Agenda
Transform Finance Banking Summit - EMEA | 19th & 20th October 2022

Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities. 

Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results 

Dr Julia Sommer joined Unicredit Bank AG (HVB) in August 2017 as Head of Financial Sanctions. She leads the core Financial Sanctions functions, guiding the bank in financial sanctions and embargo issues. This encompasses in particular the enactment of internal rules, the counselling of complex financial products and issues, improving processes and tools, respective trainings and screening of all payments and transactions as to financial sanctions issues.

Before her work at Unicredit, Julia worked five years at Siemens AG as in-house lawyer in the Compliance Legal department. The department aims at preventing, detecting and reacting to infringements of the law, in particular of anti-corruption, anti-fraud and antitrust law. Julia guided and managed internal investigations and drafted internal rules and trainings. Her tasks encompassed counselling and managing compliances processes and tools (e.g. Siemens whistleblowing tool, processes for sponsoring and donations, gifts and hospitality, data collection in internal investigations, dawn raid trainings, compliance issues in tenders, drafting compliance clauses in contracts).

Before Siemens, from December 2000 through April 2012, she worked for an international law firm. Her work focused on regulatory law and compliance work, inter alia telecommunications and data protection law. Her work comprised representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, transactional advising, contract negotiations and compliance investigations, also in the banking sector in the field of economic sanctions controls.

Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.

Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities. 

Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results 

Dr Julia Sommer joined Unicredit Bank AG (HVB) in August 2017 as Head of Financial Sanctions. She leads the core Financial Sanctions functions, guiding the bank in financial sanctions and embargo issues. This encompasses in particular the enactment of internal rules, the counselling of complex financial products and issues, improving processes and tools, respective trainings and screening of all payments and transactions as to financial sanctions issues.

Before her work at Unicredit, Julia worked five years at Siemens AG as in-house lawyer in the Compliance Legal department. The department aims at preventing, detecting and reacting to infringements of the law, in particular of anti-corruption, anti-fraud and antitrust law. Julia guided and managed internal investigations and drafted internal rules and trainings. Her tasks encompassed counselling and managing compliances processes and tools (e.g. Siemens whistleblowing tool, processes for sponsoring and donations, gifts and hospitality, data collection in internal investigations, dawn raid trainings, compliance issues in tenders, drafting compliance clauses in contracts).

Before Siemens, from December 2000 through April 2012, she worked for an international law firm. Her work focused on regulatory law and compliance work, inter alia telecommunications and data protection law. Her work comprised representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, transactional advising, contract negotiations and compliance investigations, also in the banking sector in the field of economic sanctions controls.

Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.

Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities. 

Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results 

Dr Julia Sommer joined Unicredit Bank AG (HVB) in August 2017 as Head of Financial Sanctions. She leads the core Financial Sanctions functions, guiding the bank in financial sanctions and embargo issues. This encompasses in particular the enactment of internal rules, the counselling of complex financial products and issues, improving processes and tools, respective trainings and screening of all payments and transactions as to financial sanctions issues.

Before her work at Unicredit, Julia worked five years at Siemens AG as in-house lawyer in the Compliance Legal department. The department aims at preventing, detecting and reacting to infringements of the law, in particular of anti-corruption, anti-fraud and antitrust law. Julia guided and managed internal investigations and drafted internal rules and trainings. Her tasks encompassed counselling and managing compliances processes and tools (e.g. Siemens whistleblowing tool, processes for sponsoring and donations, gifts and hospitality, data collection in internal investigations, dawn raid trainings, compliance issues in tenders, drafting compliance clauses in contracts).

Before Siemens, from December 2000 through April 2012, she worked for an international law firm. Her work focused on regulatory law and compliance work, inter alia telecommunications and data protection law. Her work comprised representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, transactional advising, contract negotiations and compliance investigations, also in the banking sector in the field of economic sanctions controls.

Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.

Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities. 

Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results 

Dr Julia Sommer joined Unicredit Bank AG (HVB) in August 2017 as Head of Financial Sanctions. She leads the core Financial Sanctions functions, guiding the bank in financial sanctions and embargo issues. This encompasses in particular the enactment of internal rules, the counselling of complex financial products and issues, improving processes and tools, respective trainings and screening of all payments and transactions as to financial sanctions issues.

Before her work at Unicredit, Julia worked five years at Siemens AG as in-house lawyer in the Compliance Legal department. The department aims at preventing, detecting and reacting to infringements of the law, in particular of anti-corruption, anti-fraud and antitrust law. Julia guided and managed internal investigations and drafted internal rules and trainings. Her tasks encompassed counselling and managing compliances processes and tools (e.g. Siemens whistleblowing tool, processes for sponsoring and donations, gifts and hospitality, data collection in internal investigations, dawn raid trainings, compliance issues in tenders, drafting compliance clauses in contracts).

Before Siemens, from December 2000 through April 2012, she worked for an international law firm. Her work focused on regulatory law and compliance work, inter alia telecommunications and data protection law. Her work comprised representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, transactional advising, contract negotiations and compliance investigations, also in the banking sector in the field of economic sanctions controls.

Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.

Swiss Banking Regulations and Governance have been a part of my professional life for 25 years. I served as founding director, board member, managing director and liquidator of Swiss banks. I can speak about and advice on Forensic investigations, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC), Know Your Customer (KYT), Know Your Transactions (KYT), Target Operating Models for Compliance, Governance in Financial Institutions, a broad range of regulatory topics, Fintech, Regtech, and other related areas.

Together with a small group of experts I also founded a legal commentary on the Swiss AML Act in 2003. The 3rd edition was published in German and English in 2019.

As a former amateur software developer I‘m also excited about the opportunities we have in supporting business with data analytics and I‘m a strong believer in artificial intelligence.

Besides banking I have done a broad range of legal work in various industries including publishing, advertising, industrial products, commodities and IT.

My over 30 years of military service gave me a good understanding of project and crisis management. I’m still serving as a Lead Analyst Officer in the Military Intelligence Services of the Swiss Army.

Swiss Banking Regulations and Governance have been a part of my professional life for 25 years. I served as founding director, board member, managing director and liquidator of Swiss banks. I can speak about and advice on Forensic investigations, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC), Know Your Customer (KYT), Know Your Transactions (KYT), Target Operating Models for Compliance, Governance in Financial Institutions, a broad range of regulatory topics, Fintech, Regtech, and other related areas.

Together with a small group of experts I also founded a legal commentary on the Swiss AML Act in 2003. The 3rd edition was published in German and English in 2019.

As a former amateur software developer I‘m also excited about the opportunities we have in supporting business with data analytics and I‘m a strong believer in artificial intelligence.

Besides banking I have done a broad range of legal work in various industries including publishing, advertising, industrial products, commodities and IT.

My over 30 years of military service gave me a good understanding of project and crisis management. I’m still serving as a Lead Analyst Officer in the Military Intelligence Services of the Swiss Army.

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.

Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.

After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.

Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.

As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.

Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.

Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.

Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).

As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Dr Christoph Wronka is a Director within the Service Line FSI Forensic in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of relevant industry and consulting experience in financial services. His consulting activities focus on the support of his clients to fulfil their regulatory requirements, in particular in the areas of Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transactions (KYT). In addition, Christoph is leading the Expert Group Blockchain, Digital Assets and Financial Crime within Deloitte in Germany.

Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Christoph was working for EXXETA and Capco where he was involved in building up the Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Practice.

Christoph is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), holding its CAMS certification and a Certified AML and Fraud Officer (Forum Institute).

Thomas Gregg leads the Central EMEA operations at Chainalysis, the blockchain data company that provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Much of his previous work involved scaling high growth US headquartered companies successfully into mainland Europe. In his free time Thomas enjoys anything that involves learning about crypto.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Dr Christoph Wronka is a Director within the Service Line FSI Forensic in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of relevant industry and consulting experience in financial services. His consulting activities focus on the support of his clients to fulfil their regulatory requirements, in particular in the areas of Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transactions (KYT). In addition, Christoph is leading the Expert Group Blockchain, Digital Assets and Financial Crime within Deloitte in Germany.

Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Christoph was working for EXXETA and Capco where he was involved in building up the Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Practice.

Christoph is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), holding its CAMS certification and a Certified AML and Fraud Officer (Forum Institute).

Thomas Gregg leads the Central EMEA operations at Chainalysis, the blockchain data company that provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Much of his previous work involved scaling high growth US headquartered companies successfully into mainland Europe. In his free time Thomas enjoys anything that involves learning about crypto.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Dr Christoph Wronka is a Director within the Service Line FSI Forensic in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of relevant industry and consulting experience in financial services. His consulting activities focus on the support of his clients to fulfil their regulatory requirements, in particular in the areas of Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transactions (KYT). In addition, Christoph is leading the Expert Group Blockchain, Digital Assets and Financial Crime within Deloitte in Germany.

Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Christoph was working for EXXETA and Capco where he was involved in building up the Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Practice.

Christoph is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), holding its CAMS certification and a Certified AML and Fraud Officer (Forum Institute).

Thomas Gregg leads the Central EMEA operations at Chainalysis, the blockchain data company that provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Much of his previous work involved scaling high growth US headquartered companies successfully into mainland Europe. In his free time Thomas enjoys anything that involves learning about crypto.

Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.

Dr Christoph Wronka is a Director within the Service Line FSI Forensic in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of relevant industry and consulting experience in financial services. His consulting activities focus on the support of his clients to fulfil their regulatory requirements, in particular in the areas of Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transactions (KYT). In addition, Christoph is leading the Expert Group Blockchain, Digital Assets and Financial Crime within Deloitte in Germany.

Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Christoph was working for EXXETA and Capco where he was involved in building up the Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Practice.

Christoph is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), holding its CAMS certification and a Certified AML and Fraud Officer (Forum Institute).

Thomas Gregg leads the Central EMEA operations at Chainalysis, the blockchain data company that provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Much of his previous work involved scaling high growth US headquartered companies successfully into mainland Europe. In his free time Thomas enjoys anything that involves learning about crypto.

Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.

Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.

In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.

Gerard leads AML across EMEA at Invesco. He is based in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Management Committee responsible for local operations. He has spent 25 years in the industry leading AML policy and framework in various regions, including EMEA, US/LATAM, Middle East and Africa.  He has managed Back-office Operations and acted as Programme Manager for joint venture and outsourcing projects. 

Ryan Grenier is a Managing Director of Product Management in Commerzbank’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics group. He leads Commerzbank’s Knowledge Graph platform, an NLP and Machine learning service to enrich banking transactions and entity analytics. The service enables KYC, AML, lending decisioning and customer-facing analytics across Commerzbank.

A Silicon Valley veteran of 20 years with experience, Ryan is focused on building scaled data products that drive revenue growth, user engagement and actionable business insights. He was most recently at Amazon as a General Manager with previous roles as a CMO and product management leader at technology companies including startups, Yahoo!, Rackspace, and T-Mobile USA.

Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.

Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.

In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.

Gerard leads AML across EMEA at Invesco. He is based in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Management Committee responsible for local operations. He has spent 25 years in the industry leading AML policy and framework in various regions, including EMEA, US/LATAM, Middle East and Africa.  He has managed Back-office Operations and acted as Programme Manager for joint venture and outsourcing projects. 

Ryan Grenier is a Managing Director of Product Management in Commerzbank’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics group. He leads Commerzbank’s Knowledge Graph platform, an NLP and Machine learning service to enrich banking transactions and entity analytics. The service enables KYC, AML, lending decisioning and customer-facing analytics across Commerzbank.

A Silicon Valley veteran of 20 years with experience, Ryan is focused on building scaled data products that drive revenue growth, user engagement and actionable business insights. He was most recently at Amazon as a General Manager with previous roles as a CMO and product management leader at technology companies including startups, Yahoo!, Rackspace, and T-Mobile USA.

Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.

Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.

In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.

Gerard leads AML across EMEA at Invesco. He is based in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Management Committee responsible for local operations. He has spent 25 years in the industry leading AML policy and framework in various regions, including EMEA, US/LATAM, Middle East and Africa.  He has managed Back-office Operations and acted as Programme Manager for joint venture and outsourcing projects. 

Ryan Grenier is a Managing Director of Product Management in Commerzbank’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics group. He leads Commerzbank’s Knowledge Graph platform, an NLP and Machine learning service to enrich banking transactions and entity analytics. The service enables KYC, AML, lending decisioning and customer-facing analytics across Commerzbank.

A Silicon Valley veteran of 20 years with experience, Ryan is focused on building scaled data products that drive revenue growth, user engagement and actionable business insights. He was most recently at Amazon as a General Manager with previous roles as a CMO and product management leader at technology companies including startups, Yahoo!, Rackspace, and T-Mobile USA.

Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.

Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.

In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.

Gerard leads AML across EMEA at Invesco. He is based in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Management Committee responsible for local operations. He has spent 25 years in the industry leading AML policy and framework in various regions, including EMEA, US/LATAM, Middle East and Africa.  He has managed Back-office Operations and acted as Programme Manager for joint venture and outsourcing projects. 

Ryan Grenier is a Managing Director of Product Management in Commerzbank’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics group. He leads Commerzbank’s Knowledge Graph platform, an NLP and Machine learning service to enrich banking transactions and entity analytics. The service enables KYC, AML, lending decisioning and customer-facing analytics across Commerzbank.

A Silicon Valley veteran of 20 years with experience, Ryan is focused on building scaled data products that drive revenue growth, user engagement and actionable business insights. He was most recently at Amazon as a General Manager with previous roles as a CMO and product management leader at technology companies including startups, Yahoo!, Rackspace, and T-Mobile USA.