Melissa Babin leads Financial Crimes Investigations for Robinhood.  In this role, she oversees the investigation and reporting of potentially suspicious activity across Robinhood’s entities.

Melissa is also an intermittent advisor on the Economic Crimes Team within the Department of Treasury’s Office of Technical Assistance (OTA). In this role, she provides specialized technical assistance to assist foreign governments in building their capacity to prevent, detect, and investigate financial crimes.

Prior to Robinhood, she was a Director in PwC’s Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) where she led AML and sanctions program remediation and transformation efforts for financial institutions under remediation by US and foreign regulators. Her work centered around financial crimes program governance including organizational design, policies and procedures, and risk assessments,  as well as operations.

Melissa also spent several years as a Senior Intelligence Investigator to the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Fusion Center (OFC). In this role, she supported large money laundering investigations, as well investigations involving other types of crimes.

Melissa holds a MA in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University and a BA in Political Science from the University of San Diego.