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).

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. 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. LaTeisha is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Caribbean Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (ARIN-CARIB) and the inaugural President of the Network. She is also the Chairperson of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines National Commission on Crime Prevention.

Jeremy Stephen, the current President of the Barbados Economics Society, has extensive experience in private equity, and economic consulting in Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and internationally. His core consulting specialties include internal corporate advisory; management of internal and external financial monitoring systems; financial due diligence; economic analysis; cryptocurrencies, fund raising, and web and app development. He is currently a lecturer in Banking & Finance at the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus; a freelance web technologist and financial economic analyst; and an economic and marketing advisor to an investment management firm: Pollards et Filles (Guyana) Ltd. His research in cryptocurrencies has produced a widely regarded research paper in conjunction with Professor Winston Moore: "Should Cryptocurrencies be included in the Portfolio of International Reserves held by the Central Bank of Barbados?" A former Commonwealth Scholar, Jeremy received his MSc. Finance degree with a concentration in Portfolio Management, Financial Statement Analysis and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College London in 2007, and the BSc. Economics in 2005 from the University of the West Indies-Cave Hill Campus, with First Class Honors.

Mr. Manny Singh is a Senior Partner at the Law Offices of Manny Singh. He has held seminars for the popular Bankruptcy Court Secrets program and for Cannabiz Gurus. His other ventures involve real estate and high-level financing. Manny has been a practicing federal attorney in South Florida since 1985. He has also been in the niche financing space for the last twenty years. This includes using real estate assets to get out of bankruptcy, bankruptcy buyouts to hard money lending to cannabis financing, to taking cannabis companies public. To date, Manny has facilitated several companies in the United States going public, including one of the first cannabis real estate companies. Manny has spoken at the Longest Running Wealth Protection Event in the nation and at various Cannabis conferences including Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in 2014. 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. Recently, his company First Bankers Capital has come out with a new financial program that lends money against an illiquid asset- public stocks.

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.