Member Spotlight Archives

March – May 2025, Member Spotlight

Steve Gurdak, CAMS—Virginia, USA

March 19, 2025March 26, 2025 /Leave a comment

Steve Gurdak serves as the group manager for the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Northern Virginia Financial Initiative (NVFI). The NVFI was created to be a model for suspicious activity report (SAR) review teams. Gurdak has been dubbed “the godfather of SAR review teams”...

March – May 2025, Member Spotlight

Dustin Eaton, CAMS-RM, CGSS, CAFS—Utah, USA

March 19, 2025 /Leave a comment

Dustin J. Eaton is an accomplished executive in risk management and fraud prevention, bringing nearly two decades of expertise across the financial services landscape, including traditional banking and fintech. With a focus on fraud detection, compliance, anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing and regulatory oversight, Eaton has built...

March – May 2025, Member Spotlight

Nathalie Bosse, CAMS, CGSS—Paris, France

March 19, 2025 /Leave a comment

Nathalie Bosse is the director of Trad and Co., a company she created 10 years ago. She lives in Paris, France. For the past 10 years, she has focused on translation, compliance training and diverse writing assignments. In addition, Bosse has been a member of...

December 2024 – February 2025, Member Spotlight

Kitty Wut, CAMS—Hawaii, USA

December 19, 2024January 17, 2025 /Leave a comment

Kitty Wut was born and raised in Hong Kong and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, where she graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and started working in a small, local certified public accountant firm. A few...

December 2024 – February 2025, Member Spotlight

Melissa Mantooth, CAMS—Alabama, USA

December 19, 2024January 17, 2025 /Leave a comment

Melissa Mantooth grew up aspiring to be a police officer, inspired by her grandfather, who served as a local officer in Birmingham, Alabama. Like many kids, her ambitions shifted over time, from teacher and band director to Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and music business...

December 2024 – February 2025, Member Spotlight

Thomas M. Fattorusso Jr.—New York, USA

December 19, 2024January 17, 2025 /Leave a comment

Thomas M. Fattorusso Jr. recently retired as the special agent in charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation’s (IRS-CI) New York Field Office, covering New York State―from the five boroughs and Long Island up to the New York-Canadian border. Fattorusso was named to this...

Member Spotlight, September – November 2024

Crecentia Curran—North Carolina, USA

September 5, 2024December 12, 2024 /Leave a comment

Crecentia Curran has been a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent since 2009. She initially investigated white-collar crimes, concentrating on corporate accounting fraud, which included an indictment and conviction of a former Fortune 500 chief accounting officer. In 2011, Curran joined the FBI’s Joint...

Member Spotlight, September – November 2024

Sophie Solange Nsongka Njobe, CAMS—Yaoundé, Cameroon

September 5, 2024December 12, 2024 /Leave a comment

As an internal control and compliance manager with 12 years of experience in governance, risk and compliance management, Sophie Solange Nsongka Njobe earned a Master of Business Administration in finance from the University of Leicester in the U.K. to permit an in-depth mastery of financial...

Member Spotlight, September – November 2024

Nicholas Fiori, CAMS—Arizona, USA

September 5, 2024December 12, 2024 /Leave a comment

Nick Fiori is among an elite group of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance professionals working in the casino sector. With more than 29 years of casino experience, Fiori has worked in nearly every aspect of gaming. Currently, he holds the position of slots site manager at...

June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Matthew Hogan, CAMS—Connecticut, USA

June 14, 2024September 5, 2024 /Leave a comment

Matthew Hogan is a dedicated anti-financial crime professional with over 15 years of experience conducting complex, collaborative criminal investigations. As a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Hogan has extensively partnered with private sector financial institutions and federal agencies to proactively combat money laundering, fraud, and...

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Member Spotlight

Steve Gurdak, CAMS—Virginia, USA

Dustin Eaton, CAMS-RM, CGSS, CAFS—Utah, USA

Nathalie Bosse, CAMS, CGSS—Paris, France

Kitty Wut, CAMS—Hawaii, USA

Melissa Mantooth, CAMS—Alabama, USA

Thomas M. Fattorusso Jr.—New York, USA

Crecentia Curran—North Carolina, USA

Sophie Solange Nsongka Njobe, CAMS—Yaoundé, Cameroon

Nicholas Fiori, CAMS—Arizona, USA

Matthew Hogan, CAMS—Connecticut, USA