Top international AML leaders from the public and private sectors—including large and small banks, brokerage houses, commodities dealers, regulatory agencies, money services businesses and investigative agencies—will join attendees for a unique learning experience. Our conference offers participants a unique opportunity to benefit from peer-to-peer interaction, as well as one-on-one “face time” with these key industry leaders.
- HOSSAM M. ABD EL-RAHMAN, CAMS
Founder of Allied Compliance Consultants "ACC"
He is a well known consultant, trainer & speaker with more than 12 years of experience in the fields of public accounting, banking, fraud, forensics, financial crimes, compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, internal control and business re-engineering. He worked for leading Conventional & Islamic banks in the MENA region where he assumed senior positions. He was Compliance, AML & Fraud Head at Samba Financial Group – Dubai, UAE. Prior to that, he was Compliance Supervisor at Kuwait Finance House - Kuwait . In addition to 8+ years of extensive public accounting experience in "BIG FOUR" International CPA firms including PriceWaterhouseCoopers & Arthur Andersen.
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- MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA ABDUL RAHMAN, CAMS
Head, Monitoring & Analysis, Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit
He joined the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission in 2004 and later became the Head, Operations and Liaison Affairs responsible for identifying suspicious transactions, as well as development of intelligence reports and design and deployment of reporting formats for financial sector entities reporting to the FIU.
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- HANY ABOU-EL-FOTOUH, CAMS
Founder of Middle East Compliance Officers Forum (MECOF)
He is First Vice President and Group Head of Corporate Governance at a leading financial banking group in the MENA region. He is a leading expert on money laundering and terrorist financing controls and corporate governance best practices in the region. Founder of the Middle East Compliance Officers' Forum (MECOF), he has been honored for his work in promoting compliance culture and awareness in the MENA region. Hany is a renowned speaker and author of articles on subjects relating to compliance, anti-money laundering and corporate governance. He is constantly rated as a “passionate,” “dynamic,” and “engaging” speaker. Previously, he held top compliance positions in leading financial institutions, such as HSBC, Saudi British, Bank, Banque Saudi Fransi, and Oman International Bank.
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- BASHIR A. AL-NAKIB, CAMS
Founder, Managing Partner, ComplianceAlert.org, Lebanon
In addition to being a member of the Lebanon Bankers Association AML Committee, he is the founder and moderator of two online discussion forums comprised of AML professionals and Lebanese compliance officers. He has 37 years of banking experience.
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- RITA AMALRAJ, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer, AML Compliance Department,
UAE Exchange Centre LLC, Abu Dhabi
She is responsible for AML/CFT policies and procedures, based on different country regulations, for this MSB. In addition she assesses suspicious transaction reports and frequently coordinates communications with local regulatory authorities.
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- KEYNOTE SPEAKER
MUHAMMAD BAASIRI
Secretary of the Special Investigation Commission for Fighting Money Laundering at the financial intelligence unit in Lebanon and chairman of the US-MENA Private Sector Dialogue (PSD)
Mr. Baasiri represented Lebanon in the founding of the Middle East North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF), and is the founding member of the Lebanese Association of CPAs. He has spoken on various AML issues throughout the Middle East, Europe, United States and Canada.
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- SAMAR BAASIRI, CAMS
Head of the Compliance Department at BankMed in Beirut, Lebanon
She is in charge of preparing the bank’s anti-money laundering policies and procedures. She also participated in building the bank’s AML risk matrix model and implemented software for monitoring customers and internal accounts. Previously, she was the head of the operations division and trade finance at the United Bank of Lebanon, customer relations manager at Bank Audi and assistant head of operations and trade finance at HSBC, Canada.
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- SAMI BOUJELBEN
Group Chief Compliance Officer, Orion Holdings Overseas Limited, Dubai
He also holds the titles of Authorized Compliance Officer, MLRO and Senior Manager for Orion Capital Limited. He has 20 years of experience in compliance, AML/CFT, risk management, audit and operations in the brokerage and investment management industries.
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- BADR N. EL BANNA, CAMS
Legal Advisor, Special Investigation Commission (SIC), Central Bank of Lebanon
He is responsible for auditing and examining banks, financial institutions companies and other reporting entities to ensure compliance with AML and CTF regulations. He often submits recommendations to the SIC regarding ways to introduce internal auditing procedures to all sectors in order to prevent the introduction of money laundering and terrorist financing practices.
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- DAVID CAFFERTY
Senior Principal, Group Governance (Financial Crime Prevention), Al Khaliji Bank, Qatar
He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of accounting, corporate governance, financial crime prevention, compliance, and anti-money laundering. A UK police-trained financial investigator and fraud examiner, he is also a Chartered Management Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.
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- WAFAA EL DARS, CAMS
Consultant To The Chairman Interior Affairs, Compliance & Corporate Governance The Mortgage Finance Authority, Ministry Of Investment Egypt
In charge of the Interior Affairs Sector, including all the operations, compliance board, human resources and training, IT, financial control and administration. Also in charge of creating mortgage finance awareness in the market including preparing and delivering training courses on mortgage finance to banks and mortgage finance companies. Ms El Dars has 30 years of banking experience in multinational banks such as Citibank and American Express Bank in Egypt, where she worked as Senior Director, Country Compliance, Human Resources and Training Head.
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- MOHAMED HUSSEIN EL-DISHISH
Chief Financial Officer, Takaful Re Limited, Dubai
He is also MLRO for this fully Shari’a compliant company. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has over 30 years of experience working in finance and insurance.
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- ANDREW HADDOW
Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the Middle East and Africa,
Franklin Templeton Investments
He is also Regional Compliance Manager for the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa. He specializes in compliance in the area of investment management and collective investment schemes.
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- NADEEM IQBAL, CAMS
Vice President & Manager Compliance & MLRO in Head office compliance division of ARCG (Audit, Review and Compliance Group) for Mashreqbank PSC (United Arab Emirates - Dubai)
Supports the Head of Compliance in Supervising Compliance across the bank in close liaison with Embedded Compliance Functions (ECF) within various Business Units (Retail, Corporate & Investment Banking, Financial Institutions Division, and Treasury & Capital Markets) and overseas branches in Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt. Previously, and for two years worked as the Manager Compliance & Country Compliance Coordinator for Commercial/ Corporate Client Segment for ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (Pakistan). Nadeem is a qualified Chartered Accountant & associate member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
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- LISA KELAART-COURTNEY, CAMS
Director, CCL Limited, Dubai
Previously, she held the post of Associate Director in Supervision with the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), and had specific responsibility for the supervision of banking entities and insurance firms, insurance intermediaries and managers with a robust focus on AML and CTF in emerging and mature markets. She was the DFSA representative to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.
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- BARRY KOCH, CAMS
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase, New York
Barry joined the corporate AML compliance team of JPMorgan Chase upon its acquisition of Washington Mutual in September 2008. At WaMu, he was a Senior Vice President and the Bank Secrecy Act Officer. Prior to that he was the Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering at American Express, where he was responsible for managing the corporate-wide AML and Sanctions compliance programs, along with the compliance programs for the Travelers Cheques and Foreign Exchange businesses. While at Amex, he served on FinCEN's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, created by Congress to advise the Secretary of the Treasury on BSA issues. He has held senior compliance positions at Charles Schwab & Co., and at Smith Barney. Barry participates in industry groups such as The Wolfsberg Forum, The New York Clearing House AML Committee and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Private Sector Dialogue. He is a member of the Advisory Board of ACAMS.
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- GEORGES G. KORSUN
Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Dr. Korsun is an economist with substantial experience in the statistical analysis of large data sets and in designing sampling strategies for commercial and research applications, particularly in the financial sector. He has led the data analysis portion of a number of transaction reviews aimed at identifying fraudulent behaviors for a variety of clients ranging from large international institutions to mid-size full service banks. His direct experience includes devising systems for AML compliance risk classification of customer and correspondent banks, methods for optimization of AML detection rules and scenarios, and conducting historical transaction reviews analyses. His current AML work is focused on econometric tests of SAR filings for better specification of automated detection, rule-based models and optimization of rules thresholds and parameters. Prior to joining Deloitte, Dr. Korsun was Associate Director of the IRIS Center, a research institution in the Economics Department of the University of Maryland.
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- MICHAEL LESSER
Managing Director, Supervision of Financial Institutions, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority
He previously held the position of Chief Bank Examiner at the New York State Banking Department, where he had responsibility for overseas examinations and was international regulatory liaison. He also has worked on the drafting of the rating system and examination manuals used in the U.S. for offices of foreign banking organizations.
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- MOHAMAD SAMIR MANSOUR, CAMS
Head of AML and CTF Unit, Commercial Bank of Qatar
He is responsible for the development and implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing policies and procedures across the Commercial Bank and its Diner Club franchises in Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain and Oman. He was formerly employed at the Special Investigation Commission for Fighting Money Laundering at Lebanon’s FIU, where he focused on providing technical assistance to MENA FATF member countries.
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- MICHAEL R. MCDONALD, CAMS
Principal, Michael McDonald and Associates, Miami
He heads this consulting firm specializing in anti-money laundering issues and independent examinations of the AML controls of banks and money transmitters and the operations of government agencies. For 28 years, he was a special agent of the U.S. IRS Criminal Investigation Division, where he was a pioneer of the U.S. money laundering control effort helping to found the legendary Operation Greenback in South Florida in 1979.
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- MUHAMMAD AZEEM MEMON, CAMS
Fraud risk manager for Dubai Islamic Bank
Muhammad is an experienced banker with over 32 years of experience in the fields of AML Compliance, internal auditing, retail banking, branch operations, business development. As an AML specialist his areas of expertise include the design and implementation of AML compliance programs; he leads investigations of potential money laundering activities across all lines of business and provides AML specific training. He is also an expert in fraud risk, in charge of designing and implementing fraud risk management governance structure and assessing fraud risk controls. For more than 25 years he worked for United Bank Ltd. in Karachi, Pakistan, where his final position was assistant VP in the internal auditing department. Muhammad holds an MBA from Preston University –Wyoming (USA) and is a certified fraud examiner, certified bank auditor and certified risk professional.
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- MOHAMMED MOMANI
Regional Compliance Officer, Financial Transaction House, Saudi Arabia
He is an expert in investment banking compliance. Previously, he was Bank Audi-Jordan’s MLRO, where he built compliance procedures and policies for the bank and trained all AML staff.
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- HASSAN Y. NASSER, CAMS
Compliance and Inspection Director, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC)
He monitors the process of approval and oversight of companies registered and licensed by the DMCC, ensuring strict adherence to national laws and regulations, international standards and the AML/CFT DMCC policies and procedures that he has established. He also manages compliance awareness and a training program for management, employees and members.
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- NAJI OSMAN, CAMS
Head of Compliance and AML, Fransi Tadawul - Brokerage, Saudi Arabia
He has held senior positions within Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering and Auditing with banks, asset management and financial services companies in the Middle East. His outstanding professional experience includes performing, testing, auditing, writing, setting up and implementing compliance and AML programs for financial service firms and Banks.
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- NASSER A. PARACHA, CAMS
Senior Vice President, Head of Compliance & Bank Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Mashreq Bank, Dubai
Nasser is a Harvard Alumni with a varied background, having run a family business as CEO and then transitioned into the financial sector as a Corporate Banker. He studied and worked in the UK for many years, moving into the Compliance & AML field in 2000 during his time in London when the UK regulatory regime was undergoing significant change. With over 25 years of experience covering business, banking and compliance, he holds the view that true success in this area can only be achieved by partnering with business.
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- JONATHAN I. POLK
Vice President, Bank Supervision Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
He is responsible for AML and corporate compliance examinations within the legal and compliance risk division. Mr. Polk joined the Legal Group at the Fed in 1992 where he specialized in litigation and regulatory enforcement. He held several positions of increasing responsibility in the Legal Group since 1993. He holds a juris doctor degree from Cornell Law School and is a member of the New York State Bar.
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- JAMES N. PORTELLI
Executive Vice President - Risk & Audit, Oman Insurance Company PSC, Dubai
He is spearheading ERM implementation for this A-rated UAE insurer. He has worked in insurance in Europe and the Middle East for nearly 20 years and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and of the Institute of Risk Management in the UK.
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- MASOOD SAFAR AL MAJEDI
Head of Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering, Commercial Bank of Dubai
Previously he headed the legal department for the UAE government. He is responsible for keeping the bank current with the latest technology and AML procedures in order to remain competitive internationally.
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- MANSOOR A. SIDDIQI, CAMS
Manager Group Training Services, Emirates Bank Group, Dubai
He has worked in various banks of international repute in the UK, Middle East, India and Nigeria. He also creates and administers training programs on banking, trade finance and anti-money laundering programs for banks and corporate entities in Central Asia, Middle East and Europe.
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- JOHN S. SOLOMON
Head of Terrorism Research, World-Check
He leads a multilingual team of analysts that monitor and analyze terrorist movements and their funding strategies globally. John is engaged in a major project to assess terrorist financing typologies in the context of jurisdictional risk. He is regularly invited by FIUs, banks, and other relevant agencies and organizations around the world to train and advise on innovative ways to combat terrorist finance. His work has been featured in the acclaimed book "Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities," West Point’s CTC Sentinel, and Jane’s Intelligence Review among others. He holds a Master’s degree in Middle East and Central Asian Security Studies from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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- BRYAN STIREWALT
Director, Supervision, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)
He coordinates the DFSA’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing within the Dubai International Financial Centre. This includes co-operation with a variety of local, regional and international counterparts. He spent 11 years working for the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a National Bank Examiner, where he specialized in policy development and implementation, problem bank rehabilitation and banking fraud initiatives.
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- JOHN F. WALSH
President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan, USA
He has over 20 years of international experience from both the securities and banking Industry. He has personally led divisions and companies engaged in high-risk trading in commodities, foreign exchange and international fixed income products, as both a trader and as a senior level executive, during which time he gained valuable experience addressing global risk management and compliance issues.
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- JUNAID WARD, CAMS
Senior Consultant, SightSpan
Prior to joining SightSpan, Junaid was the AML Operations Manager at AmTrust Bank, USA where he was responsible for the development and implementation of AML/CTF procedures, workflow processes and information management. He has over 20 years experience spanning manufacturing, information technology and banking. Junaid brings his global experience to SightSpan, over the years he has worked with multinational corporations in the USA, South Africa and Namibia. Junaid holds an Executive MBA.
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- AUSTIN WIEHE
Attaché for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
He has worked for many years as a U.S. government analyst supporting the formulation and implementation of U.S. financial sanctions against both countries and persons, as well as analyzing the effectiveness and impact of these programs. Most recently he has served as the Chief of OFAC’s Country Programs Section and Foreign Terrorism Division.
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