Stuart Clarke

Head of Product, Blackdot Solutions

Stuart is an internationally respected investigations and cybersecurity expert with extensive business management, consultancy, and leadership expertise. He has advised the United Nations’ peak cybersecurity body ITU and led the product strategy of several award-winning cybersecurity and investigation solutions at Nuix. Stuart has contributed to professional textbooks covering evidence preservation as well as publishing several industry-recognized white papers in the areas of Investigations, cybersecurity and GRC, including a recent global survey of regulators exploring Investigation best practice. Stuart is a passionate conservationist and a board member of Helping Rhinos, a charity fighting to save rhinos from extinction.

Graham Barrow

Director, The Dark Money Files Ltd

Graham is renowned for shining a light into the murky world of dark money. He is passionate about informing and educating professionals and members of the public on this subject and how it affects the wider world around us. With 25 years of experience in financial services, he has worked in locations across the world, providing his expertise to high profile banks, corporate, private, retail and wealth management.

He is a highly sought after public speaker and thought leader on the subject of money laundering, corruption, bribery and tax evasion in this industry.

Ray Blake

Director, The Dark Money Files Ltd

Ray is an experienced anti-financial crime professional. He has extensive experience in the retail financial services sector, with a professional track record over his 30 years of experience in the sector. His particular area of expertise is regulation as it relates to this industry.

He is an experienced trainer and presenter, and has worked closely with a variety of banks to strengthen their defences against the threat of financial crime. His expertise has most recently been utilised in Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer roles.

Philip Creed

Director and Co-Founder, fscom

Phil is Director and Co-Founder of fscom and has over 12 years experience of regulatory consulting, specialising in financial crime.

Phil’s experience has been gained in regulatory licencing applications and audits within payments, e-money, cryptocurrency firms and digital banks. He has a keen interest in the cryptocurrency sector and has assisted a number of leading crypto firms in the UK and Ireland gain their e-money licences. He organises and sits on a number of crypto roundtables across the UK and Ireland and regularly speaks at conferences on financial crime prevention.

Phil currently sits on the Emerging Payment Association’s (EPA’s) Project Financial Crime which aims to raise awareness of the impact of financial crime on the public, consumers and businesses and combat it through policy statements and thought leadership. He was formerly Head of Compliance for a global e-money institution in Europe.

Charles Delingpole

Founder & CEO, ComplyAdvantage

Charles Delingpole is CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized the ubiquitous inefficiency concerning money laundering processes.

Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014, ComplyAdvantage works with over 500 enterprise clients across 75 countries. Backed by Index Ventures and Balderton Capital, ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs in London, New York, Cluj-Napoca, and Singapore. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Jamie Bartlett

Author and Presenter

Aidan Larkin

Founder, Asset Reality Ltd

Aidan Larkin is an Asset Management Consultant, Lecturer and Founder of Asset Reality Ltd (established May 2020). During his time at Wilsons Auctions as Asset Recovery Director, he ran the world’s first series of seized crypto auctions and managed a multi million pound portfolio of criminal’s seized and confiscated assets spread around the world. A former criminal investigator, Aidan’s background in asset recovery also includes presenting to global regulators and representing the private sector in front of intergovernmental agencies.

A visiting lecturer at the International Anti Corruption Academy in Vienna on managing complex assets such as cryptocurrency, he also works with law enforcement agencies and governments directly on an advisory basis. Aidan also hosts the new podcast “Inside Asset Recovery”.

Priya Giuliani

Managing Director, Financial Crime Risk Management, Promontory an IBM Company

Priya is a specialist in financial crime investigations and compliance with 25 years’ experience.  She is passionate about helping clients identify cost effective solutions that not only manage financial crime risk and achieve regulatory compliance, but also improve their cultures and lead to better customer experiences.

Priya has led a variety of engagements across the end to end financial crime framework, including risk assessments, independent reviews, large-scale regulatory investigations and remediation projects. She has worked on numerous Skilled Person engagements and trains boards, senior management and MLRO’s to manage financial crime risk.  She has written expert reports for legal proceedings and has also given evidence in court.  Priya has advised UK Law Enforcement Agencies on serious and organised crime cases through her investigations of money flows from drug and human trafficking, counterfeiting, fraud, bribery and corruption and money flows to and from terrorist financing organisations.   It is this understanding of how criminals operate that influences Priya’s approach to effective, risk based, financial crime risk management.

Prior to joining Promontory, Priya was a partner at KPMG.

Matthew Caruana Galizia

Director, The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

Matthew Caruana Galizia is the director of The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation. He worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), developing the technology that enabled major investigations such as ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Paradise Papers’. In 2018, Matthew left ICIJ to continue working on the case around the killing of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in 2017 following her investigations into corruption in Malta. Since then, Matthew Caruana Galizia and his family have worked tirelessly to tackle impunity and to unveil the truth about Daphne’s death.

Katarina Cook

Head of Financial Crime Prevention, Brewin Dolphin

Katarina is the Head of Financial Crime at Brewin Dolphin. She has a broad range of experience from various financial crime prevention related roles in banking and wealth management. Katarina has been a board member for ACAMS Netherlands Chapter and is now the Chair for the ACAMS UK Chapter, excited to support ACAMS and industry practitioners to stay informed of regulatory change, trends and best practices.

Josie Preston

Group MLRO, Caesars Entertainment EMEA

Josie Preston is the Group MLRO at Caesars Entertainment EMEA, a prestigious Casino in London’s Mayfair district. Prior to this, she was the Head of Anti Money Laundering and MLRO at The Ritz Club, a prestigious Casino in London’s Mayfair district. Josie has over 19 years’ experience in both non-remote Casinos and igaming; in the diversified fields of AML, due diligence, operations, strategy, training, and regulatory compliance and risk, with several established UK domestic and international operators. Josie is a veteran JNCO of the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, specialising in OSINT and SOCMINT military intelligence strategic investigation. Complementary to her military training, she holds an International Diploma in AML, and has a passion for the implementation of AML and intelligence in the gaming space. Josie was awarded the MLRO of the Year 2021 at the Themis AFC Awards, and was recently shortlisted for the Outstanding Achiever of the Year Award at the Ex-forces in Business Awards 2021, where she was highly commended by the judges for her determination and perseverance.

Dominic Mac

Chief Technology Officer, PWC Operate UK

Dominic Mac is Chief Technology Officer for PWC Operate UK, one of the fastest growing business units within PWC.

Operate delivers PWC clients the operational horsepower, expertise and technologies, to solve their most important business problems.  He is responsible for driving the overall technology agenda for Operate,  ensuring ever tighter alignment with client demand and the wider PWC Execution Managed Services strategy, embedding technology into the core of PWC’s propositions and delivery and weaving all things Tech into the culture and DNA of PWC.

Dominic brings over two decades of experience in developing technology led service offerings and propositions for global banking and capital markets clients. He joined PWC from IBM, where he was responsible for leading the European and Asian managed services division. Over his career, he has held leadership positions within blue chip technology and global consulting organisations, working at the intersection of technology, consulting and operations, to provide services that help  clients transform their business and operating models.

Paul Radu

Director, OCCRP

Paul Radu is a director and co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a co-creator of the Investigative Dashboard concept, of Visual investigative Scenarios visualization software and a co-founder of RISE Project, a platform for investigative reporters and hackers in Romania. He is the recipient of numerous awards including in 2004, the Knight International Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, in 2007, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the 2011 the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and a 2015 European Press Prize. Paul is an Ashoka Global fellow and a board member with the Global Investigative Journalism Network and other organizations. Paul also won a 2020 Sigma Data Journalism award.

Paul was working the Panama Papers and the Russian, Azerbaijani and the Troika Laundromat.

Ben Keith

Barrister, 5SAH

Ben Keith is a barrister and leading specialist in Extradition and International Crime.  As well as dealing with Serious Fraud, Immigration, and Public law, he has extensive experience of appellate proceedings as well as applications and appeals to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and United Nations. He regularly acts for clients based in foreign jurisdictions who seek his advice on extradition, Interpol and associated issues. He is sought after to represent politically exposed persons in extradition, immigration and financial proceedings. He has significant expertise in the challenge and removal of INTERPOL Red Notices.

Frederic Pierson

Leading Expert, Europol

Frederic Pierson addresses asset recovery and anti-corruption issues in the recently created European Financial and Economic Crime Centre of Europol.

Formerly he has been a liaison officer in Europol dealing with financial crime for France, a financial investigator and further head of unit in Paris anti-money laundering unit and an asset tracer in a multidisciplinary asset recovery unit. Frederic was also a police officer in one of the most exposed to criminality Parisian suburbs.

Matthew Collin

David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Brookings Institution

Matthew Collin is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. His research includes understanding the costs and benefits of policies aimed at reducing illicit financial flows, including money laundering and cross-border tax evasion, with a particular focus on developing countries. He also works on making property rights systems more effective, improving domestic tax compliance, and measuring the effectiveness of age-of-marriage laws.

Matt has previously worked in the World Bank as an economist in the Global Tax Team and as a Young Professional in the Human Development Chief Economist’s office. He has also previously held positions as a research fellow at the Center for Global Development and as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Finance of Malawi. He holds both a DPhil in economics and an MSc in economics for development from the University of Oxford and a BA in mathematics and economics from Clemson University.

Oliver Bullough

Freelance Journalist

Oliver Bullough is a freelance journalist and author from Wales, who writes about financial crime, often when it has a connection to the former Soviet Union. His articles appear in the Guardian, Prospect, the New York Times and elsewhere. His latest book was Moneyland, why crooks and thieves now rule the world and how to take it back.

Rebecca Lee

Chief Impact Officer, OpenCorporates

Rebecca is the Chief Impact Officer at OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates’ core mission is to promote global corporate transparency by making the world’s company data open to all, shining a light on the existence, ownership and activities of entities, and the people connected with them – particularly to tackle the use of companies for corruption, money laundering and other anti-social purposes. Their data has been involved in groundbreaking investigations including the ICIJ’s Panama Papers, Global Witness’ Narco-a-lago report, Transparency International’s London property money laundering report, and the OCCRP’s Troika Laundromat investigations.

Before joining OpenCorporates, Rebecca led PwC’s Investigative Analytics group – a team of 30 data scientists and investigators using data to detect, investigate, prevent and remediate a range of issues such as anti-money laundering, Know Your Client, bribery & corruption, sanctions and fraud. Her expertise across projects at PwC and her prior roles at Deloitte, include disputes, cyber breaches, reactive regulatory investigations and remediation through to proactive compliance and risk management. Many of the projects she managed were high-profile and especially challenging due to the complexity, scale and volume of the data, often with a global reach – involving periods working in Iceland, Dubai, South Africa and Switzerland.

Detective Chief Superintendent Patrick Lordan

Head of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau including the Irish Financial Intelligence Unit.

Pat joined An Garda Síochána in 1986 and has worked in Community Policing, Drugs, Prostitution Investigations, Serious Crime Investigations, Fraud and Financial Crime Investigations, Financial Intelligence and Cybercrime. He has held the position of Detective in all ranks and has been at the forefront of the investigation of serious crime for over 30 years. Pat is a Senior Investigating Officer (S.I.O.) and holds a B.Sc. in Management Law from Trinity College Dublin, Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White Collar and Regulatory Crime from kings Inns and has recently completed a Leadership Agility programme with the Institute of Banking.

In 2015, Pat took up his current position as Head of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau which includes the Irish Financial Intelligence Unit. The Bureau is involved in many high profile investigations and supports Gardaí throughout the country trained in Fraud/Cyber Investigation. Pat and his team have developed a Post Graduate Certificate in Fraud and E-Crime Investigation in association with University College Dublin. Pat was the lead representative from An Garda Síochána in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Review of Ireland and is trained as an assessor with FATF.

Fraud prevention and disruption, the recovery of victims finances and Money Laundering are at the top of his agenda.

Pat’s interests include:

• Hill walking
• Sailing
• Travel
• Gardening
• Motor Sport

Neil Whiley

Director of the International Sanctions Programme, UK Finance

Neil is responsible for the UK Finance international sanctions programme. He has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years, concentrating on sanctions compliance since 2009. Prior to joining UK Finance, Neil was the sanctions SME for Internal Audit at Deutsche Bank in London and spent over seven years at Lloyds and later HSBC helping both banks deal with their regulatory failings.

Neil is a Fellow of both the International Compliance Association and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and holds an MSc in International Commercial Law and Financial Crime Compliance.

Marta Lia Requeijo

Head of Financial Crime / MLRO, ClearBank

Marta is an accomplished senior financial crime and compliance Director with over 17 years’ leadership experience in the financial services industry.

Marta is currently the Head of Financial Crime Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer for ClearBank. She has spent her professional career shaping compliance and anti-financial crime frameworks both in global organisations and at Fintech companies. With a vast experience leading the design or enhancement of financial crime compliance frameworks, she advises businesses and executive teams on their business growth strategy, enabling scalable and automated controls for long-term operational effectiveness and efficiency, and creating solutions that positively impact customer experience.

She has held senior leadership positions in the banking and payment sectors in the UK and in Portugal at Citigroup, HSBC, Worldpay, GoCardless, Novo Banco Bank and Caixa Geral de Depositos Bank. She also operated in a regulatory capacity at the Portuguese Securities Market Commission to regulate and supervise Financial Institutions in relation to Money Laundering and Compliance.

Marta is a tutor for the International Compliance Association’s Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance. As a passionate mentor, Marta supports the next generation of talented young individuals to realise their potential. She is an Advisory Board member of the UK registered charity “Migrant Leaders” which mentors first and second generations of young migrants living in the UK. While not working, you can spot her enthusiasm for new adventures as she travels the world with her cherished camera in hand with her daughter, Madalena, as her “partner in crime”.

Federica Taccogna

Senior Managing Director (Partner), FTI Consulting

Federica is a Partner in the Financial Services practice at FTI Consulting, where she has built and leads a team of regulatory experts who assess and investigate financial crime concerns on behalf of regulators and enforcement agencies globally and assist regulated firms in designing and implementing financial crime control frameworks.

Federica has led numerous of the recent large-scale investigations (Swedbank, Latvian/ABLV flows, Vatican corruption, Italian Mafia) on behalf of regulators in Europe and the US, including a dual-track (criminal and regulatory) investigation into a major universal bank that revealed the facilitation of significant terror-related activity. Federica translates her direct, hands-on, experience of investigating complex financial crime schemes involving a wide range of jurisdictions into practical advice for supervisors and regulated firms and advises regulators and law enforcement agencies as to how to build and improve (intra-)jurisdictional infrastructure to prevent an investigate financial crime. She is a strategic advisor to the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) and Malta Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit on the topic of financial crime and a Board Director of the ACAMS Malta Chapter.

Rachel Woolley

Director of Financial Crime, Fenergo

Rachel Woolley is the Director of Financial Crime at Fenergo and is based out of the firm’s headquarters in Dublin. Rachel has over 12 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry, having worked primarily in the funds industry and retail banking. She has a strong background in compliance, particularly in the areas of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF).

Rachel is a member of the Association of Compliance Officers Ireland (ACOI) Financial Crime Working Group and currently holds four professional designations; Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Licentiate of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (LCOI), Certified Financial Crime Prevention Practitioner (CFCPP) and Certified Data Protection Officer (CDPO). Rachel also holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Applied Accounting from the Oxford Brookes University and is an ACCA Affiliate.

Fenergo is a leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management, AML/KYC Compliance and Client Data Management solutions for investment, corporate, commercial and private banks.

Jonathan Price

Barrister, Doughty St Chambers

Livia Benisty

Global Head of Business AML, Banking Circle

Joanna Jenkins

Global Compliance Director, Railsbank

Joanna Jenkins, Global Compliance Director, Railsbank. Recognised as one of the leading authorities on compliance and money laundering within the payments industry. She’s a reputation for removing the jargon from compliance; making it understandable and accessible to all. And one of the few Compliance Officers that can read code!

A founding member of Railsbank, taking it from idea to being consistently rated as one of the most innovative Fintechs globally. Railsbank’s API banking and compliance platform enables any business, or brand to be a Fintech. The company is a pioneer and innovator in Banking as a Service (BaaS), defining the future of finance for consumers and SMEs.Joanna leads an executive team, spearheading all new country licensing and liaising with the central banks; focusing on the company’s fast-paced growth and expansion. She’s played an instrumental part in one of the industry’s most sensitive acquisitions.

It takes true understanding of the technology that powers payments to have led Railsbank in the FCA process to become direct members of Faster Payments with a settlement account at the Bank of England. Simply put Joanna understands the payments plumbing like few others. Her global insight and strategic brief mean she’s regularly asked to comment on industry issues and for her perspective on regulatory best practices.

Former Co-Chair for the Board of Directors of the ACAMS® UK Chapter. She’s a member of the UK RegTech council and a volunteer for Stop the Traffik, an association combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

De Quincey Bailey

Money Laundering subject matter expert, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

De Quincey Bailey is an investigation officer in HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), Organised Crime Operations. He is a forensic subject matter expert in national and international money laundering systems, with expertise in the criminal exploitation of informal value transfer systems (IVTS). He has been a member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association and an accredited member of the National Crime Agency (NCA) Expert Laundering Evidence Cadre since 2016. In December 2020, he was commended by the Director National Economic Crime Centre of the NCA for his outstanding contribution in providing expert evidence in support of complex economic crime prosecutions and investigations.

He has spent more than ten years investigating and prosecuting professional Money laundering networks exploiting the financial sector internationally, giving him continued exposure to a wide range of criminality, and the techniques used by organised crime groups to acquire, move and dispose of criminal proceeds.

De Quincey provides expert level technical support concerning Money laundering, Terrorist Financing or the application of the Money Laundering Regulations to HMRC’s FIS senior leadership team who are responsible for delivering HMRC’s response to the most serious attacks on HMRC core functions. He is a member of the cross-government Money Service Business Strategy Group.

Mark Doggett

Head of Compliance & Risk, Gemini Payments Limited

Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and has spent his career in the financial services sector. Since 2002 , he has been engaged mainly in regulatory compliance, AML/CFT and risk and has worked in a number of multinational firms. A significant element of Mark’s focus is on anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism and he has experience across multiple jurisdictions.

Mark’s specialties include cryptocurrency, electronic payments, compliance, anti-money laundering and risk management.

Duncan Hames

UK Director Policy and Programmes, Transparency International

Fighting corruption by day, studying internal audit reports by night… Duncan leads the public policy, business integrity and research teams of Transparency International UK, the British chapter of the worldwide anti-corruption movement. He is also a member of the RUSI taskforce on a trans-Atlantic response to illicit finance. Formerly a Member of Parliament, and still a chartered management accountant, he serves as a non-executive director of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, chairing their audit committee.

Ben Cowdock

UK Investigations Lead, Transparency International

Ben leads Transparency International UK’s research and investigations into Britain’s role as a hub for the proceeds of international corruption. This encompasses working to highlight the country’s shell company industry to give criminals nowhere to hide, strengthening Britain’s defences against dirty money and ensuring the UK offers no impunity to corrupt individuals. He has researched and written seven reports including “At Your Service” which analysed the role played by UK businesses and institutions in laundering the money and reputations of corrupt individuals and regimes.

Jane Jee

Chair, Kompli-Global Limited

After gaining a law degree and qualifying as a barrister, Jane gained broad experience in vehicle financing and all types of payments – card-based, e-money, internet and mobile.  She worked in both commercial and legal roles in the payments sector for over 30 years before changing her focus to compliance.

Jane was CEO at Kompli-Global Limited from 2016 until April this year when she moved to become Chair. Kompli-Global offers SaaS to defeat fraud and money laundering. These services include a remote onboarding platform (Kompli-QED) and within that platform,  modules covering adverse information searches (Kompli-IQ) and analysis of data filed at Company registries (Kompli-Konnect). Jane believes in harnessing the power of technology to make a positive difference to people’s lives.

George Greenwood

Investigative Journalist, The Times

George Greenwood is a data journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times who specialises in using freedom of information requests and analysing open data for investigative reporting. He started his career at BBC News, then joined The Times in 2018.

Pete Townsend

Founding Partner, Norio Ventures

Pete is an early-stage startup advisor and investor, non-executive director, startup mentor and podcaster.  He has 25-years’ global experience in financial services at the startup and enterprise level with companies such as BNP Paribas, Fidelity Investments, Coinbase, and 25+ startups across Ireland, the UK and USA.  He is based in Dublin, Ireland and operates through Norio Ventures, an advisory firm helping early-stage ventures in fintech and digital assets get their products to market, get traction with customers and raise funding.

Pete is also the co-host of MoneyNeverSleeps, an Ireland top 20 weekly podcast that looks inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, technology, finance and life as we know it.

Mitch Trehan

UK Head of Compliance and MLRO, Banking Circle

Mitch Trehan is the UK Head of Compliance and MLRO at Banking Circle, and is a regular speaker at industry events. Mitch started his career in the RAF, training as a Pilot, before moving into financial services where he has more than 18 years of experience in traditional Corporate Banking and FinTech, having held senior positions in Citi, Barclays, JP Morgan, Ebury, Currency Solutions and now Banking Circle.

Mitch is the co-chair of the Interbank Payment Policy Committee (IPPC) for UK Finance, the chair for “Project Banking Access” for the Emerging Payments Association, and is a member of the Executive Committee for the Association of Foreign Exchange & Payments Companies (AFEP).

He holds English, Scottish and Northern Irish Law degrees, a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance Risk and Compliance, and is a fellow of the International Compliance Association.

Colum Lyons

Founder & CEO, ID-Pal

Colum Lyons is the founder and CEO of ID-Pal, an identity verification solution that combines multi-layered technology with a seamless user experience for higher verification rates. Prior to founding ID-Pal, Colum worked as a stockbroker gaining over 13 years’ experience within the financial markets. Colum is also a qualified charting analyst as well as a qualified financial advisor.

Alex Beavan

Head of Fraud Investigation, Western Union Business Solutions

Alex Beavan is currently the Head of Fraud Investigation for Western Union Business Solutions. Previously he was in Law Enforcement for 30 years and served in the Counter Terrorism Command and Special Branch in the UK. He was also attached to the Ministry of Defence. He specialised in counter terrorism, counterintelligence, and terrorism / serious organised crime financial investigation. He has been involved in many of the most high-profile terrorism investigations in the last 25yrs including a number as the lead financial investigator receiving several awards. He has also presented across the globe on fraud to businesses, financial institutions, law enforcement, and intelligence groups. He is a subject matter expert on Business Email Compromise.

Jean Villedieu

Co-Founder, Linkurious

Jean is a co-founder of Linkurious SAS, a software company providing financial crime investigations solutions. With Linkurious, he has worked with various Fortune 500 companies to help them find insights in complex connected data (fraud, cyber-security, intelligence, etc). Previously he worked in the consulting industry on R&D projects and in sales. Jean has a degree in political sciences and a degree in competitive intelligence.

Martin Markiewicz

Founder & CEO, Silent Eight

Martin Markiewicz is the founder and CEO of Silent Eight, a technology company founded in Singapore in 2013 that leverages artificial intelligence to create custom compliance models for the world’s leading financial institutions. With an educational background in mathematics, Martin is a serial entrepreneur and self-described “problem solver.” Prior to Silent Eight, Martin launched several successful startups in Europe and Asia, including a hydropower startup that he guided through a successful IPO. With his 16 years of experience in software and artificial intelligence solutions covering a wide range of applications, Martin has taken the challenge of helping banks outsmart financial criminals and money launderers, who are gaming their transaction systems, head-on. Martin was recently named one of the Top 50 Financial Technology CEOs in the world by The Financial Technology Report, in recognition of his leadership and accomplishments in the growing sector.

Jason Holt

Entrepreneur

Jason Holt, is a passionate financial crime fighter, with more than 25 years of FCC experience. Much of this gained whilst working at some of the world’s largest and most complex financial institutions, including: JP Morgan as the EMEA GFCC Head, Bank of America as the Head of International GFC and at Barclays where he was the Global Head of AML.  In 2019, Jason moved into consulting, joining a boutique FCC consulting and Tech firm as the EMEA Regional Lead, and is now about to embark on new business venture in the FCC arena.

Prior to commencing his career in banking and consulting, Jason worked for the Metropolitan Police Service in a variety of specialist units, latterly as a specialist financial investigator at New Scotland Yard.

Jason, has been an active participant in a number of industry initiatives and bodies, such as The Wolfsberg Group, JMLIT and more recently as a member of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), AML Task Force.

Denisse Rudich

Founder & Director, Rudich Advisory

Denisse is an ambitious, multi-lingual individual with experience in strategic advisory to executives and implementation in AML/CTF, sanctions, ABC, tax evasion, compliance, policy development and risk management in wholesale banking combined with experience in forensic investigations in the public and private (legal & financial) sectors.

She has a strong track record of delivery combined with vast international experience and exposure to senior policy makers / Heads of State, gained while assessing money laundering regulation and global security threats for the Group of 20 (G20) and Group of 7 (G7) Research Groups and regulators in the Americas

Samantha Sheen

Director, Ex Ante Advisory Ltd

Samantha Sheen is a financial crime prevention professional with over sixteen years of practical experience in compliance. Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions in Europe.

Sam worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey, heading up enforcement actions and the creation of its dedicated financial crime division. Her role included working with regulators from other jurisdictions in the investigation of complex offshore financial crime. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on a variety of subjects matters, including the transposition of Pan-European regulations and guidance related to financial crime prevention.

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 FinTechs, the use of RegTech and other innovative technology to mitigate financial crime.  Sam’s focus in this area is on the operationalisation of regulatory requirements and their alignment to the control environment.

Sam is a regulator speaker, moderator, subject matter go-to person for journalists and writers on various topics related to financial crime with a focus on tactics used by illicit actors to launder the proceeds of crime. In her free time, Sam co-hosts a financial crime prevention podcast, “Captivated Audience”.

Sam worked with ACAMS Europe as its inaugural AML Director and was instrumental in the development of training content and raising awareness around financial crime prevention challenges in Europe.  provides AML/CFT training sponsored by the Council of Europe and to private sector institutions.

Oonagh van den Berg

Managing Director and Founder, VRS - Virtual Risk Solutions

Oonagh is an industry award-winning Compliance Officer based in Hong Kong, with over 19 years of experience in law and regulation, and a mother of two.

She is recognised as a global compliance industry leader in promoting innovation, improved culture and providing access to affordable thought-provoking compliance training opportunities.

She is the founder of RAW Compliance, a global compliance social enterprise, which provides free webinars, masterclasses, training and mentoring programmes to the compliance community. She is also the Managing Director of the global compliance consultancy firm Virtual Risk Solutions VRS, which supports FinTech and Crypto firms with regulatory licensing and the development of innovative, streamlined, agile and automated compliance risk frameworks.

Passionate about improving risk typology detection on socially imperative issues such as Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery and Illegal Wildlife Trading, she is also involved in various industry working groups and public-private partnerships.

David Balson

Strategic Risk and Security, Ripjar

Working on understanding how connectedness is changing criminal behaviour; cybercrime, money laundering, terrorism and fraud.