
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Money laundering is the criminal practice of filtering "dirty" money through a series of transactions, so the funds are "cleaned" to look like proceeds from legal activities. The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, also known as the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and its implementing regulation, 31 CFR 103, is a tool the U.S. government uses to fight drug trafficking, money laundering and other crimes.
Anti-Money Laundering

Everett Stern
CEO & Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
Everett Stern currently serves as CEO and Intelligence Director of Tactical Rabbit, a private intelligence agency that provides clients with actionable business intelligence. He made international headlines as a government whistle-blower who helped uncover one of the largest banking scandals of all time. When Stern joined HSBC Bank in 2012, he discovered that the bank was facilitating the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars by terrorist organizations and major drug dealers, in clear violation of U.S. law. Stern quit HSBC and filed a whistle-blower claim with the SEC. In late 2012, in part as a result of Stern's efforts, HSBC agreed to pay a record $1.9 billion in fines to U.S. authorities. Stern later founded Rabbit Capital Management, a hedge fund, dedicated to uncovering fraud and money laundering activity that feeds the financial needs of terrorist organizations and drug cartels. He has been featured in dozens of news articles and broadcasts, and appeared in a Netflix documentary, "Dirty Money," on Wall Street and corporate greed.

Mike Byrnes
Director - Customer Authentication & Fraud Detection Solutions, Entrust
Mike has more than 20 years experience in technology product management, marketing and business development. He has been with Entrust for 4 years leading the company's Authentication, Fraud Detection and Secure Messaging solution areas. His responsibilities now involve leadership for Entrust's products and strategy for consumer and business banking, including solutions for strong authentication, mobile security and fraud detection.

Jodi Florence
VP - Marketing, IDology
As Vice President of Marketing for identity verification provider, IDology, Inc., Jodi Florence's marketing experience spans 18 years. She has been actively involved in the identity industry for more than five years. Having earned a status of an expert contributor of fraud related articles to several ezines, Jodi is the main author of IDology's blog, IDentity Matters, where she focuses on top of mind identity issues including identity theft, fraud, data breaches, consumer privacy and more.
Jodi has been invited to speak about identity verification and fraud on behalf of IDology by several organizations and companies including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and IBM. Jodi also participated in IDology's efforts as a member of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force in 2008 and continues to lead IDology's thought leadership programs educating both businesses and consumers on ways to protect their identity and prevent fraud.

Eli Katz
VP - Enterprise Strategies/Finance, 41st Parameter
Eli Katz advises 41st Parameter's Financial Services clients on developing risk management strategies for protecting the Internet Estate.
Mr. Katz joined 41st Parameter from Unisys, where he created and was director of the Active Risk Monitoring Practice. The practice specialized in creating risk-monitoring ecosystems that detect and analyze fraud or identity theft. In this role, Mr. Katz led the design of one of the first fraud systems to continuously monitor both online and branch activities.
Mr. Katz participated in the FSTC / BITS anti-phishing initiative and is a member of the Anti-Phishing Work Group, BAI and NACHA. He has published numerous articles relating to the operational, strategic and IT implications of the automation of fraud and is quoted frequently on the subject. Mr. Katz has also been a featured speaker at several industry events, including the FSTC Forum, NACHA, and BAI.

George Tubin
Director of Marketing, Transmit Security
Tubin is Director of Marketing at Transmit Security and a recognized expert in digital banking and payments security and cyber-fraud prevention. He was previously Vice President of Marketing at Socure and Senior Research Director with the leading financial services research firm CEB TowerGroup (acquired by Gartner, Inc.) where he delivered thought leadership and insights to leading financial services institutions, technology providers, and consultancies on business strategies, technologies, and market trends in retail, Internet and mobile banking, and fraud management.

Kevin Sullivan
Former Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
Kevin retired as an Investigator from the NY State Police after 22 years in law enforcement. Kevin was the state money laundering investigations coordinator assigned to the NY HIFCA El Dorado Task Force in Manhattan specializing in money laundering, organized crime and terrorist financing.
Kevin was responsible for case reverse engineering, SAR analysis and review, and special projects consisting of developing intelligence on the new money laundering methods, trends and patterns. He was also was one of the lead instructors for Operation Cornerstone, which assisted financial institutions with their AML and BSA compliance programs.
Kevin possesses a Masters in Economic Crime Management, a MMBA, and is Six Sigma compliant, is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, the Chairman of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists Education Task Force and former chapter co-chair and and founding member of the NYC chapter of ACAMS.

Kevin Sullivan
Former Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
Kevin retired as an Investigator from the NY State Police after 22 years in law enforcement. Kevin was the state money laundering investigations coordinator assigned to the NY HIFCA El Dorado Task Force in Manhattan specializing in money laundering, organized crime and terrorist financing.
Kevin was responsible for case reverse engineering, SAR analysis and review, and special projects consisting of developing intelligence on the new money laundering methods, trends and patterns. He was also was one of the lead instructors for Operation Cornerstone, which assisted financial institutions with their AML and BSA compliance programs.
Kevin possesses a Masters in Economic Crime Management, a MMBA, and is Six Sigma compliant, is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, the Chairman of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists Education Task Force and former chapter co-chair and and founding member of the NYC chapter of ACAMS.

Kevin Sullivan
Former Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
Kevin retired as an Investigator from the NY State Police after 22 years in law enforcement. Kevin was the state money laundering investigations coordinator assigned to the NY HIFCA El Dorado Task Force in Manhattan specializing in money laundering, organized crime and terrorist financing.
Kevin was responsible for case reverse engineering, SAR analysis and review, and special projects consisting of developing intelligence on the new money laundering methods, trends and patterns. He was also was one of the lead instructors for Operation Cornerstone, which assisted financial institutions with their AML and BSA compliance programs.
Kevin possesses a Masters in Economic Crime Management, a MMBA, and is Six Sigma compliant, is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, the Chairman of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists Education Task Force and former chapter co-chair and and founding member of the NYC chapter of ACAMS.

Kevin Sullivan
Former Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
Kevin retired as an Investigator from the NY State Police after 22 years in law enforcement. Kevin was the state money laundering investigations coordinator assigned to the NY HIFCA El Dorado Task Force in Manhattan specializing in money laundering, organized crime and terrorist financing.
Kevin was responsible for case reverse engineering, SAR analysis and review, and special projects consisting of developing intelligence on the new money laundering methods, trends and patterns. He was also was one of the lead instructors for Operation Cornerstone, which assisted financial institutions with their AML and BSA compliance programs.
Kevin possesses a Masters in Economic Crime Management, a MMBA, and is Six Sigma compliant, is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, the Chairman of the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists Education Task Force and former chapter co-chair and and founding member of the NYC chapter of ACAMS.

Steven Jones
CISO & SVP, First Horizon National Corporation
Prior to taking over information security responsibilities at First Horizon, Jones was director of information security at Synovus Financial. He was responsible for the company's organizational policy, risk management, security awareness, identity management, disaster recovery and other areas of risk management.

Rebecca Herold
CEO, The Privacy Professor
Rebecca Herold is President of SIMBUS LLC, a cloud-based privacy and security firm and also CEO of The Privacy Professor, a consultancy. She is also author of 19 books on information security and privacy.

Amir Orad
Cyber Security Evangelist
Amir Orad is a renowned expert in the area of cyber security, financial fraud, E-payments and authentication. Mr. Orad was part of the founding team and EVP Marketing of Cyota, Inc., an online security and anti-fraud company. Amir Orad is considered a thought leader in the financial services space, and has spoken on panels at numerous industry conferences on the topics of online security, authentication and anti-fraud. Mr. Orad has been frequently quoted in leading publications such as Forbes, Business Week, Washington Post, USA Today, Information Week, American Banker and others.
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Former Investigator, New York State Police; President, AML Training Academy & Advisory
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