8:55 am to 9:00 am EST
Chair's Welcome and Opening Remarks
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
9:00 am to 9:20 am EST
Understanding the future of Financial Crime
Aaron is a leader and subject-matter expert with over 16 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance. Working across all lines of business for major US and European banks in global and regional roles, Aaron has led the development, execution, and oversight of the AML, Sanctions, Fraud, and Bribery & Corruption programs. Currently, Aaron is the Deputy Head of Anti-Financial Crime for the Americas at Deutsche Bank. He has significant experience leading banks to the lifting of a deferred prosecution agreement and the closure of regulatory consent orders. Aaron has a Master’s degree in International Economics, a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, and a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.
9:25 am to 9:45 am EST
AML/KYC Best Practices: Integrated compliance across the end to end Customer Journey
Seamless KYC operations are a necessity to reach end-to-end connectivity with the broader customer lifecycle management of onboarding and servicing. Institutions need to develop strategies to tackle common obstacles, such as data silos, manual processes, and changing regulations, to achieve customer satisfaction and meet all your risk and compliance obligations.
Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Industry Manager for Financial Services, responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services. The role includes working with customers, partners and industry associations to ensure Appian deliver solutions that help drive growth, manage risk and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and RBC. Guy Mettrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.
9:50 am to 10:30 am EST
Future Forward AFC and AML trends
- Exploring the effect of the AML Act of 2020 on the AML/Fraud Industry.
- Beneficial Ownership Register
- New BSA
- Analyzing the mass adoption of Cryptocurrencies and applying AML/Anti-Fraud regulations
- The adoption of new technologies on the regulatory landscape.
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Robert Williams is a Financial Crime Prevention Professional with nearly 20 years of expertise in the sectors of Banking including the USAPA, BSA, AML, KYC, and OFAC, at three different foreign Banks.
He began his career at Credit Lyonnais/Calyon, subsequently Credit Agricole in 2002, where he investigated Money Laundering cases, including writing, and filing SAR’s (Suspicious Activity Reports ), and perfected many other facets of International Banking. These included Correspondent, Private, and Corporate and Investment Banking, to name a few. He then moved on to BNP Paribas where he was the institutions designated OFAC Compliance Officer.
Most recently he was employed at Standard Chartered Bank, in more of a Sanctions Advisory role working with the Account Opening/KYC teams, and Relationship Managers to mitigate any/all internal and external sanctions concerns. Finally he is an adjunct Professor of Crypto/Bitcoin regulations at an online University.
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Robert Williams is a Financial Crime Prevention Professional with nearly 20 years of expertise in the sectors of Banking including the USAPA, BSA, AML, KYC, and OFAC, at three different foreign Banks.
He began his career at Credit Lyonnais/Calyon, subsequently Credit Agricole in 2002, where he investigated Money Laundering cases, including writing, and filing SAR’s (Suspicious Activity Reports ), and perfected many other facets of International Banking. These included Correspondent, Private, and Corporate and Investment Banking, to name a few. He then moved on to BNP Paribas where he was the institutions designated OFAC Compliance Officer.
Most recently he was employed at Standard Chartered Bank, in more of a Sanctions Advisory role working with the Account Opening/KYC teams, and Relationship Managers to mitigate any/all internal and external sanctions concerns. Finally he is an adjunct Professor of Crypto/Bitcoin regulations at an online University.
10:30 am to 11:00 am EST
Morning Coffee & 1-2-1 Meetings
11:00 am to 11:45 am EST
Interactive roundtable discussions
1. Financial Crime Investigations: Working Smarter, Not Harder hosted by Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead, BottomLine Technologies
2. Unbundling rich entity profiles to improve complex investigations, hosted by Senior Representative of Sayari Analytics
3. Smarter Risk Management hosted by Rob Rendell VP of Payment Solutions & Lukayn Hunsicker VP of Market Solutions, Feedzai
4. Digital Innovations: Leveraging AI, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning hosted by Ryan Buttacavoli, Account Executive, WorkFusion
5. End-to-end KYC Process Orchestration with Low-Code hosted by Michael Heffner, Vice President, Solutions and Industry Go to Market, Appian
6. Stopping FinCrime using a new wave of tech innovation hosted by Martin Rehak, CEO & Founder, Resistant.AI
7. Next Gen Tech for FinCrime Prevention hosted by Deleep Nair, Head of Solutions Engineering, NAM, Symphony Ayasdi
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
(BREAK OUT ROOM)
Speed Networking
11:45 am to 12:20 pm EST
1-2-1 Meetings
12:20 pm to 1:20 pm EST
Networking Lunch
1:20 pm to 2:45 pm EST
Track 1 - AML
Best Practice Case Study | Enabling ‘SMART’ KYC
Erika is ACAMS certified, Bachelor of laws, with a solid understanding of law and regulations, both in Canada and international jurisdictions, fully bilingual in English and Spanish, With specialities in: AML/ATF, Sanctions, Regulatory Compliance, international business/ contract law.
Industry Presentation | Data-Driven Decision Making for Fraud Prevention
- Risk signals pre-transaction
- Enhanced profiling
- Smarter relationships with your clients
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
Best Practice Case Study | Crypto Best-practice presentation
Track 2 - FRAUD
Creating new platforms to protect institutions: built for banks by banks
Dan serves as the Chief Digital Officer of Customers Bank, an $18 bln asset super-regional bank headquartered in Pennsylvania (NYSE: CUBI. His teams are working on product and feature development, mobile app design, internal and external APIs, CIP/Fraud and new account origination, payments, security, distribution and instant account-opening.
With mobile banking and financial services, telecommunications and technology projects in 40+ countries, Dan brings distinctive expertise in developing new products, technologies and distribution strategies that accurately match technology with consumers’ needs. For the past 20 years, Dan has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America start-ups, mobile banking/payments, instant-account opening and correspondent banking, telecommunications, NFC, cards, alliances, regulatory, feasibility and automation programs.
From 2015-2018, Dan served as CDO and Managing Director of “BankMobile”, a digital banking group that included launch of millennial-focused digital banking platforms and apps, the BankMobile Vibe Student Banking and T-Mobile MONEY, a checking account sold in 7,000 T-Mobile stores nation-wide.
From 2009-2014, Dan worked on launching successful mobile banking and payments products for Dutch bank Rabobank, as well as large banks in countries like Brazil, Rwanda, Paraguay, China, India, Tanzania, Mozambique, Poland, Botswana, Zambia and Cameroon. He additionally worked on contactless payments including establishment of a 3-bank/3-mobile operator venture in The Netherlands from 2009 to 2011 and served for three years on the Board of Directors of mBank Philippines, a mobile-only, nation-wide commercial bank.
One of the founders of pioneering Dutch GSM Service Provider Rabo Mobiel in the Netherlands from 2005-2009, Dan served as CTO responsible for telecommunications and mobile financial services technology.
Best Practice Case Study | The New Risks of Financial Automation
- The rise of process hacking and mass fraud
- What are robotic identities?
- Why current solutions fail against scaled attacks
- How to filter IDs with defense-in-depth
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
Best Practice Case Study | Data-Driven Decision making for Fraud Prevention
Vaughn Swartz is the Chief Compliance Officer for North America, overseeing and managing compliance risk for Rabobank’s North American businesses in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In this role he is responsible for advising on a broad range of legal, regulatory, risk, and compliance matters and leading the management of regulatory compliance programs supporting Rabobank, Rabo AgriFinance, De Lage Landen, and North America Wholesale.
Mr. Swartz is a member of the Rabobank North America Executive Team, serves on the boards of Rabobank Capital Services, Inc. and Rabo Securities Inc. and is a member of the global compliance management team. Rabobank is a global financial services firm headquartered in the Netherlands with operations in 43 countries.
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm EST
Networking Coffee & 1-2-1 Meetings
3:30 pm to 3:50 pm EST
Leveraging Network Risk Insight for Financial Risk Decisioning
Ed has two decades of experience in running global software enterprise organisations and is an acknowledged market expert in financial crime, compliance and risk with specific expertise in anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC), customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD). He’s served as a public-company CEO, general manager, chief product officer and global marketing leader at entry-stage, mid-size and global software firms.
Ed recently served as Chief Product Officer of ThetaRay–an Israel-based, AI payment platform company, responsible for Product and Partnerships. During his first 60 days, he conceived and launched a new RegTechproduct yielding a mid-six-figure contract at their largest customer.
Before that, Ed served as President of Arachnys –a London-based, Cloud-RegTech solutions provider –where he pivoted the company to Enterprise sales, tripled its ARR revenue base, achieved category leader rankings and secured a $10M Series A round over a transformative twenty-four, month period.
Before Arachnys, he was CEO of Model N (NYSE: MODN), a Silicon Valley-based, cloud software company delivery revenue management solutions to the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms. While there, he drove the company’s largest M&A transaction in history with the acquisition of its largest competitor, Revitas.
Before that, Ed spent five years at NICE Actimize (Nasdaq: NICE) as General Manager of its Anti-Money Laundering business where he took the business from $72M to $146M in 3 years; he served as the company’s Chief Product Officer before that.
Earlier, Ed was part of the IPO team that took IntraLinks public in 2010. He began his enterprise software career at SAP and was a key leader at Monster Worldwide from its 1996 IPO through to the internet’s earliest days.
Ed earned his Masters of Science degree at Columbia University in the city of New York and has lived in downtown Manhattan since Sept-11th. An outdoor enthusiast and trekker of Catskills mountain trails with his wife and three children, he aspires to complete his 3rdNYC marathon in the future.
3:55 pm to 4:40 pm EST
Panel Session + Q&A | The Fraud & Financial Crime Landscape - current trends, tech opportunities and challenges for Fraud & Compliance teams
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Industry Manager for Financial Services, responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services. The role includes working with customers, partners and industry associations to ensure Appian deliver solutions that help drive growth, manage risk and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and RBC. Guy Mettrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Industry Manager for Financial Services, responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services. The role includes working with customers, partners and industry associations to ensure Appian deliver solutions that help drive growth, manage risk and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and RBC. Guy Mettrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Industry Manager for Financial Services, responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services. The role includes working with customers, partners and industry associations to ensure Appian deliver solutions that help drive growth, manage risk and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and RBC. Guy Mettrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Industry Manager for Financial Services, responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services. The role includes working with customers, partners and industry associations to ensure Appian deliver solutions that help drive growth, manage risk and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and RBC. Guy Mettrick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.
4:45 pm to 5:10 pm EST
Best Practice Case Study | OSINT in financial crime investigations
Erin O’Loughlin is currently the Sr Director of Training for the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS) where she has been for the past year. Prior to providing training to the fincrime community, Erin worked as an investigations manager for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Before joining Coinbase she was the Sr Manager for the Cyber Intelligence Unit for Western Union and just prior to that she spent five years working both fraud and AML cases for Bank of America. Erin also brings ten years of prior Intelligence Community experience to the fincrime community.
5:10 pm to 5:15 pm EST
Chair's Closing Remarks
Followed by
Speed Networking & Drinks Reception
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
6:00 pm
End of Day 1
9:10 am to 9:20 am EST
Chair's Welcome and Opening Remarks
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
9:25 am to 9:45 am EST
Digital Times Call for a Digital Workforce
- Ever-evolving regulations and customer preferences have led to too much work and not enough workers, with traditional tech becoming ineffective
- Digital transformation efforts have promise yet difficulties, especially in solving the “build vs. buy” conundrum
- AI-driven automation organized as digital workers can effectively be “hired” to join ops teams, offering an opportunity to apply the most impactful technology and yield optimized outcomes
9:50 am to 10:30 am EST
Panel Session + Q&A | Collaboration & FinCrime intelligence and data sharing
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Peter Baldwin draws on his experience as a former federal prosecutor in New York and California to counsel clients facing government and internal investigations, cybersecurity issues, and complex civil and criminal litigation. Pete advises businesses, executives and boards on responding to civil and criminal government inquiries, and he provides guidance in situations involving grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, requests for interviews and witness testimony, among other things. Pete also counsels clients facing cybersecurity and data breach incidents and offers valuable experience and insight at the investigatory, post-investigatory, notification and remediation stages of these matters. In addition, Pete works with clients to craft policies and procedures to help them stay compliant in an increasingly regulated business environment.
Rob is a Senior Director in the Dispute Advisory practice at Huron Consulting Group. He has nearly 20 years of experience providing forensic accounting and litigation consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. He regularly assists clients in complex and highly sensitive matters including investigating allegations of financial crimes (e.g., money laundering, bribery and corruption, financial statement manipulation, Ponzi schemes, etc.) as well as asset tracing engagements designed to follow the money, with many of these investigations having included coordination with federal law enforcement and regulatory agencies.
Rob also works with other parties (management teams, lender groups, outside investors) to assess and strengthen internal control environments to reduce the risk of losses associated with fraud or other impermissible activities.
He has been retained as an expert witness in a range of litigation matters including to trace the proceeds of illicit activity, analyze shareholder disputes, and to quantify the financial damages suffered by a human trafficking victim.
Rob graduated from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and currently holds the following certifications:
• Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS)
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
• Certified Cryptocurrency Expert (CCE)
• Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Peter Baldwin draws on his experience as a former federal prosecutor in New York and California to counsel clients facing government and internal investigations, cybersecurity issues, and complex civil and criminal litigation. Pete advises businesses, executives and boards on responding to civil and criminal government inquiries, and he provides guidance in situations involving grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, requests for interviews and witness testimony, among other things. Pete also counsels clients facing cybersecurity and data breach incidents and offers valuable experience and insight at the investigatory, post-investigatory, notification and remediation stages of these matters. In addition, Pete works with clients to craft policies and procedures to help them stay compliant in an increasingly regulated business environment.
Rob is a Senior Director in the Dispute Advisory practice at Huron Consulting Group. He has nearly 20 years of experience providing forensic accounting and litigation consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. He regularly assists clients in complex and highly sensitive matters including investigating allegations of financial crimes (e.g., money laundering, bribery and corruption, financial statement manipulation, Ponzi schemes, etc.) as well as asset tracing engagements designed to follow the money, with many of these investigations having included coordination with federal law enforcement and regulatory agencies.
Rob also works with other parties (management teams, lender groups, outside investors) to assess and strengthen internal control environments to reduce the risk of losses associated with fraud or other impermissible activities.
He has been retained as an expert witness in a range of litigation matters including to trace the proceeds of illicit activity, analyze shareholder disputes, and to quantify the financial damages suffered by a human trafficking victim.
Rob graduated from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and currently holds the following certifications:
• Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS)
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
• Certified Cryptocurrency Expert (CCE)
• Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Peter Baldwin draws on his experience as a former federal prosecutor in New York and California to counsel clients facing government and internal investigations, cybersecurity issues, and complex civil and criminal litigation. Pete advises businesses, executives and boards on responding to civil and criminal government inquiries, and he provides guidance in situations involving grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, requests for interviews and witness testimony, among other things. Pete also counsels clients facing cybersecurity and data breach incidents and offers valuable experience and insight at the investigatory, post-investigatory, notification and remediation stages of these matters. In addition, Pete works with clients to craft policies and procedures to help them stay compliant in an increasingly regulated business environment.
Rob is a Senior Director in the Dispute Advisory practice at Huron Consulting Group. He has nearly 20 years of experience providing forensic accounting and litigation consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. He regularly assists clients in complex and highly sensitive matters including investigating allegations of financial crimes (e.g., money laundering, bribery and corruption, financial statement manipulation, Ponzi schemes, etc.) as well as asset tracing engagements designed to follow the money, with many of these investigations having included coordination with federal law enforcement and regulatory agencies.
Rob also works with other parties (management teams, lender groups, outside investors) to assess and strengthen internal control environments to reduce the risk of losses associated with fraud or other impermissible activities.
He has been retained as an expert witness in a range of litigation matters including to trace the proceeds of illicit activity, analyze shareholder disputes, and to quantify the financial damages suffered by a human trafficking victim.
Rob graduated from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and currently holds the following certifications:
• Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS)
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
• Certified Cryptocurrency Expert (CCE)
• Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
10:30 am to 11:00 am EST
Morning Coffee & 1-2-1 Meetings
11:00 am to 11:45 am EST
Interactive roundtable discussions
1. Financial Crime Investigations: Working Smarter, Not Harder hosted by Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead, BottomLine Technologies
2. Unbundling rich entity profiles to improve complex investigations, hosted by Senior Representative of Sayari Analytics
3. Smarter Risk Management hosted by Rob Rendell VP of Payment Solutions & Lukayn Hunsicker VP of Market Solutions, Feedzai
4. Digital Innovations: Leveraging AI, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning hosted by Ryan Buttacavoli, Account Executive, WorkFusion
5. End-to-end KYC Process Orchestration with Low-Code hosted by Michael Heffner, Vice President, Solutions and Industry Go to Market, Appian
6. Stopping FinCrime using a new wave of tech innovation hosted by Martin Rehak, CEO & Founder, Resistant.AI
7. Next Gen Tech for FinCrime Prevention hosted by Deleep Nair, Head of Solutions Engineering, NAM, Symphony Ayasdi
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Albert Laino, Solution Consultant Team Lead for Bottomline, is a technology enthusiast who has a passion for evangelizing software and solutions. Being able to connect organizations with tools and assets specifically geared towards stopping nefarious activity by bad actors has been a focus for him. Especially, driving the paradigm shift by digitally transforming organizations and continuing to optimize the uses for fintech and financial crime solutions.
Rob Rendell has 13 years of banking experience across many domains. Prior to joining Feedzai, Rob was a subject matter expert within IBM Security’s Digital Trust portfolio assisting clients to evaluate digital platform risk.
His career has been focused on financial crimes, fraud, and cyber vulnerabilities, and held management roles at Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and legacy Wachovia.
Lukayn Hunsicker is the Vice President of Solutions Product Management for Feedzai. He serves as a subject matter expert in the areas of financial crime and risk, delivering and maintaining value solutions for Feedzai’s diverse customer base requiring risk mitigation.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services and software industries. In addition, he has held corporate advisory roles pertaining to cybersecurity, cyber-enabled crime, and risk.
As an Account Executive at WorkFusion, Ryan is a trusted advisor who enables his customers to adopt and scale intelligent automation as a key component of their digital transformation strategy. Ryan’s background in Solutions Consulting has equipped him with deep product expertise that allows him to guide his customers towards use cases that are a good fit for automation and drive program objectives. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Ryan was a road warrior at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led software implementations for enterprise organizations. Ryan received his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers Business School and spends his free time cooking and traveling.
Reporting directly to Appian CRO, Mike oversees global go-to-market for Appian’s new solutions. This includes sales enablement, partner strategy, business development, sales processes and operations and sales engineering. As leader of Appian’s Industry team, he directs industry strategy, thought leadership, and channel enablement for Financial Services, Public Sector, Life Sciences, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Communities of Interest.
Mike brings to these roles innovative problem-solving approaches and extensive leadership experience in operational efficiency and business transformation. He is a speaker, author, and thought leader on digital trends and digital responses. Before joining Appian, he was Managing Director, Business Transformation at State Street Corporation and held management roles at Charles Schwab & Co, and Accenture’s Creating Financial Markets Advantage executive group. Mike holds a BSBA in Economics from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Babson College.
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies state of the art machine-learning techniques to make the AI and automation systems of financial services resilient to manipulation and attack. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
(BREAK OUT ROOM)
Speed Networking
11:45 am to 12:20 pm EST
1-2-1 Meetings
12:20 pm to 1:20 pm EST
Networking Lunch
1:20 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Track 1 - AML
Best Practice Case Study | How to attract and retain high performing compliance teams
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Industry Presentation | KYC Processes & Enhanced due diligence for high risk customers
Tom Mangine is Vice President, AML Governance and Chief of Special Investigations for Capital Markets at BMO. His responsibilities include conducting Targeted and Enhanced Due Diligence (TEDD) investigations into clients, counterparties and correspondents; coordinating efforts with the Bank’s CyberSecurity Operations Center; and advising members of Capital Markets regarding threats inherent in the geographies and industries in which they operate particularly in the Cannabis and Nuclear industries. Tom conducted visits to
potential clients in South America to conduct risk assessments as BMO entered the Cannabis market. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), teaching classes on terrorist-financing, money-laundering and cybersecurity. In this role, he has supported multinational outreach programs by presenting classes on financial crime to law enforcement and military personnel across Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East.
Tom joined the Bank after more than twenty years with the US Army where he served on six continents including deployments to the Balkans, Central Asia, Horn of Africa, Middle East, and North Africa. Tom earned a BS in Political Science from the United States Military Academy as well as an MA in International Relations and Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School. He speaks Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese and Spanish.
FinCrime & Fraud Tech AI
How to do more, with less & enhance regulatory compliance – Digital Onboarding, Integrating of AI, ML and Automation into AML operations
Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with extensive experience in risk strategy and mitigation. In her role as Director of the Financial Investigations Unit at Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson serves as the Bank’s BSA and OFAC Officers and is responsible for ensuring the Bank’s compliance with all facets of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control and fraud investigations, while monitoring all other related anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations.
Prior to joining Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson was Executive Vice President, Director of AML Compliance at SouthState Bank where she created and advanced the Bank’s BSA, AML and OFAC programs and performed enterprise-wide training to educate all personnel, departments and legal entities on current laws, regulations and corporate guidelines.
Robertson received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Milligan University.
She holds the advanced designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist – Audit, and designations of Certified AML and Fraud Professional as well as Certified Fraud Examiner. As an industry thought leader, she frequently participates as a subject matter expert panelist and speaker on the topic of BSA/AML. Currently she serves as chair of the ABA’s CAFP Advisory Board, is a member of the ACAMS Virginia Chapter Board, and a past board member of the ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, past president of both the South Carolina InfraGard and FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and past treasurer of the Crimestoppers of the Midlands SC Board.
Mark Elkommos is a Financial Crime Compliance professional, works at SMBC as VP Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager , with more than 16 years of Compliance experience. Mark also is an avid technology & compliance reader, and evidently, a popular author of AML and FinTech topics. He wrote numerous articles on many Risk Management Magazines (i.e. The Risk Universe, The Record, The Risk Insights, etc.), also he is a regular LinkedIn blogger. Visit his LinkedIn page to know more.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with extensive experience in risk strategy and mitigation. In her role as Director of the Financial Investigations Unit at Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson serves as the Bank’s BSA and OFAC Officers and is responsible for ensuring the Bank’s compliance with all facets of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control and fraud investigations, while monitoring all other related anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations.
Prior to joining Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson was Executive Vice President, Director of AML Compliance at SouthState Bank where she created and advanced the Bank’s BSA, AML and OFAC programs and performed enterprise-wide training to educate all personnel, departments and legal entities on current laws, regulations and corporate guidelines.
Robertson received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Milligan University.
She holds the advanced designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist – Audit, and designations of Certified AML and Fraud Professional as well as Certified Fraud Examiner. As an industry thought leader, she frequently participates as a subject matter expert panelist and speaker on the topic of BSA/AML. Currently she serves as chair of the ABA’s CAFP Advisory Board, is a member of the ACAMS Virginia Chapter Board, and a past board member of the ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, past president of both the South Carolina InfraGard and FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and past treasurer of the Crimestoppers of the Midlands SC Board.
Mark Elkommos is a Financial Crime Compliance professional, works at SMBC as VP Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager , with more than 16 years of Compliance experience. Mark also is an avid technology & compliance reader, and evidently, a popular author of AML and FinTech topics. He wrote numerous articles on many Risk Management Magazines (i.e. The Risk Universe, The Record, The Risk Insights, etc.), also he is a regular LinkedIn blogger. Visit his LinkedIn page to know more.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with extensive experience in risk strategy and mitigation. In her role as Director of the Financial Investigations Unit at Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson serves as the Bank’s BSA and OFAC Officers and is responsible for ensuring the Bank’s compliance with all facets of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control and fraud investigations, while monitoring all other related anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations.
Prior to joining Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson was Executive Vice President, Director of AML Compliance at SouthState Bank where she created and advanced the Bank’s BSA, AML and OFAC programs and performed enterprise-wide training to educate all personnel, departments and legal entities on current laws, regulations and corporate guidelines.
Robertson received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Milligan University.
She holds the advanced designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist – Audit, and designations of Certified AML and Fraud Professional as well as Certified Fraud Examiner. As an industry thought leader, she frequently participates as a subject matter expert panelist and speaker on the topic of BSA/AML. Currently she serves as chair of the ABA’s CAFP Advisory Board, is a member of the ACAMS Virginia Chapter Board, and a past board member of the ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, past president of both the South Carolina InfraGard and FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and past treasurer of the Crimestoppers of the Midlands SC Board.
Mark Elkommos is a Financial Crime Compliance professional, works at SMBC as VP Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager , with more than 16 years of Compliance experience. Mark also is an avid technology & compliance reader, and evidently, a popular author of AML and FinTech topics. He wrote numerous articles on many Risk Management Magazines (i.e. The Risk Universe, The Record, The Risk Insights, etc.), also he is a regular LinkedIn blogger. Visit his LinkedIn page to know more.
With a deep background in Data Modelling and Fraud Analytics, Deleep’s expertise lies in helping Financial Institutions tackle global financial crime. Armed with an MS in Biostatistics and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification, he has established himself as a proven authority to help senior leaders develop and implement data-driven, analytics solutions. Exposure to machine learning and extensive knowledge of industry trends make him the perfect candidate to create large-scale, enterprise fraud and AML detection systems.
Deleep is a seasoned speaker on the Financial Crime circuit, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Chair's Closing Remarks
John is the board-appointed AML/BSA Officer at Wise, as well as the company’s Financial Crime Oversight Lead for North America. He joined Wise in 2019 from Navigant Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Prior to Navigant, he held multiple roles in financial crime compliance at American Express including working as one of the first members of the company’s enterprise AML quality control team.
John graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York where he was inducted into Phi Betta Kappa. John earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. John is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and has been admitted to practice law in both Utah and Arizona.
Track 2 - FRAUD
Best Practice Case Study | Fraud Detection & AI
Justin Weitz is Principal Assistant Chief in the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section, where he works on complex criminal investigations and prosecutions related to financial markets and securities law violations.
He previously served as a Trial Attorney in the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice. Mr. Weitz began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell University and J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Industry Presentation | The Future for FinCrime Compliance
Jason Foye is the Senior Director of FINRA’s AML Investigative Unit, a specialized team that conducts complex Anti-Money Laundering examinations, provides guidance to FINRA’s examination and Enforcement staff in connection with AML-related matters, and provides education and training to FINRA staff and industry personnel throughout the country. Jason serves as an AML Regulatory Specialist within FINRA and is Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Jason graduated from Florida State University with Bachelor’s degrees in Finance and Risk Management. Jason works from FINRA’s Florida District Office, and has been with FINRA for 15 years.
Industry Presentation | Detecting Internal Fraud Detection Through Data Analytics
Aielleen Fajardo is the Head of Internal Investigations for TIAA. Prior to joining TIAA, Aielleen was the Head of Regulatory Compliance for North America and Global Head of Personal Conflicts Management at Fitch Ratings, Inc. Previously, Aielleen served as a managing director and in-house counsel for BNY Mellon, overseeing complex and high-profile regulatory enforcement matters and internal investigations. Aielleen was also a litigation attorney at several prominent law firms, including Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft in New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA School of Law.
Best Practice Case Study | The cybercrime ecosystem and the connection of fraud and AML
Andres Betancourt has more than 10 years of experience in compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) within the financial services industry including the Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and Grant Thornton LLP. As a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Financial Crime Specialist, Andres works in the Global AML Audit Centre of Excellence for Scotiabank, which assess the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls. This also includes adherence to bank policies and regulatory requirements, particularly those related to AML, anti-terrorist financing (ATF) and sanctions risk management.
Throughout his career, Andres worked with different financial institutions and advisory firms on regulatory compliance effectiveness reviews of reporting entities with operation hubs in multiple jurisdictions including Canada, the United Kingdom, U.S. and Australia. He also worked on AML and fraud investigations, FINTRAC reporting, regulatory AML remediations, quality assurance program design and testing, compliance training and strategy, Centre of Excellence processes and AML internal control audits.
Recently, Andres led and participated in centralized audits for governance, regulatory reporting (LCTR/EFTR), sanctions screening for 2nd Line functions, Trade Finance Canada & Mexico, KYC Review in LATAM, Global AML Transformation initiative and international banking regulatory audit reports (Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Caribbean and Central America).