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Colin Camp
Senior Director, Business Development, APAC of PelicanColin has extensive experience in assisting financial services companies across the globe to improve and bring cost efficiencies to their compliance and operational functions through the deployment of new technology. With 40 years of industry experience and over 20 years in Asia in various executive roles, he now heads up Pelican’s Business Development and Sales activities in the Asia Pacific region. Pelican has been one of the industry innovators in providing Artificial Intelligence solutions for Financial Crime Compliance and Payments processing for almost 25 years and count many of the global banks as their partners and clients. Recently he has spent a lot of time interacting with industry participants around the use of Artificial Intelligence in Trade Finance operations and compliance.
Rana Datta
Managing Director of Protiviti- Part 5: AML Screening and Monitoring
- Part 6: The Importance of Culture in Financial Crime Prevention
Rana is a commercially focused and highly driven risk professional specialising in multi-channel complex solution consulting to the financial services sector in APAC. A long career in relationship management at the institutional banking level interacting with global clients in several industry verticals including Oil and Gas, Commodity Trading, Natural Resources and Financial Institutions provides for a deep understanding of the challenges faced by them in the risk, compliance and CDD space. More recently, fully immersive experiences in technology led regulatory compliant onboarding solutions have led to the implementation of numerous market changing programs revolutionising the KYC/AML/CDD space in APAC.
Omer Eilat
Commercial Director of WindwardOmer Eilat is Windward’s Commercial Director, with a key focus on Financial Trade. Omer had extensive experience from the Global maritime sector and a deep understanding of banking, finance, and business development.
Arne Graeber
Head of Trade Finance Operations Asia & Middle East at Commerzbank AGArne Graeber is the Head of Asia & Middle East for Trade Finance Operations / Business Compliance for Commerzbank AG as well as serves as Member of the Board for Commerz Trade Services in Kuala Lumpur. For the past four years he has made significant contributions in combating finnancial crime within the banking industry and successfully led forensic investigations and large remediation programs in Asia and Europe. In this role he is a frequent speaker at industry events and also conducting trade finance seminars for Financial Institutions in the region.
Arnab Hazra
Manager, Business Implementation at Pelican AIArnab has 8 yrs of experience in global financial sanctions operations and is specialized in transaction and clients screening. As part of Sanctions Utility at JP Morgan Chase, Arnab has worked across bank wide Global payments, Real Time Payments, Securities, Money Markets and Global trade processing and SWIFT messaging applications pertaining to Corporate & Investment Banking, Commercial Banking, Private Banking and Commercial & Community Banking. He was involved in and played critical roles in process improvement projects, enterprise wide strategic initiatives to adhere to regulatory requirements and implementation of simple and standardised operating environment in sanctions operations.
Arnab is currently working with Pelican.ai as a Business Implementation Manager and helps financial institutions in implementing AI solutions in AML, Fraud, TBML and Sanctions controls to increase efficiency and scale up through innovation in Financial Crime monitoring.
Mary Kopczynski
CEO & Founder of RegAlyticsMary Kopczynski, J.D, & Ph.D., is one of the financial industry’s foremost regulatory problem solvers. She has over 10 years of experience in managing regulatory crises in the world’s largest financial institutions and has been a passionate advocate for RegTech her entire career. She created 8of9 from the ground up and continues to be an evangelist for simplifying the supply chain of regulatory information. Mary recently co-founded RegAlytics.ai, a platform that provides daily regulatory updates in an easy-to-use, one stop location. Mary can be contacted at mary.kopczynski@RegAlytics.ai.
Archana Kotecha
CEO and Founder of Remedy ProjectArchana is a UK qualified barrister and London School of Economics graduate who started her career practicing corporate law with KPMG then with DLA Piper. After 7 years as a corporate lawyer, Ms. Kotecha joined the UN Refugee Agency's Legal Protection Team in London and subsequently the Immigration Advisory Service and Stop Trafficking UK in London. She has worked on a number of trafficking related asylum cases and produced an anti-trafficking toolkit for UK lawyers. She has served on the Victim Care Committee of the UK Human Trafficking Centre that was instrumental in the efforts to set up the National Referral Mechanism of the UK in 2009. She was also a committee member of the NSPCC's anti-trafficking hotline and contributed to a number of anti-trafficking and refugee stakeholder groups in the UK.
Following a move to Hong Kong, Ms. Kotecha joined Liberty Shared. Until recently, Archana was the Head of Legal and Asian Region Director for Liberty Shared. While at Liberty Shared, she produced a Hong Kong focused Victim Identification Toolkit/NGO training, set up an online Legal Resources Centre (housed on Liberty Shared’s website) and has been involved in lobbying the Hong Kong Legislative Council and advising human rights practitioners and governments on trafficking in persons and forced labour. At Liberty Shared, Archana was also responsible for running regional legal projects including a regional Legal Impact Hub that focused building access to justice for victims and promoting creative use of laws across the region to combat trafficking by promoting a better understanding of laws, using strategic litigation and forging better partnership amongst various stakeholders within and across borders.
Disrupting activities’ of traffickers by improving modern slavery’s visibility within financial institutions, educating NGOs and lawyers on anti-trafficking legal frameworks and victim identification have also been key aspects of Archana’s work. Through her work with Liberty Shared, Archana engaged extensively with financial institutions, regulators and other corporations with a view to improving due diligence efforts to highlight human rights related risks and liabilities. In addition, she has been focusing on the application of anti-money laundering frameworks and existing risk structures within these institutions to identify and disrupt human trafficking networks.
Archana is recognized as a regional subject matter expert and regularly advises various ASEAN bodies and specialist inter-agency teams in different countries in the region. In June 2017, Ms. Kotecha was named as one of the top ten innovative lawyers in Asia Pacific by the Financial Times Asia and she is also an alumni of the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program run by the US Department of State. Archana was named in the Diversity List 2020 and is also a Social Standards committee member of the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative and an honorary Legal Lead for The Zubin Foundation’s Call Mira Helpline.
As of November 2020, Archana has assumed the role of Founder and CEO of The Remedy Project, The Remedy Project is a start-up social enterprise providing expertise on global supply chain labour compliance and remediation mechanisms to help workers and businesses redress labour grievances and achieve fair, effective and enduring positive outcomes.
Robin Lee
Head of APAC at Napier AIRobin is currently the Head of APAC of Napier Technologies and the Global FinTech Liaison for a US Government Entity.
His career started in Silicon Valley before moving to Wall Street working as a Hedge Fund Technology Analyst.
He then moved to the Regtech/Start Up space which included 7 start up launches, 2 acquisitions, multiple board roles and 2 books. He most recently worked in Market Development covering the Risk business in South East Asia at Refinitiv.
Robin holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, a degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Management from King’s College London and Diplomas in Compliance and AML with the International Compliance Association.
Viktor Mirovic
Co-Founder & CEO of KeencorpWith 20 years of experience in “hands-on” venture capital and corporate finance Viktor Mirovic leads KeenCorp with his experience in structuring, strategy design and business development as the company’s CEO. Previously Viktor was CFO of AND Publishers, a listed software company on EURONEXT, which he restructured back into profitability.
Wendy Murray
Associate Director of Lysis Financial
Pascal Nizri
Co-Founder & CEO of ChekkPascal Nizri is the Co-Founder & CEO of Chekk, a Digital Identity leader providing secure end-to-end Know Your Customer (KYB/KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Data Portability solutions, that remove the pain and costs from interactions between companies and their Individual and Business customers.
Pascal has 20 years experience in Financial Services as a Managing Director of HSBC across many countries (France, UK, HK, Australia, Indonesia), disciplines (strategy, business, technology) and roles (including Global Chief of Staff for Retail Banking, Global Head of Transformation for Private Banking, Deputy CIO Continental Europe, Chief Operating Officer, Head of Retail Banking and Head of Business Banking in countries, etc.)
Mark Nuttall
Country Manager at Hill and AssociatesMr Mark Nuttall is the senior leader for Hill and Associates (Singapore), which is a Singapore Police Force licenced 'security service provider' and 'private investigation agency'.
As the country manager, Mark is in charge of the organisation’s overall business practicalities, and navigates complex risk problems on behalf of clients. As a risk specialist who believes in being able to provide a selection of tools, he initiated a program of partnerships with FinTech, RegTech, Training SaaS, OSINT, specialist data retrieval expert providers, and physical security product providers.
Mark has an extensive risk management background with over 20 years experience as a global risk management, financial crime, and security specialist, with a background in security, law enforcement, geopolitics, international organisations, financial institutions, project management and risk consultancy. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and the Institute of Paralegals, and holds a Master's degree in International Security. His extensive practitioner and leadership experience spans across the corporate and government sector.
He is the author of 'Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation', in the 'Handbook of Security and the Environment' published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Dev Odedra
Director- Independent AML Expert of Minerva Stratagem ConsultingDev Odedra is an independent money laundering expert and the founder of ‘The Laundry’, a financial crime media aggregator. Dev has significant experience in managing money laundering risk in the retail, corporate and investment banking sectors, having worked at a number of global banks before setting up his own consultancy. His expertise covers a variety of areas of money laundering, including investigations, advisory and controls implementation and improvement.
Chad Olsen
Partner, Forensic- Financial Crime Advisory at Deloitte
Malgorzata Phalaris
Senior Financial Crime Specialist- Part 1: Financial Crime Regulation
- Part 2: Sanction Landscape and Development
- Part 5: AML Screening and Monitoring
Malgo Phalaris is a senior financial crime specialist, with over 15 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams. Malgo worked in various roles in HSBC regional financial crime, in the 1st and 2nd line of defence. Before joining HSBC in Hong Kong, Malgo was the MLRO and Head of Compliance for Credit Agricole Creditor Insurance in Dublin, Ireland. She also had worked for PayPal and Allied Irish Bank in various anti-money laundering and compliance roles. Malgo is ACAMS and ICA qualified.
Scott Ramsay
Group Head of Compliance & Bank MLRO at Mashreq BankScott Ramsay is the Group Head of Compliance & Bank Money laundering reporting officer (MLRO) at Mashreq Bank based in the United Arab Emirates.
He has over 15 years of banking and senior management experience, with an extensive background covering regulatory, prudential and financial crime compliance. He is experienced in leading large remediation projects, has a strong focus on improving compliance culture through proactive stakeholder engagement, while being passionate about nurturing compliance talent and teams.
Prior to joining Mashreq, he served in senior regional compliance positions with HSBC in Hong Kong and the UAE. Before HSBC, he also worked as the Head of Sanctions Compliance and later as the Head of Legal and Compliance, Global Markets at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, He started his Compliance career with the ANZ Group where he held several senior management roles for prudential and regulatory compliance.
Ari Redbord
Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM LabsAri Redbord is the Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. TRM provides next generation blockchain analytics software to governments, financial institutions and cryptocurrency businesses. Prior to joining TRM, Ari was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury. In that position, Ari worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and other Treasury components to use sanctions and other regulatory tools effectively to safeguard the financial system from illicit use by terrorist financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, drug kingpins, and other rogue actors, including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela. In addition, Ari worked closely with regulators, the Hill and the interagency on issues related to the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies. Prior to Treasury, Ari was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for eleven years where he investigated and prosecuted terrorism, espionage, threat finance, cryptocurrency, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking cases.
Denisse Rudich
Founder & Executive Director of Rudich Advisory
Manoj Shankhwar
Manoj Shankhwa has over 22 years of experience in Banking, International Trade and Trade Finance, Compliance, including Branch Office Operations. He is a seasoned expert on Trade Operations, Trade Based Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery & Corruption. He was most recently the VP of Global Trade Transaction Control Manager at JP Morgan Services India.
Peter Stride
Managing Director of Foundry Risk ManagementPeter Stride is a retired Scotland Yard Senior Detective and now the Managing Director of Foundry Risk Management. His 30+ years of policing experience included a wide variety of financial crime investigations including AML, POCA and Cyber Crime. Peter has experience in providing coaching, training and mentoring to both national and international colleagues, in this area, including matters of Human Trafficking and Modern day Slavery. He has been responsible for the creation of national intelligence network for Her Majesties Immigration Service.
As trainer Peter has experience in the public and private sector. He has created and delivered training courses on a wide variety of subjects AML, CPIA and POCA, both in the UK and abroad. He has worked as a policing expert and adjudicator on the Channel 4 programme ‘Hunted'. He demonstrate exceptional leadership, organisational ability and intellectual capability, operating at the highest levels of investigative and intelligence disciplines.
Martina Wojtaszek
Head of Compliance Policy Design & Framework Development at Virtual Risk SolutionsMartina is the Head of Compliance Policy Design & Framework Development at Virtual Risk Solutions- VRS.
She has more than 10 years of international banking operations experience within EMEA and Asia Pacific regions and is accomplished in Client Due Diligence (CDD) operations within KYC and AML, with a strong record of managing CDD related risks, establishing controls, compliance with AML ordinance, people and stakeholder management and overall operations management, ensuring consistent assessment of financial crime risks within corporate and investment banking segment.
Some of her accomplishments include USD remediation project for ca.10,000 clients, FATCA & Correspondent Banking remediation and HSBC affiliates review, as well as setting up new KYC & CDD operations for tight regulatory commitments.
Oonagh van den Berg
Managing Director & Founder of RAW Compliance and Virtual Risk Solutions- Part 1: Financial Crime Regulation
- Part 2: Sanction Landscape and Development
- Part 3: TBML and Maritime Risk
- Part 4: Building an Effective AML Framework
- Part 5: AML Screening and Monitoring
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 also involved in various industry working groups and public-private partnerships.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oonaghvandenberg/
Email: Oonagh@virtualrisksolutions.com