The Assemby Las Vegas 2023 | ACAMS | 2 October 2023 | ARIA Resort & Casino, 3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89158 USA

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 era, compliance professionals see a financial crime landscape that’s both familiar and ever-shifting. Old-school scourges like frauds and scams change form but never disappear. Technological advances benefit both criminals and crimefighters. Budgets may be shrinking, but laws and regulations are expanding.

In this environment, proficiency united with purpose are essential to the pursuit of the AML and AFC mission. And three days at The Assembly Las Vegas will sharpen both your skills and your professional vision. Learn from thought leaders and expert practitioners from both the public and private sectors as they share insights with fellow compliance and law enforcement professionals.

If you want to pursue the practical knowledge that will make you a better financial crimefighter. Whether your challenge is uncovering money-laundering by a transnational criminal organization or dealing with the compliance challenges of growth at a community bank, experts from industry and government will provide takeaways you can use on day one of your return to work.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Elizabeth Rosenberg
Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Erin West
Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County, Office of the District Attorney

SPEAKERS:

Colby Adams
Managing Editor, ACAMS moneylaundering.com

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

Trenson Akana
Special Agent, Criminal Investigative Division (CID), U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

Sarah “Poppy” Alexander
Partner, Constantine Cannon

Kyle Armstrong
Former FBI, Director of Law Enforcement Relations, TRM Labs

Carolyn M. Anderson, CAMS
Senior Manager ERPM, BMO Financial Group

Shilpa Arora, CAMS
Senior Director, Anti-Financial Crime Segment Solutions, ACAMS

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

Carlos A. Baixauli, Jr.
Special Agent, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)

James C. Barnacle
Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Kieran Beer, CAMS
Chief Analyst and Director of Editorial Content, ACAMS

Jane Bell, CAMS, CGSS
Senior Industry Consultant, Fraud and Security Intelligence, SAS

Neil Bhatiya
Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes

Jason M. Blazakis
Professor of Practice, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

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

Stephanie Brooker
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, United States Postal Inspection Service

Michael Bruno
Anti-Money Laundering Program Manager, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)

Frank P. Calestino
Senior Vice President, Financial Crime Analytics (FCA), Global Financial Crimes, Bank of America

James A. Candelmo, CAMS
Chief Bank Secrecy Act and AML Sanctions Officer, PNC

Ricardo M. Carcas
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)

Joby Carpenter
Global SME, Cryptoassets and Illicit Finance, ACAMS

Carolina Ceballos
Chief Compliance Officer, Paxos, Office of Inspector General Badge

David Ceron
Senior Special Agent, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General (FDIC-OIG)

Vasilios P. Chrisos, CAMS
Advisory Board, ACAMS

Deborah L. Connor
Partner, Morrison & Foerster’s National Security Practice

Kelly Cooper, CAMS
Vice President, Global Financial Crimes Compliance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Hue Dang, CAMS-Audit
Global Head of New Ventures, ACAMS

L. Danaë DeMasi-Lemon
Attorney Advisor, Policy Unit, MLARS, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Melissa Duffy
Partner, Trade and National Security, Fenwick & West LLP

Victoria Liu Edison, CAMS
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, Chime

Eric Ellis
Director for Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Policy, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

Patricia Emerson
Head of Financial Intelligence Unit, PNC

Heather Epstein
Director, Americas Head of Sanctions and ABC, Barclays

Kevin Erdman, CAMS
Senior Vice President, Assistant BSA Officer – Financial Intelligence, Associated Bank

Alessio Evangelista
Partner, White Collar Defense and Investigations; Financial Institutions; Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions, Skadden Arps

Yaya Fanusie
Director, AML and Cyber Risk, Crypto Council for Innovation

Guy Ficco
Deputy Chief, IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Howard R. Fields, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer, MasterCard

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

Kathleen Finn Bell, CAMS
Director of Machine Learning, AML, BMO Financial Group

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

Jennifer Fowler
Director for Public Policy, Meta Financial Technologies

Sandra Garcia
Director for National Security Threats and Trends, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Richard Graham
Director - KYC / Financial Crime, Moody’s Analytics

Michael Greenman
Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel, Financial Crimes Legal, U.S. Bank

David Griesbach
Former Special Agent, IRS Criminal Investigation

Lisa Grigg, CAMS
Chief Compliance and AML Officer, US Bank

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

Justyna Gudzowska
Senior Advisor, The Sentry

Steve Gurdak, CAMS
Board Member, Washington Baltimore HIDTA, Northern Virginia SAR Initiative (NVFI)

Jenni Halleran
Deputy BSA Officer, Head of Financial Crimes Investigations, Silicon Valley Bank

Mary Hammond
Executive Director, Global Operations Policy and Support, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Matthew Haslinger, CAMS
Executive Vice President, Chief BSA/AML/OFAC Officer, M&T Bank

Caleb Hayes-Deats
Partner, MoloLamken LLP

Alicia Hurd, CAMS, JD
Associate General Counsel, Head Dodd-Frank / Consumer Protection of Compliance, Policy and Program Office, MoneyGram International

Koko Ives
Manager, BSA/AML Compliance Section, Division of Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Board

Peggy M. Jacobs
Vice President, Development Compliance, MGM Resorts International

Monique L. Johnson, CAMS, CAMS-Audit
Vice President, Anti-Money Laundering Program Governance Manager, TriState Capital Bank

Nicole Kitowski, CAMS
Chief Risk Officer, Executive Vice President, Associated Bank

Nathaniel C. Kummerfeld
AUSA/Deputy Criminal Chief, USAO/Eastern District of Texas

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

Michael Lee
Supervisory Special Agent - Western Cyber Crimes Unit, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Scott Liles
Chief Executive Officer, ACAMS, Male Silhouette

Chad Linnerooth
Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Dennis Lormel, CAMS
President and Chief Executive Officer, DML Associates, LLC

Meryl Lutsky, Esq.,
Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, T&M USA, LLC, US Secret Service logo

William Mack
Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

James Martinelli
Deputy Associate Director, Policy Division, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Amy McCane, CAMS
Vice President of Compliance, Affinity Gaming

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

Ali Moghaddam, CAMS
Executive Vice President, Chief Enterprise Risk Management Executive, City National Bank

Deleep Nair
Head of Solutions Engineering, NAM, SymphonyAI Sensa

Myrna Olvera, CAMS
Senior Vice President and BSA Officer, East West Bank

Brian O'Toole, CAMS
Global Head of Sanctions, Wells Fargo

Melissa Raman
Director, Correspondent Banking and Payments Leader, Wells Fargo

Jas Randhawa
Founder and Managing Partner, StrategyBRIX

Zaib Rasool
Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Treasury

Rebecca Schauer Robertson, CAMS-Audit
Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit, Atlantic Union Bank

Anthony Luis Rodriguez, CAMS
Compliance Executive

Kimani Rogers
Executive Vice President, Chief Audit Director, Financial Crimes Audit, Wells Fargo

Paul Rooney
Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Sarah Runge
Director, Global Payments, Regulatory, Facebook Payments

Warren Ryan
Director for Europe and Eurasia, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Kate Salottolo
Global Head of AML and Brand Risk Management, Paypal

Jason Samuels
Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Seth Sattler, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer, DigitalMint

Markus E. Schulz
Global FCC Head and Global Compliance Lead KYC Enhancement Programme (EP), ING

Nicholas J. Schumann
US Head of Financial Crime Program, Framework & Engagement, HSBC USA

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

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

Dan Stipano
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Kara Suro
Managing Director, Fraud Risk Management, Charles Schwab

Marshelle Taylor
1st Vice President, Director of AML/BSA/OFAC Compliance, EagleBank

Craig Timm
Senior Director of Anti-Money Laundering, ACAMS

Darren Thompson
Vice President, Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, American Express, Male Silhouette

Craig Tremaroli
Section Chief, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Jamie Udinson, CAMS
Senior Director, Crypto Asset Investigations, Complex Investigations and Intelligence, FINRA

Grant Vickers
Head of Financial Crimes Strategy, WorkFusion

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

Richard Weber
Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP

Peter D. Wild, CAMS-Audit
Founder, Wild AML Solutions

Bernard Williams, Jr., CAMS
AGC – Legal and Compliance, Sony Pictures Entertainment

David Zacks
Senior Director, Compliance, Kraken Digital Assets Exchange

2023 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• AI Oasis
• Moody Analytics
• Nice Actimze
• Symphony AI
• TRM
• Work Fusion

PLATINUMS SPONSORS:
• CSI
• Fenergo
• LSEG
• SAS
• Thomson Reuters
• Verafin

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Skylight

MOBILE APP SPONSOR:
• Hummingbird

POWER HOUR SPONSORS:
• Dow Jones Risk & Compliance
• Geo Comply
• McKisey & Company
• RedFlag Accelator
• NICE Actimize
• Refine
• TRM
• Verafin

HEADSHOT STATION SPONSOR:
• FTI Consulting

KNOWLEDGE LUNCH SPONSORS:
• Finscan
• Quantexa
• Socure
• Work Fusion