ACAMS Las Vegas Conference 2022 | ACAMS | 11 October 2022 | ARIA Resort & Casino, 3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89158, US - Hybrid

From expansive sanctions following Russia’s Ukraine invasion, to the explorable rise of FinTech and crypto, to shifting regulatory demands such as FinCEN’s national priorities, today’s AML requires new knowledge, new strategies — and constant reinvention.

At this high-powered conference the risks and rewards of innovations like blockchain are dissected. The practical AML benefits of tools such as artificial intelligence are detailed. Investigators from law enforcement share case studies. Thought leaders from the public and private sectors deliberate on enhancing collaboration to more effectively fight financial crime.

2022 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Himamauli Das
Acting Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Brian E. Nelson
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of Treasury

SPECIAL PRESENTATION SPEAKERS:

Gary Kalman
Executive Director, Transparency International U.S.

Bryan Smith
Section Chief, Cyber Criminal Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

SPEAKERS AND TASK FORCE:

Colby Adams
Managing Editor

Vikas Agarwal
Financial Crimes Unit Leader, Cyber, Risk and Regulatory, PwC US

Jennifer Aguiar
Chief Compliance Officer, DraftKings Inc.

Raul Aguilar
Deputy Assistant Director, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Brad Ahrens
Senior Vice President, Advanced Analytics, FINRA

Heather Allen
Deputy Director of Financial Crime, Senior Vice President, Truist Financial Corp.

Shilpa Arora
Senior Director, Anti-Financial Crime Portfolio Solutions, ACAMS

Lisa Arquette
Associate Director, Anti-Money Laundering and Cyber Fraud Branch, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Graham Bailey
Chief Operating Officer, Quantifind

James C. Barnacle
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Jessica Lyn Bartlett
Global Head of Financial Crime Legal, Barclays

Kieran Beer
Chief Analyst, Director of Editorial Content, ACAMS

Joshua Blazer, Esq. CAMS
Chief BSA/AML Officer, SoFi

Robert Bradley
Managing Director, Digital Risk and Compliance Global Offering Lead, Accenture

Brendan Brothers
Co-Founder, Verafin

Michael Bruno
Anti-Money Laundering Program Manager, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Male Silhouette

Gregory Calpakis
BSA/AML Reform Program Manager and Information Security Officer, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

James Candelmo
Chief BSA and AML Sanctions Officer, PNC

Victor R. Cardona
Senior Vice President, BSA Officer, Golden State Bank

Joby Carpenter
Global SME, Cryptoassets and Illicit Finance, ACAMS

Marta Michael Carpenter
Executive Director, Standard Chartered Bank, Female Silhouette

Ameesha Chandnani
Senior Manager - Financial Crime Analysis, HSBC

Pravin Chandrasekaran
Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management, Varo Money Inc.

Amelia Childress
Chief Compliance Officer, Block

Vasilios P. Chrisos
Advisory Board Member, ACAMS

Jodi Clausen
Director, AML Compliance Policies and Procedures, Western Union

Pamela Clegg
Vice President of Financial Investigations, CipherTrace

James Collins
Executive Director, United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime

Christopher Conroy
Executive Assistant District Attorney & Chief of the Investigation Division, New York County District Attorney's Office

Kelly Cooper
AML Leader

Sara Crowe
Strategic Initiatives Director, Financi al Systems, Polaris

Hue Dang
Global Head of New Ventures, Senior Asia Pacific Leader, ACAMS

Andrew Davies
Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, ComplyAdvantage

Harold A. Davis
Former Supervisory Special Agent, Money Laundering, Forfeiture, and Bank Fraud Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

L. Danaë DeMasi-Lemon
Assistant United States Attorney Asset Forfeiture Coordinator, United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of West Virginia

Jim Dinkins
President, Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC
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Jessica Dubensky
Managing Director, Global Head of Intelligence and Analytics, MUFG

Ben Dugan
President, National Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.)

Victoria Edison
Former Chief Compliance Officer, Americas & Co-Head of Int'l Compliance, Ant Group

Heather Epstein
Director – Americas Head of Sanctions & ABC, Barclays

Danielle Ferry
Senior Director – Head of New Product Innovation, Moody’s Analytics

Gregg Fields
Content Analyst, ACAMS

Howard R. Fields
Senior Vice President / Group Head – AML, Trade Sanctions and Export Controls Compliance Counsel, Mastercard

Monique Fields
Special Agent, Senior Analyst, Internal, Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Brian Filbert
Senior Director, Head of AML Investigations, Ally

Rachel Fiorill
Of Counsel – National Security and Sanctions, Morrison & Foerster’s National Security Practice

Clark Flynt-Barr
Senior Policy Advisor, Chainalysis

Marcy Forman
Managing Director, Global Financial Crimes Investigations and Intelligence Head, Citigroup

Steve K. Francis
Acting Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Peter J. Freyer
Head of Data, MI and Product Management, US Risk and Compliance, HSBC

Clark Frogley
Global Head of KYC Solutions, Quantexa

Annegret Funke
Head of Financial Crime (interim), Featurespace

Shahid Ghaloo
Know Your Customer Transformation Lead, Accenture, Male Silhouette

Matt Goodman
Founder and Managing Partner, Syntrove LLC, Metropolitan Las Vegas Police BW

Jefferson Grace
Detective, Cybercrime Task Force, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

William Scott Grob
Dr. William Scott Grob, CAMS-FCI, CGSS, Director - Research and Analysis, ACAMS

Philippe Guiral
Managing Director, Fraud and Financial Crime Lead, Accenture

Steve Gurdak
Initiative Manager , Northern Virginia Financial Initiative,, Washington/Baltimore HIDTA

Rebecca Han
Vice President, Global Financial Crimes Manager, Bank of America

Daniel Hazel
Global Head of Client Lifecycle Management, WorkFusion Male Silhouette

Scott Heath
Graph and Analyst Vice President, Expero

Jonathan Herke
Manager of Developer Relation, TigerGraph

Beth Herron
Manager, Americas AML Lead, SAS

Tom Hewson
Chief Executive Officer, Partner, RedCompass Labs

Bill Heys
Product Manager, Verafin

Gabe Hidalgo
Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Chris Janczewski
Head of Global Investigations, TRM Labs

Andrew Jensen
Managing Director, Global Head of Sanctions and Screening, ScotiaBank

Monique Johnson
Assistant Vice President, Audit Project Manager, U.S. Bank

Dror Kaelter
Vice President of Fraud and FinCrime Bottomline, Female Silhouette

Rebecca Keithley
National Program Manager, Supervisory Special Agent, Elder Justice Initiative Co-Coordinator, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Irene Kenyon
Director of Risk Intelligence, FiveBy Solutions

Nicole Kitowski
Chief Risk Officer, Executive Vice President Associated Bank

Lauren Kohr
Senior AML Director, ACAMS

Elias Kokaly
Deployment Strategist, TRM Labs

Ryan L. Korner
Director of Field Operations, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Silvija Krupena
Financial Crime Typologies Subject Matter Expert, RedCompass Labs

Albert Laino
Fraud and FinCrime Solutions Consultant, Bottomline

William D. Langford
Executive Officer, Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance and Chief Compliance Officer for the Americas, MUFG

Clyde Langley
Managing Director, Financial Crimes Risk Management, Charles Schwab

James Lee
Chief, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Jennifer Lee
Head of Compliance, Anchorage Digital Bank

Scott Liles
Chief Executive Officer, ACAMS

Kevin Lowell
Trial Attorney, Cryptocurrency Coordinator, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, United States Department of Justice (DOJ)

Terri Luttrell
Compliance and Engagement Director, Abrigo

Meryl Lutsky
Vice President & General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, T&M USA, LLC

Rick Magleby-Lambert
Model Risk Senior Manager, Senior Vice President, PNC

Tracy Manning
Director, Financial Crime Compliance – United States and Canada, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Stephen D. Marshall
Director, FinScan Advisory Services, FinScan

Andrew McAdams
BSA/AML & OFAC Sanctions Officer, Head of Financial Crimes Compliance, Agricultural Bank of China

Amy McCane
Director of Compliance, Resorts World Las Vegas

Rick McDonell
Former Executive Secretary, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Executive Director, ACAMS

Andrew McElduff
Senior Director, FINRA

Adam McLaughlin
Global head of AML Strategy, NICE Actimize

Benay Nachin
Group Manager, AML/Prevention/KYC, BNY Mellon

Deleep Nair
Head of Solutions Engineering, NAM, SymphonyAI Sensa

Scott Nathan
Managing Director, Citigroup

Jeff Nelson
Managing Director of Financial Crimes and Compliance, Precisely

Jiro Okochi
Chief Executive Officer, Alessa

Meghan Palanza
AML Product Manager, BAE Systems

Joel Payne
Assistant Vice President, Global Financial Crimes Division, MUFG

John Peleck
Chief AML Officer, Coinsquare

Andrew Pellington
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Thomson Reuters

Oleg Pobereyko
Senior Analyst, International Field Operations A, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Daniel Polar
Director, Financial Crime Compliance – United States and Canada, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Grant Rabenn
Director - Financial Crimes Legal, Coinbase

Anjana Rajan
Entrepreneur In Residence, Cornell Tech

Derek Ramm
Director, Anti-Money Laundering, The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario

Jas Randhawa
Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Airwallex

Ali Rathod-Papier
Director, Head of Financial Crime Policy, Brex

Miriam Ratkovicova
Managing Director, Deloitte

Ari Redbord
Head of Legal and Government Affairs, TRM Labs

Frederick Reynolds
Chief Compliance Officer, Brex

Tyler Reynolds
Senior Director, Enterprise Financial Crimes, U.S. Bank

Jim Richards
Founder and Principal, RegTech Consulting LLC

Stephen Richardson
HSI FinCEN Liaison, HSI Financial Crimes Unit, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSI)

Edward Sander
Chief Product Officer, Sayari

Rebecca Robertson
Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit, Atlantic Union Bank

Anthony Luis Rodriguez
Compliance Executive, Usend

Erik Rosenblatt
Director, Global Head of Financial Intelligence Unit, Circle

Sarah Runge
Director of Global Regulatory Programs and Relations, Meta

Samantha Samuel
Director, Global Investigations and Compliance, Guidehouse

Edward Sander
Chief Product Officer, Sayari

Jacqueline Sanjuas
Chief Compliance Officer, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML), Citigroup
Metropolitan Las Vegas Police BW

Steve Sansonetti
Detective, Digital Investigations Bureau, Task Force Officer, FBI Cybercrime Task Force, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Ted Sausen
Subject Matter Expert, AML, NICE Actimize

James Sayko
Financial Crimes Leader, Corporate and Investment Banking Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo

Markus E. Schulz
Global Head of Change Management Financial Crimes Compliance, ING

Michael Shaler
Vice President Business Development, TigerGraph

Andrea Sharrin
Managing Director, Head of Financial Crimes for the Americas and Global Investment Banking, Barclays

Brendan Shelley
Section Chief, Asset Forfeiture Unit, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Liat Shetret
Director of Global Policy and Regulation, Elliptic

James Short
Senior Vice President, Head of AML/ATF for Global Banking and Markets (GBM), Scotiabank

John E. Smith
Co-head, Morrison & Foerster’s National Security Practice

Jason Somrak
Chief of Product and Strategy, Financial Crime and Compliance, Oracle Male Silhouette

Jay Song
Director of the Office of Compliance, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Edward Starishevsky
Global Head of Sanctions and Anti-Corruption, American Express

Clint Stinger
U.S. AML and Sanctions Leader, Deloitte

Dan Stipano
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Melissa Strait
Chief Compliance Officer, Coinbase

Kara Suro
Managing Director, Fraud Risk Management, Charles Schwab

Aaron G. Tapp
Section Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Arthur Taylor
Vice President, Global Head of Compliance Investigations, PayPal

Craig Timm
General Counsel, Iron Fish

Kevin Toth
AML Senior Manager, Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Capital One

Thai Trower
Head of AML and Sanctions Compliance, Digital Payments, Google

Grant Vickers
Head of Financial Crime Strategy, WorkFusion

Erik Vingelen
Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Crime Risk Management, BSA/AML/OFAC Officer, Banner Bank

William Voorhees
Senior Vice President, Senior Director Financial Intelligence Unit, Truist Financial Corp. Department of Justice Seal

Katharine A. Wagner
Acting Deputy Chief, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Justine Walker
Global Head - Sanctions, Compliance and Risk, ACAMS

Blair West
Digital Client Lifecyle Management Lead, Accenture

Bernard Williams Jr.
Director, Global Head of AML Compliance Governance and Compliance Training, eBay

Kimberly Brice Williams
Director, Financial Crimes Investigations Manager Global Markets, Bank of America

Suzanne Williams
Deputy Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board

Rachel Woolley
Head of Financial Crime Regulation, Palantir

Amy M. Wotapka
Vice President, BSA Officer, First American Bank FBI Logo - BW

Eric Yingling
Supervisory Special Agent, Virtual Assets Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

Alex Zerden
Founder and Principal, Capitol Peak Strategies LLC

2022 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• AI OASIS
• ELLIPTIC
• Guidehouse
• Moody Analytics
• NICE ACTIMIZE
• pwc
• THOMSON REUTERS
• TRM
• VERAFIN
• WorkFusion

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• accenture
• Chainalysis
• COMPLY ADVANTAGE
• MERKLE SCIENCE
• Oracle Financial Services
• Palantir
• SAS
• SAYARI

GOLD SPONSORS:
• BLOCKCHAIN INTELLIGENCE GROUP
• HAWK:AI

FIRESIDE CHAT SPONSOR:
• Bottomline

BREAK SPONSORS:
• BLOCKCHAIN INTELLIGENCE GROUP
• FTI CONSULTING
• REFINITIV

KNOWLEDGE SESSION SPONSORS:
• abrigo
• accenture
• CIPHERTRACE
• LexisNexis
• precisely
• QUANTIFIND
• RedCompass Labs
• REFINITIV
• TRM
• VERAFIN

KNOWLEDGE LUNCH SPONSORS:
• Deloitte
• Finscan
• PROMONTORY
• QUANTEXA
• TigerGraph
• WorkFusion

KNOWLEDGE BREAKFAST SPONSORS:
• COMPLY ADVANTAGE
• HAWK:AI

INNOVATION SESSION SPONSORS:
• alessa
• NICE ACTIMIZE
• ORACLE
• SymphonyAI

APP SPONSOR:
• Hummingbird