Daniel P. Boylan | Bank of America, Charlotte | Senior Vice President and Audit Director
A veteran financial crimes professional with extensive experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Anti-Bribery and Corruption and federal law enforcement, he is a senior vice president and audit director for Bank of America where he is responsible for global AML audit activities. He was a vice president in the Corporate Bank Secrecy Act Office at Wells Fargo, where he led an enterprise-wide effort that promoted the convergence of fraud and AML tools across department lines. Before the acquisition by Wells Fargo, he was vice president of Wachovia’s Financial Intelligence Unit , playing a role in multiple areas of counter-financial crime. In 2007, he was selected to serve on the FinCEN Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group. Previously, he was a money laundering and narcotics investigator at the New York High Intensity Drug Trafficking and Financial Crimes Area (HIDTA/HIFCA), having begun his career as a crime prevention intelligence analyst at the Washington D.C. / Baltimore HIDTA.
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Sonia Desai | CBA Group, Sydney | Executive Manager of Global AML/CTF, Sanctions and Customer Risk Operations
 A current resident of Sydney, she is responsible for the for global anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions and customer risk monitoring and operations center of the largest financial institution in Australia. She is a former Foreign Service Officer of the United States Department of State, and helped shape US sanctions with the Office of Foreign Assets Control. She authored an amendment to the US-Burma sanctions regime which became law. At CBA Group, she also developed and implemented its global strategy for its international offices, which encompasses fraud awareness, financial crime operations and physical security. Previously, she was Executive Manager for Sanctions Operations, where she built and oversaw CBA Group’s sanctions compliance program. Before moving to Australia to join CBA Group, she helped build Wells Fargo’s Financial Intelligence Unit, in San Francisco. |
Karen Van Ness | AML and Fraud Specialist
 An expert in financial crime and compliance management, she is a published author on financial crime, money laundering, fraud prevention and risk management and compliance issues. A frequent speaker at conferences, she was previously Senior Director of Financial Services Planning and Global Anti-Money Laundering Head at LexisNexis, with a record of building innovative technology solutions and businesses. She has substantial experience in working within major organizations and building innovative technology solutions for anti-money laundering compliance, fraud prevention and risk management. Her business management experience, including strategic and market analysis and planning, often results in her being called to lead major complex projects in financial services, software solutions and compliance and risk. A graduate of Dartmouth, with a masters from Johns Hopkins, she has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services and software industries. |
Charles A. Intriago | Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists, Miami | President and Founder
Known for his pioneering work in the field of financial crime and money laundering controls, he launched Money Laundering Alert in 1989, a newsletter that evolved into a business that included moneylaundering.com and international conferences that drew tens of thousands of professionals. In 2001, he co-founded the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), which he later sold. Early in his career he was Chief Counsel to an oversight subcommittee of the US House of Representatives, which oversaw the operations of the US Department of Justice, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, FDIC and other agencies. He also served as Special Counsel on Organized Crime for the State of Florida where he drafted the Statewide Grand Jury Law. He has substantial litigation experience having served as an Assistant US Attorney and as a capital partner at McDermott Will & Emery. He is a native of Ecuador and fluent in Spanish.
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Allen G. Love | TD Bank, Philadelphia | Senior Vice President and BSA Officer/Deputy Global AML Officer
A former Special Agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), he has an extensive background in Financial Crimes Risk Management working in both the private and public sectors. He began his career at the State of Connecticut Department of Corrections where he managed a $20 million budget. While at IRS-CID he was responsible for conducting complex money laundering and financial fraud investigations and also served in an undercover capacity. As a consultant at KPMG he led teams that conducted numerous financial crime and money laundering investigations. He also performed reviews that resulted in the implementation of procedures that enhanced the fraud control environment at institutions across multiple sectors.
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Alberto Lozano Vila | Lozano Vila Consultants Ltd., Bogota | Founder  Senior Consultant and founder of Lozano Vila Consultants in Bogota, he is a widely renowned expert in money laundering and financial crime controls throughout Latin America. He provides expert advice and training on the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing to companies, financial institutions and other public and private sector organizations. Previously, he was Director General of the Special Administrative Unit of the Ministry of Finance of Colombia, where he led the design and strengthening of government policies to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. He also served as senior advisor to the president of the Bank of Bogotá. He began his career in the legal department at the Central Bank of Colombia, where he served as Compliance Officer and Director of the Operations Analysis Unit, responsible for identifying and examining suspicious transactions. |
Michael R. McDonald | Michael McDonald & Associates, Miami | Principal
A retired IRS Criminal Investigation Division special agent, he is also the former coordinator of the South Florida Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) and supervisor of the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force. He has trained thousands of state, local and international law enforcement and intelligence officers on money laundering and diverse financial crimes. In 1980, he helped found the pioneering Operation Greenback, the first multi-agency money laundering task force, which recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in assets from drug traffickers. Since retiring, he has advised foreign governments on their proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture laws and procedures.
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Amir Orad | NICE Actimize, New York | President and Chief Executive Officer
Author of several counter-fraud patents and a noted industry leader in developing the first anti-phishing service and risk-based authentication technology, he is an expert and thought leader in the application of technology to financial crime, anti-money laundering, cyber security, payments and authentication. As the CEO of NICE Actimize, he leads the development and execution of the NICE Actimize global strategy. Prior to Actimize, he was co-founder and executive vice president of Cyota Inc., an online security and anti-fraud enterprise, which was acquired by RSA Security in 2005. A frequent lecturer and author on counter-financial crime subjects, he is often quoted in leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and American Banker. He earned his MBA degree at Columbia University and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Management at Tel Aviv University.
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Paul E. Pelletier | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Washington | Member
As deputy chief of the Fraud Section of the US Department of Justice, he directed and supervised some of the Justice Department’s most important financial crime cases of the past decade, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, fraud and other white collar crime cases. He led the prosecution leading to the conviction of mega-fraudster Allen Stanford for his $7 billion Ponzi scheme, and the fraud prosecutions involving PNC, AIG, General Reinsurance and BP. Under his leadership, the Justice Department’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act offensive increased the number of corporate and individual prosecutions and logged a ten-fold increase in fines and penalties. He is now a member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, in Washington, DC, specializing in FCPA and white collar crime matters. Before joining the Justice Department, Paul was Chief of the Economic Crimes Section of the US Attorney’s Office in Miami, the Southern District of Florida.
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James R. Richards | Wells Fargo, San Francisco |Executive Vice President, BSA Officer
A widely respected and recognized thought-leader in financial crime, he created the concept of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) in financial institutions. He has championed the ability of bank FIUs to coordinate company-wide approaches to preventing and controlling money laundering and financial crime through proactive due diligence and convergence. He oversees the FIU, Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering control operations of Wells Fargo in San Francisco. He served as a top money laundering executive at Bank of America. As one of the most creative minds on financial crime training, he is well known for his mesmerizing presentations on mining the hidden treasures of the so-called invisible Internet to detect or prevent financial crime.
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Donald C. Semesky | Financial Operations Consultants, Baltimore | Principal
The widely acclaimed architect of pursuit structures and procedures to attack money laundering, he is the immediate past Chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Office of Financial Operations – an office he pioneered – where he launched initiatives that in 2007 alone led to the seizure of more than $730 million in assets in the US and more than $1 billion internationally from drug trafficking organizations. He boasts decades of law enforcement experience and has testified as an expert or modus operandi witness in more than 45 trials in 23 Federal Judicial Districts on money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act reporting requirements. Previously, he spent 30 years in the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division in various senior leadership positions.
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Chief Regulatory Counsel for Prudential Financial, in New York, he is a former federal and state prosecutor who investigated and tried major securities, commodities, bank fraud and FCPA cases nationwide. He received the United States Department of Justice Special Achievement Award. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Senior Regulatory Counsel at Prudential Securities, Inc. and Prudential Equity Group, where he was responsible for the management of cases, disposition of regulatory matters and supervision of attorneys in the regulatory, asset management and trading arenas. He also supervised senior in-house litigators who defended major claims against Prudential Securities and oversaw the resolution of major class actions against the firm. He is the founding co-chair of the Anti-Money Laundering Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and received the Securities Industry Association Distinguished Leadership Award.
A distinguished expert on international financial crime with decades of experience in criminal trials and consultancy work for the public and private sector, he is a partner at the firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe and the editor of International Enforcement Law Reporter, a respected monthly publication. He has worked as a consultant and counsel for fourteen governments and the United Nations on tax enforcement and international criminal law issues. His private practice includes counseling corporations and individuals on extradition and international evidence gathering cases, and counseling witnesses for grand jury investigations, and he has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. He was the chair of the Committee on International Criminal Law, American Bar Association, and is co-chair of the Committee on Public International and Criminal Law, International Law Section, DC Bar Association, and has been an adjunct professor at Fordham University Law School, American University, and the Washington College of Law. A prolific writer, he has authored and edited several books and hundreds of articles on international law.
