Member Spotlight Archives - Page 2 of 23

June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Elena Sutton, CAMS—Florida, USA

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

Elena Sutton is a seasoned leader serving as a senior manager within Crowe’s Financial Services Consulting practice, where she leads the financial crime system implementation practice. With over nine years of experience, she excels in managing large-scale projects and assisting clients in the financial services...

June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Jesus M. Garcia, CAMS—Florida, USA

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

Jesus M. Garcia, CAMS, began working in the banking industry in June 1987. Garcia started to work in compliance for a domestic bank in 1991 when customer transaction reports and suspicious activity reports (SARs) were done manually. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) was a part-time element...

June – August 2024, Member Spotlight

Nikieshia De Bique, CAMS—Trinidad and Tobago

June 14, 2024 /Leave a comment

Nikieshia De Bique is a compliance and risk management professional with over 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. She has extensive expertise in financial operations, risk management and compliance. She is the head of Compliance at Eastern Credit Union Co-operative Society Limited...

March – May 2024, Member Spotlight

Rayan Mohamed, CAMS, CFE—North Carolina, USA

March 1, 2024 /Leave a comment

Rayan Mohamed is a licensed attorney based in North Carolina. He holds the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designations. With a robust background in the anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) industry spanning six years, Mohamed became part of Credit Suisse (now...

March – May 2024, Member Spotlight

Josh Ortner, CAMS—Ohio, USA

March 1, 2024 /Leave a comment

Josh Ortner is a passionate financial crime fighter and anti-money laundering (AML) professional. His career in AML launched after working as an investment oversight manager for a $4 billion donor-advised fund provider, where he reviewed potential money laundering and fine-print risks obscured within alternative and...

March – May 2024, Member Spotlight

Stephanie Bye, CAMS—Washington, USA

March 1, 2024 /Leave a comment

Stephanie Bye is the senior vice president of Financial Crimes for Quontic Bank. She has served as an anti-money laundering/Bank Secrecy Act (AML/BSA) expert in several capacities, including as a risk management examiner for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, risk management officer at a California-based...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Kishani Udugampola, CAMS-FCI—New York, USA

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Kishani Udugampola presently works at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY). Before joining FRBNY, she was a portfolio manager at the New York State Department of Financial Services. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at the graduate school of criminal justice at...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Atsuo Takada, CAMS, CSCP, CPIM—Yokohama, Japan

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Atsuo Takada is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with over six years of experience in the anti-financial crime space. Starting his career at Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (NRI), Takada has a 25-year career with NRI and developed what is now called a high-frequency trading...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Jim Hixenbaugh, CAMS—Ohio, USA

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Jim Hixenbaugh is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and certified anti-money laundering (AML) consultant with 46 years of experience in AML/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance and investigations. He has 29 years of federal law enforcement experience as an Internal Revenue Services-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) special...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

César Fabricio Fúnez Martínez, CAMS—Tegucigalpa, Honduras

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

César Fabricio Fúnez Martínez is a professional with a sound academic background and experience in a variety of areas. Fúnez Martínez earned his degree in computer engineering from the Catholic University of Honduras. Four years later, he was a member of the ninth graduating class...