOT Act. She has represented clients in mergers and acquisitions, bank formations and conversions, private equity investments, and foreign bank entry into the United States, as well as in investigations involving allegations of money laundering, violations of banking laws and regulations, trading improprieties and Bank Secrecy Act reporting obligations. She was formerly a senior officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Legal Department and Bank Supervision Group and was deputy superintendent and counsel of the New York State Banking Department. |
 James A. Dinkins
Executive Associate Director
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
US Department of Homeland Security
James A. Dinkins is the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE is the second largest criminal investigative agency in the United States and the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, with more than 9,000 employees, including 6,700 Special Agents assigned to 26 Special Agent-in-Charge offices in major cities, 182 other field offices throughout the United States, and 63 Attaché offices in 44 countries. As the Executive Associate Director, Mr. Dinkins has direct oversight of ICE’s investigative, enforcement and intelligence initiatives and operations targeting cross border criminal organizations who exploit America’s legitimate travel, trade, financial and immigration systems for their illicit purposes. This includes the investigation of financial crimes; bulk cash smuggling; narcotics smuggling & trafficking; human smuggling & trafficking; commercial trade, fraud and intellectual property right crimes; cyber crimes and the exploitation of children; immigration and document & benefit fraud; human rights violators; transnational gang activity; and weapons smuggling and export enforcement. To accomplish this mission, Mr. Dinkins administers a budget of more than $ 2 billion and is responsible for strategic planning, national policy implementation and the development and execution of all operational initiatives. |
María A. Domínguez-Victoriano
First Assistant
US Attorney’s Office
District of Puerto Rico
Graduate School of Law, University of Miami in 1985. Maria began in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the State of Florida in 1990, then moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Puerto Rico in 1995 and has held various positions such as U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division (1995-1997), Deputy Chief Criminal Division (1997-1999), Chief of the White Collar Crimes and General (1999-2002), Senior Litigation Counsel (2004-2007) and First Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2007.
She also participated as Director of Attorney Development Program, U.S. Department of Justice headquarters of the American Embassy in Columbia and was the recipient of the Award of Attorney General in December 2005. Attorney Dominguez has over 25 years of legal experience, 20 of these in the U.S. Attorney's Office and has litigated several cases of criminal nature such as narcotics, violent crime and public corruption. |
Miriam Fernández
Chief Money Laundering and Assets Forfeiture Unit
US Attorney’s Office
District of Puerto Rico
From September 2000 until August 2005, Miriam served as civil attorney for Goldman, Antonetti & Cordova, a law firm located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She assigned to the Litigation Unit (torts, mortgages, breach of contract, and bankruptcy, among others). Since September 2005 until the present, Miriam works as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. In June 1997, she earned Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Puerto Rico, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; and in May 2000, a Juris Doctorate degree from University of Puerto Rico.
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 Susan Galli, CAMS
Senior Vice President, AML Program Director
HSBC
Susan Galli is currently the Director of AML Programs, part of the AML Governance Office for HSBC Holdings North America, Inc. She has responsibility for AML policy and program development. She was recently the Chief Risk Management Officer at Pacific National Bank, N.A. where she had responsibility for the oversight of the compliance risk management functions including BSA and regulatory compliance. Ms. Galli served as a Managing Director and Practice Leader for the AML Compliance Risk Advisory & Forensics Practice of a big-five consulting firm. Ms. Galli, who is fluent in English and Spanish, has over 17 years of senior-level anti-money laundering experience providing a vast array of services including developing AML risk scoring policies and procedures for various business lines, implementing automated customer acquisition due diligence processes for the correspondent bank and corporate bank accounts of Citibank’s Latin America Division and developing and approving the Customer Identification Program Procedures and exception requests for business lines in Latin America. |
 Charles Grice
Managing Director
CRI Consulting
Charles Grice is one of 4 managing directors of CRI, a financial consulting firm founded in 1988 by leaders in the US financial sector. Charles and the firm advise leading US and international financial firms on regulatory and legal compliance issues in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. CRI’s clients include financial holding companies and many of the leading banking and investment houses. CRI is also engaged in complex litigation, and Charles has served as an expert witness in several major lawsuits related to fraud, due diligence, and money laundering.
For more than 20 years, Charles has concentrated on compliance issues including the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering regulations, Know Your Customer, OFAC, USA PATRIOT Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Community Reinvestment Act and the Fair Lending laws and regulations. He and the firm have extensive experience developing policies and procedures, training and advising Boards of Directors and other executives on these and other risk management issues. |
 Lisa Grigg, CAMS
Global AML Executive for North America; BSA Officer
Bank of America
Lisa is the North America’s Risk Executive and Bank Secrecy Act Officer in Enterprise Compliance Program Operations, Global Compliance and Operational Risk Division and is located in Charlotte, NC. She is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and related federal laws as amended and supplemented by the relevant provisions of the USA Patriot Act, as well as other locally applicable laws and related anti-money laundering regulations. Ms Grigg is directly responsible for Bank of America’s AML policy, procedures and controls designed to reasonably ensure compliance with all anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws and regulations in all jurisdictions in which the Bank operates. |
Patricia Handley, CAMS
Supervisory Examiner
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Patricia joined the FDIC in June 1993 and has been a commissioned Financial Institution Examiner since June 1996. Prior to joining the FDIC, Ms. Handley was an internal auditor for two commercial banks in Northern New Jersey, with assets ranging from $350 million to $3 billion. Ms. Handley specializes in performing Bank Secrecy Act and Anti‑Money Laundering (BSA/AML) examinations and is a BSA Subject Matter Expert in the New York Region of the FDIC. Ms. Handley routinely provides training to examiners, bankers, and other regulatory agencies on effective BSA/AML practices; and was a Review Examiner for two years in the FDIC’s AML Section in Washington, D.C. In November 2005, Ms. Handley participated in an international regional training conference on Investigating and Prosecuting Advanced Financial Crimes in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The training conference was sponsored by the Central Bank of UAE and the U.S. Department of Justice in collaboration with the Middle East and North African FAFT. In March 2007, Ms. Handley participated in a Financial Systems Assessment of Yemen in conjunction with the U.S. State Department where she led meetings with Central Bank staff and assessed the country’s AML and counter terrorist financing (CTF) laws. In 2010, Ms. Handley designed an advanced international training program that is used regularly to provide AML/CTF training to high-level foreign dignitaries; the training program is sponsored by the State Department. |
 Ron P. King, CAMS
Vice President and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer
Scotiabank
Ron designs, develops, implements and maintains Scotiabank Group’s global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing program. He coordinates all activities related to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing for the major business lines for the institution and supports management in assessing and managing enterprise-wide risks, developing standards and procedures for anti-money laundering controls, training and monitoring transactions. |
 María de Lourdes Jiménez, Esq.
Senior Vice President & Division Head Manager, Corporate Compliance Division
Popular
Marilú is the Senior Vice President & Division Head of the Corporate Compliance Division for Popular, Inc. Her principal responsibility is to supervise the compliance function in Puerto Rico, the United States and all other operations for Popular, Inc. Her position is a professional and executive job responsible for the coordination, planning, supervision, and guidance to the different business circles, compliance programs for Popular, Inc., subsidiaries and affiliates. It ensures that within a safe and sound corporate reporting matrix, the effectiveness of the legal regulatory compliance program and related initiatives of the Corporation are properly managed and implemented. Mrs. Jiménez has vast experience as a Legal Counsel and Compliance Manager in Multinational Institutions. She has previously worked for Citibank, Puerto Rico’s Commissioner of Financial Institutions, and Banco Santander, where she managed the Legal Counsel Office and Corporate Compliance. She began her professional career with Vicente Zayas Puig law firm, who was then the Legal Counsel and Secretary of the Banco Popular Board of Directors.
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 Ernesto López-Villegas
Deputy Executive Director
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)
Since 2003 Ernesto has been helping countries to identify and address their weaknesses to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, from an international perspective. He worked for five years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF, Washington DC) as part of the Financial Integrity Group, and in September 2008 he joined the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF, Trinidad) as one of two Deputy Executive Directors. His work includes the leading of multidisciplinary assessment teams, the provision of policy and legal drafting advice to senior government officials, liaising with donors and international organizations, and training private and public sector officials, including banking regulators, compliance officers, prosecutors, judges, FIU and law enforcement professionals.
Mr. López has also participated in the assessment of more than nine AML/CFT national systems in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Ernesto is a Colombian attorney from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), with a Master in Laws -LL.M- from Northwestern University (Chicago), and a Certificate in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Chicago). His professional focus has been on financial law, compliance and combating money laundering from various positions at the Central Bank of Colombia, the International Monetary Fund and the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. His career started more than 15 years ago as a law clerk in the Constitutional Court of Colombia, and then as legal counsel to the Board of Directors of the Central Bank, dealing with a broad scope of financial regulatory issues. He was promoted in 2001 to Director of the AML Unit of the Central Bank, an office that combined compliance and financial intelligence functions.
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 Meryl Lutsky
Chief
Money Laundering Unit
New York State Attorney General's Office
Meryl Lutsky has been the Chief of both the Money Laundering Unit of the New York State Attorney General’s Office and the New York State Crime Proceeds Strike Force since 2004. These units investigate and prosecute money laundering and its associated criminal conduct, as well as violations of the Banking and Tax laws. To investigate these complex crimes more effectively and creatively, Meryl has assembled a task force consisting of federal and state prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and regulators. Meryl has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes throughout New York State. And because these investigations often extend to other states and countries, Meryl has developed key partnerships with many other jurisdictions, working with them to investigate and prosecute these mobile and multifaceted criminal enterprises. Among other cases, Meryl has recently investigated several multi-state fraud rings whose crimes included identity theft, money laundering, credit card fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud. More than forty individuals, including lawyers, mortgage brokers, money transmitters, and bank branch managers and other officials, have been indicted. Losses from these criminal enterprises currently total more than $50 million.
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S. Marshall Martin
Co-General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
City National Bank of Florida
Marshall has over fifteen (15) years of substantial bank regulatory compliance/risk management, finance, accounting, and legal experience. He joined City National Bank of Florida in early February 2009 as co-General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. At City National, Marshall has joint accountability for the legal affairs of the bank and as such is responsible for compliance with state/federal legal and regulatory requirements. In addition, his responsibilities include leadership, strategy development and execution in the areas of Compliance and Bank Secrecy Act. |
 Angela Mele, CAMS, MICA
Compliance Officer
Bodden Compliance & Training
Angela Mele, CAMS, MICA Compliance Officer Bodden Compliance & Training Angela has over 15 years in international financial services experience, having worked at Dundee Leeds Management Services in Bermuda, then at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, and most recently with Citi Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Ltd. (formerly BISYS Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Limited).
Angela left her position as Head of the Compliance & Training Division of Citi to take over managing Bodden Compliance & Training Ltd. in December 2007. Angela has designed and delivered anti money laundering, counter terrorist financing and business continuity training sessions for various associations and companies both locally and globally. Such groups include the Association of Certified Anti-Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Central Law Training (UK), the Cayman Islands Bankers’ Association, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, GovRisk, and the Cayman Islands Fund Administrators Association (CIFAA).
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Arthur D. Middlemiss
Executive Director/Compliance Director
JPMorgan Chase
Arthur heads the Financial Intelligence Unit and Emerging Risk Team, designed to recognize and confront major enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risks. The teams coordinate the firm’s enterprise-wide reaction to major public events, and develop proactive strategies to check anticipated AML-related threats. Mr. Middlemiss also is responsible for the oversight of the AML surveillance program for Treasury and Securities Services, a line of business that maintains 3,000 correspondent banking relationships worldwide, and moves daily $3.3 trillion. Prior to its June 2008 merger with J.P. Morgan, Mr. Middlemiss headed the AML surveillance program for Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. |
Marshal Morgan
White Collar and General Crimes Division
Assistant United States Attorney, District of Puerto Rico
Marshal is currently working as an Assistant United States Attorney assigned to the White Collar and General Crimes Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto (the “USAO”). At the USAO, Mr. Morgan serves as the Coordinator for all crimes involving identity theft. He also serves as the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the District of Puerto Rico wherein he heads up the United States Department of Justice’s Enforcement Initiative against Child Pornography and the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Puerto Rico. He has also been recently appointed as the Ethics Officer for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. At the moment, Mr. Morgan is lead attorney in several of the more high-profile mortgage fraud cases being prosecuted by the USAO.
Prior to joining the USAO, Mr. Morgan practiced in the area of civil and commercial litigation for 14 years working at such firms as Levin, Morgan and Longo in Orlando, Florida; and Adsuar, Muñiz, Goyco and Besosa; and Totti, Rodríguez-Díaz & Fuentes here in Puerto Rico. |
 Jason Narinesingh Adv Dip (Comp), MICA, CAMS, CICRA
Manager, Group Operational Risk
Group Operational Risk and Compliance
First Citizens Bank Ltd.
Director
Association of Compliance Professionals of Trinidad and Tobago
Jason Narinesingh is currently the Manager of Operational Risk within the Group Operational Risk and Compliance Unit of First Citizens Bank Ltd. His career experience includes the areas of operational risk management, managing insurance programs, anti fraud management and AML/CFT management. His experience recently included Operational Risk program integration due to the acquisition of Caribbean Money Market Brokers (CMMB) by the First Citizens Group.
Jason is a founding member of The Association of Compliance Professionals of Trinidad and Tobago (ACPTT), where he currently serves on the Board of Directors and is the running Vice President. He also is a member of the Association’s training committee and he has built several in house compliance training programs throughout his career. |
 Jonathan I. Polk
Senior Vice President, Specialist Investment Management Group
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jonathan Polk is a Senior Vice President in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Special Investments Management Group. Mr. Polk has been with the Federal Reserve for more than twenty years. He started in the Legal Group where he was involved in a variety of assignments, eventually concentrating his work on litigation and enforcement matters. He has since had responsibility for AML and Corporate Compliance examinations in the Bank Supervision Group. In his current assignment, Mr. Polk leads the AIG Monitoring Team, which oversees the Bank's credit exposure to AIG. He is also the Compliance Policy Advisor to the Head of Risk in the Bank Supervision Group. |
 John B. Reynolds, III
Partner
Wiley Rein LLP
Mr. Reynolds advises U.S. and foreign corporations, financial institutions, defense, technology and consumer products companies, government-owned corporations and sovereign wealth funds on trade, privacy, security and regulatory issues. He frequently represents clients before the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Defense and Homeland Security and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. With over 20 years of experience in export controls and economic sanctions, he counsels across industry sectors concerning all types of international compliance and enforcement issues, especially matters involving U.S. national security. |
 Víctor M. Rodríguez Bonilla
Compliance Officer
BPPR BSA/AML Compliance Department/ Corporate Compliance Division
Popular
Víctor is the BSA/AML Compliance Officer for Banco Popular de Puerto Rico & Popular, Inc. Among his responsibilities is responsible of provide corporate guidance of all applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Counter Terrorism and OFAC statutory provisions across Popular, Inc. entities. Mr. Rodriguez has an experience of about 25 years starting as an investigation specialist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in San Juan; Puerto Rico assigned to perform financial criminal investigations, such as “Operation Greenback” related to the White Collar Crime and Money Laundering activities in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Region. He also worked for Banco Santander Puerto Rico as Manager of Corporate Compliance Division in charge of provides trainings and counseling throughout the corporation on federal and state regulatory banking consumer laws and regulations.
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 Nancy J. Saur, CAMS
Regional Head of Compliance and Risk Management (Caribbean)
ATC Group N.V.
Nancy is currently responsible for compliance and risk management for the Caribbean and Asian offices of the ATC Group. In 2004, she co-founded a successful compliance consulting company headquartered in the Cayman Islands. She founded the Cayman Islands Compliance Association, managed the development of computer-based training for its members and created a Cayman Islands module for an international compliance training program.
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 Richard A. Small, CAMS
Vice President, Enterprise Wide Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Corruption and Sanctions Risk Management
American Express Company
Rick is responsible for establishing and maintaining enterprise-wide anti-money laundering and sanctions policies and procedures. Prior to joining American Express, he was the Global Anti-Money Laundering Leader for GE Money, a division of General Electric. In this role, Rick had responsibility for anti-money laundering controls, processes and procedures for all GE Money businesses globally. Additionally, he is Chairman of the ACAMS Advisory Board.
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 Gonzalo Vila, CAMS
Director of Latin America Operations
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
Gonzalo is the Director of Operations for Latin America at the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) where for the past 5 year he has led the developments of the association in the region, promoting a wide array of initiatives, from training to certification of AML professionals. Previously, he was the Editorial Director for Alerta de Lavado de Dinero and Lavadodinero.com, publications specialized in Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. He worked for more than 7 years for The Wall Street Journal, first for the Latin American print edition and then as a managing editor for the Internet edition in Spanish. Gonzalo has a vast experience in investigative journalism. He has participated as an international speaker in AML/CTF issues at several conferences throughout Latin America and has organized dozen of conferences, seminars and other events for Alert Global Media and ACAMS.
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 John Wagner
Director, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
John was named director for Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance in the Compliance Policy Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in March 2005. John directs the development of Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering examination policy and procedures. He also provides policy interpretations and guidance to field staff, represents the OCC and the U.S. Treasury on interagency task forces, and develops training programs. Prior to 2005, John served as a Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) / anti-money laundering (AML) specialist in the OCC’s Compliance Policy Division.
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