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 LISA
D. ARQUETTE Chief, Special Activities Section,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
As the top anti-money laundering official of the FDIC
her responsibilities include administering the agency’s
nationwide compliance examination programs concerning
the Bank Secrecy Act, USA Patriot Act and Office of Foreign
Assets Control. She also maintains liaison with other
agencies on bank investigations.  MUHAMMAD
BAASIRI Secretary, Special Investigation Commission
of Lebanon, the nation’s financial intelligence
unit which establishes money laundering controls and analyzes
laundering patterns. He played a key role in activating
the Middle East-North Africa FATF (MENAFATF). Previously,
he was resident advisor of the IMF for the Central Bank
of Oman and Chairman of the Banking Control Commission
of Lebanon.- CHERYL E. BAZARD Regional director
of compliance, First Caribbean International Bank Ltd.
in the Bahamas with AML responsibilities in 16 Caribbean
jurisdictions, she supervises seven compliance specialists.
She is founding president of the Bahamas Association of
Compliance Officers. A lawyer, she was previously associate
director of compliance of CIBC for the Bahamas and Turk
and Caicos Islands.
- ELISE J. BEAN Chief Counsel, Minority, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations under Senator Carl Levin. She directs investigations, hearings and the drafting of money laundering legislation and the role of financial institution in controlling it. She played a key role in drafting many of the money laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the terrorist financing sections of the 2004 Intelligence Reform Law. In 2003, she led the Subcommittee’s investigation into Riggs Bank that culminated in a landmark 2004 report on the money laundering-related abuses there.
 HERBERT
A. BIERN Senior associate director, banking supervision
and regulation division, Federal Reserve Board. A lawyer,
he is the senior Federal Reserve official for enforcement,
special investigations, anti-money laundering policy and
compliance and applications and serves as the principal
liaison with U.S. and foreign enforcement and regulatory
agencies on suspicious activity reporting, money laundering
and terrorist financing. MARTHA
BOERSCH Partner in the San Francisco office of
the firm, Jones Day, specializing in criminal matters.
Until 2002 she was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s
Office in San Francisco where she led the organized crime
strike force. She achieved the landmark conviction in
2004 of Pavel Lazarenko, the former Ukraine prime minister,
for laundering the proceeds of extortion and other crimes
committed in the Ukraine. SANDRA
BROWN Analyst in the joint intelligence unit
of the Ontario Securities Commission, which analyzes information
on money laundering in securities, she also provides training.
Previously, with the Financial Transactions Reports Analysis
Centre (FINTRAC), she was senior securities and insurance
officer on AML and terrorist financing compliance duties
under Canada’s Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering)
and Terrorist Financing Act. JOHN
J. BYRNE Director of the American Bankers Association
Center for Regulatory Compliance and a leading world authority
on money laundering, he is the leading spokesperson of
the U.S. banking industry on the issue and plays a key
role in money laundering legislative and regulatory subjects
in the U.S. Congress and regulatory agencies and often
testifies before congressional committees. DAVID
B. CARUSO Executive vice president of compliance
of Riggs Bank. He joined the bank in June 2003 to build
a compliance, investigation and security department in
response to adverse regulatory, enforcement and other
actions by the OCC, Federal Reserve, Justice Department
and others. Across various business lines he executed
the response to governmental requirements.- STEFAN CASSELLA Deputy chief of the
asset forfeiture and money laundering section of the U.S.
Department of Justice, he is a respected expert on civil
and criminal forfeiture issues. For 15 years he has guided
federal prosecutors in major domestic and international
forfeiture and money laundering cases, resolving appellate
issues when they arise. He also drafts proposed legislation
for the department.
 GARRY
W. G. CLEMENT, CAMS Served for thirty years with
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a range of investigative
and management positions, including service as national
enforcement director of the Canadian Proceeds of Crime
(Money Laundering) Act. He is now chief of Cobourg (Canada)
Police Services. He was a founder of the first chapter
of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering
Specialists, in Toronto.- CHARLES COLLIER Senior program analyst, Special Activities Section, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, which manages and supervises the FDIC’s anti-money laundering program, including fraud issues. He has played a key role in fashioning the guidance the FDIC issued on the standards anti-money laundering software should meet for use by financial institutions. Since joining the FDIC in 1985 he has performed various roles in financial institution supervision, including participation in the activities of the Federal Financial Institution Examination Council since 1992.
- FREDERICK E. CURRY III Senior
manager in the Washington, DC Office of Deloitte &
Touche LLP. Member of the firm's Financial Advisory Services
practice, assisting clients world-wide in developing effective
anti-money laundering programs. Previously, he was the
law firm KMZ Rosenman, where he was the senior director
of AML services for banks and businesses on anti-money
laundering and terrorist financing compliance. Formerly,
he was an examiner-in-charge in the specialized AML unit
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he directed
complex AML and OFAC examinations of domestic and foreign
banks.
- JANET DiFRANCESCO Manager of International Relationships, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), which is an active participant in the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. With more than 15 years of experience in Canadian justice issues , she has directed the signing of 19 agreements with its international counterparts and is an active participant in the Canadian delegation to the FATF and the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force.
 PETER
G. DJINIS Former top official of the U.S. Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network where he helped draft Bank
Secrecy Act regulations. Previously he was a prosecutor
in the U.S. Department of Justice. Now a practicing attorney
in Mclean, Virginia, specializing in advising clients
on BSA and money laundering issues, he is the Editor of
Money Laundering Alert’s Complete Bank Secrecy Act
Regulations with Section-by-Section Analysis. GIANLUCA
ESPOSITO Head of the Economic Crime Section of
the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg. A lawyer, he leads
council efforts on money laundering and terrorist financing
control, cybercrime, and trafficking in human beings.
He negotiates council treaties on those subjects and assesses
the operation of conventions on international cooperation
in extradition, mutual legal assistance and corruption. L.
KIM ESTRADA, CAMS Assistant Vice President-Separate Accounts Compliance Officer for Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio. She oversees a staff that provides compliance support services to several statutory companies under the AEGON financial services company umbrella. She is responsible for the several member companies' compliance with all federal securities laws including the implementation of regulatory policy, procedures and training in the AML field.  VICTORIA
E. FIMEA Senior counsel, American Council of
Life Insurers, in Washington, and the leading voice of
the life insurance industry on AML and USA Patriot Act
issues. She serves on the U.S. Treasury Department’s
Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, develops training programs
for the ACLI on these issues and develops the ACLI response
to proposed legislation and regulations on AML issues. SUSAN
J. GALLI, CAMS Senior anti-money laundering coordinator
of Citigroup’s global anti-money laundering team.
Previously she was AML officer of Banco Santander Central
Hispano for the U.S and the Caribbean and assisted Latin
American affiliates. Previously at Citibank she was director
of AML compliance in electronic commerce. She has served
on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act
Advisory Group. RAMON
GARCIA GIBSON Executive Director, HSBC-Mexico,
with broad AML responsibilities. Previously in Mexico
he was AML director of Banamex/Citigroup and compliance
director of Banco Santander/Serfin, where he played a
key role in responding to the criminal and regulatory
charges of U.S. agencies in the Operation Casablanca cases.
He is a former Latin America and Caribbean consultant
to the World Bank in Washington. AL
GILLUM, CAMS Former U.S. Postal Inspector and
expert on AML issues for money services businesses, he
helped develop an automated tracking system to detect
money laundering abuse of postal money orders. As AML
officer for the Postal Service he coordinated laundering
cases with U.S. agencies. Now an AML advisor to the Postal
Service, he helps administer the global compliance program. DOUGLAS GREENBURG
Partner in the Washington office of the firm Latham & Watkins. As a staff member of the 9/11 Commission—while on leave from the firm in 2003 and 2004—he investigated the finances of al Qaeda, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the effectiveness of U.S. efforts against terrorist financing. He co-authored the August 2004 Terrorist Financing Monograph, the most definitive public study of al Qaeda financing. His law practice focuses on internal investigations and AML and white collar crime matters.- VITO S. GUARINO Deputy chief, office
of financial operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,
Washington. Previously, he worked in the Newark, Miami
and Colombia offices of DEA. In recent years he has specialized
in money laundering and asset forfeiture cases playing
a key role in carrying out the new mandate of DEA administrator
Karen Tandy's to focus on the finances of international
drug trafficking.
 JORGE
A. GUERRERO, CAMS President of Compliance Counsel
LLC, which advises money transmitters, their agents, correspondents
and banks, and government agencies. Previously he was
chief of compliance of Vigo Remittance Corp., Miami. An
attorney, in 1999 he helped form and was president of
the National Money Transmitters Association in New York.
He also created External Compliance Officer, Inc., an
AML clearinghouse that conducts centralized audits of
remittances.  MARC
HAMBACH, CAMS Senior manager of Supervision of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, an independent regulator that sets rules and standards in the new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a purpose-build financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He administers the DFSA's AML function, authors AML regulations, which aim to mirror the standards and requirements of the FATF 40+9 recommendations, the 2nd EU Money Laundering Directive and certain elements of the USA Patriot Act. OSCAR
A. HERASME, CAMS President and general counsel
of External Compliance Officer, Inc., an electronic monitoring
service for money transmitters in the U.S. He is also
executive director of the National Money Transmitters
Association, a large trade organization of money transmitters.
Previously he practiced law representing money transmitters
in regulatory and litigation matters and was a state prosecutor
in New York. KRISTIAN
HÖLGE Regional adviser on Latin America
and the Caribbean, in Colombia, of the United Nations
Office against Drugs and Organized Crime, he assists AML
programs in Latin America, including establishment of
financial intelligence units and drafting legislation.
A lawyer and native of Denmark, he conducts training programs
for judges and prosecutors using simulated money laundering
cases as the instruction method. CHARLES
A. INTRIAGO Founder of Money Laundering Alert in 1989 and money laundering.com and lavadodinero.com
in 1995, he is a former U.S. prosecutor, in Miami, where
he specialized in corruption cases, and a congressional
committee counsel in Washington. He is member of the Advisory
Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering
Specialists (ACAMS) and a native of Ecuador.- PAMELA JOHNSON Director of global AML
compliance monitoring and training at Citigroup, New York,
a position that takes her around the globe responding
to problem areas of compliance and regulation. Previously
she was director of AML policy at Deutsche Bank in New
York, senior AML coordinator of the Federal Reserve Board
in Washington, where she helped develop AML and USA Patriot
Act policy.
 LESTER
JOSEPH Acting chief of the asset forfeiture and
money laundering section of the criminal division of the
U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, he coordinates
the application and enforcement of U.S. forfeiture and
money laundering laws by federal prosecutors in the 93
U.S. Attorneys Offices and federal enforcement agencies
nationwide. He was principal deputy chief of the section
since January 2002. ADRIANA
JURIC Money laundering prevention officer for
Abbey Financial Markets, a major UK bank where she designs
and implements policies and procedures, oversees sanctions
and terrorist checks, oversees transaction and compliance
monitoring, trains and produces the annual money laundering
report. Previously she was money laundering project screener
for the European Commission and European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development. MARIE G. KERR Principal consultant,
Shamrock Consulting Group, in Maryland, she created a
compliance software for the financial services sector
blending business and technical expertise. She has spent
20 years in hands-on IT and back office work and specializes
in AML software, including product design and development,
project and program management, vendor management, business
process reengineering, gap analysis and technical writing.- RON P. KING Vice president and chief anti-money laundering officer, Scotiabank, Canada, he is responsible for design, development, implementation and maintenance of the AML and counter-terrorism financing program for the Scotiabank Group worldwide. He coordinates all AML/CTF-related activities with other departments, supports line management in assessing and managing money laundering and other risks, develops standards, procedures, training, and monitoring and surveillance programs.
 BARRY
KOCH, CAMS Global anti-money laundering head
of American Express Co., New York, including its diverse
business elements. A member of the U.S. Treasury Department’s
Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, he is the former senior
vice president of risk management and investigations of
Charles Schwab & Co., BSA officer of U.S. Trust, and
director of AML and OFAC compliance at Salomon Smith Barney.
 WILLIAM
D. LANGFORD, JR. Associate Director, Regulatory
Policy and Programs Division, Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network where he oversees regulatory, compliance and enforcement
functions and helps establish and coordinate national
AML policy. An attorney, he is principal author of several
USA Patriot Act regulations and previously was special
assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Treasury
Department on Bank Secrecy Act and AML issues. JUAN
LLANOS, CAMS AML compliance officer of Remesas
Quisqueyana, New York, a large money transmitter with
more than 600 agents and headquarters in the Dominican
Republic. He oversees all aspects of the company’s
AML program including defining and updating policies,
procedures and auditing and monitoring, training of personnel
and agents, customer relationship and total quality management. STEPHANIE
LOWY, CAMS Program officer with the Financial Services
Volunteer Corps, New York, a nonprofit organization that
seeks to strengthen banking systems in emerging market
countries. As FSVC’s principal on AML training,
she has arranged numerous assistance projects
around the world ranging from training central bank examiners
on AML examinations to bank compliance officer training,
all led by AML experts who volunteer their services.- BRIAN L. MANNION Senior counsel, office
of general counsel, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company,
specializing in AML and OFAC compliance, privacy and E-commerce.
He also assists affiliates and subsidiaries in developing
and implementing AML and OFAC compliance programs. Previously,
he was the BSA officer at Huntington National Bank, in
Ohio. He has served on the American Council of Life Insurers
Money Laundering Subcommittee.
 MICHAEL
R. MCDONALD, CAMS Retired special agent, U.S.
IRS Criminal Investigation Division, now principal of
Michael McDonald & Associates, Miami, a consulting
firm specializing in AML and forfeiture issues and examination
of AML controls of money transmitting companies around
the world. A pioneer in AML enforcement and a founder
of Operation Greenback in 1979, he also provides AML consulting
to government agencies. BRIDGET
M. NEILL Manager, anti-money laundering policy
and compliance sections, Federal Reserve Board, Washington,
she formulates, implements and coordinates the U.S. central
bank’s AML financial institution supervision. Previously
she was a senior policy advisor with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission and an SEC representative in the
U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force and
other bodies.
MARTIN OWEN Immediate past head of the
financial crime policy unit, UK Financial Services Authority,
he was responsible for the FSA’s policies on AML,
terrorist finance, fraud and other financial crime. A
regulator since 1985, he supervised the program that applied
procedures to the FSA’s new statutory authority.
He has senior management experience in regulatory positions
affecting diverse financial services. JAMES
R. RICHARDS Anti-money laundering operations
executive of Bank of America, in Boston, he is the former
director of FleetBoston Financial Group’s Financial
Intelligence Unit. Widely regarded as one of the world’s
most innovative AML officers, he is a former Canadian
prosecutor and an author of works on transnational crime
and co-founder of the concept of financial intelligence
units in financial institutions to focus on money laundering. SASKIA
V. RIETBROEK-GARCES, CAMS Executive director
and co-founder of the Association of Certified Anti-Money
Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). An attorney and native
of The Netherlands, she is a frequent lecturer on money
laundering subjects and has led the growth of ACAMS, since
its founding in 2002, to a presence in 91 countries in
professional membership including certified members.- JOHN ROTH Chief of the fraud and public
corruption section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
for the District of Columbia and previously chief of the
asset forfeiture and money laundering section of the U.S.
Department of Justice. In 2003-2004, he was senior counsel
to The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the
United States, known as the 9/11 Commission. He led a
broad inquiry into the government’s readiness for
and response to the 9/11attacks, especially in the area
of terrorist financing, about the methods al Qaeda uses
to raise and move money and the government countermeasures.
He co-authored the commission’s terrorist financing
monograph.
 STEPHEN
J. SHINE Senior vice president and regulatory
counsel, Prudential Equity Group, LLC, New York, he manages
and disposes of regulatory matters of Prudential Securities
Inc., and serves as legal advisor in all AML efforts.
He helped design one of Wall Street’s first comprehensive
AML programs, is co-chair of the Securities Industry Association
AML Committee and a former federal prosecutor. RICHARD
A. SMALL Global anti- money laundering director
for Citigroup, New York, and one of the principal players
in the global money laundering field who has played a
major role in the development of AML policies and bank
examination standards in the U.S. and other countries.
He is a former top AML official of the U.S. Federal Reserve
Board and a federal prosecutor. DANIEL
D. SOTO, CAMS Global anti-money laundering compliance
executive of Bank of America, Charlotte, where he oversees
AML and OFAC compliance worldwide. He is influential in
the development of AML financial institution policies
in the U.S. As a former official of the U.S. Federal Reserve
Board, Washington, he helped develop AML examination policies.
He is chairman of the Association of Certified Anti-Money
Laundering Specialists. THOMAS
SPIES Managing director and global anti-money
laundering officer of Deutsche Bank Group, Germany, and
is registered with the German regulator, BAFin. An attorney,
he served as director of DB’s Euro-projects worldwide,
general manager in charge of corporate banking, lending
and international business and was a corporate and financial
institution banker with Deutsche for eight years in the
United States.- HOWARD STEINER President, KB Consulting,
Connecticut, a project management and technology consulting
firm with emphasis on AML software and systems. He has
participated in various bank AML compliance efforts and
contributed to the design and development of AML software
and systems. He spent four years as a project manager
on bank systems implementation projects.
 PARKER
D. THOMSON Managing partner of the Miami office
of the law firm, Hogan & Hartson, and a respected
counselor, he focuses on commercial litigation in corporate
and communications law. He represents private and public
sector clients before all courts, including the U.S. Supreme
Court, on a variety of issues including public records,
the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, media law and sovereign
immunity.  ROBERT
W. WERNER Since October 2004, Director of the
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury
Department, he previously served as Treasury's assistant
general counsel for enforcement and intelligence and chief
of staff at FinCEN. Earlier he served in the Justice Department's
Office of Legal Counsel, as a federal prosecutor, Associate
Attorney General of Connecticut, and head of Connecticut's
gaming regulatory agency.  DENNIS
P. WOOD Chief of the compliance programs division
of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury
Department. He administers monitoring and auditing operations
and the public information program on sanctions and embargoes,
including the targeting of terrorists and drug traffickers.
He has been involved with international banking operations
issues and wire transfer technology for 30 years. BRUCE ZAGARIS, ESQ. Partner at the law firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe. His work in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financial enforcement has involved serving as a consultant and expert witness in cases, consulting for governments, corporations, and international organizations, and training officials. Since 1985, he has published the International Enforcement Law Reporter, a monthly publication which discusses developments in international criminal and related enforcement law matters.
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