Prior to retiring in March of 2022, Victor Lessoff spent eight years as the Head of Internal Investigations for TIAA, a fortune 100 financial service company providing pension, banking, brokerage, asset management and life insurance services to the non-profit sector. Prior to his position with TIAA, Mr. Lessoff was the Director of Technology at Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Mr. Lessoff also held a number of other positions over his 25 year career with IRS-CI including Special Agent in Charge, Director of International Operations and Director of Global Financial Crimes. Mr. Lessoff is a CPA, CFE and CAMS. He holds bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Delaware as well as a MBA from the University of Buffalo

Scott Nathan is the Global Head of AML Transaction Monitoring at Citigroup. In this capacity, Scott leads the AML Transaction Monitoring and Risk Analytics Program to ensure that Citi is effectively detecting financial crime across its various regions and lines of business. Scott and his team collaborate with business and compliance stakeholders to implement relevant program enhancements and data-driven technology platforms so that Citi can actively manage new and emerging risks. Prior to Citi, Scott was a Managing Director and Head of AML Technology and Innovation for Global Compliance at State Street. In this role, he was responsible for developing the transformational AML transaction monitoring platform, which leveraged next generation technology and derived intelligence from data to support clients and protect the global economy from abuse. Prior to his work at State Street, Scott was a Managing Director, Head of Financial Intelligence at Accenture. He has also held various leadership roles at Deloitte and Bank of America where he engineered programs helping reduce the cost of compliance, strengthen relationships with regulatory agencies, and better support the end-user intelligence community to protect national security.

Ms. Das has over 20 years of data and risk management experience across both the financial and public sectors. A subject matter expert in the areas of applied data analytics and AML Model development, The main focus of much of her current work is to use risk-based approaches for developing counter measures in money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption.

Kenneth A. Blanco (Ken) is a recognized industry leader and speaker in the areas of law, financial integrity and compliance, international governmental relations, and leadership/management dynamics. As an experienced trial attorney, regulator, and compliance officer, Ken has held senior leadership and managerial roles in both the private and public sectors while leading and managing large and diverse global organizations. Ken has served, worked with, and advised numerous U.S. Attorneys General and other Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet members of the United States government, including White House Officials, the National Security Council, the Secretary of the Treasury, as well as boards of directors and senior executives of various public and privately held companies. Ken has worked with, advised, and collaborated with Presidents, Vice Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, Ministers of Finance, and other high-ranking government officials and business leaders from around the world. He has testified before Congress numerous times and has briefed congressional staffers on many occasions regarding important legal, regulatory, and financial issues and topics. He has held the highest security clearances in the U.S. government, and although no longer a government official Ken still holds a Top Secret SCI. He has led teams, worked in, and served as a civilian in war zones and terrorist occupied areas on behalf of the United States government. Most recently, Ken served as the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) for Citigroup’s Global Financial Crimes Program, and as a member of Citi’s Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) Executive Management Team, where Ken led and managed a global organization of several thousand compliance professionals in 97 countries around the world. In this role, Ken helped support and protect Citi, and the U.S. financial system, against financial crimes risks by overseeing the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Global Financial Crimes Investigations and Intelligence, Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery & Corruption programs, across all lines of business, subsidiaries, and jurisdictions in which Citi operates. Prior to joining Citi in April 2021, Ken served as the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a Bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked to combat domestic and international financial crime and enforce and promulgate regulations to protect the United States’ financial system and national security against money laundering and its related crimes, including terrorism financing. Prior to his appointment as FinCEN Director by the Secretary of the Treasury in 2017, Ken served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the United States Department of Justice, and for 11 years as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division. In these roles, Ken led and was responsible for national and international criminal matters relating to U.S. law, including Bank Integrity, Fraud, FCPA, Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture, Kleptocracy, and Public Corruption. After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 1989, Ken returned to his native Miami and began his career at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, where he served as a trial lawyer in various sections including the Organized Crime Section, Public Corruption Section, and the Major Narcotics Section. In 1998, Ken joined the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida (Miami) as an Assistant United States Attorney, where he served in numerous leadership positions including Deputy Chief of Narcotics/Chief of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Acting Chief of Narcotics, and Deputy Chief of the Major Crimes Section. During his time at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ken was detailed to Washington, D.C. in 2002 for two years where he served as General Counsel to the 94 United States Attorney’s Offices and the Executive Office of United States Attorneys. In 2006, Ken returned to Washington, D.C. to serve as the Chief of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section at the Department of Justice. He was later promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant Attorney General, where he supervised the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Organized Crime and Gang Section, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, and matters relating to Afghanistan, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama.

Ms. Forman is TD's Head of Investigations, AML, that is comprised of both the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and High-Risk Investigations. The Investigations unit addresses financial crime risk, that includes anti-money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorist finance, anti-bribery and corruption and insider risk. Prior to joining TD, Ms. Forman was with Citigroup for 13 years as the Managing Director for the Global Financial Crimes Investigations and Intelligence unit (GFCII). The GFCII’s function is to conduct complex global investigations across financial crimes risks, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, terrorist finance, anti-bribery and corruption, and other illicit activity that poses a risk to the bank. Under Ms. Forman’s leadership, the GFCII initiated proactive, complex global investigations of high-risk clients. The enterprise-wide nature of the GFCII investigations requires coordinated analysis of client activity in multiple jurisdictions and business sectors. Prior to joining Citigroup, Ms. Forman served as the Independent Court Monitor for the Western Union and State of Arizona judicial settlement. Ms. Forman served for over five years as the Director, Office of Investigations, Homeland Security, where she oversaw the largest investigative arm for DHS, with over 6,200 Special Agents and administered a budget of more than $1.6 billion. Ms. Forman was the architect and Executive Director of Operation Green Quest, a highly successful U.S. Department of Treasury led multi-agency task force that was immediately established after September 11, 2001 to address the threat of terrorist financing. Ms. Forman is currently an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she instructs law students on AML Compliance and Terrorist Financing. Ms. Forman continues to be an active participant in ACAMS as a subject matter expert and participates regularly in workshops, webinars and conferences. In addition, Ms. Forman served as the Citibank Representative to the Wolfsberg Group and in that capacity sat on the Terrorist Finance and Investigative Benchmarking sub-working groups. Ms. Forman was Citibank’s representative to the Board of Directors for the Consortium, an association of banks established under the authority of the U.S. Patriot Act. Ms. Forman is the recipient of the prestigious Presidential Rank award for meritorious service, the Women in Federal Law Enforcement President’s award and the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Silver Medal for leadership. Ms. Forman holds a Master of Science degree in Management from National-Louis University, a Bachelor of Science degree from American University and has completed the Senior Executive Fellowship Program for Leadership at Harvard University. Ms. Forman is an exercise enthusiast when not at work and enjoys traveling the world. Ms. Forman enjoys spending time with her husband of 36 years and her two daughters.

Stephen Lurie has a diverse work experience in various roles related to financial crimes compliance and auditing. Stephen is currently working as an International Sanctions Lead Auditor at Crédit Agricole CIB since June 2022. Prior to this, they were the Director and Anti-Financial Crimes Leader at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP from January 2020 to February 2022. Stephen also served as the Executive Director and Head of BSA/AML and Sanctions Compliance Testing at UBS from December 2018 to December 2019. Before that, they held the position of President at Compliance Adviser LLC in 2018. Stephen has an extensive tenure at PwC, where they worked as the Director of Anti-Money Laundering & Sanctions from September 1997 to August 2018. Additionally, they gained significant experience at NatWest Markets Plc, where they served as a Senior Vice President in various roles, including Loan Syndications and Asset Sales for three years, and as the US Chief Operating Officer for seven years. Stephen Lurie also worked as an Associate in Fixed Income Research at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1985 to 1987. Stephen Lurie holds an MBA with a focus on Finance & Investments from The George Washington University School of Business. Stephen also obtained a BA in Economics from Lehigh University. In addition to their degrees, Lurie has obtained certifications such as Certified Cryptocurrency Trader from Blockchain Council in 2022, CAMS from ACAMS in November 2018, and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMLS) from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists in 2018.

John is an experienced practitioner specialized in serving the Internal Audit and Compliance needs of broker/dealer, banking, and asset management clients, combining the oversight of planning and execution of audits and the management of audit teams with reporting to executive management and audit committees. He has served a large number of financial organizations of all sizes in Internal Audit, Compliance and technology roles over a twenty-plus year career. Some of his notable financial services clients include Citibank N.A., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Fortress Investment Group, Jefferies & Co., Cohen & Steers, NASDAQ and Royal Bank of Canada. His specialties include risk assessment and audit plan creation; integrated product/technology audits; process change evaluation, and compliance design and effectiveness. He has been recognized for effectiveness in identifying innovative ways of creating change aligned and balanced with management and organizational needs.

Beverly Jules is an officer and head of the Compliance Risk Team within the Large Foreign Banking Organization (LFBO) Function’s Risk and Analysis Department. Since 2005, she has been responsible for assessing the Bank Secrecy Act/AML compliance program of financial institutions as a member of SG’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Unit. Her responsibilities also include assessing corporate compliance programs and monitoring compliance with enforcement actions. She has served as an instructor in SG’s training programs and AML seminars offered through the Federal Reserve’s International Training and Technical Assistance Program. In addition, she has been a panelist in industry conferences. Beverly joined the Bank in 1992 as a specialist in operations, accounting and audit. Prior to joining the Bank, she was an internal auditor at Chase Manhattan Bank for 6 years. Beverly, a Certified Public Accountant, holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Marymount Manhattan College and an MBA in Finance and Information Systems from New York University.