Samantha Sheen
Founder & Director, Ex Ante Advisory Limited and Council of Europe AML/CFT Subject Matter Expert
Chair
Main Stage Discussion Leaders
Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam holds a number of qualifications and is recognised as a subject matter expert in the field of financial crime.
Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe. Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey and subsequently set up the financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters.
Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects related to FenTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam most recently worked with ACAMS Europe as its AML Director. Sam is recognised by ACAMS as a subject matter expert in sanctions and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec Canada, Sam holds a Bachelors of Public Administration, Law Degree, qualified as a barrister and solicitor and holds her Masters in Business, specialising in risk management.
Experienced risk and compliance manager with broad international experience within banking and financial markets industry. Certified Advanced CAMS – Risk Management and CAMS expert with an extensive oversight, risk management, product and investigative capabilities (both from financial economic crime and regulatory compliance perspective). During career as a regulator – gained experience in clear translation of regulatory strategy into action, functional supervision and was a delegated national expert to international regulatory bodies (ESMA / IOSCO). Excellent communicator who brings the holistic view, connects the dots and brings the stakeholders together.
Andrew is the head of FCA’s Financial Crime Department. He joined the FSA in 2012 and has previously led the FCA’s supervision of Retail Banks, the ring-fencing project for Retail Banks and the supervision of retail insurance firms. He has also worked in the FCA’s enforcement division (where he led on complex retail investigations). Prior to joining the regulator, he was a partner in a law firm where he advised financial services firms and other large corporates on regulatory issues and complex disputes.
Aoife Doyle is VP of Product Marketing at Fenergo and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Aoife has over 12 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry, having worked in Central Bank of Ireland, Citi and First Derivatives prior to joining Fenergo. She has a strong background in compliance and consultancy, particularly in the areas of anti-money laundering and digital transformation programmes.
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.
Daniel Bastin is the SVP Sales at SymphonyAI Sensa. He has almost 15 years’ experience in Financial Services specializing in Risk, Compliance, and Financial Crimes. Daniel has successfully led several key engagements within tier 1 financial services organizations across the globe. He has key experience around leveraging technology to not only reduce operating costs but also drive operating revenue. The goal is to always help financial institutions become efficient and more accurate.
Daniel works with financial institutions to address particular pain points across their Client Lifecycle Management value chain, especially implementing solutions that solve for the huge amounts of manual work that are littered throughout. Having worked in banking for close to a decade prior to joining WorkFusion, he has the background and expertise to help customers avoid these pitfalls using intelligent automation.
BSc Finance (1st Class Honours), MSc Financial Economics (1st Class Honours), Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner.
David Pope is an expert in identity verification, ID fraud & money laundering. Since 2004, David has helped drive successful customer onboarding and IDV for banks, fintechs, online retailers and gambling operators. He is the Marketing Director at Mitek, and previously held the same role at HooYu, Jumio, Experian ID & Fraud and 192business.
Justin is Co-Founder and COO of FullCircl, a platform to Unlock the intelligence you need to engage with the right business customers, accelerate onboarding – and keep them for life.
Prior to FullCircl, Justin built the international operations for two other US-based fintech companies. Outside of FullCircl, he was a founding Non-Executive Director of Innovate Finance, a fintech members’ organisation that serves as the voice of global fintech. He is involved in a number of not-for-profit and educational organisations and enjoys spending time outdoors.
Lindsey enjoys building relationships and working with people to achieve goals and solve problems.
Some are work-related, like creating an audit plan that delivers valuable independent and objective assurance.
Some have a broader societal reach, like providing board oversight as a chair of a board of a charity dedicated to sharing information and advice to make parental involvement in Scottish schools as good as it can be.
She brings passion, intellect and creativity to all of her endeavours, whether that’s helping business leaders understand the effectiveness of their risk management, control and governance processes; applying critical judgment to an education policy proposal, or writing and editing an award-winning table-top roleplaying game.
AML Sales Strategy Lead for EMEA after working as a solutions consultant for a leading Financial Crime solution vendor with in-depth knowledge as well as expertise in Anti-Money Laundering including Transaction Monitoring, Know Your Customer (KYC) and PEP, Sanctions & Adverse Media Screening. In-depth knowledge of Fraud and Financial Markets Compliance. Holding a good understanding of the emerging AML risks from crypto and trade-based money laundering. Whilst holding knowledge of retail, corporate and correspondent banking processes. Possessing knowledge in AI, machine learning and intelligent automation, working with partners that provide key information to help AML investigators with Entity Resolution, Network Risk Analysis, Counterparty, Beneficial Ownership and more, information that is vital to a successful AML investigation.
Nitzan Solomon is Head of Transaction Monitoring, AML & Fraud at Revolut. She is passionate about Financial Crime and Regtech and has won several awards for her work including 2020 best Regtech practitioner, and being named one of the UK Top 100 Women In Tech.
Prior to joining Bottomline, he was responsible for managing the fraud and authentication solutions in the EMEA region for NICE Actimize. Mr. Kletter began his career in Israel’s elite technological intelligence army unit, where he served as the Head of the Global Counter-Terrorism section.
Puneet leads NTT’s Consulting practice based out of Dublin and has a proven track record of establishing competence teams across various banking domains. He is a diligent and accomplished professional with extensive experience in innovation and regulation across global banking industry. He has led complex large-scale transformation initiatives and has been working actively in financial crime space over last few years.
For the last 15 years, Puneet has helped banks assess their current operating models, design target op models, evaluate & refine their business processes, identify their technology ecosystem and help comply with the regulatory framework, having worked with banking institutions across APAC, EMEA and Americas.
Puneet is a MBA graduate from XLRI, India and his current area of focus is ‘challenges facing the global banking industry’.
Senior Leader in Financial Crime and Fraud Risk Management across Financial Services. Currently responsible for the Fraud Risk & Control Management Programme at Monzo, having previously been the Global Head of Fraud Risk & Compliance at Revolut.
Previously held roles in Fraud Risk & Compliance at Worldpay, Aldermore Bank and NatWest.
Tauane has 21 years’ experience gained in complex global and multi-region programmes across Compliance, Assurance and Internal Audit working on AML/CFT, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Fraud, Unauthorised Trading, Sales & Suitability and Conduct consent orders’ remediation programmes at HSBC, Citibank, Deutsch Bank and National Bank of Egypt UK. Led several key change initiatives, including:
- Development of the HSBC Global Commercial Banking Volcker compliance framework
- Risk-based compliance assurance to the HSBC Global Standards workstreams
- Development and implementation of Financial Crime Risk Governance Frameworks
- Development and implementation of Business Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (BWRA) and methodologies
- Revision of AML/CFT and Sanctions IT systems
- Development and implementation of Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring and Testing frameworks and Annual Plans
Tauane is a Financial Crime Compliance Associate Director at British Arab Commercial Bank. Tauane has just completed a LLM (Master of Laws) in International Banking and Finance Law (major in Money Laundering Law).
Thomas Byrne serves as nCino’s Head of Product EMEA. In this role, Thomas is responsible for product strategy and development across the EMEA Region. Thomas has over 10 years of experience in Corporate Banking. Prior to joining nCino, Thomas worked in Relationship Management and Delivery at Lloyds Banking Group where he managed the implementation of a variety of digital transformation projects, including the implementation of a large-scale CRM system across the Commercial Bank. Thomas holds a BSc in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Sussex.
Trevor Barritt joined SymphonyAI Sensa as Pre-sales consultant at SymphomyAI Sensa in January 2022. Before that he held similar roles at other vendors for 18 years, preceeded by serving as Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Prevention at a number of leading financial institutions in London. Trevor also worked for the UK regulator for four years. Outside work, Trevor is a keen amateur astronomer and fan of opera and folk music. He also plays golf very badly.
