TOM MANGINEis Vice President, Capital Markets AMLSite Visits&Special Investigations, US MLRO) at the Bank of Montreal. His responsibilities include conducting Targeted and Enhanced Due Diligence (TEDD) investigations into clients, counterparties and correspondents; Conducting Public Sector-Private Sector Engagement efforts with Regulatory and Law Enforcement agencies worldwide; advising members of Capital Markets regarding threats inherent in the geographies and industries in which they operate, and Conducting Site Visits with clients in high-risk industries. Tom is also an Adjunct Professor at the Joint Special Operations University, where he teaches classes on terrorist financing, money laundering, and cybersecurity. He is also a volunteer sports Integrity Officer, helping civic organizations and Ministries of Sport in Europe as well as South America investigate corruption in professional sports.

 

Tom joined the Bank after more than twenty years with the US Army where he served on six continents – including deployments to the Balkans, Central Asia, Horn of Africa, Middle East, and North Africa. He earned a BS in Political Science from the United States Military Academy as well as an MA in International Relations and Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Vishal is working as the Vice President with Citi Bank in the Model Risk Management Division. He has presented at various conferences about the application of Machine Learning in the domain of Finance and Risk Engineering. Vishal has around 7 years of experience working with quantitative risk modeling using advanced engineering, statistical and machine learning technologies. His academic qualifications in combination with a PhD in Engineering and an MBA in Finance have enabled him to challenge the approach of risk modeling using a scientific rigor. Vishal’s doctoral thesis included the development of statistical and machine learning based risk models—some of which are currently being used commercially. Vishal has 160+ peer-reviewed citations in areas such as risk management, quantitative modeling, machine learning and predictive analytics.

Robert Williams is a Financial Crime Prevention Professional with nearly 20 years of expertise in the sectors of Banking including the U.S. Patriot Act, BSA,AML,KYC, and OFAC, at three different foreign Banks. He began his career at Credit Lyonnais/CALYON, eventually Credit Agricole in 2002,where he learned how to investigate Money Laundering cases, investigated and wrote SAR’s,and learned many other facets of International Banking. These included Correspondent, Corporate and Investment Banking and Private Banking, among many others. He then moved on to BNP Paribas where he was the firms designated OFAC Compliance Officer. Finally he was employed at Standard Chartered Bank, in more of a Sanctions Advisory role working with the Account Opening/KYC teams, and Relationship Managers to mitigate internal and external Sanctions concerns.