Tim Aquino is Windward's Compliance Solutions Expert, with a focus on optimizing Artificial Intelligence technology to detect sanction evasion and trade based money laundering. Tim has spent the last four years in corporate compliance, building quality assurance and control programs for leading financial institutions. Tim has extensive experience in Know Your Customer (KYC) and Due-Diligence workflows with a rich foundation of knowledge in the maritime sector.
Colin 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.
Arne 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 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.
Dr. Ryan Lloyd is responsible for the end-to-end development of proprietary Geollect products and helps to define Geollect’s technical vision and strategic development work. In Geollect's early days, Ryan had a crucial role in Proof of Concept development at the Lloyd’s of London Lloyd’s Lab and Rainmaking’s Trade and Transport with Impact innovation accelerator programs. Today, Ryan is product manager for Geollect’s internationally-recognised, market-leading Geonius platform. Geonius is used worldwide for compliance, supply chain, educational, fleet management, and governmental purposes. Ryan's work includes horizon scanning, data procurement & productisation, and the development and implementation of cutting edge technological and methodological advances within the business. Ryan leads a distinguished team made up of both data scientists and developers.
Mr Mark Nuttall was 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 was 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.
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