Fred McDowell (Co-Chair) has over 30 years’ experience working in the banking sector, most recently holding senior AML roles within the AIB Group and Citi Bank, focusing on KYC / Due Diligence reviews for clients exhibiting higher risk features. Across his career he has undertaken roles within Corporate and Retail Banking, Marketing Manager, Branch Management and was a MLRO for 8 years in a Regulatory Compliance function. This broad spectrum of roles gives Fred an invaluable depth of practical / operational experience. Fred holds an ICA Diploma in Anti Money Laundering, a Financial Services Operations Diploma, Irish Management Institute in Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland.

Owen Marumba (Programming Director) has been involved in AML since 2015, working in retail, commercial and corporate for large banking groups. Has worked as a Financial Intelligence Officer for the Police dealing with disseminating intelligence submitted through SARs from regulated entities to local enforcement teams to advance, initiate or assist in an investigation. Owen has attained a Master degree in Financial Investigations, is a Certified Transaction Monitoring Associate (CTMA) with ACAMS. He currently works as a Customer Experience Specialist for a currency exchange company.

Katherine Gormley (Co-Secretary) is Principal Solutions Engineer at Resistant AI, a fast-growing scale-up using state of the art machine-learning techniques to help prevent financial crime. Kathy has over 8 years’ experience in RegTech and consulting, working closely with financial institutions to deploy innovative AML, Fraud and KYC solutions. An Ireland native, Kathy has lived in London since 2013. Kathy has a degree in Business and Economics from Trinity College Dublin, holds a Diploma in International Money Laundering with the ICA and is an ACAMS certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. Kathy is also a certified Agile Project Management Practitioner.

Sally Lomas (Treasurer) is currently Regulatory Expertise SME for EFI Limited which specialises in Financial Crime prevention. She holds the ICA advanced Diploma in Financial Crime, and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) professional qualifications. Her career spans in excess of 30 years and evolved from being a qualified accountant, to Compliance and now to Financial Crime Prevention Professional. She has worked in the wider compliance arena but has an in-depth knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering in particular. Sally has worked mainly in the Banking industry and Financial Services. She worked for HSBC for a significant period and at a number of other Financial Institutions.

Aidan Larkin (Board Advisor) is the CEO and Co-Founder of fintech start-up Asset Reality. Asset Reality investigates crypto fraud, manages and realises seized assets for public and private sector clients. A former criminal tax inspector for HM Revenue & Customs and experienced Seized Asset Manager, Aidan was the world’s first seized crypto auctioneer. He also acts as a consultant for the UNODC, government agencies and NGO’s to increase effectiveness in Asset Recovery building infrastructure around seized asset enforcement helping governments shape legislation, policies and practices.