Virtual Event
AML & KYC summit

Amy Ruppeck joined Wells Fargo in January of 2020 as the Head of Emerging Risk and Governance with the Wealth and Investment Management Financial Crime Risk and Control Team. She is a compliance and risk management professional with more than 25 years of leadership experience in the public and global private sectors. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, she held various leadership roles at Western Union. Amy’s experience included leading teams totalling 175 full- time employees, which specialized in Suspicious Activity Reporting, Enhanced Due Diligence reviews and the Anti-human trafficking Initiative. She developed employees, established and executed the policies, programs, operational processes, training and technology, her functions in partnership with Legal, Sales, Operations, and IT departments. Amy’s career prior to joining the private sector was in law enforcement, her speciality was investigating large and complex financial crime cases. Amy has earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Denver, Daniels School of Business, graduating summa cum laude.

Laura Deegan is the current Head of Sanctions for the Americas at Barclays, where she advises the corporate and investment businesses on compliance with global sanctions regimes.  Prior to this role she spent almost seven years at another global financial institution advising on and drafting bank policy in relation to compliance with US, UK, EU and UN sanctions. She also formerly practised as a corporate attorney with a major New York law firm.

Since becoming a CPA, CMA in 1997 David has worked in the field of investigations and regulatory compliance, primarily relating to the financial industry.  His experience includes work in the Audit and Investigations divisions of the CRA, and investigations and compliance roles with the British Columbia Securities Commission.  He joined the Financial Intelligence Unit of HSBC in 2014 and in April of 2017 he became the Head of Investigations at HSBC Bank Canada.

Aaron is a leader and subject-matter expert with over 17 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance. Working across all major lines of business in banks and across jurisdictions, Aaron has led the development, execution, and oversight of the AML, Sanctions, Fraud, and Bribery & Corruption risk and control frameworks.

Currently, Aaron is the Deputy Americas Head of Anti-Financial Crime 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 and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, both from Pace University, and has a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.

Paul Jonathan Saguil is Deputy Head of TD Bank Group’s Sanctions Compliance and Anti-Bribery / Anti-Corruption Program as part of the Global Anti-Money Laundering Department. He was formerly an Associate Vice President overseeing key governance functions for the AML advisory team supporting the Canadian Banking and Digital Channels lines of business and worked closely with other risk management partners to advance TD’s innovation agenda with his understanding of emerging technologies and applicable AML/ATF/sanctions requirements and controls.

Paul has appeared before all levels of courts in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, and various regulatory bodies. He received his Hons. B.A. (Philosophy) from York University in 2004 and LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2007. Before being called to the Bar of Ontario in 2008, Paul served as a judicial clerk to the Honourable Justice Phelan of the Federal Court. He is a member of the Board for the Ontario Justice Education Network and the 519 Community Centre; past Chair of the Law Society of Ontario Equity Advisory Group and of the Board of Directors for Start Proud; and serves on the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee for the GTA.

Mr. Mauro is Compliance Officer and US MLRO for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) in New York.  He has over 20 years of experience working for foreign and domestic banks, registered investment advisers and broker-dealers with a focus on financial crime. Mr. Mauro is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), ACAMS Advanced Financial Crimes Investigations Certification (CAMS-FCI),Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Compliance and Regulatory Professional (CCRP).

Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson is currently a Senior Director – AML Compliance of South State Bank, N.A. headquartered in Winter Haven, FL with approximately $34 billion in assets and over 300 locations throughout the southeast. With more than 25 years in the financial services industry, Rebecca served as Executive Vice President – Director of AML Compliance of South State Bank for over 16 years, which was the largest publicly traded bank holding company in South Carolina. During her time as the BSA and OFAC Officers, she was responsible for ensuring the Bank’s compliance with all facets of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, and Office of Foreign Assets Control and had oversight of the Bank’s Fraud department.  

Rebecca holds the advanced designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist – Audit (CAMS-Audit), and designations of Certified AML and Fraud Professional (CAFP), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She frequently participates as a subject matter expert panelist and speaker on the topic of BSA – AML. Rebecca is the current Chair of the ABA’s CAFP Advisory Board and is 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.  

Nicolas Khouri is currently a Senior Compliance Director at Ally Bank overseeing AML Investigations. As part of his role, Nicolas manages a team that handles all AML investigations, SAR filings and all law enforcement requests and coordination. Prior to that Nicolas was a Senior Audit Director with Ally Bank overseeing all of Compliance and Legal.

Nicolas has over 20 years of financial institutions and investment banking auditing and compliance experience focusing mainly on AML and International Operations. Prior to joining Ally, Nicolas spent 7 years as an AML auditor at Wachovia/Wells Fargo Bank. Over the years, Nicolas has developed in depth knowledge in domestic and international AML regulations.

Nicolas holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the George Washington University and is a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) since 2006. Nicolas has been an invited speaker and/or panelist at several national conferences on AML and auditing including Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), American Bankers Association (ABA), Florida International Banking Association (FIBA), The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Financial Markets Association (FMA).

Carolyn Dicharry works on BSA/AML and sanctions compliance matters at Ripple, a financial technology company providing one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain technology. Since 2015, Carolyn has helped develop, manage, and advise on various AML and sanctions compliance programs related to Ripple’s cross-border payment and virtual currency-related products.

Prior to joining Ripple, Carolyn worked as a compliance officer for Sigue, a multi-national payments company, and managed AML investigations at Wells Fargo’s FIU. Carolyn holds a BA in Economics and Spanish from the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and an MBA from the University of California, Davis’ Graduate School of Management, and she is CAMS-certified.

Francisco Mainez is the Head of Data and Analytics for Retail Banking Financial Crime Risk at HSBC. Francisco leads a team that supports all activities related to data extraction, analysis and insight reporting, covering Money Laundering, Financial Crime Typologies, Operations, Customer Due Diligence and Tax Evasion, among other areas. While in HSBC, Francisco has also worked in other Financial Crime teams, such as the Financial Intelligence Unit and Compliance Reporting.

Prior to HSBC, Francisco fulfilled roles in Standard Chartered Bank, both in London and Singapore after completing several tours of operations in Military Intelligence for NATO and the European Union in several geographical locations.

Adriana specialises in financial regulatory policy issues covering all Digital and Innovation topics, PSD2, Cyber-Security, Operational Resilience, Data protection, Tax and issues affecting fixed income including securitisation, margin and shadow banking reforms. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Ms. Ennab was a Repo trader and Global Product Manager for Merrill Lynch, Tradition Government Securities and Goldman Sachs in Asia, London and New York. Additionally, she ran various private ventures in Asia and London.

Ms. Ennab holds a BS in Management and Marketing and Finance from New York University and an MBA from Fordham School of Business Management.

Adriana is on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2018 and shortlisted for the Policy Makers and Regulatory Experts group.

As the Head of Fund Reporting and Regulatory Change, Deon is responsible for reporting fund data to clients, and for building client solutions around European and UK regulatory developments.

Deon believes that asset managers need to focus on cleaning their data and making it available to clients online. Clients want to see the underlying data that drives everything asset managers create for them – and providing this in a transparent and timely way, especially in the regulatory space, will be a winning strategy for any firm. He is also no 3 on the 2019 Empower Yahoo Finance ethnic minority future leaders list. Deon is chair of the LGBT+ Allies network which represents and brings together their LGBT community and allies.

Janthana is the CEO and Founder of Tapoly, the first on-demand insurance platform for the gig economy in Europe, and winner of Insurance Provider of the Year at the British Small Business Awards 2018. She is listed by Forbes as number 6 of the Top 100 Women Founders to watch, and is among the Top Ten Insurtech Female Influencers according to The Insurance Institute. Janthana is a chartered accountant and former internal audit director at top-tier investment banks.

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.

Jacqui is an international web scientist recognised as one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her international futurist work.

She is recognised as one of the Top Ten global IoT innovators and an independent industry analyst for the Internet of Things (IoT). She is one of 4 IoT leaders advising the European Commission on their citizen strategy in an IoT enabled Europe.

She is personally recognised as one of the UK’s most influential Women in Tech, one of the 34 IoT Influencers on Twitter, one of the 20 global entrepreneurs to watch, and a UK Smart City Leader. She was shortlisted for a Cyber Security industry award based on her European work and was invited to a speak in Davos on the future of the Cyber Security Industry.

She is globally recognised as a Smart City Tzar, smart cities are the future hubs of democracy in an IoT world. She is a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government on Smart Cities, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain and a Principal UK Expert lead for the British Standards Institute (BSI) international team for Smart Cities and AI.

She is one of the International Smart City experts advising the Chinese Government on their Smart City Programme.

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.