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Ahlem Mustapha
Solutions Engineer EMEA, TigerGraph
Ahlem holds a Software Engineering Degree. She gained several years of international work experience, working with cross-functional teams to consult large-scale companies on BI and Big Data tools and translating business insights into technology solutions at C-level. In addition to supporting the growth of TigerGraph’s customers in the EMEA Region, Ahlem constantly participates in public speaking events and webinars to share her passion for technology and knowledge of Graph. Ahlem aims to reinforce gender diversity at TigerGraph. Ahlem loves playing video games, live streaming, and writing technical blogs in her free time. Ahlem is fluent in English, French, German, and Arabic.
Alejandro Agudelo is an international attorney with a background including more than 13 years of experience in the international banking and finance sector. Currently, Alejandro serves as Regional Head of Compliance for the branches of Commerzbank which conform the Bank’s Western Europe Region and as deputy head of compliance for the rest of the branches and subsidiaries in Europe (including the Moscow branch). Previously to his current role, Alejandro worked as VP at the Global Standards, Anti-Money Laundering Department at Commerzbank AG, where he was responsible for content of the bank’s AML/CTF policy framework including the rollout of the recent amendments to the global AML/CTF and know your customer (KYC) policies, and assisting the business segments in the execution of the newly implemented global standards. Prior to his start in Commerzbank, Alejandro held the role of Senior Legal Counsel at HSBC Holdings plc in London. During this time, he was responsible for the coordination and advice to the bank during global AML/sanctions reviews across the world by regulators, independent corporate compliance monitors or skilled persons.
Alice Lehnert has a work experience of over 15 years within the financial sector in Luxembourg.
Currently, Alice is a Director in the Investment Management practice of Deloitte Tax & Consulting where she specialises in Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and regulatory topics. She is involved in various regulatory projects around governance, oversight and AML/CTF topics in the investment management industry.
Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Alice was with Vontobel Asset Management where she took over the role of Chief Compliance Officer. Before Vontobel Asset Management, Alice was an auditor at PWC and E&Y Luxembourg where she led different audit missions with well-reputed Luxembourg based financial institutions of the asset management and asset servicing industry.
Alice is member of several industry associations in Luxembourg being ALFI, ACCA and ALCO
Amélie is Senior Financial Crime Data Scientist, with more than 10 years of experience in Financial Services. In her current role within Société Générale Group, she contributes to the digital transformation of KYC and Anti-Money Laundering by developing usage of data and analytics in both areas. On KYC, she’s responsible of the modeling part of customer scoring on retail perimeter. On AML, she leaded the development of advanced algorithms to enhance transactions monitoring and contributes to the optimization of the detection strategy using innovative approaches.
Ana-Maria Vasile, CAMS-RM, IRMCert, has a broad expertise on Anti-Financial Crime and Enterprise Risk Management, with 15 years of practical experience in the financial services industry and bringing a specialized educational background in this respect. Currently, she is the Chief Compliance Officer at CEC Bank Romania, coordinating the overall Regulatory, Compliance Risk Management, AML/CTF and Sanctions Compliance activities within the bank.
As part of her experience, Ana was involved in the implementation of global policies and internal controls for the prevention of financial crime risks related to TBML, including the development of a one-of-its-kind in-house monitoring application for Trade Finance transaction monitoring within Commerzbank AG. Prior to joining Commerzbank, Ana was a Manager in the forensic practice of Deloitte, her focus areas and responsibilities being related to delivering projects on the implementation of ML/TF risk management programs in financial institutions, targeted financial sanctions, FATCA implementation, fraud and money laundering investigations, fraud detection, transaction monitoring for various financial products, funds tracking, assessment of AML/CTF compliance activity within financial institutions and implementation and assessment of AFC/Sanctions/Ethics and Compliance programs. Additionally, she also has an extensive experience with the country risk assessment practice, as she was a subject matter expert in the ML/TF National Risk Assessments of Lithuania (2015) and Latvia (2016).
Arianna Rovetto. Since September 2020 Arianna is Group Head of AML at BANCOBPM Group. Previously, as a Police Officer of the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Financial Police, Arianna was Head of several operational units responsible for investigating tax and financial crimes. From 2012 to 2019 Arianna worked as a Police Officer at the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office. As member of a Joint Investigation Team for EUROJUST, Arianna has developed extensive experience in cross-border investigations by collaborating with various judicial authorities and police departments. She’s licensed to practice as a lawyer and constantly attends webinars and events as a speaker on AML issues and regulatory changes and ongoing challenges against money laundering.
Ben is an Enterprise Account Executive, looking after Blackdot Solutions’ financial services clients. Ben spent 20 years working within blue chip financial services organisations, in a range senior customer facing roles. Ben spent 4 years at ACAMS, helping tier-1 financial institutions to train and educate their staff to more effectively fight financial crime. Most recently Ben has worked at a number of RegTech vendors who provide innovative technology to help financial institutions be more effective and efficient in their financial crime programmes.
Björn Hundhausen, Senior Sales Manager, joined IDnow in 2017. He started his career at IDnow as Inside Sales Manager, acting as the first point of contact for clients within the department and successfully linking the Sales department to the other departments.
As Senior Sales Manager, Björn is now in charge of the German and Austrian finance and telecommunications market and supports companies with questions around regulation, processes and the IDnow identity verification products.
Breda McCague is a Transformation Professional and Cultural Change Consultant within in the Finance Industry and has worked across Global teams for 20 years.
Breda has a military background having served in the Irish Reserve Defence Forces and went on to become the first female commissioned officer in her unit. She is also Co-Founder of Lean-In Ireland and an accredited Emotional Intelligence coach. She plays in two bands and is very at home on the stage.
Breda’s passion is people and she loves to bring out the best in them through coaching and teaching them Mind Mastery via her Key notes speeches.
Bredas style as MC is entertaining, insightful and inspiring. You will find her magnetism is contagious and her energy is second to none.
Breda was chosen as Women of the Year in the Women in Finance Ireland Awards for 2021. She looks forward to joining us as our Chair for the two days of the Conference and is looking forward to meeting you all.
After starting his career as a compliance officer at a FTSE-listed financial derivatives trading house, Charles has spent the majority of the past decade helping organisations to mitigate complex GRC issues via corporate investigations, financial intelligence and innovative technology. A large part of his professional focus has involved working on transnational financial crime investigations and complex due diligence matters for tier one banks. As Head of Community at Blackdot Solutions, Charles’ mission is to connect anti-financial crime professionals with transformational technology.
Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.
Chris Caruana is the Global Subject Matter Expert Team and Product Strategy Head at Feedzai, previously holding the position of Vice President of AML Solutions. In his capacity, Chris acts as a subject matter expert and product strategist across organizational functions. He has 15 years of experience in financial services as a regulator, compliance officer, and business executive. Chris is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a member of the Carolinas ACAMS chapter. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College and a Master’s degree (MBA) in International Business from St. John’s University. In his current role, Chris is driving Feedzai’s expansion of its financial crime-fighting capabilities with AI.
Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.
Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.
In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.
Deepak Sharma is Associate Product Director at IDnow and thus responsible for building the company’s Identity Proofing Platform to address the needs of its enterprise customers. The role involves the understanding of product requirements from the market and building the corresponding features in the IDnow Platform to offer the best experience to customers and end users.
Deepak started his career with IDnow as a Senior Product Owner in 2019. In this role, he led the development of the automated verification product IDnow AutoIdent.
Before joining IDnow, Deepak held Product Manager positions at TrustYou and SirionLabs. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Delhi University with a focus on technology business management.
Dermot is CEO of smartKYC, an AI software business that delivers due diligence automation technology for onboarding, refresh and monitoring.
Dermot has over 30 years’ experience in the media and technology sectors. In addition to launching the world’s first adverse media search engine in 2004 (LexisNexis), he has held board positions for the world’s largest corporate and investor relations news distributor (PR Newswire), a technology subsidiary of the Independent newspaper group (Independent News & Media) and one of the world’s largest social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (Gorkana).
As well as this unrivalled knowledge of adverse media content and technology, he is also expert in open source intelligence technology (OSINT) having led the specialist geopolitical risk intelligence arm of IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global
Dorota is currently working as the Head of Risk, at State Street Bank International GmbH, Poland branch. Dorota has 20 years working experience within 3 global banks (State Street, Bank of New York Mellon, Millennium BCP) in corporate and custody banking, treasury, middle-office, operations, process reengineering and risk management
Dorota’s background includes an MBA in Economics and International Management, from Warsaw School of Economics and Milan Bocconi University
Dorota can speak (or used to speak) fluently 8 different languages.
Enthusiastic digital leader with almost 15 years of experience in digitization, data science and data-driven decision making in risk management, finance and the energy sector.
Eager to develop agile, cross-functional teams. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer and stakeholder satisfaction. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in an innovative environment.
Data science professional with expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, data processing and storytelling.
Dr Christoph Wronka is a Director within the Service Line FSI Forensic in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of relevant industry and consulting experience in financial services. His consulting activities focus on the support of his clients to fulfil their regulatory requirements, in particular in the areas of Compliance, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Transactions (KYT). In addition, Christoph is leading the Expert Group Blockchain, Digital Assets and Financial Crime within Deloitte in Germany.
Prior joining Deloitte in 2018, Christoph was working for EXXETA and Capco where he was involved in building up the Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Practice.
Christoph is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), holding its CAMS certification and a Certified AML and Fraud Officer (Forum Institute).
Dr Julia Sommer joined Unicredit Bank AG (HVB) in August 2017 as Head of Financial Sanctions. She leads the core Financial Sanctions functions, guiding the bank in financial sanctions and embargo issues. This encompasses in particular the enactment of internal rules, the counselling of complex financial products and issues, improving processes and tools, respective trainings and screening of all payments and transactions as to financial sanctions issues.
Before her work at Unicredit, Julia worked five years at Siemens AG as in-house lawyer in the Compliance Legal department. The department aims at preventing, detecting and reacting to infringements of the law, in particular of anti-corruption, anti-fraud and antitrust law. Julia guided and managed internal investigations and drafted internal rules and trainings. Her tasks encompassed counselling and managing compliances processes and tools (e.g. Siemens whistleblowing tool, processes for sponsoring and donations, gifts and hospitality, data collection in internal investigations, dawn raid trainings, compliance issues in tenders, drafting compliance clauses in contracts).
Before Siemens, from December 2000 through April 2012, she worked for an international law firm. Her work focused on regulatory law and compliance work, inter alia telecommunications and data protection law. Her work comprised representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, transactional advising, contract negotiations and compliance investigations, also in the banking sector in the field of economic sanctions controls.
Swiss Banking Regulations and Governance have been a part of my professional life for 25 years. I served as founding director, board member, managing director and liquidator of Swiss banks. I can speak about and advice on Forensic investigations, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC), Know Your Customer (KYT), Know Your Transactions (KYT), Target Operating Models for Compliance, Governance in Financial Institutions, a broad range of regulatory topics, Fintech, Regtech, and other related areas.
Together with a small group of experts I also founded a legal commentary on the Swiss AML Act in 2003. The 3rd edition was published in German and English in 2019.
As a former amateur software developer I‘m also excited about the opportunities we have in supporting business with data analytics and I‘m a strong believer in artificial intelligence.
Besides banking I have done a broad range of legal work in various industries including publishing, advertising, industrial products, commodities and IT.
My over 30 years of military service gave me a good understanding of project and crisis management. I’m still serving as a Lead Analyst Officer in the Military Intelligence Services of the Swiss Army.
Frank Blau has been a Business Intelligence Data Architect for 15 years and has over 25 years of technical experience in database technologies. He has been a developer, architect, analyst, and educator in a variety of vertical markets and technologies. Frank has also been a consultant to Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in the use and implementation of data warehouse architectures, unstructured data, metadata management, and analytic presentation.
Gerard leads AML across EMEA at Invesco. He is based in Luxembourg where he is a member of the Management Committee responsible for local operations. He has spent 25 years in the industry leading AML policy and framework in various regions, including EMEA, US/LATAM, Middle East and Africa. He has managed Back-office Operations and acted as Programme Manager for joint venture and outsourcing projects.
Gregory Coleman is the FBI Special Agent responsible for the criminal investigation of Jordan Belfort. Belfort’s rise to power and subsequent arrest and conviction were chronicled in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio. Mr. Coleman was portrayed by Kyle Chandler.
Mr. Coleman retired from the FBI with over 25 years of experience investigating financial crimes, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. Many of his investigations involved stock market manipulations where the proceeds were laundered through offshore shell corporations and offshore bank accounts. Mr. Coleman was able to obtain banking records from numerous offshore jurisdictions by piercing the veil of secrecy. Coleman Worldwide Advisors provides litigation support, funds recovery assistance, and other financial consultancy services involving financial transactions and systems.
Comprehensive knowledge of European and Global regulatory landscape, banking business and products.
Proven record in design, strategy and implementation of global and local regulatory requirements, governance and Anti Financial Crime compliance frameworks with strong stakeholder engagement and leadership of global virtual working groups.
Multilingual, multicultural AFC expert with strong IT and digital assets/ crypto currency background Co heading the Global AFC Crypto Currency and Digital Asset Virtual Team.
I advise of impact and implementation of regulations, risk and control frameworks, regulatory adherence integration for a diverse range of risk types. I am specialised subject matter expert for crypto currencies / digital asset related Anti Financial Crime risk issues. In Addition I work in collaboration with colleagues on legislative and regulatory proposals in connection with advocacy efforts on financial crime/cryptocurrency and digital assets related topics as well as on proactive identification of new risks, regulatory impacts or enhancements of existing controls and risk framework. Besides my AFC and technical skills I also have a strong background in financial and forensic accounting. I am a Certified Anti Financial Crime Expert graduated Diplômé Kauffrau specialised in Infomation Sytems Designs and have been researching extensively in financial crisis management for decades.
Konstantinos is a predictive analytics expert with a background in consumer-focused data analytics and strategy, his career expands over several industries including Retail Banking, Telecommunications, Media and Advertising, Supply Chain and Manufacturing. He has worked mostly in Fortune 500 companies promoting innovation in data informed decisioning and optimization modelling. He earned an MSc in computational modelling from Liverpool University and an MPhil in Statistical Modelling from Strathclyde University in UK. He had contributed to several best practice papers in analytics, from public policy and advertising effectiveness to IFRS9 financial regulatory reporting in EU. A unique journey with credit risk analytics his passion for the last 10 years focusing on API based ecosystems, utilising innovative approaches to Statistical and ML Modelling for Consumer Credit Risk
Marie Lundberg is the founder and CEO of Acronym Consulting AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a financial crime specialist with more than two decades of experience within the financial sector, including investment firms, large internet banks, payment service providers, traditional and private banking. Her area of expertise includes anti-bribery and corruption, fraud, anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, sanctions and counter terrorism financing.
Marie is a firm believer of using analytics and the importance of knowing and understanding your data, as well as your customers. Awareness, a solid risk management program and education is in her opinion a few of the keys to combat financial crime.
She has extensive international experience, working mainly in the Nordics and Europe including the UK. She is a founding member and co-chair of the ACAMS Nordics Chapter and a Certified Fraud Examiner by ACFE as well as a public speaker and thought leader in this area.
Mark is the Group Head of Financial Crime Detection at HSBC. In this role Mark provides end-to-end accountability, support and guidance across the sub-functions of data, technology, analytics, and investigations as they combine to provide a screening and transaction monitoring capability. His previous roles within the bank have been the Group Head of Transaction Monitoring, the Global Head of AML Investigations, and the UK Head of Sanctions. Before joining HSBC, Mark held senior management positions in the global Financial Crime Risk function with the National Australia Bank in Australia.
Mark was a faculty member and lecturer on the joint ICA/AFMA (Australian Financial Markets Association) Diploma course in Applied Anti-Money Laundering, and has completed his PhD research into the effectiveness of financial sector engagement in international financial crime countermeasures.
Markus Schulz is the Deputy Global Head FCC & Head Change Management for Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) at ING.
In his current role he looks after the transformation of the Bank’s financial crime control and organisational framework with a special focus on RegTech. He is a trained banker by trade and has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and since the early 2000s dedicated to the fight against financial crime working for a number of global Financial Institutions.
He is passionate about modernising and developing the Financial Crime Compliance industry especially the future of Surveillance. For this he is a very active member with a number of instrumental groups like the Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, Madison Group, Basel Institute on Governance, Insurance Europe, FATF, IACA and the European Commission just to mention some. He has initiated and lead various successful collective industry action groups around topics like Trade & Economic Sanctions, AML and FATCA as well as Ethics in Business.
Markus is the co-chair of the ACAMS® Advisory Board, the leading global Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists®. He is a very frequent speaker and chair at Compliance, and Anti-Financial Crime conferences and summits around the world and has co-authored numerous publications in this field.
He lived and worked in a number of countries and benefits from the business and cultural experience he has been able to gain through all his global roles.
Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities.
Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results
Matthias Rode is leading the FSI Forensic practice in Deloitte Germany. He has over 25 years of experience in Finance/ Financial Services with expertise in Non-Financial Risk Management (NFRM), Financial/ Economic Crime, Integrity Risk/ Culture, Anti-Money-Laundering (AML), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC), Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Fraud Prevention, Sanctions/ Embargos, Risk Assessments. In course of his consulting activities, Matthias supported his clients in regulation-driven transformation projects (analysis, change of risk/ compliance processes, org structures and implementation of regulatory requirements (MaRisk, MaComp, EMIR, Dodd Frank title VII, Collateral Management etc.).
Nicolas has worked in biotech start-ups for over 4 years before joining Echangeur BNP Paribas Personal Finance. He is in charge of decoding the latest technologies and digital trends that will impact retail, banking and mobility. He has been covering the Web3 trends for the last 2 years. He has published many articles and reports about the future of Internet. He’s also an international speaker for the retail industry.
Nikolaos Gitonidis is currently the Head of Compliance at DZ Privatbank Zurich AG. In this role, Nikos oversees the operational management of the compliance and AML Team. Furthermore Nikos is currently Deputy Group Leader Compliance in the DZ Privatbank Group.
Nikos has been in the banking sector for over 10 years, and he previously has worked at KPMG, IHAG Privatbank and Clariden Privatbank.
During his professional career Nikos achieved a BFE Certificate,Swiss Banking Association and obtained his Bachelor of Law, and a Master of Law at the University of Lucern.
Oliver heads up the Big Data division at Commerzbank AG, operating and engineering the advanced analytics backbone based on Hadoop and public cloud. Our purpose is to provide data with state-of-the-art technologies enabling our business units to unleash hidden data treasures for our customers. Oliver started his career with an international Trainee Program at Deutsche Bank AG. Afterwards, he joined Deloitte, where he was part of multiple Big Data & Advanced Analytics projects of major organisations in the financial sector, such as the European Central Bank and Deutsche Bank AG.
Paul is the Head of Compliance Germany and Managing Director of Invesco Ltd.’s German entity Invesco Asset Management Deutschland GmbH. In this role he is heading the firms Compliance, AML and Fraud prevention programs and further oversees its Finance, Legal and information Security functions. Prior to Invesco Paul was Head of Compliance and MLRO for different firms in the financial industry such as Union Investment Group, Internos Global Investors Group (now Principal Real Estate) and MainFirst Bank (now Stifel Europe Bank). He started his career in the financial sector in 2003 at ING-DiBa as a Compliance Analyst and has 18 years of experience in the field of Compliance. Paul holds a Degree in Finance and Law from the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt.
Ralph Ebert is a German lawyer with long term legal and Compliance experience for universal and private banks with 15 years of experience in an international environment. He worked in France, Canada, South Korea and Switzerland as well as short term assignments to Hong Kong and Singapore.
Ralph works currently as Head of Compliance at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) in Switzerland. He also focuses on the integration of regtech solutions, consequences for Compliance and the modern compliance culture
Ryan Grenier is a Managing Director of Product Management in Commerzbank’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics group. He leads Commerzbank’s Knowledge Graph platform, an NLP and Machine learning service to enrich banking transactions and entity analytics. The service enables KYC, AML, lending decisioning and customer-facing analytics across Commerzbank.
A Silicon Valley veteran of 20 years with experience, Ryan is focused on building scaled data products that drive revenue growth, user engagement and actionable business insights. He was most recently at Amazon as a General Manager with previous roles as a CMO and product management leader at technology companies including startups, Yahoo!, Rackspace, and T-Mobile USA.
Stefan Rauch is a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and heads the Global Anti Fraud & Conduct Monitoring function within the Compliance division. He is based in Zurich.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Rauch served in different roles in Switzerland and Singapore for Clariden Bank AG between 2001–2006. From 2007–2009 Mr. Rauch was the Head of Operational Risks – Products, and from 2009–2012 the Global Head of Business & Operational Risk of Clariden Leu Group. From 2012–2015 Mr. Rauch served as Head of Divisional Risk Reporting & Risk Control in the Private Banking & Wealth Management Business Risk Management function of Credit Suisse. Between 2016-2021 he led the Compliance Strategy & Project Implementation function of the Swiss Universal Bank of Credit Suisse.
Mr. Rauch holds a diploma in Business Administration (equiv. to Master of Business Administration) from the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He is a US Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he started his career with KPMG as an auditor, serving in the KPMG offices of Hamburg and Singapore.
Stéphanie is Senior Financial Crime Data Scientist at Société Générale, where she contributes to the enhancement of transactions monitoring for AML by leveraging on data and analytics. Over the last years, she had created and developed machine learning models the enhance detection on Private Banking area. She also contributes to the set-up of a standard methodology to monitor and calibrate AML algorithms . On the top of her academical background in Data Science, she had a recognized certification in AML.
Tassilo Amtage is a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and a Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at UBS in Frankfurt. With twenty years of experience working at large European banks in various financial crime-related roles, he has contributed to the creation of two compliance certification programs at the Frankfurt School as well as several publications on financial crime topics. His academic background is in German law and he lives in Frankfurt with this family.
Thomas Gregg leads the Central EMEA operations at Chainalysis, the blockchain data company that provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Much of his previous work involved scaling high growth US headquartered companies successfully into mainland Europe. In his free time Thomas enjoys anything that involves learning about crypto.
Valeria Verzi is a Data Science professional who has been focused on the Fraud Domain for the last 5 years. Valeria is currently Data Science Manager at Klarna Bank, in the Fraud Strategy EU team. Valeria’s role is supporting and building a team which develops cutting edge artificial intelligence models for fraud detection and prevention in core markets, by exploiting deep technical knowledge and a specific business and domain understanding.
She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematical engineering, during which she developed a thesis on multi-objective optimization at ABB. Valeria then obtained a master degree with honours in sound and music Engineering (Computer Engineering) at Politecnico of Milan. She wrote her master thesis at Queen Mary University of London on piano inharmonicity, mathematics and computer modelling. Valeria continued her career as data scientist moving to industry in 2014 and started working in the Fraud domain in insurance in 2018. As part of her career, Valeria developed and released 25+ models, led and mentored 20+ data scientists and designed an anti-fraud framework to best exploit the power of the combination of business knowledge and AI.
Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioural insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to feed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.
Wies Wagenaar is a social psychologist. She started her career as a crisis-management consultant. Having completed her training in forensic medical research, she worked as a consultant at KPMG Forensic & Integrity. She researched the root causes of fraud in business, and gave advice on integrity management and ethical business practices. In 2014, she was asked to create a new department at ABN AMRO that would focus on behaviour, learning and ethics. Her team of behavioural scientists, philosophers and educational specialists identifies behavioural risks, leads projects that are designed to change behaviour, and facilitates ethical decision-making.
Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.
Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.