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Featuring top-level public- and private-sector experts sharing critical knowledge

GREGORY J. CALPAKIS, CAMS Executive Director, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, Miami. He is responsible for the overall operations of the 8,000-plus member global association. He has over 14 years, experience in the financial industry as a bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “Big Four” consultant manager and BSA/AML officer at an international bank.
ROBERT CAPLEHORN Legal and Compliance Senior Director, International Payments, PayPal. Prior to joining PayPal, Mr. Caplehorn had many years of experience in the banking, regulatory, payments and Internet fields with Mondex International (part of MasterCard), Bolero International (owned by SWIFT), the Office of Fair Trading and National Westminster Bank.
DAVID T. CLARK, CAMS Senior Global AML Advisory and Analysis Officer for Client Acceptance and Anti-Money Laundering, ABN AMRO, London. His current role includes managing the AML advisory relationship with the 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region, the bank’s internal financial intelligence unit and content development for AML/CFT trainings. He was involved in revising the CAMS Examination and in preparing the CAMS Examination Preparation Online Course.
LAURENT COLOMBANT Head of Business Development at EastNets, Brussels. Mr. Colombant is responsible for relations with Regulators, FIUs and SWIFT. He has over 15 years of experience in banking software of which 8 are directly related to AML. Previously he managed Viveo Cognitive Systems and worked for the World Bank.
SIMON DILLOWAY Principal, Lopham Consultancy, London He is a specialist on organised crime, corruption, terrorist financing, anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations and is currently involved in creating and presenting training programmes to the UK regulated sector and overseeing law enforcement agencies. He has extensive experience conducting financial investigations of high priority terrorist targets in conjunction with the British intelligence agencies.
PETER GREEN, CAMS Chief Money Laundering Reporting Officer, BNP Paribas Group, Paris. Previously, he held posts including General Inspection, Private Banking and Financial Institutions with responsibility for banking relationships in Asia. Since 1981, Peter has held appointments in Hong Kong, Nigeria, and more recently in the Philippines as Head of Territory.
ROLAND GUENNOU Head of Global Customer Due Diligence for Société Générale’s Corporate and Investment Banking division in Paris. He joined the bank in September 1996 and has held successive managerial positions within the Risk Management Division of the Tokyo and New York offices.
DR. JOACHIM KAETZLER Banking Lawyer at CMS Hasche Sigle, Frankfurt. He previously worked for the Bavarian Section of the German Investor Protection Association, where he became involved in the criminal persecution of some of the leading German "New Market" criminal cases. Since 2000, he has been a member of Transparency International, the world's leading NGO in the fight against corruption, where he is Head of the Anti-Money-Laundering working group.
LUIGI LICARI, CAMS Head of Global AML Monitoring at ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands. He is responsible for developing and implementing processes to provide comprehensive and effective surveillance solutions and also engaged in senior management planning, direction and policy decisions. He has over 25 years in well known financial institutions in operations, investor relations, broker/dealers, electronic trading, private banking, correspondent banking and retail banking.
THIERRY LOQUET Public Prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Office, Brussels He specializes in financial crimes and criminal tax cases. He is a member of different working groups related to the Follow-up Project Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Ukraine and has previously worked as tax investigator for the Ministry of Finance in Belgium.
JAROMÍR NEUZIL Head of the International Cooper-ation Division, Financial Analytical Unit, Ministry of Finance, Prague. He is also a member of the Operational Working Group of the Egmont Group, head of the Czech delegation to Moneyval and head of the “Clearing House,” an interagency body in the Czech Republic, where he coordinates AML/CFT issues in the international context.
JANE OGDEN Head of Corporate Financial Crime Prevention at HBOS A major United Kingdom banking, insurance and in-vestment services group in Edinburgh that serves as the holding company for Halifax and Bank of Scotland. She has more than 20 years, experience in banking and was awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 2007.
JOHN PYRIK Chief Instructor and Coordinator for the government of Canada's Intelligence Analyst Learning Program, Ottawa. He has worked as an intelligence officer, a securities investigator, and a money laundering analyst for the Canadian Financial Transactions Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC). He frequently writes and lectures on the investigative uses of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and is considered a subject matter expert on the Internet by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
GREG A. RUPPERT Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Berlin. He is responsible for FBI operations and liaison in Germany. Ruppert has 12 years of experience in the FBI and was previously tasked to lead various investigative groups in cases such as 9/11 and one of the most complex and largest U.S. financial frauds: the Enron Corporation.
THAER SABRI Chief Executive Officer of the Electronic Money Association in London He represents electronic money issuers and payment service providers in Europe. He is also Director of Flawless Money Ltd, a consultancy focusing on payments and e-money. Previously, he acted as European counsel for beenz.com, and regulatory manager at Mondex International.
ROD STONE HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Mr. Stone works for the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the United Kingdom, where he has the technical oversight of VAT ‘carousel’ fraud. He has experience on criminal investigation and risk assurance of VAT refunds and is a member of the ‘Wolfsberg’ working group on VAT ‘carousel’ fraud. In 2008 he was appointed to the panel of VAT experts at the IMF.
KILIAN STRAUSS Senior Programme Officer at the Office of the Coordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities of the OSCE in Vienna He is in charge of project development and management with a particular focus on combating corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. He is an expert on Eastern Europe and economies in transition.
ANNE-CHRIS VISSER Senior Coordinating Policy Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Directorate Financial Markets, Integrity Division, The Netherlands Anne is responsible for financial sanctions and relations with the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF). Her work encompasses the legislative and policy aspects of financial sanctions, concerning implementation and execution of UN, EU and national regulation regarding financial sanctions. She is also part of the Dutch delegation for the FATF.
JOHN F. WALSH Partner and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc., Mooresville, North Carolina Prior to forming SightSpan, Walsh was the Wachovia CIB Data Czar, where he managed data gathering and information sharing initiatives across the investment bank's platform. Previous to Wachovia, he was the senior vice president of AML technology at Bank of America. He also has held leadership positions at Merrill Lynch and other financial services firms and spent many years managing broker dealers and trading firms in high risk countries throughout Latin America where he was a trader of FX, fixed income and securities products.
GRAHAME WHITE Financial investigator for the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit at the Metropolitan Police, London He is responsible for the investigation, identification, and disruption of major terrorist financing and money laundering cases in the UK and overseas. He has also been engaged in financial profiling of terrorist cells; his major cases include the July 7, 2005, terrorist attack in London.
UDO KARL WITTE Consultant for World-Check in Germany. Mr. Witte recently joined World-Check after 36 years in WestLB, where he held various positions including assistant to the Chairman, Group AML Officer and positions in Credit, Group Audit, Treasury Control and Global Operations. He has been chairman of the European Banking Industry Committee (EBIC) Working Group on Anti-Money Laundering since 2003.
MICHAEL ZELDIN Principal, Forensic & Dispute Services, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Washington, D.C. He previously served in various executive positions in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, including Deputy Chief, Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section, Chief, Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Offices and Special Counsel to the Criminal Division for money laundering matters.