April 20th-22nd, 2022

Ms. Michelle Martin is Chairman & CEO, ComplianceAid, AMLFC Institute & theList.pro. She possesses twenty-eight years of experience in banking, insurance, regulatory compliance, public and private accounting. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Prevention Professional (CAMLFC) and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS). Founder of the Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Institute (AMLFC Institute) in addition to founding co-chair of the ACAMS South Florida Chapter. She is also an Accredited Claims Adjuster.

During the last few years; Ms. Martin was invited speaker at 65 Conferences in 57 countries where 37,000+ Financial Industry executives were educated on Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Counter Financing of Proliferation (CFP), Financial Crimes Prevention (FCP), Corporate Governance, Ethics, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)/Common Reporting Standard (CRS), De- Risking, Correspondent Banking Relationships (CBR), FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Central Bank Digital Currency, Data Privacy, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),CCPA & Cybersecurity topics. She dispensed Annual BSA/AML/OFAC/CTF/CFP Training to over 28,000 staff, management and board of 35 regional and local businesses. She educated, at 51 joint seminars with Government Entities and Professional Organization, 38,000 professionals including bankers, attorneys, accountants and compliance officers active in over 31 industries. Ms. Martin also trained over 1,500 Senior Public Officials, Members of Parliament and Ministers from the Caribbean. She developed and implemented 98 BSA/AML/OFAC/CTF Policies, Procedures and Risk Assessment Program for Financial Institutions active in multi-jurisdiction that led to uniform risk mitigating procedures design to detect, deter, prevent for compliance with laws and regulations of 21 countries. She also contributed with 87 mainstream media (TV, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine) to produce reports on Anti-Money Laundering issues directed toward the general public or business community. Ms. Martin instituted the customer risk rating system of a top U.S. Bank with customer base of 7.5 million and coordinated an enhanced due diligence (EDD) remediation project of all high-risk customers.

Her professional experience in the United States began in public accounting where KPMG, LLP recruited her as an Auditor. Two years after she joined Ernst & Young LLP. In 2004, she transitioned to the private sector as a Franchise Auditor within the Internal Audit department at Burger King Corporation. By mid-2005, Assurant, Inc. presented Ms. Martin with the opportunity to become an Internal Audit Manager. In 2007, she worked as an Assistant Vice President & AML/BSA Project Manager at Ocean Bank headquarter, Florida largest commercial bank. In 2008, Banco Do Brasil hired her as a Compliance/OFAC Officer where she was responsible for implementing a Compliance Program for their New York, Orlando and Miami Offices in addition to coordinating other regulatory efforts for the Bank. In 2011, Ms. Martin launched ComplianceAid a consulting business specialized in Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorism Financing. A few months later, she also launched theList.pro an affordable database of international sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons from around the world.

Born in Antigua, Ms. Martin started her financial career in St. John’s with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). In 1996, Ms. Martin moved to Miami to pursue a higher education. She obtained a Bachelor in Accounting and a Master in Accounting Information Systems at Florida International University (2002).

The Honorable Philippe Bien-Aime, Mayor of North Miami, was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bien-Aime migrated to Canada in 1991, before settling in the United States in 1993. He is married and the loving father of three children: two boys and one girl. Mayor Bien-Aime has worked in all aspects of the automobile industry for almost 20 years. He began his career climbing the corporate ladder, until 2006 when he followed his entrepreneurial dream and opened his own business. Mayor Bien-Aime studied at the National University of Haiti, earning a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Social Science. At Lavale University, he completed a post-graduate Certificate Program in Social Science. He also completed professional training certificates in bookkeeping, taxation, and management. Since 1999, Bien-Aime has been a strong community advocate throughout South Florida, supporting and promoting political involvement and lobbying for immigration-related issues. He serves on the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) Task Force and Committee. His standing committees include Community Development and Housing, along with International Affairs. He also serves on the USCM Task Force for vacant and abandoned properties and the Small Business, Franchising, and Entrepreneurship Task Force. Since his election in 2013, Bien-Aime has served on the North Miami City Council, as the District 3 Councilman. In 2019 he held the position of Vice Mayor, until being elected Mayor in May of the same year. Bien-Aime was re-elected as Mayor in May of 2021 and serves as the current Mayor of the City of North Miami.

Ms. Dawne Spicer is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). Ms. Spicer is an Attorney by profession, with twenty-eight years’ experience in the area of AML/CFT. Ms. Spicer holds a Bachelor of Business Degree in Accounting (Honours), a Juris Doctor (JD) Degree and a Legal Education Certificate (LEC) from Howard University School of Business, Howard University School of Law and the Hugh Wooding Law School respectively. Ms. Spicer has been admitted to both the Pennsylvania Bar and Trinidad and Tobago Bar. Ms. Spicer began her AML/CFT career in 1992 with the Ministry of National Security, Trinidad and Tobago as a Legal Officer and joined the CFATF in 2001 as a Legal Advisor. In 2008, Ms. Spicer was appointed as a Deputy Executive Director at the CFATF. Ms. Spicer has been a Co-Chair of the FATF Working Group - the Global Network Coordination Group (GNCG) since 2012. In addition to participating both as an Assessor and Head of Mission for all four Rounds of Mutual Evaluations of CFATF Member countries, Ms. Spicer provides AML/CFT-related technical assistance in the form of training, to local, regional and international organizations and government agencies. During the period August 2018 to August 2019, Ms. Spicer was appointed as a Commissioner for the Liechtenstein Initiative, which was a Financial Sector Commission addressing the issue of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

LaTeisha A.R. Sandy is a Barrister and Solicitor and holds an LLM in Legislative Drafting. She joined the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in June 2009 as a Legal Officer and was appointed Deputy Director in February 2016 and Director on September 1st, 2018. Prior to her appointment as Director she was responsible for making representations on behalf of the Office of the Attorney General in civil forfeiture and civil recovery matters, prosecution of money laundering cases alongside the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the preparation of legal documents, and facilitating stakeholder training. LaTeisha is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and is a trained Fourth Round Assessor of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and participated in the Fourth Round Mutual Evaluation of Antigua and Barbuda as the Legal Expert and has since been a part of the WGFI subworking group and served as a Reviewer. LaTeisha was also a member of the first Steering Committee of the Caribbean Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (ARIN-CARIB) and the inaugural President of the Network. She is also the deputy chairperson of the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee and the Mutual Evaluation Coordinator for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ 2023 MEV. She is also the Chairperson of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines National Commission on Crime Prevention.

Jeremy Stephen has extensive experience in private equity, and economic consulting the Region and in Barbados. He is a former President of the Barbados Economics, and his core consulting specialties include corporate advisory; financial due d economic analysis; economics of cryptocurrencies, and web and app development also a FAA Commercial Multiengine Pilot. He has provided business advisory services, inter alia, to the Food and Ag Organization; the Government of Barbados; the Nevis Island Administration, the Ca Development Bank; One Caribbean Media; The Craane Group (Merrill Lynch); a Communications and the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Authority. He served Chairman of the Board at COSCAP (Barbados). He lectured in Banking & Finance at the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus. His research in cryptocurrencies produced the widely regarded research p conjunction with Professor Winston Moore: “Should Cryptocurrencies be include Portfolio of International Reserves held by the Central Bank of Barbados?”. As a Commonwealth Scholar, Jeremy received his MSc. Finance degree concentration in Portfolio Management, Financial Statement Analysis and Entrepre from Imperial College London in 2007, and the BSc. Economics in 2005 from the U of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, with First Class Honours.

Manny Singh has been a practicing federal attorney in South Florida since 1985. He practiced Bankruptcy and Foreclosure law for over thirty years. He obtained his Juris Doctor Degree from Nova University Law School in 1984, with a background in the fields of business administration and finance. Manny is a licensed attorney in the state of Florida and a bar member at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Manny founded his own law firm in South Florida in 1985, which is still in operation. The practice at this moment is limited to representing corporations. In the past it had other areas. Manny has also been in the niche financing space since 1998. This includes using real estate assets to get out of bankruptcy, bankruptcy buyouts to hard money lending to marijuana financing. Manny’s experience in the cannabis industry is focused primarily on taking companies public. To date, Manny has facilitated four companies in the United States going public, including one of the first cannabis real estate companies. He is the Founder and CEO at Bankers Capital. First Bankers does financing for small and large Infrastructure, real estate, Corporate Medium Term Bonds/Notes based project financing. This includes using real estate assets to get out of bankruptcy, bankruptcy buyouts to hard money lending to Cannabis/Hemp/CBD financing. First Bankers can also arrange loans against publicly traded stocks and other publicly traded assets. Manny has also been teaching students on a one-to-one basis his course entitled "Bankruptcy Court Secrets". This course was designed by Mr. Singh to educate others on how to purchase real estate from bankruptcy courts, based on his personal experiences of purchasing property out of bankruptcy.

Mr. Marcos Czacki is an attorney at law. He is Global Legal Director and Compliance Officer at Navistar. He also served as General Counsel, Chief Operations Officer and Compliance Manager at Daimler Financial Services México and also as Legal Counsel at Volvo Financial Services México. Mr. Czacki possess a Master Degree in Law, Honorific AML Certification by the National Bank Commission and Posgraduate Professor in AML and Anticorruption at Universidad Panamericana and INACIPE (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales). He current serves as a Head of the Finance and Banking Commission at the Mexican Bar and in the past as coordinator of the Compliance Committee at ANADE (Association of Corporate Counsels Association) 2013-2019 and compliance mentor for startups and small companies (MCCI). Mr. Czacki is a Board member at International Chamber of Commerce, Chapter Mexico / ICC Mexico and Board member at Centro Mexicano Probono and has been a speaker and/or seminar teacher at Mexican Bar, ANADE, ICC Mexico, ACAMS, ACFCS, ASPLDE and Thomson Reuters to name a few.

Andrew “Andy” T. Price currently serves as the Vice President of Advocacy for the World Council of Credit Unions where he engages in advocacy on behalf of credit unions worldwide before the various international standard setting bodies such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision the Financial Action Task Force, and others. Andy combines years of diverse experience in the credit union industry having served as General Counsel for First Commerce Credit Union, engaged in advocacy and lobbying for credit unions at both the Credit Union National Association and the League of Southeastern Credit Unions, and worked for the prudential bank, credit union, and finance regulator in the State of Florida (Office of Financial Regulation) where he also served as a Cabinet Aide to Comptroller General Robert F. Milligan. He holds his Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida. Additionally, he is certified as a Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Specialist, a Credit Union Compliance Expert, and a Credit Union Enterprise Risk Management Expert. Finally, Andy also teaches classes on Consumer Lending as an Adjunct Professor at the Florida State University College of Law.

Ms. Susan S. François is an AML/CFT/PF consultant. She served as the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago from February, 2011 to August 2019. Ms. François is an Attorney-at-Law with a Master of Laws degree in Corporate and Commercial Law. Ms. François has extensive experience and certification in AML/CFT technical fields such as Financial Analysis and Investigations, Illicit Finance & Criminal and Terrorist Networks, Prevention of Corruption on Public Procurement and holds an ICA Specialist Certificate in Terrorism Financing. She is certified by the Egmont Group as a Tactical analysis trainer and an AML/CFT supervision trainer. Ms Francois is also a country Assessor trained by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as a Law Assessor to conduct assessments of a country’s AML/CFT Regime and has also received standards training in the 2012 FATF Recommendations from the CFATF. Ms. François has extensive knowledge, understanding and experience on AML/CFT compliance and regulatory requirements. She has conducted numerous training sessions and sensitisation programmes for domestic and regional industry actors including Law Enforcement Agencies, Financial Institutions and DNFBPs. She developed compliance audits procedures and processes and led on-site compliance examinations of financial institutions and DNFBPs in Trinidad and Tobago to assess their compliance with legal obligations under the AML/CFT regime. Ms. François has also represented the Government of Trinidad and Tobago at regional and international fora such as the Financial Action Task Force, the Egmont Group and the CFATF Plenaries and meetings.

Dwayne Baker lives and works in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) where in 2014 he became that country’s first Director of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA). Prior to that he served as a police officer in the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force attaining the rank of Detective Inspector before moving on to head the FIA. He has worked extensively in the field of financial crimes and intelligence and has served as the National Contact Officer (NCO) for the INTERPOL in the TCI. He has worked in the Financial Crimes Unit where he led several serious fraud and money laundering investigations. He is trained and qualified in International Fraud, Corruption, Financial Intelligence, Analysis and Investigations. He is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds certification in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute, UK. During 2018/2019 he was the Law Enforcement Assessor for the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) mutual evaluation of Bermuda which was conducted using the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) international standards on Anti Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF). He is a past Chair of the CFATF Heads of Financial Intelligence Units (HoFIUs) and past Co-Chair of the CFATF Risks, Trends and Methods Group (CRTMG). He is also active in policy development within the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units Policy and Procedures Working Group (PPWG) and has presented at various regional and international events on AML related topics.

Anne-Marie Kemna is the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Curaçao (FIU Curaçao). FIU Curacao acts as the countries’ central point to receive, analyse and disperse unusual transactions, in the combatting of money laundering and terrorist financing. FIU Curaçao is also the AML/CFT supervising and regulating body for most DNFBPs (designated non-financial businesses and professions) in Curaçao. In addition, Anne-Marie is part of the Egmont Group leadership and serves as Vice Chair of the Egmont Group, of which currently the Financial Intelligence Units of 167 countries are a member. In addition she serves as the Regional Representative of the Americas Region within the Egmont Group and as vice-chair of the Policies and Procedures working Group of Egmont. Mrs. Kemna has more than 25 years of experience as a legal advisor, general counsel and attorney in the field of the legal aspects of ICT, e-commerce, digital evidence, telecommunications, privacy, intellectual property and cyber crime, and she published several articles and books. She is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on the prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing and on compliance. Mrs. Kemna holds a Master's degree in Law from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In addition she is professionally trained as an attorney and was admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands, before she emigrated with her family to Curaçao in 2006. Furthermore she enjoyed training in the field of IT-auditing and is a certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Shelley Nicholls-Hunte is the former Director, Financial Intelligence Unit of Barbados having served in that capacity for fourteen ( 14) years. In this role, she represented the Government of Barbados and served as ministerial representative at several fora on AML/CFT/CPF including plenary meetings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, held in the Caribbean, North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Mrs. Nicholls-Hunte served as Chairman of the CFATF Heads of Financial Intelligence Units Forum 2018-2019. Shelley has been instrumental in the drafting and preparation of the Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (Prevention and Control) Act, 2011-23 and the 2019 amendments of this Act and those of the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Act. Her research and preparation of opinions on civil forfeiture and criminal confiscation led to her contribution to the development of the Government of Barbados’ policy on the Proceeds of Instrumentalities of Crime Act, 2019. Shelley is a trained assessor in the Third and Fourth Rounds of the Financial ActionTask Force Methodology on Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Financing of Terrorism/ Counter-Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF) Mutual Evaluation assessments and served as Law Enforcement Examiner of a Caribbean country in 2008. As Director, FIU she served in the preparation and the management of Barbados’ Mutual Evaluation Exercise in 2016 and was responsible for the successful hosting of the Egmont Group Plenary which was held in Barbados in 2015 attracting over 300 delegates in the AML/CFT/CPF field across the continents. This was the first conference of this kind in the English-speaking Caribbean. Shelley is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and has trained several financial institutions and Designated Non-Financial Business and Professions (DNFBPs) in their legislative obligations under the anti-money laundering legislation. She is also a trained trainer, speaker and coach with the John Maxwell Leadership Team and a member of the ACCA Global Forum on Ethics. She currently serves as the Legal and Compliance Manager at the Barbados Workers’ Union Cooperative Credit Union Limited.

Amrita Henriques is the Business Research Manager of a financial institution in Guyana. She worked for many years in the Banking Sector in operations management and as the Compliance Manager for a Commercial Bank where she was responsible for the development, implementation and management of all details of the Bank's Compliance Programme. She has experience with a regulatory entity, having worked several years at the Central Bank as a Financial Analyst. She was also a member of the Banking Sector Team on Guyana National Risk Assessment Working Group. Mrs. Henriques completed the ACCA examinations and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Heriot-Watt University, UK and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Fraud Risk Management Professional.

Jaitegh Singh obtained his Juris Doctorate (JD) from the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Before receiving his JD, Jaitegh studied at the University of Cambridge and his background and education is in the fields of Marketing and Behavioral Psychology. Jaitegh teaches how to buy Real Estate from Bankruptcy under the program "Bankruptcy Court Secrets." He further teaches how to make money legally from Medical/Recreational Marijuana. Jaitegh has successfully represented and taken a number of Medical/Recreational Marijuana companies public. Jaitegh is a member of the Florida Bar, the New York Bar, the New Jersey Bar, and the Bar of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, and the Broward Bar Association. He was also a Registered Securities Representative. Jaitegh currently holds the position of Vice Chair on the Bankruptcy Committee for the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division.

Andrew Strachan has over 25 years of experience in international private banking and compliance at Clariden Leu Nassau Branch and Credit Suisse Bahamas. Andrew has held senior positions – Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Relationship Manager and Deputy to the Managing Director at Clariden Leu, Vice President Portfolio Manager at Credit Suisse and has studied and trained in the United States, England, Canada and Switzerland. Mr. Strachan has also completed Assessor training, by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards training. Andrew is presently the Inspector of the Compliance Commission of The Bahamas and designated certain duties of The Competent Authority with responsibility for the operation of the exchange of information for the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, 2015 (FATCA) purposes, Country by Country Reporting (CbC) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Mr. Strachan has served on a number of public and private boards, financial organizations, and advisory committees in The Bahamas, including the Bahamas Financial Services Board and the Investment Committee of The National Insurance. Mr. Strachan is a past president of the CFA Society The Bahamas and currently Chairman of the Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX).

Stanley Foodman is the CEO of Foodman CPAs & Advisors. He is a recognized forensic accountant specializing in Complex Tax, Forensic Accounting, Financial Institution Compliance, Virtual Currency Tax Compliance and Tax AML Compliance. Stanley is a recognized author and content contributor to JD Supra, Lexology, Accounting Today, Daily Business Review, banking journals, newspapers, magazines and on-line publications. His articles on banking tax issues, virtual currency, regulatory and tax compliance have been distributed worldwide. Stanley was recognized as a JD Supra Top Author during 2018. Foodman CPAs & Advisors has an established a banking practice catering to over 150 Financial Institutions around the world. The firm is at the forefront of banking regulatory compliance and is currently an industry expert on FATCA and CRS matters and widely known within the domestic and international banking community as the “go to firm” for FATCA/CRS. Its clients receive individualized training in the areas of FATCA, QI and CRS implementation; which includes developing a proprietary FATCA Manual for the Financial Institution, IRS W-Series Certification Training, Flow Charts, Audit Programs and Help Desk. During 2018, Foodman provided over 3,000 Help Desk hours to Financial Institution Compliance Teams regarding FATCA and CRS interpretation and implementation. All of Foodman’s training and presentations are available in English & Spanish. The firm has assisted several Non-U.S. Financial Institutions maintain and acquire Correspondent Banking Relationships by acting as an Intermediary with U.S. Financial Institutions that have specific geographic interest. Foodman also represents Non-U.S. Financial Institutions in front of the IRS.

CARLA JAMES is a barrister at law, solicitor and Notary Public and serves as the Executive Director of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) St. Vincent and the Grenadines since September 2018. The FSA was established in 2012 to regulate, supervise and develop the non-bank and international financial services sector in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In addition, the FSA monitors compliance of all regulated entities and activities with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Legislation. As Executive Director, Carla also holds the posts of Registrar of BCs, Trusts, Mutual Funds and Credit Unions and Commissioner of International Insurance. She is also a statutory member of the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee. Carla has worked in the field of financial services since 2003, specifically the detection and combating of financial crimes, firstly as the Legal Officer of the Financial Intelligence Unit, known as one of the leading FIUs in the Caribbean region, and then as its Director from 2016-2018. She has also served as a Magistrate for a year and a half where she adjudicated on all aspects of the law.

Kent Clare is the current Director of the Belize Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), having taken up this position on October 11, 2016. The FIU is mandated to interdict financial crimes in Belize, in particular money laundering and terrorism financing. Such efforts are coordinated through the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLC) which is chaired by the FIU. The Unit also provides technical resourcing to anti-corruption efforts and the director was a member of the Project Board that oversaw the implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) in Belize. Belize’s FIU is a hybrid FIU, a member of the Egmont Group. Hybrid FIUs are tasked with all the functions found in single-layer FIUs (analysis, investigations, prosecutions, and compliance). These wide spheres of responsibilities require significant staff resourcing and it is noteworthy that the Government of Belize would have supported an increase in the Belize FIU’s human resource capacity which has seen a thirty three percent growth since 2016. The FIU continues to work closely with trusted international partners to upgrade its capacity and to provide the requisite leadership in domestic and international coordination, cooperation, and exchange of information to combat financial crimes. Prior to taking up the current assignment, Kent was Commissioner of Income Tax from 2011 until 2016. He was an integral part of the technical team that allowed Belize to successfully navigate its way through both rounds of the Exchange of Information on Request protocols that were mandated by the OECD’s Global Forum at the time. The team also presided over the signing of the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information which provides a standardized and efficient mechanism to facilitate the automatic exchange of tax information. Kent holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Belize and a Master’s in Professional Accounting from Colorado State University. He is happily remarried and is the father of three boys.

Mr. Langevine is the current Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Guyana a post he has held from September 2016 - Present. As Director, Mr. Langevine manages the day-to-day operations of the FIU, which has a mandate to assist in protecting the integrity of Guyana’s financial system through the detection, prevention and deterrence of money laundering and the financing of terrorism in Guyana. He also represents the FIU on the country’s AMLCFT/PF National Coordinating Committee. Mr. Langevine is a trained assessor for the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Fourth Round Mutual Evaluation process. He also served as the Chairman of the CFATF Heads of FIU Forum from November 2017 – November 2018. Mr. Langevine worked at the Bank of Nova Scotia from September 1993 to September 2016 (23 Years). At Scotiabank Mr. Langevine he served as a Commercial Credit Assistant, Corporate and Commercial Account Officer, Corporate and Commercial Client Relationship Manager among other positions. He served as Branch Manager for several years including five years at the Bank’s flagship Carmichael Street Branch. Mr. Langevine spent six months (November 2011 – April 2012) on a developmental assignment with the Corporate and Commercial Banking Centre of Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. At Scotiabank, Mr. Langevine’s was involved in implementing and managing the Bank’s AMLCFT policies, procedures, systems of controls and strategies applicable to reporting entities, particularly in the Financial Sector. As a Branch Manager, his responsibilities included functioning as AMLCFT Compliance Officer at the branch level.

Lawyer with various Masters Degrees. Specialist certified in Money Laundering Detection by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) and by the CNBV in Mexico, among others. He has been a professor of several national and foreign universities, including the Universidad Panamericana and ITAM in Mexico City; he has been an instructor for the National Supreme Court of Justice in several topics. His academic experience includes Spain, Colombia, US, among others. He has been involved in various International Forums; he attends as Representative of Mexico in FATF-GAFI, GAFILAT, Council of Europe, United Nations, European Union, among others. He has specialized in topics such as money laundering, terrorist finance, organized crime and corruption. In his professional career, he has worked in the private sector and in the Federal Government. Among others, Mr. Sandro Garcia Rojas was the Attaché of the Mexican Attorney´s General Office (Procuraduría General de la República) to the European Union and Switzerland; Deputie encharged of the International Affairs Unit in PGR, Deputie of Legal affairs in the Servicio de Aministración y Enajenación de Bienes of the Ministry of Finance. Since late 2017, when he joined “El Heraldo de México” as columnist for the section “Opinion”, writes about current social topics. Currently, he serves as Vice President for Supervision of AML/CFT Measures at the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission.

From August 2014 to August 2020, Mr. Gino Campbell was appointed the Director General of the Curaçao Gaming Control Board (GCB). Between June 2011 and February 2014, he had already served two terms as the Interim CEO, for a total of 22 months. Mr. Campbell is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), with extensive experience in audit and business advisory capacities to a wide spectrum of business typologies. This experience has proven to be invaluable in the design, introduction and execution of a risk-based approach to the supervision of the casino industry on Curaçao, which has resulted in a constantly improving professional disbursement of the regulatory duties by the GCB. In addition to being the regulator of the landbased casino industry, Mr. Campbell in his capacity as Director General, was mandated the supervision on sanctions-compliance of the casino industry (2015), licensor of the lottery (2017), charitable gaming (2017) and online gaming (2020) sectors, and the supervisor of license requirements compliance by the online gaming industry (2020). Under his leadership, the GCB expanded its responsibilities to become the supervisory authority on AML/CFT-compliance of all gaming sectors in Curaçao (2019) and was on its way to become the unified regulator for all gaming in Curaçao. Mr. Campbell is initiator and a founding member of the soon to be active Latin American and Caribbean Regulators of Gaming Association (LACARGA).

Simone E. Martin has worked as a regulator for the past twenty (20) years with the BVI Financial Services Commission and most recently with the Anguilla Financial Services Commission (on secondment). Her diverse experience encompasses several sectors which include fiduciary services, insurance, and investment business. During this period, she has contributed to legislative reform, the conduct of compliance inspections (primarily in relation to trust and company management business), as well as created and delivered training for local, regional, and international regulators as well as financial services professionals. From 2008 – 2019, Simone served as the Secretary of the Joint Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Committee of the Virgin Islands and was a member of the National Risk Assessment Steering Group of the Virgin Islands (2014 - 2016). In addition, she has participated in a mutual evaluation as a Financial Expert with CFATF and has been a contributor to other FATF Working Group papers. Simone was also a core member of the Working Group for Trust and Corporate Service Providers established by the Group of International Finance Centre Supervisors (“GIFCS”) that developed the international standard for Trust and Corporate Services Provider. Simone holds a Masters’ degree in Business Administration, conferred at the University of the West Indies (October 2002), and an undergraduate degree in Accounting conferred at the University of the Virgin Islands (May, 1998). She is a Fellow of The Governance Institute: Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) of the UK, a Fellow of the International Compliance Association of the UK and a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. In keeping with her passion for being a part of the learning process, Simone has facilitated diploma and certificate courses in Compliance, AML and GRC for the International Compliance Association of the UK, and mentored students seeking AML/CFT and other financial services qualifications. Simone is also the CEO and Founder of IGNUS SOLUTIONS LIMITED – a platform created to deliver online compliance courses.

Mr. Derek J. Benjamin is the Manager and Senior Financial Examiner of the Financial Compliance Unit at the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP-FCU), Antigua. In this capacity, he oversees the Anti-Money Laundering / Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision of thirty-one (31) financial sectors (domestic and international) licensed and/or operating in Antigua and Barbuda. Mr. Benjamin commenced working at the ONDCP in 2006, first as a financial analyst in the Financial Intelligence Unit (ONDCP-FIU) before moving to the ONDCP-FCU in 2012. Mr. Benjamin joined the ONDCP with over 20 years’ experience working in the domestic banking sector and he is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Prevention Specialist (CAMS and CAMLFC) and a certified Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) Financial Examiner having served as a member of the CFATF 3rd Round Mutual Evaluation team to Belize. Additionally, he has pursued formal training and is certified in the areas of Risk Management, Cyber Crime Detection and AML/CFT Compliance. He is a member of the CFATF Risk, Trends and Methods Group (CRTMG) and also the chairman of the National Oversight Committee on Financial Action (NOCFA) sub-committees for Training & Outreach and Supervision. Mr. Benjamin has developed a significant arsenal of knowledge and skills which are directly applicable to his role as the manager of the ONDCP-FCU and Senior Financial Examiner. His knowledge and experience are an excellent combination in the execution of the main responsibility of the ONDCP-FCU to maintain the integrity of the country’s AML/CFT financial system through the supervision, examination and training of all financial institutions operating (domestic and offshore) in Antigua/Barbuda. Mr. Benjamin believes that life is a continuous path of knowledge and has a keen interest in ML/TF trends and typologies, a subject area in which he is always eager to learn and share. As a husband for over 33 years and the father of 3 young adults, Mr. Benjamin believes in commitment and strong family values, qualities which he asserts should also be reflected in one’s professional career.

Ms. Khodabaks joined the Financial Intelligence Unit of Sint Maarten (FIU) in June 2021 and is the Section Head Supervision of the Department of the FIU and manages the day-to day operations thereof. The FIU has the legal mandate to supervise the designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs). Ms. Khodabaks holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Surinam and a Master’s degree in Tax Law from the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She gained experience as a legal expert being employed at different law firms in Sint Maarten and worked from 2005 to 2010 as a Tax Assistant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Sint Maarten. She thereafter worked at the Tax office of Sint Maarten as a Tax Inspector from 2011 to 2018 and has represented government in appeal cases amongst other tasks. Furthermore, she worked as a Senior Policy worker at the Ministry of Finance of Sint Maarten from 2018 to 2020, at which time she was also appointed as Legal Secretary to the Advisory Committee for the Stimulus Payroll Support Plan (based on the Covid-19 pandemic).

Will Fitzgibbon is a senior ICIJ reporter. He is also ICIJ's Africa and Middle East partnership coordinator. Will joined ICIJ in 2014 and has been a central reporter on major ICIJ projects, including Swiss Leaks, the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, FinCEN Files and the 2021 Pandora Papers.

Lt. Col Edward Croft is the Director of the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP) of Antigua and Barbuda, where he is responsible for the investigation of serious organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering offences, financing of terrorism, and forfeiture and confiscation of the proceeds and instrumentalities of crime. He is also responsible for supervision and effective monitoring of financial institutions to ensure compliance with their AML/CFT obligations. As such, he is the person to whom all suspicious activity reports are made. He has been at the helm of ONDCP since 2007 and has served over 34 years in the military. He holds a MBA and graduated from the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College. He completed an International Defence Management Course at the Naval Post Graduate School in the U.S. and later completed a Managing Defence in a Democracy Course at the Defence Academy in the U.K. In addition, he received a Diploma in International Financial Crime Prevention and Compliance and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a qualified Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) examiner. He is also a graduate of the National Executive Institute of the FBI Academy and obtained the Charter Director designation from The Caribbean Governance Training Institute. Lt. Col. Croft has been a contributor to many regional AML/CFT conferences, bringing practical knowledge and experience on the topic. He has been instrumental in creating an improved culture of compliance in the financial sector in the country and is the prime contact for several councils, commissions and task forces. He served as Chairman of the Caricom Standing Committee of Heads of Intelligence and Financial Intelligence Units for four years. He has worked as the Deputy Chairman of the CFATF and Chairman of the CFATF.

Mr. Dalton Lee chairs a number of regional boards, including Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB) and the Caribbean Association of Audit Committee Members (CAACM). Mr. Lee is one of the founders of Bank of Montserrat Limited, and currently serves as chairman of its board of directors. Mr. Lee held positions of increasing responsibility with Bank of New England (now Bank of America). He started his career in banking with Barclays Bank. Mr. Lee is the principal of Veradenis Business Consulting LLC, which provides financial consulting to companies in a broad array of industries. Veradenis offers a wide range of services, including accounting; process automation and improvement; ERP selection and implementation; transaction due diligence; and the designing and implementation of executive/board compensation plans. Previously, Mr. Lee was Vice President of Finance/CFO for Meredith Corporation’s Local Media Group, where he oversaw accounting, finance, financial reporting, human resources, IT, and strategic planning. He joined Meredith Corporation as Group Controller. Mr. Lee is a highly sought-after speaker, having presented at numerous national and regional conferences in the United States and the Caribbean, on a variety of topics, which include generating financial and operational efficiencies in accounting and finance operations, process improvement, centralization, and automation. Mr. Lee is a magna cum laude graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in Accounting. He also holds a post-graduate certificate in business management from Southern Methodist University and is an Accredited Director (Accr. Dir.) from Institute of Chartered Secretaries and dministrators/Chartered Secretaries Canada.

Richard Simms, Managing Director of AMLCC, is both a regulated professional and a leading authority on anti-money laundering compliance, risk management and education. For over 20 years, as both a chartered accountant and the MD and lead insolvency practitioner of a regulated insolvency practice, Richard has seen first-hand the challenges that regulated businesses and professions face when implementing effective AML processes. Maintaining the accurate, up-to-date anti-money laundering processes that were vital to safeguarding his firm took valuable time and resources. And no available solution could give his business complete security against the consequences of being involved in money laundering. Working with accountancy regulators and their practicing members, Richard used his unique professional insights to create AMLCC in 2008. A complete anti-money laundering compliance, risk-management and education solution, AMLCC gives regulated businesses and professions every resource they need to meet their legal anti-money laundering obligations - and protect their livelihoods. All in one, online platform. AMLCC is now relied on by over 13,000 accountancy service providers in the UK. From continuously updated training on the latest rules and regulations, to digital biometric testing, to comprehensive risk assessments and mitigation steps, AMLCC makes it quicker and easier for users to secure their businesses and themselves against the threat of money laundering. Richard is a sought-after guest at AML conferences worldwide due to his position at the pulse of changes in AML guidance and technology.

Mr. Lorenzo Delzoppo is a Director with ComplianceAid and an Advisory Board Member of the AMLFC Institute. He has over fifteen years of substantial bank regulatory compliance, risk management, finance, and legal experience. He has developed compliance manuals, training manuals and videos, implemented compliance monitoring systems and interfaced state and federal examiners in numerous examinations. During his career in the financial sector, he was responsible for leading and coordinating company-wide risk management efforts by directly managing the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and supervising the Compliance Management System (CMS). In addition to permanent internal control functions, his accountabilities included strategy development, regulators relations, external audit coordination and exception tracking, as well as direct oversight of the areas of Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing. He has a LL.M. from the University of Miami School of Law, a Juris Doctor from Italy and speaks five languages. He is an ABA Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager as well as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Mr. Kester Guy is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) in Barbados. He was appointed CEO in July 2017, after joining the FSC in March 2016 as the Deputy CEO – Supervision & Regulation. As CEO, Kester leads the implementing of the strategic objectives of the institution and is very involved in the developing regulatory standards for strengthening the operations of the non-bank financial sector in Barbados. Kester is a member of Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) of Barbados, which provides oversight of the national AML/CFT/PF framework in Barbados. In addition, he is an active member of the macroprudential committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) which is the standards-setting body for the supervision of the insurance sector As a career regulator, Kester has specialized in financial sector assessment and monitoring and has an extensive background in economics and finance. His professional development includes being CEO of Barbados Deposit Insurance Corporation, assistant director in the Research and Economic Analysis Department of the Central Bank of Barbados and an economist at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to his BSc Economics and Mathematics (honours) and MSc Economics from the University of West Indies, Mr. Guy has specialised training in Macroeconomic Diagnostics; Financial Planning and Programming; Macro-prudential policy framework. Mr. Guy has published work in the areas of economics and finance in the Caribbean; has contributed to policy formulation on the said areas and has made presentations in regional and international forums on related matters.

Kyria Ali, is currently the Interim CEO and Chief Strategy & Development Officer of the NAGICO Insurances Group. She is a high energy C-Suite Executive with a proven track record of leading with purpose and obtaining desired results. Kyria is fondly referred to as “Wonder Woman” and as a “Business Cardiologist” by her colleagues and past clients; nicknames she acquired over the years because of the impact she made on them with her extensive technical capacity, inspirational leadership, dependability, crisis management skills, solution focused mindset and ability to restore and revitalise operations. Kyria is known and respected in the financial services industry for her versatility and ability to navigate the constantly changing regulatory and economic landscape. She has worked in the private sector and also conducted work on behalf of regulators. She has a flair for bridging the language and mindset gap which often arises between the operational and compliance functions and has helped many professionals in this area. This skill Kyria attributes to her broad knowledge base, which she acquired from her, over 2 decades of, training and working experience in the GRC, regulatory, strategic, business advisory, M&A, financial and audit space, within the financial services industry and with over 17 regulators. Kyria says that it is through a genuine investment in understanding her audience, the different roles, objectives and mindsets that she has been able to contribute and add value. She is passionate about adding value and sets out each day with this as a daily goal.

Andrew Tennant is the Director Gentium UK Limited an International company based in the United Kingdom, Mauritius and the United States. Gentium UK provide International trainings around all aspect of finance. Including AML procedures, International Money Laundering, Virtual Currency, Confiscation, Non conviction based forfeiture, asset management and illicit financial flows. Gentium UK hold international contract with Law Enforcement and Government agencies to recover, retain and realise virtual currency. Providing regulation in a field where regulation has been difficult to obtain. Andrew personally served in the Law Enforcement arena for over 23 years and is a recognised international expert in the fields of Money Laundering and Virtual Currency. He has worked across the globe including extensive appointments through the Caribbean, Bermuda and the Americas. A key partner to such companies as 5 Stones Intelligence, W1 and Chainalysis. Responsible for the creation of legislation and regulation to adhere to move toward virtual currencies. The Gentium UK Team have worked alongside FATF increased monitoring jurisdictions to ensure compliance with recent successes in Ghana and Mauritius.