Josie is the Nominated Officer and Group MLRO for Caesars Entertainment EMEA, part of the world’s largest casino entertainment company, Caesars Entertainment Inc., best known for Las Vegas properties such as Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, and the iconic Playboy Club in London.

Prior to this, she was the Head of Anti Money Laundering and MLRO at the Ritz Club, an exclusive and prestigious Casino in London’s Mayfair district; specialising in direction and oversight of Enhanced Due Diligence teams, with particular expertise in UHNWI, HNWI, and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in the Middle East and Europe.

Josie has spent the past 5 years in AML leadership roles involving the establishment, training, and development of teams to combat Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime risk within the Casino gaming sphere, through internal strategic policymaking, risk assessment, threat analysis, and procedural development. She is a member of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) and the Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group (GAMLG) industry bodies and active working groups.

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Katharina Stoll is a Senior Lead Auditor for Anti-Financial Crime Compliance at Commerzbank AG where she leads national and international audits of the bank’s global AML and Sanctions compliance program. Before joining Commerzbank, Katharina worked at Protiviti as a Senior Consultant in Internal Audit performing and leading various risk-oriented audit activities. In this capacity, Katharina also implemented a group-wide audit program for sanctions & embargoes for one of the top 3 German banks, including the recording of the control framework and designing the audit program. Katharina started her career as an art historian at Bonhams in London, Poly Auction in Beijing, and Yves Siebers Auktionen in Stuttgart.

Katharina holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Frankfurt as well as PGCertificates from SOAS, University of London, and the University of Glasgow. Leveraging her education as an art historian and her work experience in the AML sector, Katharina’s PhD research with the University of Glasgow’s School of Law is focused on money laundering in the art market. She has contributed to conferences, events, and webinars as a speaker with ACAMS (2019), Deloitte (2020), the Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium (2018), and the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) (2017).

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Sue Scott is a business coach, mentor and risk management professional with over twenty years of experience working in financial services. Her much loved career at HSBC spans regulatory and financial crime transformation, risk advisory, policy development and financial crime training. Sue was Global Head of Anti-bribery & Corruption at HSBC as well as being responsible for co-ordinating across specialist areas for the development of global financial crime policies and employee training programmes.

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Thomas Feray is a highly experienced investigator with extensive expertise in the public and private sectors.

His career with the French Gendarmerie brought him to serve in specialized serious crime units including the Versailles Serious Crime Unit (Division Financial crimes) and the Cayenne Serious Crime Unit as part of the special operation “Harpie Orpaillage” (operation aimed at fighting against the illegal gold mining in French Guyana). As part of his missions, Thomas Feray lead several complex investigations, related to Labour law crimes, counterfeiting of luxury goods and to the money laundering of the proceeds of these crimes.

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