Elliot Berman
Creative Director, AML RightSource
Mr. Berman serves as Creative Director for AML RightSource. He is an expert in anti-money laundering compliance and a frequent conference speaker; he also has extensive experience in issues that affect business organizations and financial institutions. He served as General Counsel for a regional financial services holding company. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Education at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and his law degree from the Marquette University Law School.
John Byrne
Vice Chairman, AML RightSource
Mr. Byrne serves as Vice Chairman of AML RightSource. He is an internationally known regulatory and legislative attorney with wide-ranging experience in banking and financial crimes. Mr. Byrne has particular expertise in all aspects of regulatory management, anti-money laundering (AML) issues and has served in leadership positions at trade associations, financial services industry groups, and government working groups. Mr. Byrne earned his undergraduate degree at Marquette University and his juris doctor at George Mason University School of Law. He currently serves as a special advisor to the ACAMS Advisory board and on Marquette University’s Commercial Banking Board.
Olivia Conjeaud
Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
A member of the McKinsey & Company Risk and Financial Services practices, and a leader of their work on financial crime, Ms. Conjeaud has supported numerous banks and insurance companies on enterprise risk management, compliance, anti-money laundering, stress testing, credit loss forecasting, operational risk, and other risk topics.
Megan Hodge
Executive Compliance Director & BSA/AML Officer, Ally Financial and Ally Bank
Ms. Hodge is the Executive Compliance Director, BSA/AML Officer for Ally Financial and Ally Bank. Prior to joining Ally, Hodge spent 11 years at RBC in various roles including US Regional Head of AML, BSA Officer for RBC Bank and Chief Compliance Officer for RBC Bank. She serves on the Board of the ABA/ABA Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference, the BSA Coalition and is co-chair of the ACAMS Carolinas Chapter.
Marilu Jimenez
President, FINCAdvisors
Prior to forming FINCAdvisors, Ms. Jiménez served as Senior Vice President & Division Director of the Corporate Compliance Division for Popular Inc., where she supervised the compliance function in Puerto Rico, the United States, and all other operations for Popular in the Caribbean and Latin America. She is an industry authority having extensive experience evaluating Anti-Money Laundering, USA Patriot Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Office of Foreign Asset Control compliance programs as well as consumer and financial compliance. Ms. Jiménez is a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board. Additionally, she led the Puerto Rico Bankers Association Anti-Money Laundering Committee for 14 years and continues in a leadership role in the leading educational Financial Crimes Symposium in Puerto Rico.
Lauren Kohr
Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, Old Dominion National Bank
Ms. Kohr serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Old Dominion National Bank. Prior to her current role, she Prior to her current role, she was the , she was the VP/Director of AML/BSA/OFAC at Metro Bank in Harrisburg, PA and the Senior Manager over AML/BSA governance and policy at Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) in Alexandria, VA. . She serves on the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG), ACAMS Advisory Board, ACAMS U.S. Capital Board of Directors and AML Partnership Forum Board of Directors. Previously, Lauren served as the president of the Central PA BSA/AML/CTF user Group in Harrisburg, PA. She is currently CAMS, CAMS-FCI, and CFIRS Certified.
Melissa Strait
Global head of Financial Crimes, Stripe, Inc.
Ms. Strait is an expert in AML compliance in the fintech context, having joined Coinbase as the Chief Compliance Officer in February 2021. Previously, she served as Global Head of Financial Crimes for Stripe, Inc., overseeing all aspects of Stripe’s anti-money laundering, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption compliance programs. She also served as the Chief Compliance Officer of Stripe Payments Company, a licensed money transmitter. Prior to joining Stripe in early 2016, she was a Compliance Operations Manager for Square, Inc. At Square, she oversaw teams in San Francisco and St. Louis which handled transaction monitoring, KYC and EDD reviews, and sanctions screening.
Prior to joining the fintech industry, Ms. Strait served as a director in the Due Diligence practice of Kroll, Inc. In that capacity, she managed teams producing in-depth due diligence research reports for banking and corporate clients, focused mainly in Asia and the Americas.
Angel Swift
Advisor and Independent Consultant, Enigma Technologies
Angel Nguyen Swift is an advisor and independent consultant with Enigma Technologies, a data intelligence company, where she most recently worked as the Vice President of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions. She is also the co-founder of the STAT (Stand Together Against Trafficking) project which works with the anti-human trafficking community to create collaborative intelligence to identify and share financial indicators across the financial sector. Prior to Enigma, Angel spent nearly a decade building and leading the financial intelligence unit (FIU) at American Express.
Angel served as a New York County Assistant District Attorney(NYCDA), where she prosecuted a wide range of cases including street level violent crimes, drug sales, sex crimes, violent felonies and long-term identity theft and cybercrime investigations. ost recently, she has been leading a joint effort with ACAMS and Polaris called Stand Together Against Trafficking (STAT), which utilizes technology to empower the sharing of financial indicators across the financial crime industry with the aim of eradicating human trafficking.
Chuck Taylor
Executive VP, Head of Financial Crimes Advisory, AML RightSource
Mr. Taylor serves as Executive VP, Head of Financial Crimes Advisory at AML RightSource. He has amassed years of regulatory compliance experience with multiple financial institutions. Mr. Taylor is an expert in BSA/AML and Sanctions compliance. He founding member and former Co-Chair of the ACAMS SoCal Chapter, and serves as Board Chair of the West Coast Anti-Money Laundering Forum. Mr. Taylor obtained his bachelor's degree in communication from University of California, Santa Barbara, earned his juris doctorate at Santa Barbara College of Law and attended Pacific Coast Banking School. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified AML and Fraud Professional (CAFP). In 2014 Mr. Taylor was recognized as the ACAMS AML Professional of the Year.